The best thing you can do in these situations is to ask a critically reflective question for them to sit with. You can and never have been able to change someone’s mind just like that. What you can is be part of the web of critical thoughts that help them towards thinking critically about their idea.
Yes also that, but reducing it to “they could be into anything, and there’s an equal chance just like everyone else that theyd be into me” is also a cognitive distortion right?
What’s holding you back from being the person they’d date?
(Btw there is some good advice in that question that can help you identify what fears and procrastination that keeps you away from what you want to be, but there’s also a potential trap in determining your worth by external factors)
I love an ambitious person. Just not if the main motivation is money, fame, beauty, or status. But give me someone geeky, curious, and exploring person anytime.
Maybe doesn’t qualify as a war crime, but they have mass murdered their own protesting citizens.
But you should also read up on their role in funding militias around the arab world, about sunnis and shias, about operation AJAX, and about their authoritarian regime.
Ah so it’s more of a question about the origin of the word, and it seems you’re right about the lion’s teeth. People who say dandy lion probably misinterpreted the sound. But hey that’s how language evolves.
He wrote it wrong. Its dandelion, and its pronounced in English just like you do, but dependent on the country, we have different words for it. In danish its “mælkebøtte”. Which means “milk bucket”. I think because of the white liquid they have inside. Its good for mosquito bites.
Misinformation is just one problem with social media. What about journalism not being paid ad revenue as it goes to the social media instead? Algortihmic freedom? Network effects (interoperability)?
It’s not the right word but when I wrote it I was too lazy to think of a better one. Think of disposable cameras, dumb phones, and vintage tech. It’s in now.
In comparison, this study https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10123459/ finds that 232,000 deaths could have been prevented AMONG the unvaccinated. This is includes people who could not take the vaccine for specific health reasons who may not have died if people who could took it.
And they were voluntary to take despite it having big consequences for everyone else that some chose not to take them.
Law suggestion: every phone has to have multiple options for operating systems