[-] [email protected] 59 points 2 days ago

It is escapism. Romance usually has very few things that's real. I mean that most romance stories are more alike to a fairytale than reality.

Most movies and books are 98% predictable with the well-known cliches. And that makes them work. Beig wealthy is just an other thing that makes it going.

Most girls were raised on the price charming idea, and a rich, wealthy and emotionally available person fits the bill.

Reality of barely making rent and having no money to fix your car or even just daily struggle to find childcare for a date would break the dream.

When you are watching romance you want the fuzzy feels, the safe environment that everything going to be alright and happy ending is guaranteed. Love, money, heath and safe environment - with tons of loving friends and family - now that's what people want to dream of.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

I think once I saw a web browser that made websites look like its code. So you were looking for bugs while browsing.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I have a beefcake laptop, that could fold into a tablet. But I still usually use it as a desktop computer: connected to all the periferials, speakers and a monitor, folded up to be a secondary monitor on the side.
While I had some cooling issues with it (had to cough up couple hundreds for repairs) I am still happy with the setup.
The phone is for during the day, some mobile only games and for reading books - tho I do like to listen to TTS when my eyes are busy.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

And this is why I only buy already dying / discounted plants. Less guilt that way. :)

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Looks like an ai-generated image :D
Finan boy for sure!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Those "cheap" Asian EV's look like bare bone vehicles. But you get what you are paying for.
For once I wouldn't suggest to buy an old first gen EV. They are unpredictable, and have a lot of different issues.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

It doesn't ring the same, at least for me.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The saying is hard to translate to English:
They can't see the forest behind the tree - that they were stuck on looking at.

An other one:
They can't find the udder between the horns.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I don't know what kind of trigger warning would be needed for Disney discussions so I'm not commenting on that part.
The warning label for Disney could be that some of them are old and full of historical bias. And historical bias is the political correct way of saying that some works are full of racism and sexism.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Long time ago I saw a pigeon build a nest on a window sill, a place where there was nothing to anchor it to. They even laid two eggs before a storm hit and blew the whole thing away. :( Tho it was a pigeon nest and they are famously bad at building...

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Those who run don't see it, those who love don't mind it.

"Aki szalad nem látja, aki szeret nem bánja."

Basically strangers don't matter, your flaws wouldn't stick out to them. And your loved ones will accept you as you are.

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