Based tho

“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”

“do you know what ps/2 ports are?”

“holy cow, PlayStation 2? you must be AT LEAST 25!”

[dying inside intensifies]

almost sounds something like “my son broke my grandfather clock so i forced him to watch while i smashed all his toys”

Maybe he’s the source of it ._.

Indeed! I don’t use Reddit much anymore but I can’t un-see what I saw in there…

Honestly thank you so much for your enlightening insights! It’ll be helpful for me to digest!

“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 it does not need to be every time in order to factor as a risk; like how “every gun is ALWAYS loaded–ESPECIALLY a gun that is ‘Not 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.

For such a disgusting being, it’s actually kind of amazing he hasn’t already died.

…

And unfortunate.

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The snopes article indicates that the study cited for reporting Tesla cars to have the most fatalities per billion miles driven cannot be validated

In sum, while the claims across social media are correct in saying a study did find Tesla to have the highest fatal accident rate of any car brand, the study itself uses data that is not available to the public. Therefore, although this does not mean the data is incorrect, it does mean that ensuring the study’s accuracy is not possible at this time.

Oh, sorry ma’am, my accent must’ve been off; I thought I said you’re really cute and I want to let you utterly ruin my life :3

GPT LLMs “solve problems” as much as cargo cult “build airports”.

ID verification won’t protect anyone from rapists like him.

But it just might protect PREDATORS from CONSEQUENCES by suppressing public knowledge of their crimes.

Jesus fucking Christ we need to riot.

And now that the censorship gatekeeping is happening for “porn” games and “violent” news, ANY GAME CAN BE DESTROYED BY THAT, NOW, TOO.

There are video deepfake systems that can animate these fictional faces. We need a catalogue of the kinds of facial positions these systems ask for

Clearly I think it would be preferable if they didn’t do business with Russia, israel, or any other states actively engaging in the invasion of other people’s sovereignty, but that doesn’t have to be the only disqualifying factor. There are plenty of nations in the world that are toxic by other criteria. I highly doubt countries that murder civilians for wearing the “wrong” clothes or espousing the “wrong” opinions, for instance, would be conducive with the operation of such a credit union. Also, countries where if they find out you’re gay they execute you. That’s not very anti-censorship and tacit complicity with that fuckery would not further the mission.

So it would definitively not be bothering with the laws of countries it will never interact with.

anti-censorship international credit union owned by members that can conduct transactions internally without having to ask for visa or mastercard’s FUCKING permission when???

I’m saying we should build Dual Power and go around them.

DARVO.

Deny personal responsibility
Attack credibility of the victim
Reverse the roles of Victim and Offender.

They’re basically using narcissistic abuser testimonials as an instruction manual.

piss-soaked fantasies of the deranged.