Makeshift
@Makeshift@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Finale drops on Saturday 23 hours ago:
Any way to purchase the series instead? I canceled Netflix when they added a subscription tier that shows ads to people who pay.
I don’t want to support a streaming service whose customers are advertisers instead of viewers.
- Comment on Can Trump pardon himself even though he did criminal stuff outside of office? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, because he can do anything he wants and just declare legal.
There is no punishment for this supervillain. His cult makes sure of that.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I am not a politically-minded person. All these names and legalese questions and policies confuse and bore me.
I voted for Harris yesterday. If I can gather the willpower to vote Harris and help a prosecutor stop a felon from becoming a king, all of you other not-normally-voter types can do it.
We can do it, people!
- Comment on Emiy 3 weeks ago:
That took me a good 30 seconds to figure out.
- Comment on Guys you remember that time Pete the cat drugged, robbed, and tied up the police commisioner in his own home on Halloween? 5 weeks ago:
Pete is a cat?!
- Comment on Protect Your Dick Data 5 weeks ago:
Yes I’m aware. I’m saying that IF it were an actual thing, it would not be surprising at all considering the extent of invasive, non-consentual data collection and selling that happens all over the place these days.
- Comment on Protect Your Dick Data 5 weeks ago:
Genuinely though, it would not surprise anymore. We have subscription based cars selling your info to insurance companies, retroactively ammended purchase experiences everywhere, and every dang app and website harvesting as much info on you as physically possible no matter how mundane.
Dick info reporting toilets would not at all catch me by surprise at this point.
- Comment on Had to read it 3 times to make sure 1 month ago:
If that’s what it is them that’s awesome. I want to be able to see a company do something that sounds like a good thing without that back of the mind thought of ‘what are they up to…’
Steam being actually based would be great.
- Comment on Had to read it 3 times to make sure 1 month ago:
Found in the comments on Steam. On one hand, I love that Steam is going in the opposite direction of literally every other company. On the other hand, it does seem like it’s not being done to be good guys.
It still was a nice surprise to see “btw no forced arbitration”.
- Comment on The mark 2 months ago:
I have it. This is sorcery.
- Comment on Those poor plants 2 months ago:
Different people react to different things. It takes many approaches to reach multiple types of humans.
I personally reacted after months of being shown hypocrisy, with the tipping point being when I said there’s no problem with eggs and dairy before I was shown what the egg and dairy industries do.
Part of that process was really realizing, not just knowing but consciously thinking about and considering the fact that humans are also meat. I am meat. The cats I loved were meat. My human family is meat. It’s not okay to eat them in a sandwich. Why is it okay to eat strangers in a sandwich?
No one approach will work on every human, and many people take a lot of different approaches over time to really understand.
- Comment on Those poor plants 2 months ago:
Vegan is a philosophy, not a diet. The word you’re looking for is plant-based, not vegan.
A vegan wouldn’t buy leather shoes or woolen sweaters. Someone on a plant-based diet would.
- Comment on Those poor plants 2 months ago:
Dogs taste better anyways. Can’t beat a good Elwood’s steak!
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30M Chrome users sus 3 months ago:
I like how it says the two options are to switch browsers or find a new adblocker.
And switch browsers is suggested first.
And “just accept the ads” is not even an option.
Good on that writer.
- Comment on What the fuck happened to YouTube!? 3 months ago:
This is what I use. Good to hear it’s not depreciated on more modern versions of the OS that my ol’ 6S Plus isn’t able to run.
- Comment on Colorblindness check! 3 months ago:
Welp I just lost The Game. Thanks.
- Comment on I may have gotten the photo from this communuty. 3 months ago:
I am sure he may indeed have screwed Judy.
- Comment on Anon notices 4 months ago:
Sexuality is “no” here: Cats.
- Comment on “It’s sick” 4 months ago:
What a perfect comment to be interpreted in whichever way someone wants to interpret it.
- Comment on True story. 5 months ago:
The Game is the perfect counter/addition to Loss memes because every time I see a meme of Loss I know I just Loss The Game.
Then I get to say it and make othe people lose the game because of Loss. This makes me smile.
- Comment on This will be YouTube in 2025 5 months ago:
uBlock Origin has spoiled me by allowing me to erase the shorts listings. So I don’t even know how bad it is for shorts.
- Comment on Anon has an asexual gf 5 months ago:
Why does it have to be both?
