captainlezbian
@captainlezbian@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is flirting redundant? 48 minutes ago:
Is chewing redundant? The little swish of a nice beverage? Flirting is the game, it’s half the fun. Sure the other parts are nourishing and wonderful too. But to flirt is to delight in such a primally human interaction.
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 10 hours ago:
Yeah it will indiscriminately hurt Iranians and Americans and not our rulers. We were both already suffering under our leaders before the American government decided to go to war with Iran.
I may need to go reread Jingo…
- Comment on Seriously, it was all the rage back when I joined my first instance. 1 day ago:
There were the German Sturgeons
- Comment on Why is the progress pride flag so poorly designed (especially the intersex progress pride flag)? Will it be redesigned? 1 day ago:
Fair warning with that one, its really cool looking but mostly popular with trans lesbians and terfs.
- Comment on Trump says EU not offering fair trade deal, Japan being 'tough' too 5 days ago:
Japan is playing hardball by not negotiating until we tell them what we want
- Comment on If only my parents knew 5 days ago:
Damn, E hit Cronus hard
- Comment on YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto 1 week ago:
Ive been blocking youtube ads for like a year now. But when it was like one or two minutes every 10-20 I didn’t mind watching on an app that didn’t have ad block. It got worse and I got fed up.
- Comment on YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto 1 week ago:
That explains the adblocker crackdown and enshittification of paid. Funnily enough, this pattern got me to block ads.
- Comment on Basically 1 week ago:
Ben Franklin would be on fetlife hating on how vanilla people are
- Comment on Basically 1 week ago:
I think they would be horrified, but that’s because of the maga. And because black people would not take their shit.
Ben Franklin would try modern clothes, start sleeping with trans women, then get addicted to the internet. He would be indistinguishable from someone from the 21st century within a year tops
- Comment on Facebook advertised a professional child kidnapping service to me 1 week ago:
Have you ever been to a support group for this? What you’re describing is a pretty severe ptsd reaction. I know you said elsewhere that you’ve done a lot of mental health stuff and it’s not helped and has been furtherly traumatic, but having other people who can listen and you can know that they do understand might be good for you.
- Comment on Facebook advertised a professional child kidnapping service to me 1 week ago:
Just try to keep care of yourself. Speaking as someone who thinks this place is better off with you in it and as someone who’s seen too many people burn themselves out with activism.
- Comment on Facebook advertised a professional child kidnapping service to me 1 week ago:
American culture fetishizes “tough love” often at the expense of empathy. Its why our culture bounces between “beat children and make them work” and “we’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas”. These institutions peddle the idea that parents are too soft on bad kids and since it fits our cultural narratives parents and judges often fall for it. This leads to overcorrection (“just talk it through with kids without punishment or consequences”) that reinforces the narrative.
There’s also this idea that teenagers arent really people with rights yet. Like, its insane to me that one can force a 16 year old into such a place against their will. They aren’t adults yet, but they’re close and deserve basic rights. But we have a strong cultural feeling of pater potestas when it comes to underage people.
- Comment on Facebook advertised a professional child kidnapping service to me 1 week ago:
Wait I don’t recognize that. Fuck, it’s longer and I’m gonna have to read it again
- Comment on Facebook advertised a professional child kidnapping service to me 1 week ago:
Don’t judge yourself for a ptsd reaction. People mocked triggers, but it was people who don’t understand that acute reminders of traumatic experiences are not merely unpleasant
- Comment on Facebook advertised a professional child kidnapping service to me 1 week ago:
Ever since Waco the feds will let you do anything if you say its for Jesus
- Comment on Facebook advertised a professional child kidnapping service to me 1 week ago:
That comic made me sob both the first time I read it, and when I came back to the finished product.
And yeah elan school has been sufficiently investigated to leave little chance that Joe wasn’t being as truthful as someone can be about an incredibly traumatizing teenage experience.
- Comment on xkcd #3101: Good Science 1 week ago:
Potassium hydroxide? How basic
- Comment on An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house" 1 week ago:
In lying’s defense, they shouldn’t be respected when they say that regardless of its truthiness
- Comment on VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website. 1 week ago:
Well they are the French
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 2 weeks ago:
Chisels? In my day you used a triangular reed and you liked it
- Comment on TIL my decision to drive a 22' full cab pickup truck and vehemently oppose urban zoning reform makes me a defender of social justice, a warrior for the downtrodden, and more progressive than 99% [cont 2 weeks ago:
Honest advice: find something you can do with canned beans and something you can do with boxed pasta.
My easy meals are bean tacos and “fuck it pasta” (uses jarred sauce). They’re easy, fine for me, and taste good enough
- Comment on That's a good question 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours 2 weeks ago:
Article says it dissolves into components
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 2 weeks ago:
Ah unimpressed ok is probably the best response.
- Comment on The FDA Is Approving Drugs Without Evidence They Work 2 weeks ago:
Unless you actually start looking into the whole of the aids epidemic its easy to miss what an absolute clusterfuck it was. The systems in place weren’t prepared at all for it and through a combination of maliciousness, ideological hardheadedness, and novel circumstances more Americans were killed by a virus than by the Viet Cong. But because it hit a group that was already fighting for our rights as well as the fact physicians in high places understood that their duty was not to the public “morality” but to public health things were able to be fought.
- Comment on Most American headline 2 weeks ago:
I disagree. What they want is to threaten those they see as inferior. It’s a power trip borne from an ideological feedback loop. Sense and goals are secondary to “poor people need to take responsibility for feeding their children, I’m not paying for their decisions”.
- Comment on Four NYPD officers converged on one woman on a bike because she smiled at them, then detained her because she wasn't carrying ID. 2 weeks ago:
That’s actually a popular misconception. Your goal is fo come off as docile, comfortable, and most importantly neurotypical. They think avoiding eye contact is evidence of a crime. If they think you’re scared they’ll give you something to be scared of.
After all, only bad guys are scared of our heroic cops. /s
- Comment on Had a take about Supergiant Games that recieved a lot of pushback fromy two longest running best friends. 2 weeks ago:
I trust them to do what they want. I hope they don’t do a hades 3, at least anytime soon, but 2 flowed from 1 the same as 1 flowed from pyre. Bastion and Transistor are amazing, but I’m not even convinced either warrants a sequel. I would love more games like them though. In general I wish more indie devs started with something like those games
- Comment on When making lots of small games is more sustainable than making one big one 3 weeks ago:
I’ve always been interested in trying castlevania and this is making me seriously consider it.
Ultimately though the point of games is fun. Anything less is a failure of the game