What I’m reading is he was right on the money about the pixel character being a more appealing love interest.

Not sure if this is mild colorblindness but for a moment I didn’t realize money was also left off the chart until I got the joke and looked at the colors more closely.

Oh my god that is another level of heartwarming.

A lot of people I spoke with, living and working in Dearborn, saw it as a moral line for them and wouldn’t vote for either major candidate. Misrepresenting that position as something very obviously nonsensical and attributing that idiotic belief as being a muslim thing, that is bigotry, whether or not you want to pretend the idea of Trump saving Gaza is a perfectly reasonable thing that perfectly reasonable people might believe. No one believed Trump would be good for Gaza, and thinking it’s realistic that that muslims as a group really are that dumb and you won’t get pushback for saying that out loud, that says something about you.

You’re writing it as “all the muslims” have been brainwashed into believing in something that you see yourself as not stupid enough to fall for. It’s trash-talking muslims by imagining they share a common belief in something obviously stupid.

And again, ask yourself whether you would be comfortable attributing, out loud, a belief you think is stupid to “all the blacks” or “all the jews”. If there are any situations where you would feel comfortable using those phrases in a sentence, out loud. If not, what makes your use of “all the muslims” different enough to not count as bigotry? If one of these phrases just slips out, there’s a deeper problem than simply saying the words. Introspect on that.

If you ever find yourself making a statement about how “all the muslims” are idiots, maybe stop and reconsider. Do you see a distinction between a complaint about “all the muslims” and a complaint about “all the jews” or “all the blacks”?

edit: other than one of those being more socially acceptable to be used as a target of ridicule

I had a cat who liked to be cradled like a baby and I want that back so much. I would do it some with the boy we got after, but I kind of knew that was more for me and he was just tolerating it.

Not exactly the same but my boy and I did showertime together for probably seven or eight months when he was a kitten and the day he grew up broke my heart so much.

Our shower had an outer curtain and a transparent inner curtain and he would stand between them and watch the water come down while I would shower. It was his favorite part of every day, if he was in another room when I turned on the water he would start screaming and absolutely bolt in, like he was upset I had started without him. It was so cute and his enthusiasm was infectious.

After six or seven months he started treating showertime less as recreation and more as an obligation, his enthusiasm was waning and sometimes he’d arrive late and cranky from being woken by the faucet.

And then one day he didn’t come. I knew that day would arrive eventually, but it still hurt a lot at the time. With more time passed though, that half-year+ of showertime being his favorite part of the day are memories I really cherish.

Opened the comments because I got stuck at this line for a bit. When I got to this part my brain added in commas and it took me a little because even though “teaching, as well as the best human tutors, is within our reach” doesn’t really make sense, it still seems less nonsensical than without the commas.

I’ll probably get a lot of downvotes for this, but

I’m like 50/50 on this part being sarcasm, it doesn’t read like that to me at all but it’s also hard for me to picture expecting disagreement with a linkedin headcase to be an unpopular opinion anywhere outside of linkedin.

h-node?

Would you say the same about neo-nazis? Let’s a KKK instance on join-lemmy? You think that’s fine?

Three or four years ago wolfballs was a neo-nazi instance that was immediately delisted. But more to the point, if the developers were nazis then yes, I would think it’s silly to continue to participate in the community while complaining about it and cursing their names rather than not using it. Even on a federated network, if it’s developed by open nazis I would not have an expectation that we’ll get rid of the nazi problem and I should keep contributing. Incidentally that’s actually why I started ditching the corporate social networks I was on fifteen years ago in the first place.

Don’t play dumb. I’ve been on Lemmy long enough to know their position.

I had never even heard the term “tankie” before joining. The developers posted a lot in the community before it got overwhelmed by redditors a couple years ago. Somehow I missed all of their advocacy for genocide.

If you want a forum where only tankies are allowed, then don’t develop your solution on a federated protocol.

I don’t how you read that from what I wrote, I just think it’s silly to complain that they are allowed here.

I joined lemmy five or six years ago because I really believe in federated networks. I’ve definitely learned a bit since then but I’m still not an expert on any of the politics. I can say with confidence though that the devs are well-meaning and their beliefs are sincere, so when you dismiss them as pro-genocide scum it gives me the impression that you’ve never engaged seriously with the ideas. And if you want to prioritze avoiding sincere proponents of those ideas, there are a lot of networks not maintained by advocates that will give you a much easier time. Staying on the one significant social network built out of those beliefs seems counterintuitive here.

Federation and open source provide a significant reduction in the barrier to someone making their own instance or their own federated network, with whatever modifications they want to implement. That is definitely something you could take advantage of. Federation and open source are not really related to an existing culture in an already thriving social network still being present in some form after you joined.

I was making fun of the guy who was arguing with her. That’s why at the start of the very next sentence I said I was not being serious in the part you quoted, and then right after saying that I called out that exact behavior.

I get that sarcasm isn’t always easy to detect online so I wrote a second short paragraph to explicitly clarify that the first was sarcasm. Sorry for being annoyed but I feel kind of frustrated that still wasn’t clear enough to avoid getting condescended to.

The first one is correct as others have said, but the second one is not ambiguous enough to confuse anyone nor weird enough for anyone to bat an eye at, you’re fine with either.

And that vast majority of people have for the most part chosen to continue using reddit rather than join a community where that is already the established norm and expect a change in ideology from the one that has been motivating its developers from day one.

No one using lemmy hated what lemmy is until a bunch of redditors flocked here. You’re walking into forums built by communists used for years by communists to chat amongst each other and loudly complaining that these communists are allowed to stick around. There are a lot of other places on the internet that match your own ideology more closely, including reddit. Why stay here if you are that upset about the ideology this was and continues to be built on?

(or Lemmygrad or even ML)

Have you considered reaching out to the lemmy developers to point out that it’s unreasonable for them to display links to the first two lemmy instances ever, the two that they created and administrate themselves, on their lemmy-joining portal? I think they’d be pretty receptive to that. Those instances are not at all representative of what lemmy is intended to be, and I certainly didn’t join lemmy to see the kind of content they peddle.

When women talk about the problems they face, it’s not helpful for you to go “That doesn’t happen”.

Your bias is showing, that’s not a helpful response when anyone talks about their problems. Not just women.

Talking more seriously (but not that much more), I have some appreciation for being this brazen in the whole “I live in the real world and know women aren’t shown disrespect out of nowhere by men they don’t know, unlike you women with your lived experiences” shtick.

Also somewhat proud (with slight embarrassment in admitting that) of this comment on the thread for the news article “Porn industry jumps into presidential campaign, targeting Project 2025”. The reply I got was a great gag as well.

Another one for me is “route”.

edit: On further thought, it only works both ways as a synonym for a highway, if I’m talking about a path more generally the root pronunciation sounds wrong.