Do people even still set up voice mail these days? I had it turned off for years, I don’t want to listen to anyone’s voice mail.

IME, therapists are usually more expensive than medication. Might even out after a couple of decades if you never go off medication, though.

I don’t live in the US, though; might be different for OP.

The most obvious issue with this is that most people aren’t (or at least shouldn’t be) always available for calls on their personal phones at random times during normal office hours. If you do it this way, you’re pretty much pre-selecting for people who don’t currently have a job and aren’t in school/college.

Just gotta make sure you don’t mix up the one for your therapist and the one for your partner/friend/acquaintance. Or just use the same one, I’m not the boss of you!

Do you even know how little that narrows it down? This even applies to Mozilla (Firefox) these days.

Maybe if people were actually serious about “winning” these comparisons. IME, it’s usually just “sucks to be us”, and the “winner” is just the one whose day sucks the most. Only thing it normalizes is actually talking about negative things in your life.

Hentai, as in “sex scene”.

Practically no one who compares how little they slept actually slept that little on purpose to win the competition.

Good stuff!

Why drugs bad when drugs feel good?

Ist auch innerhalb von ich_iel teilweise schwierig, einiges was ich hier lese artet schon sehr ins Rätselraten aus …

Die Dosierung ist manchmal schwierig. Mein erstes Mal Cannabis-Brownies machen war … ziemlich kacke. Die Wirkungsverzögerung haut richtig rein, und wir haben die Dosierung aus Unwissenheit ziemlich übertrieben. D.h. ein Stück wäre schon zu viel gewesen, aber das zweite und dritte Stück war eine sehr schlechte Idee. Und natürlich Mischkonsum mit Alkohol.

Schwermetall-Lyrik: Ich/Wir/die Gesellschaft habe/-n/hat schwere mentale Probleme GRRRURRURNRNRNAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGHHH

Everpresent foreign-language media helps a lot, but to make sense of it you generally still need actual lessons, unless you’re one of the extremely smart or dedicated ones. Also, German has a thriving synchronization/translation industry, the need to learn English yourself for media consumption isn’t nearly as big as for languages with fewer speakers or less economic resources.

I do agree that the German-speaking countries don’t have a high demand for foreign English teachers. English isn’t that hard to learn for them and at least in Germany, the public education system is relatively decent at teaching the language.

Menschenfeindlichkeit ist doch seit Jahrzehnten völlig normal bei der SPD.

My IBS is the diarrhea type, and caffeeine exacerbates that. Other caffeine sources aren’t any better as far as I can tell, and I drink several cups of decaffeinated coffee pay day these days.

I went off of caffeine for health reasons (IBS), but I found that drinking about half a cup a day notably improves my overall wellbeing even after I got over the caffeine addiction withdrawals, while not being enough to have a big impact on my digestion.

What’s great about Poland? Not an attack, I just don’t know that much about it beyond basic history and politics stuff and I want to hear the opinion of someone who likes the country who is presumably not Polish themselves.

I mean, Italy is being ruled by a far-right government right now, and e.g. the unemployed are in a really shitty situation in Italy right now AFAIK. Meloni’s government seems more moderate than Germany’s or Poland’s far right, but that’s kind of a gamble between the far right government you have versus the far right government that you might get in a couple of years.

As a German, it’s my impression that Austria is more socially conservative than Germany, though it might be different if you compare specific cities and specific laws that are relevant to you. AFAIK, their far right is less extreme than Germany’s or Poland’s, though.

Austria and Germany are probably good on English education, though, their general English level is pretty high compared to any of the romance countries, just by merit of having an easier starting point.

Tut der Gesetzgeber aber nicht, und ich sehe in diesem Thread auch nicht, dass du das großartig gefordert hast.