Maybe I’m missing something, but I don’t see why being comfortable alone is viewed as strange while constantly needing people around is viewed as normal.

Observation bias: Someone who’s comfortable alone but uncomfortable around others will be seen to be uncomfortable by others; whereas someone uncomfortable alone has no one around to observe their maladjustment.

They are both maladjustments though; someone well-socialized is comfortable both alone and around others.

Realistic options only, please, I’m in a similar situation.

Got married and had kids earlier than everyone else in the friend group.

Data is the plural of datum.

A datum is an atom of information, the smallest amount of information that still makes sense.

But in your case, it means “how many bytes we’re willing to transmit to your phone at high speed per month”.

A cubic foot of baked ziti casserole with eggplant.

Also all the intentional malapropisms and misspellings.

I’ve got bad news for anyone renting.

I’d argue that ending just one nation will not be enough to end corruption.

only good memories, I promise

Heeeeeey I know you!

Not all birds sing well.

It means you act like you don’t care what anyone thinks.

You have an easy-to-remember name and you post the most based questions here every single day.

I think the implication is that OP uses tiny padlocks, but okay

That man’s face looks like a ballsack, is my guess.

the would not look the same if you read them raw; much of a docx file is formatting and other metadata

LMK if you figure it out.

Nah, no major party deserves any allegiance. I vote Democrat when the candidate is good enough and not running against someone better, sure, but if they want my vote they have to earn it every time. Same with the Greens (though they tend to only field candidates who are qualified in local races) same with the Republicans (though they tend to not field candidates who are qualified) or any other party.

because “social media” is the corporate buzzword for when people are not primarily consumers but product

By “aerial juggling” I just mean as opposed to contact juggling, at which I’m at least somewhat practiced.

“Instance” on the fediverse means essentially “server”, or more like server/software combo, since a lemmy instance and a funkwhale instance could in theory share the same machine. So I’m hosted on the slrpnk.net instance, and my full username is @[email protected].

To draw a parallel between consciousness, you talk about how we don’t truly exist in reality, we only interact with our perceptions of it that reside within us; the fedi is the same. I don’t interact with your post stored on lemmy.world, I interact with the local copy of it stored on slrpnk.net. And hopefully those interactions are copied back to the original and we experience the same comments and votes as each other… but we might not.