Draegur
@Draegur@lemmy.zip
Poly-Panro-Ace It/They
friendly neighborhood wholesome degenerate abomination from beyond the stars (mostly harmless™).
Atomic energy enthusiast. Architecture enjoyer. Mecha appreciator. Sci-Fi reader.
Winged caniform cybernetic biped techno-lich in its dreams.
- Comment on Help. 1 day ago:
Projection, probably.
- Comment on Help. 2 days ago:
Clanker-loving cogfuckers. Disgusting. Traitors to the species. But at least they’ll never breed.
- Comment on HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron 3 days ago:
Based tho
- Comment on HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron 3 days ago:
“oh I’m sorry, I had to leave early. Something’s come up. You’ll receive FMLA paperwork soon; I’m afraid I have to invoke mandatory legally protected family medical leave. See you in at least 90 days”
- Comment on THIS is always the correct response 1 week ago:
Indeed! I don’t use Reddit much anymore but I can’t un-see what I saw in there…
- Comment on THIS is always the correct response 1 week ago:
Honestly thank you so much for your enlightening insights! It’ll be helpful for me to digest!
- Comment on THIS is always the correct response 1 week ago:
“just be friends” can often be a way to euphemistically say “fuck off and leave me alone” because a girl who actually says “fuck off and leave me alone” out loud for real runs the risk of a fragile, shallow, unhinged, emotionally unstable man going berserk and MURDERING her.
Obviously nobody likes to hear this but it DOES happen–not every time but if doesn’t need to be every time in order to factor as a risk; like how “every gun is ALWAYS loaded–ESPECIALLY a gun that ‘Isn’t Loaded’!”
The list of people who are murdered for refusing a romantic advance gets longer every day, and the unfortunate truth is that the majority of the victims on that list are women, and that the majority of the perpetrators on that list are men. Statistically speaking, it is simply a matter of common sense precaution to hedge the possibility of a violent reaction by offering “friendship” in the hopes that the other party will be de-escalated enough to not flip out.
That said, I have managed to maintain friendships with some of the people I’ve previously had romantic feelings for, but it took me bridging the honesty gap FOR them: actually offering them the chance to clarify; that they face no danger in being direct with me and that I both CAN and WILL in fact peacefully go fuck off forever if that’s what they actually meant. Thinking back, there’s only two ex partners who didn’t want to talk to me at all anymore after the romantic stage crashed. The fact that it’s non-zero though, that there was even ONE person who was initially lying when they offered “consolation prize friendship” (although forgivably because they were just protecting themselves), tells me all I ever needed to know.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games: The EU's Digital Fairness Act, or how you can help even if you've already signed 2 weeks ago:
And now that the censorship gatekeeping is happening for “porn” games and “violent” news, ANY GAME CAN BE DESTROYED BY THAT, NOW, TOO.
- Comment on US education 2 weeks ago:
Oh wow. It’s been a long time since just reading a thing made me physically nauseous. I crave for the person responsible for these lies to suffer excruciating punishment. It breaks my heart having to accept that justice is dead.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
DARVO.
They’re basically using narcissistic abuser testimonials as an instruction manual.
- Comment on 2 bottles please 3 weeks ago:
For any who didn’t get it: dude’s been stung a lot and it made his face swell up
- Comment on Everything is a problem 3 weeks ago:
And your phone number and your address and your contact list and permission to read-write access to your files and your social security number and your blood type and your date of birth and your mother’s maiden name and the location and shape of any birthmarks or scars and your fingerprints and your genealogy and your deepest darkest secret and what you ate for breakfast last Tuesday and if you’ve made any pacts with yogsathoth and if your soul is still available for sale and your dental records and your porn preferences and your favorite color and your BMI and the name you gave to your favorite stuffed animal when you were six years old
- Comment on Everything is a problem 3 weeks ago:
Everything being my fault means I’m still in control!
(This is actually not always true and is instead a rather toxic derangement)
- Comment on Everything is a problem 3 weeks ago:
No waiting for firmware updates
- Comment on Ill start soon 3 weeks ago:
My meds are actually working and it’s incredible how starting JUST HAPPENS NOW
I’m told it doesn’t work for everyone, but my own personal biochemistry is responding beautifully to Strattera and a small dosage of Wellbutrin.
My psychiatrist told me there’s some risk of harmful interaction so my Wellbutrin dosage had to be reduced when I started the Strattera, but it’s been amazing.
I literally feel like I have more hours in every day because so much less time is lost struggling to get started, struggling to stay on task, struggling to STOP a repetitive habitual time wasting trap like doomscrolling or stupid short form videos.
- Comment on kingdom come 3 weeks ago:
It’s everybody’s celium. Mycelium. Yourcelium. Ourcelium.
- Comment on I can fix her 5 weeks ago:
“I can fix her”?
She can break me.
