Chip_Rat
@Chip_Rat@lemmy.world
- Comment on uhh… my ex girlfriend and long-time friend is now cishet, very christian, and makes those “i identify as” jokes regarding trans people. would it end up bad for me if i continued to be her friend? 3 days ago:
Yeah, I think the biggest hangup for us is that, given the context, this person isn’t someone who was gay and is now straight, it’s someone who was exploring their sexuality and then decided to nope out, regardless of their actual orientation.
- Comment on uhh… my ex girlfriend and long-time friend is now cishet, very christian, and makes those “i identify as” jokes regarding trans people. would it end up bad for me if i continued to be her friend? 3 days ago:
I agree with you when you say “it’s who you are”.
Do you not see a situation where someone is born and believes themselves gay (the reasons why they would think this are numerous, almost as numerous as the countless reasons people think they are straight growing up) and then after living as a gay person they come to understand themselves better and recognise that they are actually fairly straight?
I’m not saying that’s what’s going on here, it sounds very sad and basically someone just heading back to the closet to avoid shitty people and shitty society. But questioning someone who says they are straight, or gay or bi or enby or ace or whatever, is flawed. They may be lieing, they may be confused, hiding, virtue signalling. But you don’t get to call them bi just because they said and behaved as if they were gay and now say and behaving as if they are not. Someone who used to have sex and now says they are ace isn’t lying, or wrong or akchewally…
I don’t want this to come off as hostile, I get why you are asking. It’s a complex topic and I might be wrong.
I think I’m explaining myself alright, but I’m open to discussion
- Comment on uhh… my ex girlfriend and long-time friend is now cishet, very christian, and makes those “i identify as” jokes regarding trans people. would it end up bad for me if i continued to be her friend? 3 days ago:
If you used to be straight and are now gay, would that make you bi?
I’m not smart enough to answer this question, but that would be where I’d start.
- Comment on Jack Daniel’s maker says Canada pulling US alcohol off shelves ‘worse than tariff’ 4 days ago:
Liquor in Ontario is sold and controlled by the LCBO, and were directed to remove all American products from the shelves by our Premier (governer sorta)
Same with BC and NS. So not a Federal/National mandate, but a political one indeed.
- Comment on South Central Ambulance 999 call handler receives death threats 6 days ago:
Perhaps they could just send an email?
- Comment on Investors in farm equipment maker Deere reject anti-DEI resolution 1 week ago:
Ok so being dyslexic in this heelscape is difficult. Would anyone be willing to explain what anti-“pro-dei” proposal against a counter proposal was approved to deny the shareholders what the company thought was good/bad?
More specifically, can someone explain is a bit more clearly:
"During a webcast of its annual meeting, executives with the farm equipment maker said only 1.3% of votes cast were in support of a resolution calling on the company to report on racial and gender hiring statistics “to prove it does not practice discrimination.” "
Maybe I’m confused…yeah. just maybe I’m confused.
- Comment on Investors in farm equipment maker Deere reject anti-DEI resolution 1 week ago:
Small miracles.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 3 weeks ago:
So you are gonna have to provide a source explaining how the president using an executive order to rename international water is “policy” that Google must follow.
They you’ll have to explain why I, as a Canadian, have to see this stupid renaming in parentheses.
If the US truely doesn’t have a system beyond “once the president orders it, it’s renamed.” That’s their problem but I don’t give a fuck what they call things and I don’t know why google thinks I should.
- Comment on no words, much feelings 3 weeks ago:
How dare you make accusations like that! What do you think people just go on the internet and lie?!
- Comment on Day 206 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 4 weeks ago:
I must say I e never played Skyrim, and I didn’t know how beautiful it could be. I might have to have a closer look.
I play a game called “The Long Dark”, and the first screenshot with the aurora made me do a double take. In that game you are alone in a northern Canadian region that has been abandoned both due to economics as well as some in game magic that makes electricity not work. The survival mode is just “live as long as you can, then die.” It’s permadeath and can be incredibly frustrating and cruel, but the beauty in that game is unreal. I’ve ended a 6 day run (nothing to me now, but a big acheivement at the time) because I was watching the Aurora on a clear winter night. The music was somber and I thought I might freeze to death as I crossed this long rope bridge. I should have been looking at the bridge, because staring up into the sky I suddenly was getting further away from it … It was maybe a 3 second fall as I realized I either walked off the bridge or maybe there was a gap or something.
“You have faded into the long dark.” -wasn’t even mad.
- Comment on Day 171 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 2 months ago:
Oh… Oh is that what I was supposed to do?
Found the crafting systems (one for building I guess, one for weapons and food and “handheld” stuff) to be incredibly non-intuitive. For what we all paid, my family had a great evening each accidentally walking into the fire and then running around in a panic onfire while everyone else barely looked up from their craft books.
- Comment on YouTube is testing a floating ‘Play something’ button 2 months ago:
How about a filter to select a video of a version length? How often it’s getting closer to bed time and I need a 15 minute video. Why not make that a thing?
Also stop suggesting videos that are 6 years old and I’ve already watched them?!
- Comment on Doctors Remove Woman’s Brain Implant Against Her Will 6 months ago:
A little glass vial?
- Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 6 months ago:
So I paid for nebula, but it seems totally vacant. I’m not mad, I’m happy to spend the money supporting small creators/any independent endeavour, but am I missing something??
- Comment on What is the safest way for a partially disabled person in the USA to use prison for food and shelter as an alternative to dying homeless in a gutter on a cold rainy night? 6 months ago:
Just make sure to do it from Walmart or Lowblaw or some other government teet sucking price gouging corporation.
- Comment on Disney Seeking Dismissal of Raglan Road Death Lawsuit Because Victim Was Disney+ Subscriber 6 months ago:
That’s already very common and should be shut down, but usually it applies to the particular service you are using… Not whatever this bullshit is…
- Comment on Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower 9 months ago:
Black and Decker owns DeWalt.
- Comment on what's a good way to stick a laser leveler to the wall? 9 months ago:
What type/brand of laser level? Most have magnetic brackets so if you have an outside corner in the room that has a metal drywall corner it will stick to that, or any peice of metal can be screwed to the wall and the level can be stuck to that. Your level may also come with a metal part of the bracket that you can screw to the wall and then stick the lazer to, and slide it up and down to get the right spot.
- Comment on Disco Version of TOS theme with awesome brass and kickass flute solo 10 months ago:
8 year old video too… Wonder what the problem is?
- Comment on Tucker Carlson interview with Putin to test EU law regulating tech companies 1 year ago:
That was comedy gold and everybody missed it.
- Comment on Games that force you to make hard choices 1 year ago:
“Passage” is a very short one. But the choices matter.
- Comment on Driverless cars in California are exempt from certain traffic tickets thanks to a legal loophole, report says 1 year ago:
Is that what they meant?! I had given up. Thanks.
- Comment on Google maps adding sponsored detours 1 year ago:
I’ve never heard mine name drop any business and I use it all the time… I’m in Canada so maybe there’s a difference there?
- Comment on Google maps adding sponsored detours 1 year ago:
How has your email transition been? I have been moving away from Google slowly for a few years/intentionally avoiding onboarding with Google services. I don’t use Chrome, no google search, haven’t used messenger ever, that sort of thing.
But moving away from Gmail is hard. Would love your thoughts.