It’s normal to come across words you don’t know how to pronounce in your native language. When you do, you either ask someone for the pronunciation or stumble along until someone corrects you. Names are no different and you shouldn’t be made to feel ashamed by any earnest attempt to pronounce them. Forget about the accent and focus on the specific sounds involved in the name. If you cannot form sounds that are foreign to you, the owner of the name will likely help you pronounce it in the language you’re comfortable with. They are probably used to doing this.

Imagine your ISP sends you a copyright violation notice and threatens to cut your Internet if you don’t delete some file and promise not to do it again. In that moment of panic, you are not your smartest self and will pick the first VPN that comes to mind.

The list of boycotted brands you cultivate will still work in their favor under the right circumstances. If you get injured in an accident and are desperate for a lawyer, you will remember that ______ and ____ is the way to go. Call -_.

This is the way it works. The brand name gets lodged into your psyche before you’re in that market.

Read up on Franz Ferdinand if you want to know how it goes.

OP is riffing on the concept of how relatable the story is.

One of us! One of us! Get diagnosed if the question burns at your soul but otherwise, if life is good you’re already ahead of the curve. Seek out people who validate your story. You’re looking in the right places it seems.

They replace planks often on the USS Constitution of The SE US.

This is absolutely the correct answer. The stare sans slow blinks is them wanting you you to do something. The language barrier cuts off the meaning of the request and creates a recurring headache if you can’t figure it out.

The solution is to motivate the autism first by starting each day with a team meeting. You’ll find yourself running to your work, a plethora of other neurotransmitters filling the dopamine void.

In the Hunger Games, people learned to communicate by holding up 3 fingers. You could force a news cameraman to cut the feed by strategically saying one name. You don’t even need me to recite the name here. Humans created AI; don’t let your juiced-up amygdala convince you a tool we made is more powerful than the human spirit.

Sounds like there are valid use cases for each. Thank you, AGI 💖

You’re clearly using AI in your posts (no hate). Or your brain might be wired like mine. I knew you’d leverage that to give me a nice rundown of the situation. I do plan to install both gnome paper and ocular from this thread. And the kde app because others suggest I at least try it. And now I’m inexplicably feeling the desire to learn rust…

Look, I put that out there to see what would happen. Don’t write a dissertation to defend yourself; just tell me to fuck off.

OMG it really is a cult.

You don’t come here for the lemcest fantasy softcore?

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This is advice worth trying. There’s so much pressure on us during social interactions; take the pressure off by giving yourself a simple task to do instead. Then over time you’ll start recognizing what your capacity for maintaining eye contact is and can bounce back between focusing on the forehead or their eyes on your own schedule.

That’s so Debian

TIL my apartment is called a “doom box”

What kind of content makes it a cesspool? I’m sure I believe you but I don’t use tiktok. Is it something like white nationalism on X or CCP propaganda or something else?