Most people are only half-listening - eviltoast
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    Sertraline is an antidepressant. I’ve taken it. It worked fairly well for me. That said, if I told someone I was upping my dose and they said “that’s art deco,” I would assume they were referencing Sylvia Plath and L’Ennui via The Great Gatsby, and I would be impressed and agree.

    And then I would be amused at their correct assumption that I, an LGBT white woman with depression, have familiarity with Sylvia Plath, and I would be impressed with their wit.

    All that to say, you can just say anything, and sometimes you’ll get lucky.

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      If you were a character in a book, you’d be my favorite character. Please take this as a compliment.

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        Honestly, any comparison to Sam Vimes is a compliment. Unless it’s the alcoholism.

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          Samuel Vimes is personally responsible for my pair of good boots and he isn’t even real.

          I went mountain climbing on Saturday and the good boots saved my life. Sometimes it isn’t about feeling the cobbles beneath your feet in the streets of Ankh-Morpor, but about the god damned sharp rocks climbing Mt. Erebus, and the fact that one slip means certain death.

          Oh, and speaking of death, he loves mountain climbers. He doesn’t even have to do his job.

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          I’m obsessed with the Watch books and I’m not seeing the reference to Sam Vimes. Can you please elucidate? I’m but a humble cabbage technicien

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    She probably agreed because that is at least a seamless way of “acknowledging” some totally incomprehensible bullshit that a stranger just told her.

    Not that I see how the sertraline dosage even came up, to be fair.

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      You’d be surprised what people will tell you. Although usually it’s the customer and not the employee

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            Not to mention several or none of those things, combined with some type of neurodivergence. Like, I know I’m supposed to engage socially here and if it’s not a situation I have much experience with I might just accidentally tell the truth in some way that NT’s think is weird.

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            I had a lifetime movie type experience with an ex several years ago, that was an incredibly close call. Shortly after it happened, I got a haircut and told the hairdresser about it, because it’s a good story. She got pretty quiet and afterwards my sister scolded me for trauma dumping. It probably was that at the time, because I was pretty traumatized, but I didn’t realize that that would make a stranger feel weird.

            I was in my early twenties and had not yet learned that I was autistic, but I do tend to pick up on those signals. Just, the stress of the situation made it feel like a thing that should be shared (for real everyone, google peoples full names before you start dating them).

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              for real everyone, google peoples full names before you start dating them).

              Also, check the state’s court records.

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      Tbf, being told by a stranger that they are upping their dosage un-prompted is itself some totally incomprehensible bullshit. Too many of the people that do this will actually accept any response that isn’t a direct attack on or distraction from their personal narrative.

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        Nobody at the dispensary knows anything about marijuana. You just get the same canned responses with every question.

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      I overheard a budtender say that at my local dispensary too lol. Must be a marketing incentive.

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          I’ve kind of understood “dealer” to be someone who sells illegal drugs, and “budtender” to be someone who works the counter at a legal dispensary. I dunno for sure, I don’t actually encounter these concepts often.

          It does seem kind of silly, I mean we already have words that describe people who work in stores. On the other hand, it’s specific and easily understood from the first hearing.

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            oh my god! it’s a real word. I thought it was a typo. I have never heard of it before, since Marijuana is not legal where I live. I learned something. Thanks.

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      I mean, he /could/ be right. He probably isn’t but he could be.

      Nano technology doesn’t refer exclusively to like nano robots it could also just be infused with nano particles of something.

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        Well, there’s a lot of particles that are “nano” in size. And “nano” isn’t a size; nano is a unit prefix.

        Even the earth is smaller than 1 nano parsec. So the meaning is irrelevant when earth is a nano “particle” (on the parsec scale).

        Meaningless jibber jabber.

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          And “nano” isn’t a size; nano is a unit prefix.

          Even the earth is smaller than 1 nano parsec.

          Thank you for the pointless pedantry

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          Pedantic. When people say micro-scale/nano-scale they mean “measured in micrometers/nanometers”. So a nanoparticle is a particle with a size that makes nanometers the most convenient unit.

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    I feel like I would just agree because I would assume that person is being weird and wouldn’t want to interact any longer than necessary.

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    The meaning doesn’t matter
    If it’s only idle chatter
    Of a transcendental kind -
    And everyone will say
    As you walk your mystic way,
    “If this young man expresses himself
    In terms too deep for me
    Then what a very singularly deep young man
    This deep young man must be!”

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    I mean if you give a barista a hard time in conversation, what are they going to do besides consider you a fucking weirdo?

    “that’s so art deco” “I’LL KILL YOU FOR THIS”

    if you act weird people will stop talking to you, welcome to this world

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      Often times that’s because the topic being discussed is something uninteresting enough that I’d rather just smile and nod instead of admit I don’t know what an art deco is. I pretend I know what people are talking about just so they’ll shut up sooner. The sooner the conversation ends the sooner I can stop pretending to be interested in art decos.

      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        this is one of my biggest peeves of social interaction honestly. just the shit where people constantly say “yup, uh huh. mhm”

        Sometimes it’s also just funny to agree with shit you don’t understand. So that’s fair tbh.

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      Why did you think no one would ask you a question? Also just curious, what did you have for breakfast?

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    As a coffee enthusiast and probably a part-time barista some time in the future, I love how baristas are the most pretentious humans people can think of

    • fukurthumz420@lemmy.world
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      thank you fellow human. this commentary actually made me feel more connected to humanity.

      signed, a guy in portland