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[–] flicker@lemmy.world 149 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Sertraline is an antidepressant. I've taken it. It worked fairly well for me. That said, if I told someone I was upping my dose and they said "that's art deco," I would assume they were referencing Sylvia Plath and L'Ennui via The Great Gatsby, and I would be impressed and agree.

And then I would be amused at their correct assumption that I, an LGBT white woman with depression, have familiarity with Sylvia Plath, and I would be impressed with their wit.

All that to say, you can just say anything, and sometimes you'll get lucky.

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 39 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The brain is great at creating patterns where none exist :)

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

You got that in the can. You’re a real medicine man, ain’t ya

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[–] Missmuffet@lemmy.world 33 points 4 months ago (4 children)

If you were a character in a book, you'd be my favorite character. Please take this as a compliment.

[–] flicker@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

I do! Thanks!

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[–] amio@kbin.social 94 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

She probably agreed because that is at least a seamless way of "acknowledging" some totally incomprehensible bullshit that a stranger just told her.

Not that I see how the sertraline dosage even came up, to be fair.

[–] acetanilide@lemmy.world 46 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You'd be surprised what people will tell you. Although usually it's the customer and not the employee

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I've met so many people who start giving me intimate details of their life after a mere greeting. Like, yo! Don't you have any filters?

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[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 4 months ago

Tbf, being told by a stranger that they are upping their dosage un-prompted is itself some totally incomprehensible bullshit. Too many of the people that do this will actually accept any response that isn't a direct attack on or distraction from their personal narrative.

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 81 points 4 months ago (3 children)

sertraline is an antidepressant, for the curious but lazy.

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 84 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 50 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Art deco is an architectural style from the 1920s, for the curious but lazy.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 52 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A barista is a usually tippable service worker of moderate status who is trained to produce a slightly better tier of coffee and related beverages, for the curious but lazy.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Curiosity is a car-sized Mars rover exploring Gale crater and Mount Sharp on Mars as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission, for the tippable but coffee.

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[–] Jerkface@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago
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[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 46 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I feel like I would just agree because I would assume that person is being weird and wouldn’t want to interact any longer than necessary.

[–] SternburgExport@feddit.de 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] dogsnest@lemmy.world 38 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Skibidi is so cromulent, brosef.

[–] ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Please don't, I'm not ready for new slang. I barely had a grasp on old slang.

[–] marzhall@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

As an old, learning the new slang is a wonderful chance to learn words of power that will make everyone around you flinch under their force.

Utter a "that's bussin for real," and watch those around you fall to their knees, and add a "poggers" to hear them wail and grind their teeth. Sprinkle a "skibidi" in to really drive things home.

You're missing out on true power here.

[–] quinkin@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

It pleases me greatly when my kids take psychic damage from a simple incantation "sadge chat, no rizz for real for real".

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[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 12 points 4 months ago (5 children)

If you barely had a grasp on old slang, new slang is just a second chance to get on with the times!

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[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 27 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Ha, what a paycheck hexadecimal!

[–] refalo@programming.dev 12 points 4 months ago (3 children)

this enrages me for some reason

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[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

The meaning doesn't matter
If it's only idle chatter
Of a transcendental kind -
And everyone will say
As you walk your mystic way,
"If this young man expresses himself
In terms too deep for me
Then what a very singularly deep young man
This deep young man must be!"

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[–] refalo@programming.dev 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

That's so art deco

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Do you suppose most may only be half or quarter-reading too?

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[–] unreasonabro@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

I mean if you give a barista a hard time in conversation, what are they going to do besides consider you a fucking weirdo?

"that's so art deco" "I'LL KILL YOU FOR THIS"

if you act weird people will stop talking to you, welcome to this world

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The art deco period was a period of huge drug taking because it was before drugs were so restricted.

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 4 months ago

That sounds so plausible, I don't even know anymore whether or not there's sarcasm involved in this thread.

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