faythofdragons
@faythofdragons@slrpnk.net
- Comment on heaven 2 days ago:
No, but I have done that to a cat, so I can’t go to hell either.
- Comment on YouTube rolls out new profanity guidelines for creators, utilizes AI to identify teens 5 days ago:
Goddamnit
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Yeah, there is sometimes a grain of truth to that sort of thing. I gotta be real careful talking about a lot of my experiences, because I know they sound like right-wing talking points, and I don’t want to give them ammo against my side, y’know? It’s frustrating, but there are bigger problems that need to be solved first.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Eh, I’ve heard that before elsewhere, and it’s always turned out to mean they only accept agender folks if they’re femme enough. I worry that I would, once again, be too masc for a group that ostensibly supports me.
I already feel like the world would be better off without me, and I’ve already had other groups say I’m the bad kind of agender. Like, I used to say I was a tomboy, but then I got kicked out of the college women’s group because its an offensive term?
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 1 week ago:
Bullshit, I went to school in the 90s, and half my class had never seen a computer before. I’m surprised you don’t remember how many kids struggled with Mavis Beacon.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yeah, I’m afab agender, and I’ve got it blocked too. Nothing they’ve done to me, just because of past women’s spaces saying I’m not woman enough to be there. Like, I was never really taught how to do my hair or makeup because neglectful mother, but I keep running into women that get angry because I see it as a hobby? I’m just too old for gatekeeping, and have zero desire to prove that I “deserve” to post in a restricted community.
- Comment on She's a keeper 1 week ago:
Or how employers are more likely to hire you if you’ve already got a job.
- Comment on Where are all the successful "red cities"? 1 week ago:
I’m sorry, did you miss where I said my town went blue? That I have never voted anything except Democrat? What self-righteousness are you talking about?
- Comment on Where are all the successful "red cities"? 1 week ago:
I’m voting to spend my money on your buses, your internet, your renewable energy, your education and job training so we can all benefit and I don’t understand why conservative people shit all Over that.
You should complain. You deserve better.
Pick one? We complain, and y’all go off on that whole rant in your second paragraph that boils down to ‘how can you be so ungrateful for all this help I’m giving you’, when we’re not getting help? You understand how frustrating that is, right?
- Comment on Where are all the successful "red cities"? 1 week ago:
maybe you don’t want internet service, education, connectivity to the modern world, infrastructure, fine
Okay, this is one of those weird assumptions that people have about rural folk that I do not understand. Why does everybody assume that the 2k people living in my town don’t want any of that stuff? It’s one of the barriers I keep running into with the bus service, y’all city folk assume that we don’t want it even though we’re asking for it.
Plus if your strength and independence is so core to your self-image, where is it? Voting for a tantrum to knock everything off the table is no one’s idea of strength.
My town went blue. Most of my neighborhood are noncitizen farm workers who couldn’t vote at all. Assuming all rural areas are stereotypical alabama is frankly insulting. You get a pass, because you don’t live up here, but it’s infuriating when I hear the same bullshit coming out of locals followed with “that’s why I voted against the rural school levy, they don’t deserve it”.
A big difference this article misses is that we want the best for you and will act to improve your life if you meet us half away
Except that’s not showing up in any real way. For example, I’m currently looking at the worker retraining programs, and the closest one is 70 miles away. Why should I not complain about that?
- Comment on Where are all the successful "red cities"? 1 week ago:
To expand on what @emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com is saying, I live rural because I don’t make enough to live in the city. My town is rapidly gentrifying and I might not afford to live next to cows any more pretty soon. City folk spend more on rent than I make in a month.
A lot of our ‘welfare queen’ perspective is colored by the fact that tax-funded services are usually concentrated in the city. I keep petitioning my county transit authority for better rural bus service, but the best they can do is make the city bus lines run every 15 minutes instead of every half an hour. Meanwhile, I’m paying uber $50 just to get to a doctor’s appointment and wait to catch a ride home when a friend gets off work. Food costs more for worse quality in rural areas, so food stamps don’t go as far as they would in the city. Welfare in the city feels like you could live like a queen off it. It’s not entirely true, because the amount you get is scaled to income, but per dollar, you do get more for your welfare in cities.
