Lantsu

Depends on moods, and also, many people have issues at making the difference between what someone is and what they’d like to be. Like many people want to be helpful, but not many are helpful outside their own social circle. (Which is fine, but not the same as being helpful towards everyone.)

I have gotten hit with that one too!

16-25€ here… On the bright side, made me learn how to do them at home. And no, the ingredients don’t cost 25€ a portion!

No, I’m busy keeping one happy, content and well taken care of.

Huh, I don’t really have much advise to that, but it’s an understanble reaction. I gotta say that there have been times my first reaction to a reply has been negative, but upon rereading it I have noticed that it was just my reaction. I like that here I learn new stuff every day and that people are willing to politely correct me (/share their opinion or experience on the matter.) I hope you find your place, if not here then maybe on some other site!

At first, I was very cautious here. After Reddit, I was expecting that people would go through post histories and attack me for misunderstandings and call me an AI bot, like some users do in sites like Reddit… But no. I haven’t had any issues, even when I have put out more controversial opinions or asked dumb questions. I have gotten downvoted occasionally when I have been wrong or misunderstood, which is fair. I have gotten replies from people with different opinions, but they have been polite and sticked in the topic, which is fucking amazing. I haven’t had a single even slightly unpleasant interaction so far.

Folk here have been very helpful, polite, funny or neutral. I’m actually becoming more brave at posting and commenting, and I no longer feel fearful/unpleasant when I see that I have an unread notification. Of course there are communities I have blocked or instances that I avoid but that’s just to curate my feeds.

I think I break more. I don’t use makeup and wear very boring clothes and we have strong religious cults around here, so I’m always expected to be one of those cultists - until I open my mouth and start swearing.

I don’t think it just about tech and cyber, “medical/military grade” is very close on how it’s used and how little people understand what they actually mean… A person working close to a military would avoid many “military grade” products and so on.