birdwing
@birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace? 1 week ago:
dumb because other places have other languages
- Comment on Why do people call it “woke”? 1 week ago:
It’s a buzzword for anything they don’t like.
- Comment on How huge London far-right march lifted the lid on a toxic transatlantic soup 1 week ago:
The UK gets colonised by hateful foreigners…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Don’t recommend it, her parents are terrible.
If they’d want you to marry her, they shouldn’t harass you in the first place. The girl has a possibility of abortion.
- Comment on Royal Fuckup 1 week ago:
Brits are Europeans.
- Comment on What’s the actual reason neurodivergent people are sometimes discriminated against or bullied? 2 weeks ago:
“Neurotypical” people aren’t as aware of differences due to being the “dominant” group. They often have a herd mentality and join whatever dunks on others best to come on ‘top’.
- Comment on The sheer amount of websites that are completely unusable without JavaScript 2 weeks ago:
How about LibreWolf?
- Comment on Should I feel bad that my abuser is suffering? 2 weeks ago:
Waiting for the orange turd and the Russian baldhead to kick their buckets.
- Comment on Did I used to be homophobic? Am I? 2 weeks ago:
Just hopping in to say, first of all:
as a queer person, i’m genuinely super proud of you for realising this, and improving.
idk if you told the bully victim, but it’s good to apologise in earnest. he doesn’t need to accept it, but to you both, it’d be a weight off your shoulders.
the way i see it, you don’t need to embrace or approve of what others do - but letting them and treating them like ‘vanilla cishet’* people would get treated (ie. with respect), goes a long way. When you’re in a sauna and there are gay people, ask yourself: would I comment on a straight couple being together?
I don’t think one needs to overworry or overthink it – it’s valid to be concerned; but at the end of day, we’re all people, and you’re welcome too.
* only saying this because in my view, the ‘vanilla cishet’ person doesn’t exist, just as the full-of-fetishes/kinks queer person doesn’t exist. It’s a spectrum which is best seen as, “Who cares, but support for anything that’s mutual between consenting people of mature age, and support for whatever makes their life easier”.
- Comment on Did I used to be homophobic? Am I? 2 weeks ago:
Personally I never really had the “2 same gender ppl together weird” thingy, but ironically now that I’ve come out, I notice it more in my mind that I have those feels. And that annoys me as I want to not have that feel. So I try to ‘CBT’ myself by subtly smiling at those couples too, trying to make sure they feel safe and at ease too.
I think it comes from a perception of envy, that I’m projecting it onto others: why them but not me? I try to combat it too by realising that it’s not ‘not me’; I need to go out and look for it, to have it too.
It’s a whole journey of self exploration and realisation. If there’s any good place to ask, it’s on Lemmy, and since it’s in good faith (realising that homo- and transphobia is in fact, indeed bad), it’s especially a good way to learn how to deal with your feels. Best to have a psychologist you personally know and trust, though.
- Comment on It would get old fast 2 weeks ago:
Also little actual greenery. I couldn’t call these gardens.
- Comment on What's the name of the type of man I'm attracted to? (pictured) 3 weeks ago:
chav
- Comment on What happend to messenging apps interoperability in the EU? 3 weeks ago:
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, but only for bigger cooperations.
As in, extinguish them. Make it far more attractive to not be at a big soulless corpo.
- Comment on Who are the "middle class" supposed to support in the class stuggle? 3 weeks ago:
The workers, 100%.
The difference between even a millionnaire and a billionnaire is one billion.
It’s such a large gap that in my view, no one really could claim to be a “temporarily embarassed billionnaire”. Nobody is; there are only workers and there are leeches.
- Comment on US health department moves to strip thousands of employees of collective bargaining rights 3 weeks ago:
What we need to combat, is that very idea that they’re just temporarily embarassed billionnaires. Nobody becomes that rich out of nil. You either are born into a rich family or marry into it.
- Comment on US health department moves to strip thousands of employees of collective bargaining rights 3 weeks ago:
Read: US workers first to get fucked over by Trump.
The biggest enemy of Trump is the rust belt and evangelist people. They’re shooting themselves in the feet.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Not a mistake, this seems intentional malice.
- Comment on Call your rep today 3 weeks ago:
The irony is that all what the conservatives do “against the woke elite”, is actually very elitist.
Conservatives care about one thing only - to grift and grind people into dust, and steal their deal.
- Comment on New Zealand government pushes bill allowing military to replace people on strike 4 weeks ago:
This seems antidemocratic and against the people’s needs. A military’s goal is to defend, not to be an oursourcing of work.
That said, we all already know whom the military serves… the interests of the capitalist oligarch leeches.
- Comment on Why do I keep getting my feed filled with channels I already banned? 4 weeks ago:
Pro-tip: block using keywords. Some instances also are defederated from others, meaning you don’t see their comments or posts.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Where did I talk about a 4-year-old? I’m not exactly appealed with you putting those words in my mouth.
That said, obviously there is a big difference. I already mentioned the gentle guidance, for that sixteen year old; eg. that if they ever have questions concerning the house maintenance and all that, they should always feel free to come ask you.
And… these aren’t really dangerous years to be unsupervised. In fact, I think it’s more dangerous to live supervised by a deeply controlling helicopter parent, evangelist family.
As I said: gentle guidance. I ask you to read before commenting.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Going by all your comments, honestly, I’d say, why not? Try it out.
Make clear arrangements:
• Clean your apartment every once in a while. • Take good care of yourself, but don’t be afraid to ask for help. • Pay rent.
You could try doing it with a trial for say, half a year, if that goes well, perfect.
Other than that, let 'em go for it.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
That is strange reasoning. Not living on your own doesn’t help you mature or grow independent at all.
People here move out earlier all the time. I think it’s a great way to foster independence and selfcare.
- Comment on Is the whole DC "cleanup" pointless? 5 weeks ago:
It’s not about crime or anything. Fascists always seek control. They are insecure and yet try to create the image of being in power. The machismo is all there is for them: they want to stifle and silence opposition. Which we won’t let happen! All of us share the same fight: against that Epstein creep.
Release the Files
- Comment on Private water company increases CEO pay by nearly 100%. This is how Steve Reeds, UK water minister, reacts 5 weeks ago:
It is in fact, a matter of the government.
- Comment on Deepseek when asked about sensitive topics 5 weeks ago:
So, how about that… are they not similar now?
- Comment on Flight attendant union leaders ‘ready to go to jail’ as Canada declares strike illegal 5 weeks ago:
Well, Kropotkin agrees with you in the last regard; that power should not be concentrated at all.
What he favours is a system such as yours, but differently. Trusts, which are inherently money-based, would be meaningless under an anarchocommunist system, as there is no money to speak of. A gift economy is one option, in where goods are directly given to one another without expectation of reward, and without a middle man such as money.
- Comment on Flight attendant union leaders ‘ready to go to jail’ as Canada declares strike illegal 5 weeks ago:
Kropotkin was right all along.
What we need, is not a wage slavery system centered around what we earn; but a society based around what we need.
- Comment on President Trump shows President Zelenskyy and President Macron his 4 More Years hats 5 weeks ago:
The hats aren’t even of good quality. Most rip apart easily. Chinese-made hats are better than that.
- Comment on Flight attendant union leaders ‘ready to go to jail’ as Canada declares strike illegal 5 weeks ago:
Based union leaders. Screw oligarchs!