papertowels
@papertowels@mander.xyz
- Comment on Good news. :) 2 days ago:
NM is there in spirit!
- Comment on An activist has started using AI to identify ICE agents beneath their masks 4 days ago:
Yeah this is hella sketchy. It’s MAYBE one step above saying “chat gpt, show me what this agents face looks like” and then using that to try and find a match.
- Comment on Anon tries to meet girls at college 2 weeks ago:
Stare them straight in the eye while hip thrusting
- Comment on Anon tries to meet girls at college 2 weeks ago:
My friend group was always on the nerdier side in high school. One thing I’m really glad we did come senior year was we’d play poker, and the loser, if single, would be have to go and cold call ask a random gal out on a date.
It’s liberating to know that, as long as you’re not being a creep, you can just talk to someone you think is cute and ask them out. It was especially nice to know back in the high school days lol.
- Comment on Anon tries to meet girls at college 2 weeks ago:
Also, when people say meet others at college they don’t mean in the classes. They mean in the social events…
- Comment on Anon goes home 3 weeks ago:
Also, dont overlook the value of healthy habits.
I’ve seen younger siblings who subsisted on coke and PB&j in their retirement pass before their older ones.
- Comment on Florida ounces 4 weeks ago:
The shortest unit of time in the multiverse is the New York Second, defined as the period of time between the traffic lights turning green and the cab behind you honking.
- Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies (Discworld, #14; Witches, #4)
- Comment on Anon saves up 4 weeks ago:
That certainly is a good chunk of time, but 5 weeks minimum is stellar!
Cheers!
- Comment on Anon saves up 4 weeks ago:
That’s marvelous.
Is “very” long on the scale of like a decade or multiple decades?
- Comment on Anon saves up 4 weeks ago:
Are y’all getting 5 weeks of vacation a year? My American mind cannot comprehend this.
- Comment on Anon saves up 4 weeks ago:
I also fully recognize that I have a fairly generous employer. I don’t think my experience is representative of most Americans.
- Comment on Anon saves up 4 weeks ago:
Genuine ignorance and curiosity - do y’all only do days? If you have to take half a day off, do you round up or down?
- Comment on Anon saves up 4 weeks ago:
Employed in the US, I can stack up to 240 hours.
- Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport." 5 weeks ago:
A fascinating theory I read is that MAGA is making a big deal out of Epstein because it provides an off-ramp that lets them save face.
Legit I’m like "bruh, you’re surprised that you’re billionaire ‘grab em by the pussy’, ‘accidentally’ walking into the miss teen usa, ‘I’d fuck my daughter if she wasn’t my daughter’ president is on a list of billionaire sexual predators? I’m glad that something finally looks like it might stick to him but c’mon guys.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 1 month ago:
I think I remember the dual thumb, but I just remember being amazed at how responsive it was
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 1 month ago:
Typing on this thing was a dream.
- Comment on Let delivery drivers keep their 2 months ago:
Thanks for taking the time to walk through your thoughts - I appreciate the conversation.
I think the particularly egregious problem with interpreting the comment as referring to the association of man=top=dom is that the meme has a gal as the dom, as you’ve pointed out, which does go against heteronormativity.
- Comment on Let delivery drivers keep their 2 months ago:
I understand heteronormative to be about social norms centered around heterosexuality, and how that is the dominant cultural factor.
With that understanding, viewing things through a heteronormative lens is to exclude the views of non-heterosexual folks.
Then “heteronormative bullshit” is comparable to “heterosexual bullshit”.
I might’ve missed some nuance - this is not my forte. However my naive understanding is that saying this was commentary on “cultural norms” is similar to saying to civil war was about “states rights”. States rights to do what? (Slavery) Cultural norms centered around what? (Heterosexuality)
- Comment on Let delivery drivers keep their 2 months ago:
“heteronormative” doesn’t mean “it’s the fault of straight people” are you serious
But does “heteronormative bullshit” imply that?
What if they’d said “I’m tired of this homosexual bullshit that glitter goes everywhere?”
That definitely reads as “I believe it’s the fault of the queer people” to me, do you believe otherwise?
- Comment on Uncultured 3 months ago:
I know this one! It’s a picture - a graphical depiction of something. They can come in many formats. I’ve heard they can be worth a thousand words.
- Comment on I am sick of seeing the rich and powerful on my screen. Where are all the TV shows about normal people? 4 months ago:
Bob’s burgers.
- Comment on Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators) 4 months ago:
But they’re quests
- Comment on Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators) 4 months ago:
I just want to make sure you notice it says “encrypted messaging” meaning matrix as a service, as opposed to “encrypted messages”, meaning selling your messages.
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 5 months ago:
If you think going down on someone is only a submissive act you haven’t gone down on someone long enough.
- Comment on ^_^ I just think skibidibi sounds neat :3 5 months ago:
GOOD GUYS, BAD GUYS, AND EXPLOSIOOONS, AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE
- Comment on Anon starts talking to a girl 5 months ago:
Eh, idk about being sought, but the dating experience did fundamentally change after I felt confident enough to be more worried about what a potential match brought to the table than whether or not I’d get a date. The pool of applicants wasn’t big, but I was happier being solo than with the wrong person.
For the record, I didn’t down vote you.
- Comment on Anon starts talking to a girl 5 months ago:
No, I’m saying to avoid “the majority” of women on there who likely do not share values with you.
Would you rather actually spend your time to go on a date with them only to find how shallow and materialistic someone is? Or would you rather know in advance to not waste your time?
- Comment on Anon starts talking to a girl 5 months ago:
Great, that lets you know who to avoid.
- Comment on You're* 5 months ago:
I distinctly remember learning this about myself after talking to someone on a dating app who used absolutely 0 punctuation. We’re talking like entire paragraphs-worth of text messages without a comma or period in sight.
- Comment on Dunning-Kruger 5 months ago:
I mean yeah, if you spent 5 years of your life pushing the edge of human understanding on a subject, and a shithead tells you to do the science on your research subject, it’s relevant lol