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  • Westcoastdg@lemmy.catoTumblr@lemmy.dbzer0.comTrue Ally
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    3 days ago

    While I get what you’re saying, you would still be the person who is choosing to take offense in this situation, and getting yourself worked up. This would be more like if someone said you look like you’re from Boston, weird because there’s not a true ‘look’, but not a big deal at all.

    Equating it to someone calling you a dog is the energy you’re putting on it yourself. It’s generally considered dehumanizing to equate gay people to dogs, something to consider




  • I’m surprised that no one has said “concrete anchor for an unfinished building structure”. Doesn’t this look like someone laid the foundation for a tower or building or something with the concrete anchor underground, and this is a tie-in area for the additional rebar structure of either a column or a wall that could have joined here? The metal configuration here looks a lot like what’s inside concrete pillars but we usually don’t see it



  • Westcoastdg@lemmy.catomemes@lemmy.worldBooks
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    5 months ago

    Best way is to time box it, especially if you’re not accustomed to reading for long periods of time. You could start by carving out just 30 minutes of focused reading before you let yourself get into gaming sessions, which will give you a sense of when you start to feel fatigued (you may end up wanting to read longer). For me, making it a mission helps me focus better at least