No thank you

The more I interact with this comm the more I understand the depth of what anarchism really means. I’ve been sour on my current reality for decades, and until joining this instance, my perception of anarchism has felt appropriate yet surface level. Not enough time to dig deeper due to life, the universe, and everything.

I love being here.

This new experiment will be exciting to watch unfold. While I hope it works as intended (which I think it will), I look forward to experiencing the struggle of growth for this comm.

Cheers, and congratulations to our new admins. db0 I hope this move lightens your workload

E: by comm I mean instance

Yes, but it isn’t necessarily complicated. We don’t want people wielding power longer than they should. RBG, whom I admire immensely, was a fool to not step down. Biden represents a political return to form that inadequately services vast swaths of Americans. They aren’t specifically related, true. But I think Biden, while certainly effective at certain objectives, is incapable of navigating the pulse of many younger Americans.

I’ve been thinking it since he started hinting that he’d run again, as have most of my left-to-left-leaning friends

It seems like a lot of work maintaining healthy poly relationships. I don’t think I’d be able to manage it, though I have a few friends who apparently are very happy doing their thing

Dang I wish I knew that at the time. I had to run it many times before I was satisfied that my history was properly edited before deleting everything

I can’t speak to the article that you’ve posted several times due to the paywall, but I can speak to the language and the antagonistic attitude they actually used during the entire debacle. Placing explicit blame on third party apps like Apollo, Sync, Boost, etc.- that was the argument used. It doesn’t matter what the real reason was. They were publicly placing blame on small fish instead of the AI monster that was stealing all of their content and bandwidth

IIRC that was not the case. They very publicly blamed 3rd party apps, which was both disingenuous and not transparent.

Never heard of BBQ/mayo but I’m there.

The embarrassment of getting pummeled to some sort of electric accordion solo really sells it. Is it an accordion? I haven’t listened to it in 20 years

I’ve been told to go back to my country. Which is Hawai’i haha

That left-align is just 🤌

What does -ar 3:2 and --niji 6 mean?

Let me just say, dude, that you are not alone. There are a lot of people who feel this struggle and there is no simple answer to this problem. Because it is societal. You probably already know this but I want to start off with that.

I can see every little thing you think is threatening to others and it’s all there. You’re black. You’re a man. You’re a black man. You have strong features. You wear clothes. And you exist.

That shouldn’t be your problem, but more than a century of propaganda has made it so. Me and everyone else has been conditioned to fear you.

With all that said, I can echo some other comments. Take the advice on fashionable clothing. Aside from the other positives, it feels good to look good. You’ve saved up for surgery, spend it on that instead. Find a fashionable friend and get advice. There are multiple ways to achieve it without feeling untrue to yourself.

Learn to smile as your opener. To others and to yourself.

Most importantly, spend that money you saved on therapy. It isn’t there to fix you. It’s there to help give you the tools to cope with the reality of things. It isn’t bullshit. No amount of aesthetic adjustments will fix what’s going on in your head and your heart.

Candidly, you seem like you’re not in a good fucking way. Get help. Peace.

Ha! I switched to perfectly round glasses for completely unrelated reasons and certain demographics who tended to be threatened by my complexion almost stopped entirely. That was a funny quirk of a minor style change.

But also I’m not a big dude. I just happen to fit a description.

That was extremely confusing to watch without context. What’s happening?

Try not to suck any dick on the way to the parking lot!

Posy is the shit. Even Lazy Posy is better than most other channels.

The movie is an excellent adaptation. A lot of shit gets skipped, glossed over, or changed but I feel like it was in the service of the medium. Books ain’t talkies.

I’ve been thriving off of basic tiger rice coolers for decades at this point. It doesn’t need to be fancy. Cup of rice, fill to line, do something else for 10 minutes