There’s also that city dwellers can get really nasty about rural folk. I’ve never voted for a republican in my life, but living out here makes people assume the worst of me. I get told that living rural means I’m a bootlicking hick that’s too stupid to know what’s good for me, so it’s hard to sell that they deserve sympathy and we don’t.
- Comment on Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask? 1 week ago:
What is the correct way to ban rape and anime CSAM games from Steam?
I think the first step is defining terms and being transparent about your intent. Like, everybody’s on board with banning pedoshit until you find out the organization is targeting transfolk and covering for real pedophiles. I have run into people who think all anime is CSAM, I have run into people who think all sex is rape. There’s enough kooks out there, you can’t just take a political org like Collective Shout at face value.
You’d probably have to go game-by-game and point out that the game has certain elements, provide evidence that those elements are actually dangerous, then start a petition for Steam et al to remove individual titles.
- Comment on Happens far too often 1 week ago:
For some reason I’m reminded of the taxidermy cat drone.
- Comment on They even got their own island 1 week ago:
Can confirm, had my first sexual encounter when I was 5 and he was 18.
- Comment on Gallium 2 weeks ago:
It is hotly debated, but poop does get displayed as art from time to time.
- Comment on This comic hung in my office for years 2 weeks ago:
I dunno what you looked up, but my search returns multiple sites with instructions for keeping squid at home?
- Comment on Deserved honestly 2 weeks ago:
lol, lmao even
- Comment on anything but metric 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good 3 weeks ago:
Not the person you’re asking, but I mostly watch craft stuff, particularly 1:12 scale dollhouse miniatures and sewing. The most recent video I could find that was even remotely relevant is several months old and about a different kind of miniature.
- Comment on egg 3 weeks ago:
Ah, looking at your comment history, you just look for reasons to argue. Not my scene, have a good day.
- Comment on Dik Piks 3 weeks ago:
Rufus!
- Comment on egg 3 weeks ago:
You were deffo rude first, sorry.
- Comment on The Amount of Electricity Generated From Solar Is Suddenly Unbelievable 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, my partner works for an electronics manufacturing firm that mostly makes infrastructure-level power conditioning and batteries. Solar and other renewable has had such a strong boost that they’re still projecting gains, despite the US government’s bullshit on ‘green energy’ lately.
I keep telling him to ask if they do employee discounts, but they don’t sell to residential at all :(
- Comment on egg 3 weeks ago:
That is a good question. Why are you being rude to randoms?
- Comment on Using Clouds for too long might have made you incompetent 3 weeks ago:
Maybe, but that doesn’t quite track with what I experienced. It was for a fairly well known company that builds industrial tools and machines, and I interviewed at their HQ, so I don’t think it was an agency building a pool.
The screening part sounds right, but I think these guys were doing it in-house.
- Comment on Using Clouds for too long might have made you incompetent 3 weeks ago:
I’m here from /all so I can confirm this is happening in non-tech too. Not too long ago, I interviewed to be a product photographer for an industrial manufacturer, and the people who were interviewing me knew nothing about the job I was interviewing for.
They couldn’t tell me what camera they used in house, they couldn’t tell me what editing software they used, they couldn’t tell me about the lights, they couldn’t tell me anything. It’s like if the interviewers said you’d use ‘computers’ but couldn’t tell you which OS they were running.
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 3 weeks ago:
Freon too?! Some people really want to watch the world burn.
- Comment on Plant Slurs 3 weeks ago:
Bush beans are a thing? Soybeans don’t climb either, and it’s the most common bean grown in the US.
- Comment on Grandma is on her own 3 weeks ago:
Rural west coast. It is more expensive here than the midwest states, but the state insurance is fantastic, so the access to medical care is worth it.
- Comment on Grandma is on her own 3 weeks ago:
I’m currently living in a slightly smaller house that’s valued at 250k. The roof leaks and the porch is falling apart, but the town has doubled in size since COVID, and so has the cost of housing.
