Its important to note that maturity doesnt automatically come with the brain fully developing. The brain being developed is a requirement for maturity though.

Is this loss?

Noone can tell if youre a bad person based on this. But youre definitely not the same person as back then. To the better or worse, who knows. Its in the past, you cant change it, but you can make sure that you wont be doing stuff like that (or adult equivalents) in the future. Dont bury the memories, keep them as a reminder but also dont beat yourself up over it too much.

Borat

Everyone will live in that reality soon enough

Whats cringe about that?

A friend of mine whose decisionmaking I respect a lot. Good balance of logic and empathy. He would be an awesome president and hed hate me for dumping that shitton of responsibility on him. Wouldnt want to be in his shoes. Also id miss him, but its for the best.

I love the phrase “booze or hard drugs”, while alcohol is one of the hardest drugs you can find out there. Just because its legal doesnt make it harmless.

That may be the case. I will need to conduct my own research^^

• that sugary sweets make kids act “hyper”

Do you happen to have a source for that? Coz I have witnessed kids act like a horde of wild monkeys on crack right after eating dessert on multiple occasions.

I see, thats actually good practice, just unusual. The “who” also sounds less odd.

Not a native speaker but the last one, using ‘it’ instead of ‘they’ would sound the most natural to me

Thats right, maybe more like pictures of the different communities

Sometimes someone just doesnt like a specific content. No need to try and please everyone, just like people dont have to hold back on downvoting to not hurt someones feelings. Thats how it works.

I find it interesting to see which comments get general approval and which arent liked. Helps paint a picture of lemmy as a group.

I couldnt care less. I never understood how people would be angry at others for forgetting their birthdays. Its just a damn anniversary…

Yes China is a dictatorship and theres a lot of censorship. I would still choose living in China over the US 1000 times.

They could probably cite Fox news claiming it.

Not in German unfortunately :/

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