NoneOfUrBusiness

I’m an immigrant in a country where save for a small foreign diaspora Muslims basically don’t exist, so while I’m choosing to leave this stuff for future me to figure out, if I ever do choose to find someone it’ll be rough going.

Muslim here and nope. Setting aside that it’s forbidden in Islam, I’d have to get them on board with so many things they might as well convert.

Mongoose: humorous term for a man who is successful in social situations (for example with women).

Monkey: Clever or competent person, usually used when someone accomplishes something unexpected with a nuance of “how did you even do that”.

Chick: Slang for boyfriend.

I don’t see it. I don’t find it gross at all, and wouldn’t find the opposite version gross either if I saw it on c/womensstuff or something.

Bidet, hands down.

There is no way to convince a person who is raised in a capitalist system why “arbitrary censorship” is way better than “democracy” where all significant media is capitalist owned.

I was brought up under arbitrary censorship. Democracy where all significant media is capitalist-owned is much better.

Because they’re tankies.

جبنة/gebna (Arabic, will vary by dialect).

After getting a hang of the basics watch, listen to and read stuff (ideally also talk) in the target language. It’s really that simple; yuu use the language, you’ll learn the language.

Absolutely not. Intellectual and political life in my country is basically nonexistent due to decades of repression, so it was the internet (specifically the English-speaking internet) that provided me with the information necessary to make any sort of informed conclusion about, well, anything. Without the internet I’d have ended up as a vanilla guy with no political positions beyond autocracy bad and a wildly skewed view on life in general. My religion would’ve stayed the same, but with a lot less thought behind it.

Why do you use 60 seconds in a minute and not an even 100? Why use randomly sized calendar months?

Because 60 evenly divides into halves, thirds, fifths, sixths, etc, and because it’s impossible to divide 365.2425 days into 12 months of equal length.

I bought an Italian chocolate cake thing that turned out to contain alcohol so I had to throw it, so I’d buy something else. I just found out now so I’m pretty miffed.

I’d immediately invest most of it in stable, developed economies where the far-right doesn’t seem close to taking power—so somewhere like Finland or Singapore—and invest the rest in Syria because God knows they need it. This way I’ll have a permanent stream of change-the-world money that I can use to support pro-democracy and worker organization efforts in the third world and in countries such as Turkey where there are serious efforts to democratize. With whatever remains from that I’d then go around funding relief efforts in Africa and the like.

You should probably post this in a politics-focused community. Technically non-US politics are okay according to the rules, but I still don’t think this is the place for this. That said I completely reject “terrorist” and “terrorist organization” as labels, so while I don’t know who that is they should be raise even an ISIS (or worse, Israeli) flag if they want to.

I get that you’re worried, but you should be honest with yourself: Even if it’s not safe (which I don’t know since I’m not from the US), do you want to keep on this mask that you clearly despise for the rest of your life? Life is full of trade-offs, and as far as I can gather from your post this trade-off is worth it even if fascist goons do want to jump you (which I doubt because there are many more jumpable targets in US cities).

Yeah true enough. Lemme edit that.

Yeah but how many of those thousand years had people studying and counting how often people suffered this disease or that syndrome when they consumed or didn’t consume cannabis?

Okay fair enough. Also apparently there’s a whole Wikipedia article on the topic so we already know a lot about this stuff, though long-term effects are more tenuous due to legal restrictions.

Okay apparently I didn’t know what I was talking about. There’s a whole Wikipedia article about it. That said it seems there are/were legal restrictions that have limited research on the effects of long-term use.

Were scientific studies conducted on cannabis users before legalization? Because if not then it’s gonna be hard to notice anything but the most obvious stuff.

Edit: The answer is yes but not as much as one would like.