Accidentally going the right way is so infuriating.

“Digital media” is a hell of a weird way of saying “capitalism”

“Trumpers” will continue to support the rancid Cheeto-in-a-cheap-suit so long as he continues to do things that will hurt people they don’t like.

It doesn’t even matter if it hurts them anymore; as long as their hate gets enacted then they’ll make that sacrifice.

The only thing he could do to lose their support is express positive things about minorities and suggest UBI, considering the backlash he got for suggesting vaccines could be a good thing some years ago.

Oonga boonga brain says “survive” in majority circumstances ¯\(ツ)/¯

If you’re starving and have a melon in front of you, brain probably says find a way to open and eat it.

If you’re starving, have a melon, and a person with better survival skills nearby, you’re probably going to want to befriend them.

To try to determine/posit the individual moral “nature” of a social species is silly. (◕‿◕✿)

I have one bio parent I can do that with, and I know I’m privileged to have that. To be able to confide, ask questions, seek advice, break down, or even just play cards together provides a certain level of mental safety I didn’t experience otherwise.

I only hope I can provide even a fraction of that to others; everybody deserves safe people.

McCarthyism, Southern Strategy, three letter agencies spending decades actively targeting/murdering activists; yeah it’s been rough.

These are also the same people who prefer kids act as bullet sponges during school hours, then groom/coerce encourage the survivors just before they come of age to be rapists, pillagers, and murderers bullet sponges to fuel corporate and imperialist interests “defend the country.”

Bonus points for tossing veterans aside like trash the moment they step foot back on US soil 🤡

There’s an extra layer of schadenfreude for these pricks when the deceased are poor, brown, and/or of (nonwhite) immigrant background.

Let’s just say I wouldn’t cry reading the obituary of a forced birther. /rant

I loved specific fruit as a kid. Bananas, grapes, and watermelon? Hell yeah. Apples and honeydew? Death glare for suggesting it.

I and my sibling also got fiendish for salad and fresh vegetables but hated frozen.

I’d wager that just like with adults, every kid is different.

It starts with dissociation and eventually evolves into derealization and depersonalization before you know it ♪~ ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ

For me personally, anything times 5 can be reached by halving the number, then multiplying that number by 10.

Example: 66 x 5 = Y

• (66/2) x (5x2) = Y

  • cancel out the division by creating equal multiplication in the other number

  • 66/2 = 33

  • 5x2 = 10

• 33 x 10 = Y

• 33 x 10 = 330

• Y = 330

I’m going to hold onto the spark of your optimism until I can light my own; your perspective does help and I hadn’t considered it. Thank you /gen /pos

One can only hope, but knowing how fucking stupid my right-wing, sycophantic, fellow countrymen are I doubt much will change.

Pretty sure everyone who voted against him already hates him though.

There were games on sale I bought on impulse that I’ve dumped plenty of hours into.

Super Mario Odyssey - bought it while I was waiting for Tears of the Kingdom to release, replayed it at least three times. Same with Mario + Rabbids.

Lots of indie games - Slime Rancher, Cat Quest II, both Cattails games, Sprout Valley. All in the replay pile and some of my favorites.

Got my money’s worth and then some, plus I wouldn’t have given them a chance if I was hesitant ¯_(ツ)_/¯

GNOME is a lightly upgraded MacOS interface. Every time I’ve had to use a Mac has pissed me off so GNOME gives me war flashbacks.

Not necessarily the DE’s fault but ¯_(ツ)_/¯

You make a great point.

I fire off comments without thinking much at about the same rate as I did on the other website but get replies on about ~50-60% here vs. ~20% on centralized media.

It’s really nice honestly. /gen

(And people are much nicer about tone tags here!)

Yes.

“Gagged”: restrained from speaking; with a cloth or special device to block one’s mouth.

“Sub”: submissive person, used in a sexual context here.

Autistic people are stereotypically intensely invested in certain topics, called “special interests.” The “famous” one is trains but mine are cats, video game history, and Pixar movies to give broader examples.

Due to this intense investment/focus/etc. in the special interest, autistic people tend to know a lot of facts about them and care about factual correctness (stereotypically).

Someone spouting knowingly made up facts about an autistic person’s special interest, and the autistic person can’t respond/correct the other because they’re gagged would probably cause some pretty intense frustration.

Some find that frustration to elevate sexual arousal ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Autocorrect just bailed on her lmao

I think the joke is that a vocal chunk of the user base here also uses Linux

This is oddly comforting. So many websites and opinion articles push the idea of painstakingly tailoring a resume, then hunting down the listing on the website and re-filling in that same resume twice.

On top of that they make you feel like you’re the problem when that doesn’t work and you’ve wasted three hours of your time to maybe get rejected six weeks later.

Thank you for being honest. This will save a lot of time and stress going forward. /gen