Why do other orientations get to be easy to understand, but the ones that just want to say ‘no’ absolutely must be comfortable in the same label as yet another ’yes’?
What is wrong with having graysexuality and asexuality be as separate as homosexuality and heterosexuality?
Why do people want to force others to be comfortable with what they’re not comfortable with?
Why is it so important to dismiss and erase people who just don’t have a sexuality that it’s acceptable to take over their one safe word and sexualize it?
I genuinely find antisex spaces more welcoming than asexual spaces and I hate that. Because people born without sexuality often don’t care about other people having sex. It’s normal, it’s natural, it’s fine, it’s just not our thing. So why do people insist on sexual themes in a community started to be safe for those who are just born not sexual?
Many of us already feel broken when we don’t get horny as teens. Yes, we’re freaks. We’re weirdos. We’re biological failures.
We create a space to feel not broken. To vent among others born the same. So why take that away? Why take away the one safe term for people who already struggle with feeling like something is wrong with them by coming in and saying that people who DO like sex are the same label and the ones who don’t want sex at all are outsiders among outsiders?
It hurts. It genuinely hurts to finally find others like you, to then be told that no, you’re still a weird broken minority even in this supposedly “fitting” label.
Why is it so important to have a special label that it’s worth hurting the people it was made for to make sure more people can claim it?
- Comment on am I 16 years too late for this 5 months ago:
Thanks. I just lost The Game.
- Comment on Warnings meant to last 10,000 years 5 months ago:
I losst The Game before reading this because of the dang image.
- Comment on YOU. 6 months ago:
So far as I know, they’re not shoving 20 ads in your face on every screen.
I know they’re far from perfect. Heck they have a forced arbitration clause in their ToS.
But compared to other services lately, Discord seems to mostly be trying to treat users as customers instead of products for advertisers. I’ll take it, and get some neat conveniences from Discord in turn.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 6 months ago:
Vegans simply existing make people feel uncomfortable, so defense mechanisms in the brain trigger.
Since it’s an ethical stance, and people at least deep down know that killing innocent animals for 5 minutes of taste pleasure is wrong, but they don’t want to change themselves.
So the brain tries to rationalize how it’s definitely not wrong and really the vegan is wrong, and/or demonize the position to shield itself from the discomfort of knowing.
Basically psychological defenses kick in to defend unethical behavior that someone highlights by simply existing.
- Comment on Confused Reddit Users After Coming to Lemmy (Apparently) 6 months ago:
On Voyager with my sh.itjust.works account with nsfw toggled off and I don’t see any furry or porn.
I am pleased with this.
- Comment on Anon has an asexual gf 7 months ago:
Why do people whose sexual preference is “no” have to add an extra tag to what was already a perfectly useable term? Why overcomplicate?
Sexual people have decided that the term is now their term as well, when it was previously a safe way to say in one simple word “I’m not into sex at all”.
This is just bullying people away from their own term, because we’re after a way to clearly communicate no.
The examples you gave are of desperation and exploration. If you try sex and decided “Yes, I like this” then that’s not a sexual preference of “no”.
It’s not bad to be sexual. At all. In fact, most people are and THAT IS OKAY.
It is annoying (and harmful, because it encourages people to see “asexual” as “still likes sex for my sake!”) to take the word “asexual” and say “Yes asexual people still want sex!”
Let people who don’t like sex have one safe way to say it without being lumped in with a sex-enjoying group. Please. Why is it so important to take that away.
- Comment on Anon has an asexual gf 7 months ago:
My sexual preference Is “no” and I have to say that instead of asexual because sexual people have decided that the prefix “a” in front of the word “sexual” does not mean “not sexual”.
What used to be safe spaces for people whose sexual preference is “no” are now filled with people whose sexual preference is “yes, but I don’t feel horny by looking at people”.
And if anyone dare speaks up they get bullied, called acephobic, and told to just accept asexual people are sexual too and how dare we say please use a different label for that.
I am far from the only one who’s noticed this. It also leads to things like romantic asexuals (people who want a romantic relationship just without sex) having a harder time than they already did because people are learning “Oh your ace? But you’ll have sex for ME, right?”
- Comment on Lemmy is growing and they are coming 7 months ago:
Pfp? Well I missed a memo. Seem to be fine without one though since I didn’t even know that was a thing.
