I misread this as “Finnish Leopard”

And spent way too long trying to spot a snow leopard hiding in it…

Spiders.

I never trust meta statistics anymore because you know they’re filling out their “numbers” with bots to try and keep their stock prices up.

In terms of real users I bet bluesky has already surpassed them.

170cm’ here. As a woman I wish I was shorter. I’m taller than my friends and too shy to stick out so much from the pack.

My husband is the same height too, and it would be a small bonus to be a touch shorter than him imo. But that doesn’t really bother me at all (and I totally dont view it as a problem with him in any way).

It can be very moody and lovely. The lack of sunlight in the winters can be a bit of a struggle to deal with however.

I talk to my husband about this stuff because it’s just funny to watch him react to it.

Of course. But learning a language as an adult is a huge challenge. I take lessons but it’s slow progress, people aren’t always understanding when you stumble or don’t know words and I’m juggling full time professional work on top of it so time and mental energy are limited.

Even after years of practice I will never not sound like a foreigner, which is distancing.

Work is how I got in. The IT sector gives you a fair bit of mobility as a worker, an EU blue card can be obtained without a degree (but with relevant experience) if you have a company sponsor you over.

I came back recently too and honestly it feels great. Having so much fun. They don’t have the frustrating gimmicks that defined previous expansions, the new talent trees are really well made, the gear drops are fun and interesting.

It’s a bit worrying for me to be getting pulled into wow again, I thought I was safe…

I’m an American living and working in Europe for years now. It’s pretty great, although language barriers can leave you feeling a little isolated sometimes. That said, the thought of going back to the US turns my stomach. European working culture is much more… Human. More understanding about things like sick days, better vacation packages and, better worker protections.

I wish the US could be better, but it no longer looks like that will happen in my lifetime so I’ll do my best to find happiness here instead.

Yeah, but most games can’t handle that many explosions so they just crash unfortunately.

No, they pretended to get mad so they had an excuse to cut their workforce without having it labeled a layoff.

What would those solutions actually look like?

Man it’s sad how much distrust they’ve built up now

It’s a relief valve though. As someone who has suffered from unavailable care, black market drugs probably saved my life. I’m not terribly against adults being able to make such decisions on their own judgment.

I eat green olives straight out of the can for lunch sometimes.

Oh snap

The same story of publicly traded companies again and again.

Your steady growth isn't good enough.

Your growth has to grow - and if it's not growing fast enough then you're not doing your duty to the shareholders.

Add in the fact that we've let businesses get so large they empty all the air from the room and we've managed to enshittify our entire society.

It’s wild that we have these weird videos that play out when we sleep and people aren’t more interested in them honestly.

I like hearing about people’s dreams!

They really could work on their branding a bit