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- Comment on Scientists say X (formerly Twitter) has lost its professional edge — and Bluesky is taking its place 2 weeks ago:
Huh.
Seems like there’s a weekly article about how it’s dead or an echo chamber because there’s less tolerance for hatred.
Guess not.
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 2 weeks ago:
Windows: The top choice when you want someone else to control your computer.
- Epic Rap Battles - Frederick Douglass vs Thomas Jefferson. Epic Rap Battles of History (Now I've gone down an ERB rabbit hole, I'll see you in a couple days)youtu.be ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to videos@lemmy.world | 5 comments
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- Comment on The Groyper angle explained - 'this assassination was a shitpost' 3 weeks ago:
Me either, but on desktop it doesn’t care. (unless it’s thanks to Linux/ff/ublock but I doubt that) I didn’t realize it forced you on phone on until recently. Sorry!
Here is essentially the same thing with less detail. I haven’t decided where I like uploading things these days yet.
- Comment on The Groyper angle explained - 'this assassination was a shitpost' 3 weeks ago:
Fair, will do!
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- Comment on Dude... Who the hell wrote all this cr@#? 4 weeks ago:
Crapound?
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 4 weeks ago:
Don’t worry, maga will get us back there soon enough…
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 4 weeks ago:
if someone is not able to distinguish between fiction (regardless of the medium) and reality, then the problem is much deeper than pearl-clutching religious fanatics insist on believing, and will NOT be solved by abolishing all the “bad” fiction
We’ve been trying to make this exact argument to the exact same group of people since the earliest days of D&D and I’m sure someone was having the same conversation about some other thing before that. 😠
- Comment on Anon doesn't like AI 4 weeks ago:
I’m gonna say this one time, and you will probably ignore it and continue on as you were.
But maybe, you will reflect upon some part of it later.
I have been on a path that could have ended with an attitude like yours. The sad thing about it is when people tell you that you are creating you own perception that women at large think men are all assholes, or that women at large don’t think of you as part of their community, by how deeply (or not) you are reading into things that touch on those issues, and how willing you are to set aside your feelings of being attacked to try seeing what is being said.
As one example, the bear thing a year or so ago sure pissed a lot of people off and I am pretty sure I hear echoes of that event (or something very similar) in your comment.
Choose for a moment not to feel victimized by it, and instead look at it like this:
Perhaps, it’s a sad commentary on the lived experiences of many women in this country which we all believe to be so safe that so many of them have experienced such a pervasive threat of sexual assault that they regard unknown men as potential threats. We’ve been calling ourselves the greatest nation on earth for as long as the nation has existed, yet in 2025 a huge percentage of our wives and daughters are unable to feel safe if a strange man is behind them in a parking garage.
Yes, it annoys me for a second when I am minding my own business and I can see that a woman has changed her behavior to keep me in view or stay ahead of me as if I’m going to do something to her when I know well and good I am not. I have never done that a single time in reaction to someone just minding their own business. But then I realize, in 50+ years, I’ve had the luxury of never having felt that level of danger in my daily life.
So I figure, I hope someone else will help my wife or niece feel a little more comfortable in the same circumstance, and I try to make that annoying woman in front of me who wanted to have a little less fear feel a little safer if I can.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like AI 4 weeks ago:
The masses aren’t smart enough for that, it’s too easy to distract them with some completely blameless minority group.
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- Comment on Dodged the maga family visitors on 4th July by happy accident, now trapped with them at wife's birthday celebration. 1 month ago:
- Comment on Dodged the maga family visitors on 4th July by happy accident, now trapped with them at wife's birthday celebration. 1 month ago:
It’s only respect for my wife that gives me the strength to hold it in. She’s not got a lot of family close by.
- Comment on Dodged the maga family visitors on 4th July by happy accident, now trapped with them at wife's birthday celebration. 1 month ago:
When they do this just stare right at them, with a blank expression. Keep the stare for about 10 seconds until it starts to get uncomfortable for everyone, and then just say “hmm” while maintaining eye contact.
I kinda like this one I might try it! Though in this case I was granted a reprieve because they couldn’t stay as long as expected. 😁
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- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 1 month ago:
Same folks who couldn’t handle a Bishop preaching mercy, either.
- Comment on IYKYK 1 month ago:
I had the same recollection. Turns out it’s common-ish.
- Comment on The regrets of life 1 month ago:
There was quite a surprising amount of that, I have to admit.
- Comment on The regrets of life 1 month ago:
Yes yes, thank you Mx. wet blanket. I think by now I have that part of living down.
- Comment on The regrets of life 1 month ago:
Sad Answer: I’m 30 years too late to find out!
- Comment on The regrets of life 1 month ago:
This is the sort of comment that no one believes but I’m OK with that.
The night I left for boot camp, I had not one but two longtime female friends throw themselves at me, within less than an hour of each other. I slept with neither of them, didn’t do more than kiss either of them, but we’re talking sudden, “OK, what is she-oh wow ok-5 minutes go by” kind of kisses. I’d known one of them since the first grade.
Now, here’s the part where you stop formulating your accusations of implausible humblebrag and it becomes relatable to OP. 😁
YEARS, and by years I mean DECADES of my life passed before I considered the possibility that it was anything other than “we’re probably not going to see each other again after this, let me give him a treat to remember me by.”
And let me tell you, when that sort of realization hits you decades later, it’s on a whole 'nother level.
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 2 months ago:
Fuck Spez!
- Comment on Now it's stuck in your head too. You're welcome. 2 months ago:
Well, at least you finally got hmmm bop out of my head.
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- Comment on I've always liked names that describe your interests 3 months ago:
IRL an opener like that receiving a response like that would probably be a sign that these two people are absolutely made for each other, IMO. They’d probably be a fantastic couple and wind up growing old together.
