the political ramifications matter significantly
Can your obsessive worry change the outcome in any meaningful way? No? Then your obsessive worry is damaging both to you and to those you inflict it upon. This is doubly so when you inflict it on an international audience who doesn’t even access to the horse and pony show Americans call an election.
Kennedy now. Should probably add Thiel in there too; he doesn’t show up in news often, but when he does it’s a horror that makes Apartheid Manchild look small-time.
Hah! It’s adorable that you think it will ever stop! The next set of congressional midterms is only two years away. They’re already ramping up the rhetoric for those!
You didn’t say it. You showed it. Of all the things you could mention about meeting people you got along with and enjoyed spending time with, you complained they wouldn’t sex you up.
That tells me where your focus is.
You know what? Women can tell when the guy sitting across from us is thinking about us as chiefly a pile of meat that they want to fuck.
I stopped watching anime sometime before 2000.
If it’s not only about the sex, why was the sex the first (and only) thing you reached for?
Everytime I find someone and start getting along with them really well. I think to my self this will finally be the year which I stop being a virgin. But it just has not worked out.
So you have someone you get along with really well, and instead of being happy about that you whine (and yes, this is whining) about them not having sex with you.
Your focus is on sex and that’s the only thing you can change: your focus.
(P.S. Please do go on a binge of downvoting all my posts. You’ll sure show me with that! I won’t even slightly hold it up as a badge of honour, I promise!)
So you’re saying that a Lemmy instance that will let anybody casually reach for profane abuse isn’t going to succeed?
Wow. What an own goal!
Please do go on. Just go on without me. It’s pretty clear you’re exactly the kind of person I dropped Twitter over (and the kind of person that had me never even bother with festering pools of dysentery effluent like Reddit). We shan’t be talking again.
And yet it seems most people avoid spaces that have the conversations you like to have.
Here, try an experiment. Run a Lemmy server with the rule that you can say what you like within the bounds of law. See how many users come to your space. I’ll bet for sure you’ll be bigger than even lemmy.world what with all the people who want to habitually reach for “fuck you” that are being so unnecessarily repressed by so-called civil society!
You’ll sure show us, won’t you!
Most people generally consider those who habitually reach for “fuck you” to be assholes.
Perhaps that’s the problem.
And yet somehow you’re getting banned for saying “fuck you”.
I see a contradiction here.
Whereas from this end, this insistence upon having the “right” to be a vicious boor disgusts me.
And it turns out I’m far more normal in this regard than the opposing stance is, given that social media sites, et al are bleeding users over it.
What a mystery. Abuse upsets people, and upset people leave businesses where they get upset. And those businesses ban the abusers?
What. A. Shock.
Let’s pretend this isn’t online space and is, instead, say, the local deli. People go there to get food and see that a fellow customer likes to abuse people. The staff of the deli do nothing about it. So now people stop going to that deli and go somewhere else. (Note: not just the people being abused, but people who witness the abuse going unchallenged by the owner.)
So let’s go over the decision-making process:
Which is the approach that doesn’t kill the business?
Now jack up the paint job, insert an online space, lower the paint job. Do you think the calculus is any different?
And in case you think people don’t leave because of this kind of abuse, I dropped Twitter (loooooooooooooooong before Apartheid Manchild was its owner!) despite only rarely being the recipient of abuse. It was the culture of abuse that was everywhere, in practically every thread, that made me decide Twitter was a festering shitpile. (Again, even before the Manchild took it over.) Sure the abusers were a minority, but they were basically in any thread that was in any way public. And that just wasn’t the vibe I was interested in.
I’d add “start working out”. Depression is helped by a weak body. Walk, yes, but maybe elevate that to running after a while. Or cycling. Or lifting. (Hell, when you go for your walk, carrying something heavy in a bag with one arm. Start with your weak arm and walk as far as you can before that arm tires out. Then switch to your strong arm and walk back home.)
Depression isn’t a mental state. It’s a physical condition that shows itself through your mental state. And it can be fought.
Maybe something like have something akin to “GoFundMe” where accounts are owned by local towns/villages/suburbs instead of individuals and have the towns do the approval process before adding them to the list, I don’t know.
Oh, honey, you’re so close to seeing the actual solution it hurts to watch!
If they’re selling frozen anything it’s going to be crap. (You know frozen egg rolls exist, right?)
Any restaurant making from frozen, especially pre-packaged frozen, is going to be shit whether it’s an “authentic” egg roll or a spring roll. Stop buying from shit restaurants entirely.
Egg roll dough doesn’t have egg in it, though, most times (as in hardly ever). It’s just a thick wheat flour wrapper. And yes, “lumpia” are a variety of spring roll (from Fujian, IIRC, where they’re called runbing). (They also don’t have egg, but they further use rice wrappers, not wheat.)
Those “new-fangled” hard, shiny shell spring rolls date back a looooooooooooooooooong time.
Like they probably date back farther than your country, depending on where you’re from.
I like this one. 🤣
The answer is obvious: the American people should go to the polls and vote “HELL NO!” with the weapon of their choice.