- Comment on life in the cosmos 5 weeks ago:
“… You guys seein’ this shit?” --Third pillar
“Yeah… I’m seeing it.” --Second pillar
“I wish I hadn’t seen it…” --First pillar - Comment on Spiders Georg 5 weeks ago:
I’m almost entirely certain the median is zero
- Comment on You've got to stick up for the little guy 1 month ago:
just what i needed: more affirmations that I’m definitely not a man :D
- Comment on why are we eatings shrimps 1 month ago:
Yes. It’s a bug. We eat it because it used to be poor people food but got gentrified; Because if the poor ever have anything good, the rich will take it away from them.
- Comment on It was all a lie, wasn't it? 1 month ago:
Thanks, Obama
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 1 month ago:
…truly i’m grateful you listened. What I experienced cannot be un-experienced, but … the only way there’s any chance of people doing something about this kind of terrible event, taking preventative measures against it, etc, is if they know it happens.
A peaceful existence comes from understanding conflict and how to address it.
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 1 month ago:
[Exactly how traumatizing it was--Caution: NSFL]
I was sexually assaulted in the locker room by other students. No one believed me. I subsequently experienced a psychological breakdown. The traumagenic dissociation plunged me through egodeath and I stopped being a person for a year. I was literally not myself again until 2009. I am still slightly messed up to this day, but the two decades that followed immediately after the incident were especially rough.
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 1 month ago:
1995…
I was 10 years old and in the 5th grade.
And I remember everything, huh? Hoo boy. Hoooo boyyyyy.
First thing I do is write this list while it’s still fresh in my mind:
- ADHD is real and it will ruin my potential if I don’t face it head on. The medication won’t work on me yet, though, so tell Mom and Dad I NEED to get back on medication when my brain is more developed in a couple years.
- Also, for future reference: it isn’t actually a deficit of ATTENTION at all–it’s really stupidly named by neurotypicals who don’t fucking get it–it’s TIME BLINDNESS and a deficit of IMPULSE CONTROL and EXECUTIVE FUNCTION.
- Sugar is going to make me extremely sick and all my weight and fitness issues come directly from carbohydrate overdose. STOP drinking soda, and avoid refined/homogenized starch!
- I’m about to enter the most painful and traumatizing stage of my formative years. The middle school I’ll be attending starting 6th grade will be hell on earth. I need to keep my FUCKING mouth shut and not talk to ANYONE unless they talk to me. I also need to practice the skill of mindful dissociation and compartmentalization. Stoicism will be my only shelter.
- Yes the adults around me are morons and don’t know what they’re talking about, but broken clocks can be right twice a day. In this case, they’re correct about homework and studying being important for the wrong reasons: It is NOT about satisfying the expectations of teachers, but rather it is entirely for practicing the skill of internalizing and recalling information. I will not regret time I spend on it.
- Mom and Dad are struggling financially right now. Dad’s racking up debt while Mom is the only reliable source of income. That’s why they would “hold onto” my birthday and xmas money “for safekeeping”. it is neither kept nor safe; it’s gone. All of it. HIDE ANY MONEY I RECEIVE… and tell grandpa to buy stock in Apple.
- Express early interest in nuclear energy and pursue it with everything I’ve got. Approach via Mechanical Engineering. I’ll enjoy Computer Aided Drafting in High School.
- Remember the major incidents to come: Columbine and zero tolerance policy in 1999, also dotcom bubble crash, Al Gore will lose in 2000, WTC will be destroyed by a terrorist attack 2001-09-11, Bush Jr administration will cause the housing market to crash as well by 2008, America succumbs to Fascism in 2016, and there will be a global plague in 2020.
- I’m a furry and I am not actually a boy despite being assigned male at birth. Embrace androgyny. Get online. Find my tribe. Draw a lot.
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 1 month ago:
holy shit i’m going to make sure Apple stays dead forever :D
- Comment on In one week, Lemm.ee will shutdown 1 month ago:
gonna miss you, lemm.ee.
- Comment on 72% of Americans Say the Rich 'Have Too Much' as GOP Pursues Another Handout for Billionaires 1 month ago:
I don’t actually believe there were any literal golden toilets, but rather that the term was a hyperbolic description of pork barrel spending. It’s basically a meme from last century.
This article casually mentions it chicagotribune.com/…/everyone-knows-about-the-pen…
- Comment on Why is the progress pride flag so poorly designed (especially the intersex progress pride flag)? Will it be redesigned? 1 month ago:
Probably because it’s been downscaled from its full resolution.
Also rotated for some reason from the original? Or perhaps just rendered from the same mathematical sequence with some parameters swapped. Here’s an uncompressed one:
- Comment on Why is the progress pride flag so poorly designed (especially the intersex progress pride flag)? Will it be redesigned? 1 month ago:
there are a lot of pieces that use one pixel per color too! you might really dig what people can do with it: it’s honestly astonishing the kinds of arrangements they can make just by mixing the colors.