wipes box on the table

Is that not an unlit electronic candle?

Also the way the fork seems to be making a dent in the surface (that dark shadow under the neck of the fork) but nothing else is, and in general the fork just looks superimposed.

And something just isn’t right with the cat…

You make some good points, but I’m also leaning towards ai.

Hard disagree.

Calling an asshole an asshole has no oppressive or marginalising power. It is a direct consequence of someone’s behaviour, and has no impact on anyone but the asshole being called an asshole. Take it a step further and switch “asshole” to “Nazi” then go read about the paradox of tolerance and the social contract theory that resolves it.

Misgendering on the other hand (just like using sexist, racist, ableist and so on language) reinforces the existing structures of marginalising and oppressive powers, and has a deep and harmful impact not on the, for example, transphobe you’re misgendering, but on trans people you’re supposedly attacking the transphobe to defend.

This outrageous comparison between someone shitty being called shitty, and a transphobe being misgendered, is exactly the kind of bullshit bigots and other bullies twist to make themselves the victims and whine about being oppressed when they are the ones oppressing others.

Don’t buy in to it, and definitely don’t play along, unless you want to enable them.

Ooh, this is a great template

Ooh, this is a great template, can be applied to all variety of bigotry, which people feel is ok as long as it’s aimed at other bigots, ignoring the fact that all they’re doing is putting more bigotry out in to the world, and telling marginalised people around them that they aren’t safe.

Yup. I’ve had to stop using ebay because even when you check out with your own card, it goes via paypal, and they have misused my data too many times for me to keep putting any trust in them.

It sucks, because a lot of mutual aid is done over paypal too, but I’m really struggling to justify leaving my account open (and I’m not even in the US where op applies).

Technically, might be both

Spook, noun

3. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). A derogatory term for a black person.

OED

Putting their butt in your face: they want you to lick it, as their mother would. Obviously, don’t do that, but instead, give their haunches and above-the-tail backside a good scritch

Unless the cat is in the same position pictured in op, because in my experience their tail will go up and you will have a butthole directly in your face 😂

My mandatory Sky: Children of the Light mention.

Lots of exploring and cooperating with irl co-players (E: you’d have to play on different devices, but one could play on a big screen, and the other can join and use their handheld mostly as a controller) and strangers, some puzzles/quests, some mild scary/dangerous parts, lots of lore, incredible graphics and good soundtrack. It’s an open ended game (though some features only become available after your first complete run through) and there is an aspect of grinding if you want to get IGC for cosmetics but you’re doing it flying through this gorgeous landscape, and there is a daily cap so you can be pretty chill about it, and IAP are pretty easy to avoid (for me anyway) and are never necessary for gameplay.

There are some issues with bugs, and the company growing and decisions clearly being made by shareholders rather then developers, but at this point it is still absolutely worth playing.

Incidentally… am I having federation issues? This is the only comment I see mentioning Ripley. I see 11 comments currently…

I see 36 comments, mine and 3 others mention Ripley, so yeah, probably a federation issue.

Adding my vote for Ellen Ripley.

There are others that come to mind from more obscure movies I’ve watched more recently, like the women in Grandma (2015), Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020), and even Men (2022), also non-fictional women like those in Kokomo City (2023). There are so many more I can picture in my mind but can’t put my finger on the movie and or am just shit with names so I can’t think of them right now, but might come back to update.

But don’t worry it’s not like ‘you’ will ever be poor or elderly so you shouldn’t care about health coverage for those groups.

Spot on. This person isn’t playing devils advocate, they’re playing self defence of their own cognitive dissonance.

Also, eat the rich. Healthcare is a human right.

is a billionaire and as far as I know awesome.

Then you don’t know.

No one gets to be a billionaire without being an exploitative greedy piece of shit at best. No one.

Having a favourite flavour of leather doesn’t make it any less self harming and counterproductive to lick.

Everything’s impossible when you don’t give a shit keep it that way for profit

name an american billionaire thats not a pos.

FTFY

It’s a little reassuring to see that Starmer makes the cat’s hairs stand on end too, not just mine.

Always trust a cat.

What the actual fuck is wrong with the people we give power to.

Change that to “why the fuck do we have to keep picking others to have power over our own lives?” and you might start getting somewhere.

Power corrupts.

Capitalism and its electoral politics (the extra steps it has taken from feudalism, that is nothing more than theatre to appease the masses) has always existed to concentrate, and then maintain, power in the hands of a few. Once someone has such power they will never give it up willingly.

As long as there is hierarchy, there will be inequality. Which is why our system enforces hierarchy so avidly.

I’d like to see an example of a healthy romance that doesn’t involve friendship.

You won’t find one because that wouldn’t be healthy, but it is the kind of transactional relationships those who are heavily invested in the idea of “the friendzone” are looking for. They do think friendship is lesser, and don’t want an equal partner and friend, they want a subservient housekeeper they can also fuck, and maybe even smack around occasionally as am outlet for their frustration with the world.

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