Awesome gas station

Yes! For example, I’m a banana

That’s literally who I thought about and I’m so glad someone mentioned it. He’s a freakishly smart dude.

You’re clearly not paying attention. Plenty of cities have successfully switched to more walking-focused infrastructure and it hardly requires tearing them down and starting over from scratch. That’s a bit of an overreaction.

They’re not talking specifically about the lumber being bad, they’re talking about companies building new developments cutting corners to save on cost. While they still use lumber, they are choosing cheaper lumber and their workmanship suffers as a result of the corners being cut.

Thus, a pile of lumber and tape.

This is so nostalgic, I loved Foxtrot growing up!

Especially since they are hard-wired to just not notice it - hence why we constantly get told we are overreacting - to them it comes out of left field because they do not see what we see.

The real piss off with that is that while I realize it isn’t their fault they are socialized that way, if they really want to believe that they, individually, are one of the “good ones” (as in, the non-problematic men, the ones not contributing to the problem) they can’t justify that belief unless they are actively listening when we tell them what we experience, or how something comes across from our perspective. So many of them want to push the problem down by saying “nuh uh” or arguing with us about our own damn experiences

Its fucking asinine.

Gotta agree with you here Velma. The beauty of Lemmy isn’t that it attracts or allows different people, but that we aren’t advertised to, and we are able to block instances or communities that don’t work for us, and we are able to fully curate our home pages without being shown posts from completely unrelated pages just because they paid money to be boosted. Once that is done and we have found and settled into our spaces, that is where the good interactions come out.

Misogyny is just as rampant here as any online space, it’s a systemic issue, it was not a reddit/4chan-exclusive issue. It existed before and will outlast reddit/4chan until we solve the actual fucking problem: men are both socialized and continually encouraged to fundamentally disrespect women. They need to do just as much brain-rewiring as we do when we combat our internalized misogyny.

Which is ironic because those school children they are bombing (palestonians) are also Semitic.

You’re telling us we have unrealistic expectations when you’ve been here for 9 days. Clearly we don’t have unrealistic expectations if we enjoy being here with its “limited activity” (compared to reddit). You just don’t understand why we prefer it and are arguing instead of listening to people answer the question you asked.

I watched reddit grow for the 13 years I was active on it. I remember when it was small and just a forum like Something Awful and not the monster it became. I preferred that way. Lemmy is kinda similar to those early forums, but with its own idiosyncrasies. Be patient and wait to see if you like it, or fuckin leave, idc.

It sounds to me like you’ve never been on a forum before reddit existed. Decentralized forums were a healthy proportion of the internet in the late 90s and early naughts.

I switch between them, but I concur, I also prefer the bi flag and I usually just identify as bi for simplicity and not having to explain the difference lol

Completely agree! I always try to be extra wary of motorcycles because they take up way less space and are far faster accelerating, while also being far more vulnerable.

That’s super interesting and totally does not at all reflect the conversations I’ve had with my friends!

I guess it just goes to show how subjective it is, which is why there is no real consensus. I can only really speak for myself and the people in my circles. I won’t argue with bisexual/pansexual people who identify differently because we dictate our own identities really.

Kinda!

The way I’d personally word it is:

Bisexual = attracted to their own gender and other genders (perhaps not every gender but that depends on the person)

Pansexual = gender is irrelevant

The distinction is mostly semantic as it doesn’t really change much in terms of how we operate in dating.

As someone who identifies as pansexual, the distinction i make is that I don’t consider gender when vetting a potential partner, it’s just not a metric that is part of that decision.

Aside from that, your description here is spot on from what I understand at least. Of course gender and sexuality is a social construct so other people may feel differently

Yes, by cutting his baws off

So he didn’t drain the swamp, he created it.

The real punk rock is the friends we made along the way

But we were talking about millennials smoking weed out of cans and apples, why are you making the distinction about something being allowed now? We were definitely not allowed to smoke back then lol.