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Schon, wenn meine Mutter lüftet. Alle Fenster im Haus (auch im Winter) und das ist nicht mehr ein Zug, aber ein ganzer Hauptbahnhof lol

I'm sorry for offending your ancestors. I hope they can find it in their hearts to forgive me lol

Tbh, I'm not very good at cooking and I rarely add salt to my food. If I want saltiness, I usually get it through ingredients like soy sauce, for example. I guess I don't mean that I use the msg instead of salt, but I do use in foods where you might add salt, and I just happen to not since I added something else that serves a similar purpose. Does that make sense? But then, like I said, I'm not good at cooking and I just try to make things and experiment a bunch (a lot of experiments have failed horribly)

Also - maybe it also makes a difference that I eat vegan/vegetarian and I don't always know how to fill in the "meaty" gap that I feel like can be missing.

God, on one hand, catching a draft makes you die and then on the other STOSSLÜFTEN!!

I bought a big pack of msg from the Asian supermarket and use it instead of normal salt for many things. My partner and I call it wonder salt.

(Of course, msg like normal salt or anything should be used in moderation lol)

I always wanted a cat, but my parents never let me. Now I have two, and getting a third.

Also, I always wanted to wear colourful, pastel jfashion or edgy goth clothes, but I had neither the money or the style and now I wear both daily (sometimes at the same time, I guess)

Also dessert as dinner, video games whenever and playing Simba with the cats.

Ah, making your own instance is a really good idea! Then you're not at the mercy of others. Very cool! I might think about doing something similar at some point.

I also don't spend much time in the German speaking part of the internet (it would be funny if it were because I don't speak German, but I do lol)

I'm curious about what your reasons are, if you don't mind sharing?

I think I sort of understand in theory how instances and the communities work, but I am confused about how it works in practice. I'll hopefully figure it out in time. I signed up via reddthat, so as long as they stay federated... I should still be able to see everything and do everything and have my comments be seen by everyone? Right?

I signed my mum up for Reddit 6 years ago and she's a daily user of that (lmao I help her with subreddits and try to help her not fall into weird rabbit holes, but over all she just looks at cat pictures and fun things) but I don't think she'd manage Lemmy. Maybe, if there were already more communities and more posts related to her interests, and I set Lemmy up for her, and nothing ever changed about how she would learn to use Lemmy. But I think just the nature of Lemmy - it's too new and the idea of instances and how they are federated is too confusing for now. Or maybe I just need to understand it better myself.

Now that I reread my own comment and read yours, I actually realise it was more than a few months of torment. It was a few months of figuring out my identity (which wouldn't have been an existential crisis if it hadn't been for the toxic relationship) and then a further 5 years of a toxic relationship after that. I'm glad I got out, but it sucks to bump into mutual friends who didn't realise we were together in the past call my ex "the nicest person you'll ever meet".

Basking in the reflected edginess of queerness is also a perfect description of an element my past relationship. I've never heard it put quite so well lol

I'm also very glad you're out of that toxic relationship. That sounds so gross and I hope you're in a more loving and supportive place now.

I had a few months of existential crisis when I was 21, but it was more related to a manipulative partner who was fetishising my queer identity as I was just figuring out who I was.

I'm lucky enough that I never felt not-normal and I've never felt the need to "come out" because I've never been in the closet to begin with. But I recognise what a huge privilege that is and I have been working hard on myself and my surroundings to try extend even some of that privilege to others.

(Eg I'm actively campaigning for change at my work place, which also has a wide reach to the public in the country I live in)

I move little icons around, press little square buttons and the higher-ups are happy