Devastatingly tragic to hear that the cancer that is killing America still exists.

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it would be so nice if it stayed that way…

The math ain’t mathin’…

No. I.

FUCKING.

Did. NOT.

your “joke” isn’t funny.

Ariana has a posse.

Actually, you know, I could afford to keep that in mind more often. I’ve suffered with poor self esteem in the past myself, and so I know just about everyone can use reassurance sometimes. It’s just a matter of figuring out how to validate someone else’s insecurity without creeping them out and also without becoming an enabling crutch that they lean on more than is healthy or appropriate.

Empathy can be toxic if I’m misreading, too… It’s possible to honestly believe I’m attempting to reassure someone and end up saying something that only exacerbates their insecurities x_x I don’t even know how it turns out like that, probably because I’m just not very good or practiced at socializing. But usually I’ve tended to err on the side of caution and keep my mouth shut.

I dunno. I’ll have to think on it more as to whether or not I want to try proactively engaging on that again now…

No. Once bitten twice shy, and I got bitten over and over again. Falling in love with every person who was nice to me in high school was a massive mistake and caused nothing but hardship. The last two decades have been relatively peaceful because I don’t buy it anymore. Fuck reading between the lines, fuck hints, fuck signals and vibes. I’m never acting unless I receive DIRECT CLEARLY EXPRESSED FREELY GIVEN ENTHUSIASTIC CONSENT and not a moment sooner.

I will never trust my ““intuition”” ever again.

It would be so god damn beautiful if what starts as their embarrassing defeat in Ukraine is only the beginning of them losing their influence in all the other states they hold hostage.

May the era of puppet states finally end…!

Same feeling with “VIN Number” ._.

Thank you for acknowledging my (fairly manageable) pain

Oh yeah the Access To Money machines that you see at sketchy convenience stores and whatnot usually have bizarrely high fees

Whereas Automated Teller Machines operated by established financial institutions are a little more trustworthy and reasonable

(I’m only a little bit joking)

I long for the day Russia loses ALL territorial footholds within Ukraine. INCLUDING CRIMEA.

Mac is not an acronym.

It is only an abbreviation of macaroni.

Mac and Cheese would be redundant if it were an acronym.

Are you kidding? The only thing more busted than that machine are his MOVES! I’m drinking until I get the warm fuzzy tingly fluttery feeling in my chest and then I’m gonna watch him so much more intently…

And I’m gonna be cheering for him and making catcalls at him the whole time :3

I can’t get past the way the path leading to the door runs directly into a sheer wall of dirt >_>

Maybe Mary had XY chromosomes but her Y chromosome was nonfunctional due to a mutation, so her body was built and functioning entirely on the X chromosomes instruction set. When the parthenogenesis occurred, the miracle was that the Y chromosome in the fetus spotaneously mutated back into a functional state.

Jesus is just Mary’s clone but with a functioning y chromosome :3

i could be reading some fucking manuals right now instead of lemmy…

Why aren’t these chuds fearing for their lives? Why aren’t they being dragged out into the street and strung up by their own intestines? I thought this world was supposed to defend freedom. Guess not.

Oooh how do you do that user tag function? I couldn’t find it when I looked just now and it appears as though we’re using the same frontend…?

…
Okay I’m gonna pop off a hot take that I have no intention of defending but it has raised interesting conversation in the past:

Yes, men are in fact inferior, and I say this not because I particularly like it, but because the way masculinity manifests in mammals is through the y chromosome acting not like a legitimate whole instruction set in itself, but rather more like a “patch” or, to put it in colloquial terms, “DLC”: DownLoadable Content does not work without the base game, and the y-chromosome cannot function without an x-chromosome.

An egg is fertilized XY and the Y is completely non-functional? Congratulations: this clump of cells will develop into a sapient individual whom is intersex but appears entirely feminine.

An egg is fertilized XY and the X is completely non-functional? This clump of cells will never develop into a person. At most it will be ejected as a miscarriage.

Male mammals are derivative knockoffs of the default (female) template that exist to perform dangerous functions that enhance the survivability of a population at large at the expense of individual survival and prosperity. They are hormonally predisposed to aggressively occupy, hold, and defend territory, and get killed sacrificially in conflict while the rest of the specimen’s family group can either hide or escape to continue the gene line without them.

And again - I’m describing it like this NOT because I particularly like it or agree with it or think it’s ideal! It kinda sucks actually. But accepting this has helped me to better recognize the pitfalls of nature and step around them. I can’t even begin to list all the many BRUH MOMENTS I’ve avoided by realizing internally, “wait a darn minute, is this… DUDE BEHAVIOR? Eew! I don’t need this conflict! I’m being argumentative for stupid illogical hormone-driven reasons, so I’m going to stop now, reassess the counter arguments because they might have been right all along, and maybe apologize before I end up going to prison for stabbing someone over a stupid verbal disagreement.”

I invite any and all to wipe the floor with me using facts and evidence though, and maybe I’ll learn some cool stuff along the way. But this is the hypothesis I’ve been running with just fine for years.

Also, fun fact, birds are kind of the opposite! They have ZZ and ZW hormones where the feminine reproductive caste is the changing variable!