faythofdragons
@faythofdragons@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Alpha males 1 day ago:
A crown made of internet points isn’t heavy at all.
- Comment on Alpha males 1 day ago:
I see that my definition comes before yours, so I am king.
- Comment on Alpha males 1 day ago:
In correct. “It” does have many definitions, but none of them are ‘first’.
- Comment on Alpha males 2 days ago:
No, alpha is the anglicization of the first letter of the greek alphabet. It doesn’t mean ‘first’ any more than the letter A does.
- Comment on heaven 1 week ago:
No, but I have done that to a cat, so I can’t go to hell either.
- Comment on Anon looks into cults 1 week ago:
That’s just going to be Trump dropping nukes on California
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, there is sometimes a grain of truth to that sort of thing. I gotta be real careful talking about a lot of my experiences, because I know they sound like right-wing talking points, and I don’t want to give them ammo against my side, y’know? It’s frustrating, but there are bigger problems that need to be solved first.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Eh, I’ve heard that before elsewhere, and it’s always turned out to mean they only accept agender folks if they’re femme enough. I worry that I would, once again, be too masc for a group that ostensibly supports me.
I already feel like the world would be better off without me, and I’ve already had other groups say I’m the bad kind of agender. Like, I used to say I was a tomboy, but then I got kicked out of the college women’s group because its an offensive term?
- Comment on Can any scientists confirm this important fact? 2 weeks ago:
My cat has figured out how to pantomime chasing the dot as his way of asking me to break out the laser pointer.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’m afab agender, and I’ve got it blocked too. Nothing they’ve done to me, just because of past women’s spaces saying I’m not woman enough to be there. Like, I was never really taught how to do my hair or makeup because neglectful mother, but I keep running into women that get angry because I see it as a hobby? I’m just too old for gatekeeping, and have zero desire to prove that I “deserve” to post in a restricted community.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I also like to heat the pot back up, deglaze it with water, and scrape with my spatula. If there’s still gunk stuck on, I’ll add more water and bring it to a boil, then it comes right off. Even if the gunk is on the edge of the pot, the steam will loosen it. I could probably boil my plates too, now that I think about it, lol.
- Comment on flowers for the lost 2 weeks ago:
Speaking as somebody with a fuller bosom, as you mentioned, the problem is mostly the angle of the shoulder belt. There is an adjustable slide, but it only adjusts four or five inches, which simply isn’t enough for the seven inches difference between my partner and I. The end of the belt is by my ear, not my shoulder. I’m constantly tugging the shoulder belt lower when I’m in the car, either passenger or driver, which is really not safe.
In 2008, I was in a car crash. I was driving a 1998 minivan and got t-boned by a 2006 SUV going 55mph. It turned the van into a banana, pushed the driver’s seat over to the center. I don’t remember the accident itself, but it looks like my head bounced between the B pillar and the airbag/steering wheel, it broke my glasses, cracked my skull, and gave me a subarachnoid brain hemorrhage with a 50/50 survival rate. Literally knocked me cross-eyed, so I was seeing double for forever. It also broke my pelvis into 8 pieces, sliced up my spleen, and broke a few ribs. I still have a bolt holding my pelvis to my spine. Took over a year to recover, then COVID hit while I was trying to get back to work. fml, never doing that again.
Maybe it would have been better if I had side curtain airbags, but the main problem really feels like the seatbelt just doesn’t fit.
- Comment on She's a keeper 2 weeks ago:
Or how employers are more likely to hire you if you’ve already got a job.
- Comment on Where are all the successful "red cities"? 2 weeks ago:
I’m sorry, did you miss where I said my town went blue? That I have never voted anything except Democrat? What self-righteousness are you talking about?
- Comment on Where are all the successful "red cities"? 2 weeks ago:
I’m voting to spend my money on your buses, your internet, your renewable energy, your education and job training so we can all benefit and I don’t understand why conservative people shit all Over that.
You should complain. You deserve better.
Pick one? We complain, and y’all go off on that whole rant in your second paragraph that boils down to ‘how can you be so ungrateful for all this help I’m giving you’, when we’re not getting help? You understand how frustrating that is, right?
- Comment on Where are all the successful "red cities"? 2 weeks ago:
maybe you don’t want internet service, education, connectivity to the modern world, infrastructure, fine
Okay, this is one of those weird assumptions that people have about rural folk that I do not understand. Why does everybody assume that the 2k people living in my town don’t want any of that stuff? It’s one of the barriers I keep running into with the bus service, y’all city folk assume that we don’t want it even though we’re asking for it.
