Signtist
@Signtist@bookwyr.me
Formerly /u/Signtist@lemm.ee
- Comment on anon is hungover 3 days ago:
I had to check to make sure this wasn’t how I first heard of our latest invasion.
- Comment on You mean it's not? 6 days ago:
It’s clearly Spanish for Big Aryan.
- Comment on What a great idea 6 days ago:
Yeah, I can remember one or two specific instances of people choosing the worst place to stop and have a conversation, but the reason I remember them is because they happen so infrequently. I might need to say “excuse me” every so often, or squeeze by someone who didn’t leave a lot of space, but it’s never inconvenient enough to warrant remembering.
- Comment on Anon files a lawsuit 1 week ago:
I mean, if the siblings are similar in age then yeah, I could see it being like a childhood best friend, but even a difference of, say, 4 years would be great enough that grooming could very well be in play.
- Comment on Anon files a lawsuit 1 week ago:
Haha! I appreciate it as well.
- Comment on Anon files a lawsuit 1 week ago:
We’re definitely in agreement with that. Abuse is a tough subject to broach, and requires a lot of tact to do it right, but if someone is well-meaning, I don’t think the conversation itself should be shunned.
One time my sister’s husband got frustrated while trying to load a bunch of stuff into his car, and ended up throwing something in his frustration. It wasn’t at anyone or anything, but it was such a stark difference from how he normally acts that I felt the need to subtly take my sister aside and ask if he ever hit her. It was a bit awkward, but she knew that my heart was in the right place, so she assured me he wasn’t abusive, and even told him what I had asked to show him how his action looked to a third party, which caused him to take me aside to apologize and thank me for looking out for my sister.
All that to say, it’s good to care for your loved ones, and having mutual respect can let you poke your nose a bit deeper than usual so long as its for the right reasons. As a society we simply try to keep those situations from being necessary in the first place, which is why we tend to be uncomfortable with relationships that are at a higher risk of being abusive.
- Comment on Sharing is caring 1 week ago:
Took me a while to realize it’s a reference to how birds feed their young. At first I thought it was some sort of body snatchers thing.
- Comment on Parents... Huh... 1 week ago:
My buddy’s parents were like this. They’re very religious, and damn near disowned him when his younger brother snitched to them that he saw a condom wrapper in his trash. This was despite the fact that their older brother was born full-term less than 9 months after their parents got married…
- Comment on Anon files a lawsuit 1 week ago:
Who are we to worry about the wellbeing of our loved ones? We’re well-meaning adults in a situation where we can’t be certain they weren’t raped. We might be wrong and sticking our nose where it doesn’t belong, or we might be right and end up being the one person dedicated enough to save another person from a case of grooming. Those cases specifically rely on a person to dig too deep - they wouldn’t be uncovered otherwise.
It’s a difficult place to be in, which is why we shun those relationships from the get-go. Nobody wants to be in that situation, and there are enough people in the world to have sex with that we can afford to say “not anyone who specifically had a hand in influencing what your developing brain considered ’normal.’”
- Comment on Anon files a lawsuit 1 week ago:
Sure, people can just be that weird, and maybe most instances are, but any time you’re dealing with a situation where someone is having sex with a person who knew and had influence over them during childhood, it’s difficult to say they didn’t push a little too much to end up at this result.
It’s like a young adult dating an old friend of their parents; most people’s minds immediately go to that one time 10 years ago where they both disappeared for an hour in the middle of a barbecue and got kinda defensive about it afterward…
- Comment on Elijah Radcliffe 2 weeks ago:
Danijah Woodcliffe
- Comment on Good point 3 weeks ago:
He originally wanted to call it the Spermy Long Legs.
- Comment on Do Costcos usually have an ATM machine? 3 weeks ago:
The ones in my area all have a Wings Credit Union ATM by the food court.
- Comment on Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month 3 weeks ago:
I know a lot of people who would consider 3 hours of gaming a day to be plenty, and I know a lot of people who buy Nvidia products. They are not the same people.
- Comment on On the wall in every kitchen 4 weeks ago:
I had one of these in my house growing up that was used as the family telephone before we all got cell phones, and I’m one of the younger millennials.
- Comment on OP has a realization 4 weeks ago:
You can definitely make up some reason why this UFO would be able to match the Earth’s speed without requiring all of physics to be wrong, but it’s actually pretty easy to get people like this to believe that everything we’ve been taught is a lie to cover up some grand truth that’s being kept from us. It makes them feel smart and validates their common paranoia that world is against them.
It benefits the grifters leave these inconsistencies in because it weeds out the people who weren’t fully hooked, and makes the ones who do continue to believe more delusional, isolating them from their support network and making them more reliant on the grifter. I unfortunately watched this happen with my mom, who ended up dying after spending most of her money on random scams claiming to cure cancer because she’d been convinced that the conventional treatments were the real scams.
- Comment on Apparently your hobbies becomes less interesting if you're forced to do them all the time? Who knew? 4 weeks ago:
People always ask why I don’t turn my hobby into a job, and this is the response I give. If the thing I do to unwind from my job becomes my job, what will I do to unwind from my job?
- Comment on Kiribati 5 weeks ago:
Looks like one of those disposable flossers.
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 1 month ago:
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 1 month ago:
- Comment on My Religion 1 month ago:
The issue is that the vast majority of people don’t view religion as “what I should or shouldn’t do.” They view it as “what should and shouldn’t be done.” They can’t just follow the tenants themselves; in order to follow their religion - at least not the way they interpret it - they need to make sure the tenants are being universally followed. That’s why religion is always at odds with society as a whole unless that society is already overbearingly religious. It will never change unless there are no major groups within society with different beliefs than the norm.
- Comment on Existential cowposting 1 month ago:
They’re not offering you 30% off a TV because they think you need it, they’re doing it because it benefits them, so they dress it up like it’s sometime you need so that you hopefully believe it. You only get what you need when you fight for it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. People generally hate learning things they’re not interested in, and one of the least interesting things for the average person is a fact that challenges their established world view.
- Comment on They Wylin' 2 months ago:
Bill Clinton was impeached in 1998 after it came out that a white house intern, Monica Lewinsky, had been giving him blowjobs, and now this.
- Comment on They Wylin' 2 months ago:
If I had a nickle for every time a sitting president was shamed because Bill Clinton got a blowjob, I’d have 2 nickles. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
The people I’ve met who do their own “research” do so because they believe the scientific community as a whole is fake. They’d take great pride in not being published.
- Comment on Backlash doesn't really exist if you think about it 2 months ago:
This is unironically what I do. It’s helpful to figure out whether that mistake you made is actually important, or if you just think it is because it’s embarrassing. The easiest way to figure it out is to take it to the extreme; is it going to kill you? Probably not, so you’ll probably die from something else. Is it going to effect things so much that people will remember it after you die? Probably not, so one day everyone will have forgotten you, including this embarrassing thing you did. So, might as well just forget about it - everyone else will.
- Comment on Pants too! 2 months ago:
Steel-toed pants.
- Comment on Grab your pitchforks 2 months ago:
Yeah, I hate kiwis (the fruit), so I wouldn’t eat this, but I love pineapples on pizza, so I’d imagine it’d taste good for people who like kiwis.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
My mom would send me a dozen or more conspiracy theory links every day before I cut contact.
