christian

What I'm reading is he was right on the money about the pixel character being a more appealing love interest.

Not sure if this is mild colorblindness but for a moment I didn't realize money was also left off the chart until I got the joke and looked at the colors more closely.

Oh my god that is another level of heartwarming.

A lot of people I spoke with, living and working in Dearborn, saw it as a moral line for them and wouldn't vote for either major candidate. Misrepresenting that position as something very obviously nonsensical and attributing that idiotic belief as being a muslim thing, that is bigotry, whether or not you want to pretend the idea of Trump saving Gaza is a perfectly reasonable thing that perfectly reasonable people might believe. No one believed Trump would be good for Gaza, and thinking it's realistic that that muslims as a group really are that dumb and you won't get pushback for saying that out loud, that says something about you.

You're writing it as "all the muslims" have been brainwashed into believing in something that you see yourself as not stupid enough to fall for. It's trash-talking muslims by imagining they share a common belief in something obviously stupid.

And again, ask yourself whether you would be comfortable attributing, out loud, a belief you think is stupid to "all the blacks" or "all the jews". If there are any situations where you would feel comfortable using those phrases in a sentence, out loud. If not, what makes your use of "all the muslims" different enough to not count as bigotry? If one of these phrases just slips out, there's a deeper problem than simply saying the words. Introspect on that.

If you ever find yourself making a statement about how "all the muslims" are idiots, maybe stop and reconsider. Do you see a distinction between a complaint about "all the muslims" and a complaint about "all the jews" or "all the blacks"?

edit: other than one of those being more socially acceptable to be used as a target of ridicule

I had a cat who liked to be cradled like a baby and I want that back so much. I would do it some with the boy we got after, but I kind of knew that was more for me and he was just tolerating it.

Not exactly the same but my boy and I did showertime together for probably seven or eight months when he was a kitten and the day he grew up broke my heart so much.

Our shower had an outer curtain and a transparent inner curtain and he would stand between them and watch the water come down while I would shower. It was his favorite part of every day, if he was in another room when I turned on the water he would start screaming and absolutely bolt in, like he was upset I had started without him. It was so cute and his enthusiasm was infectious.

After six or seven months he started treating showertime less as recreation and more as an obligation, his enthusiasm was waning and sometimes he'd arrive late and cranky from being woken by the faucet.

And then one day he didn't come. I knew that day would arrive eventually, but it still hurt a lot at the time. With more time passed though, that half-year+ of showertime being his favorite part of the day are memories I really cherish.

Opened the comments because I got stuck at this line for a bit. When I got to this part my brain added in commas and it took me a little because even though "teaching, as well as the best human tutors, is within our reach" doesn't really make sense, it still seems less nonsensical than without the commas.

I’ll probably get a lot of downvotes for this, but

I'm like 50/50 on this part being sarcasm, it doesn't read like that to me at all but it's also hard for me to picture expecting disagreement with a linkedin headcase to be an unpopular opinion anywhere outside of linkedin.

h-node?

Would you say the same about neo-nazis? Let’s a KKK instance on join-lemmy? You think that’s fine?

Three or four years ago wolfballs was a neo-nazi instance that was immediately delisted. But more to the point, if the developers were nazis then yes, I would think it's silly to continue to participate in the community while complaining about it and cursing their names rather than not using it. Even on a federated network, if it's developed by open nazis I would not have an expectation that we'll get rid of the nazi problem and I should keep contributing. Incidentally that's actually why I started ditching the corporate social networks I was on fifteen years ago in the first place.

Don’t play dumb. I’ve been on Lemmy long enough to know their position.

I had never even heard the term "tankie" before joining. The developers posted a lot in the community before it got overwhelmed by redditors a couple years ago. Somehow I missed all of their advocacy for genocide.

If you want a forum where only tankies are allowed, then don't develop your solution on a federated protocol.

I don't how you read that from what I wrote, I just think it's silly to complain that they are allowed here.

I joined lemmy five or six years ago because I really believe in federated networks. I've definitely learned a bit since then but I'm still not an expert on any of the politics. I can say with confidence though that the devs are well-meaning and their beliefs are sincere, so when you dismiss them as pro-genocide scum it gives me the impression that you've never engaged seriously with the ideas. And if you want to prioritze avoiding sincere proponents of those ideas, there are a lot of networks not maintained by advocates that will give you a much easier time. Staying on the one significant social network built out of those beliefs seems counterintuitive here.