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He’s crepuscular!

They are explicitly complaining that there are several users posting content they don’t enjoy.

Don’t you know the entire fediverse is supposed to be cultivated to PatFussy’s personal taste?

I love the way the smoke seems to be coming off of the top of it…

Love that the blood is represented.

Period poops finally getting their horrible, horrible time to shine.

Antifa? Terrorists?

Not the first time I’ve been labeled a terrorist incorrectly, probably won’t be the last.

I’m white. I have blue eyes. And when I was young, my hair was red. I was working retail, and this old lady said “Merry Christmas.”

Me: “Happy Holidays!”

Her: “It’s Merry Christmas. I know your boss doesn’t like it, but you should say it to me. So Merry Christmas.”

Me: “Are you Christian?”

Her: “Yes.”

Me: “Well, I’m not. So Happy Holidays.”

She got so stunned, like I’d slapped her. I was quite ready to get called in for being some kind of way with a customer but I guess she was too afraid of dealing with a heathen. Still, if you’ve ever worked retail, you’d know why this felt like a victory.

I have to agree to disagree.

I often do find myself more likely to talk about gender specific issues when I know that the space I’m in will make an effort to exclude those people who don’t understand that some topics aren’t for them. I have seen, time and again, how any topic focusing on the issues of a specific gender will bring out hordes of people to scream about how this exclusion is somehow evil or wrong just because it excludes them.

Gender specific conversations draw out trolls like nothing else.

Boundaries are good and healthy.

“Stay mad”
“Lives rent free”
“no u”

I miss when trolling was a art.

I’m playing golf?

How unlikely! How fortunate I took so long to play Golf Story!

I appreciate your answer! I would like to offer a counterpoint; at what point does a person become responsible for their own ignorance? And how often is ignorance, whether intentional or otherwise, the direct cause of malice, or malicious behavior?

In the slim chance a person here sees what they said, and does not know that Amazon is “evil,” merely saying not to work with an evil corporation is not educational, and therefore serves no purpose.

Since there was no effort to education, we can assume within a reasonable amount of doubt that they are speaking to those who are already educated. And if that’s the case, then all they offer to the conversation is, at it’s heart, self-satisfaction. Anyone aware that Amazon is evil who chooses to continue to use their services has either come to the conclusion that they have no choice, or simply doesn’t care.

They add nothing to the conversation, and in fact, might reduce engagement with the premise (use this affiliate link to reduce the harm of doing business with Amazon).

I agree with your statement, that we should treat all actions with reasonable doubt. Offer that before assuming malicious intent. Which is absolutely true! I don’t believe the commenter intentionally thought, “I’m going to shut down this conversation while also virtue signalling.” But the effect is the same for the purpose of conversation. It adds nothing of value and may even discourage discourse. It is equally as useless, to me, as pretending to champion a cause from a screen, patting themself on the back for their wise ways, and doing nothing. It provides the illusion of helping, while adding nothing. And that’s a dangerous thing.

I would correct my statement in the presence of anything at all to “add” to the discourse. Explaining why using Amazon would be unwise if it can be avoided. They did not make that effort. I stand by my previous comment. But I want to thank you for taking the time to engage me, and I really hope you continue to try showing other people the value of giving people the benefit of the doubt! It’s so important, and does so much kindness in society.

Oh it would.

I feel better being more fit because a lot of my interests (and my job) are very physical, and being as large as I am now makes doing the things I enjoy doing more difficult.

Not everyone has those interests or that type of work, and that’s okay, too. We all have value.

I’m glad someone said this here. It feels vile, being forced to do business with these corporations, but I end up getting bulk couscous (which has been scarce even in single bags or boxes in my rural, deep south community) for my autistic stepson who has very specific dietary needs. I can get very specialized disability equipment there, and it’s delivered in two days (which is already two days longer than we can afford to wait, sometimes, but we make do.)

Yes, obviously, be ethical everywhere you can, as often as you can, but a blanket “dOnT dO bUsInEsS wItH eViL” is useless, whereas minimizing harm like with tips for links like this one is very helpful.

It’s so insanely privileged. Reminds me of the same keyboard warriors who like to “raise awareness” by pouring ice water on themselves and then doing nothing else, feeling smug they did “something” when their only involvement with our causes is posting smug one-liners on the internet, or, of they’re feeling particularly “helpful,” changing their profile picture to reflect someone else’s cause.

In public places, my late father had assigned a specific short whistle tune to each child to identify our location (he’d whistle and each of us would answer via specific tune in turn). It also worked as a “distress” or “attention needed” sound if we did it without prompting.

Thank you for reminding me of that!

This was a fantastic story. I imagined you saying, “Well, come on then,” with begrudging, exasperated affection. 10/10 comment.

Back in the dark times when I was an admin for a very popular website, some very hateful nazis were sharing images of a dead Jewish child and laughing and claimed to be literally jerking off to the image. They claimed she was 9.

So yknow. Not in a hurry to see pics. Just want a trusted source to verify that they exist.

This is intentional.

To add on to other’s stories- my cat will come and hop into my lap 100% of the times I call him, even on another floor, and I didn’t even train him to do this, he just really likes my lap.

Sometimes he does cute stretches on the way to me, or makes mrrps and other sounds to tell me he’s coming (and I assume ask if there might be treats, because one time he mrrp’d and I somehow remembered that there were treats that exact moment like two years ago) but yeah. Cats can come when you call them.

I haven’t moved to Linux because I work in healthcare and do 12 hour shifts and do not have the time needed to-

1. Wipe anything
2. Reinstall anything
3. Learn new things and finally
4. Use my computer.

The last one is the real pain. I’ll tell ya though, if I ever get to sit at my computer again I’ll learn how to unfuck it and I hope by then there’s some easy to access resources for learning a system!

I explained to my cat before his surgery that if he didn’t stay a little boy forever, his instincts would drive him to leave home and the life of constant play and treats and being allowed to sleep under the covers with me at night, and he would murder and pillage every creature in the neighborhood and would be an ecological disaster instead of my cute fuzzy boy.

I took his purrs and headbonks as consent. Years later he still seems happy with his lot.