Plus if your strength and independence is so core to your self-image, where is it? Voting for a tantrum to knock everything off the table is no one’s idea of strength.
My town went blue. Most of my neighborhood are noncitizen farm workers who couldn’t vote at all. Assuming all rural areas are stereotypical alabama is frankly insulting. You get a pass, because you don’t live up here, but it’s infuriating when I hear the same bullshit coming out of locals followed with “that’s why I voted against the rural school levy, they don’t deserve it”.
A big difference this article misses is that we want the best for you and will act to improve your life if you meet us half away
Except that’s not showing up in any real way. For example, I’m currently looking at the worker retraining programs, and the closest one is 70 miles away. Why should I not complain about that?
- Comment on Where are all the successful "red cities"? 2 weeks ago:
To expand on what @emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com is saying, I live rural because I don’t make enough to live in the city. My town is rapidly gentrifying and I might not afford to live next to cows any more pretty soon. City folk spend more on rent than I make in a month.
A lot of our ‘welfare queen’ perspective is colored by the fact that tax-funded services are usually concentrated in the city. I keep petitioning my county transit authority for better rural bus service, but the best they can do is make the city bus lines run every 15 minutes instead of every half an hour. Meanwhile, I’m paying uber $50 just to get to a doctor’s appointment and wait to catch a ride home when a friend gets off work. Food costs more for worse quality in rural areas, so food stamps don’t go as far as they would in the city. Welfare in the city feels like you could live like a queen off it. It’s not entirely true, because the amount you get is scaled to income, but per dollar, you do get more for your welfare in cities.
There’s also that city dwellers can get really nasty about rural folk. I’ve never voted for a republican in my life, but living out here makes people assume the worst of me. I get told that living rural means I’m a bootlicking hick that’s too stupid to know what’s good for me, so it’s hard to sell that they deserve sympathy and we don’t.
- Comment on Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask? 2 weeks ago:
What is the correct way to ban rape and anime CSAM games from Steam?
I think the first step is defining terms and being transparent about your intent. Like, everybody’s on board with banning pedoshit until you find out the organization is targeting transfolk and covering for real pedophiles. I have run into people who think all anime is CSAM, I have run into people who think all sex is rape. There’s enough kooks out there, you can’t just take a political org like Collective Shout at face value.
You’d probably have to go game-by-game and point out that the game has certain elements, provide evidence that those elements are actually dangerous, then start a petition for Steam et al to remove individual titles.
- Comment on Happens far too often 2 weeks ago:
For some reason I’m reminded of the taxidermy cat drone.
- Comment on They even got their own island 2 weeks ago:
Can confirm, had my first sexual encounter when I was 5 and he was 18.
- Comment on Gallium 3 weeks ago:
It is hotly debated, but poop does get displayed as art from time to time.
- Comment on This comic hung in my office for years 3 weeks ago:
I dunno what you looked up, but my search returns multiple sites with instructions for keeping squid at home?
- Comment on Deserved honestly 4 weeks ago:
lol, lmao even
- Comment on anything but metric 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on egg 4 weeks ago:
Ah, looking at your comment history, you just look for reasons to argue. Not my scene, have a good day.
- Comment on Dik Piks 4 weeks ago:
Rufus!
- Comment on egg 4 weeks ago:
You were deffo rude first, sorry.
- Comment on egg 4 weeks ago:
That is a good question. Why are you being rude to randoms?
- Comment on So me 4 weeks ago:
Meanwhile my great grandmother, in her 80s, was able to learn how to boot up Win95 to play some puzzle games.
I personally think it’s because she was never really one for passive entertainment. If she watched television, it was stuff like Wheel of Fortune and she played along. She hit up the library every week for fresh books, and did a lot of crochet and crossword.
It’s similar to how I think her curiosity for life and refusal to be afraid is why she wasn’t a bigot. We have several interracial marriages in my family, and she never had a problem with it, despite being born in 1912.
She lived to be 100, and I hope I’m half as cool as she was.
- Comment on Plant Slurs 4 weeks ago:
I suspect that’s one of the reasons they’re grown in greenhouses commercially. They use a lift to pick, and it’s easier to drive over pavement than dirt.
