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It’s funny how gender neutral bath- and restrooms are such a problematic thing for some while I have been going to them at campings for forever. Everyone has the same toilet and shower building, everyone uses them together and it works just like it is.
a lot of smaller coffee places and restaurants also have just one gender neutral restroom to save space
Yeah for real. Antwerp bars and restaurants are usually in such small spaces they by default have one bathroom for everyone. Then it suddenly is no problem.
Feels like things have been getting more and more unhinged lately.
The time of monsters is really setting in isn’t it.
I appreciate the honesty of it. All these years of barely contained insanity finally coming out for all to see.
Happy Zimbabwe Independence Day, everyone
edit: also, this is my first post. hello, my name is Violet.
Hello violet,
You need to send me an animal video now does are the rules
'ello
I’ve decided, after some thinking, that Marxist Rifle Association are probably NOT PatSocs or MAGA coms.
I don’t know about the Red Rifle Collective.
Alhamdulillah we have your approval 🙏 Literally take one look at the subreddit, I don’t know why you thought we were in the first place.
Okay, but I’m very leery of PatSocs and MAGA coms.
We’ve had many incidents where they invade and then I’m proven right about their influence.
Well, so it seems. Maybe I’m just being arrogant.
Sadly mainstream lemmy has fallen to fucking crackkkers and fucking libs, but it warms my heart that they’re getting fucked w/ 0 lube by MAGA while China is more relevant than ever
Are MAGAts invading Lemmy?
This spot is really nice but every time a different domain comes in here and says the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard I am reminded that the rest of lemmy is a lib-o-sphere. Honestly, what frustrates me to no end is that none of them bother to actually unlearn or suspend any of the beliefs they have for just a second incase it’s a perspective you haven’t considered before, to learn where they’re coming from and actually then use your knowledge and your beliefs to form an analysis. I have to do this to listen to conservative dribbling and then to actually reach material concerns. These fuckers just spit out the most blatant sinophobic propaganda verbatim and just leave entirely; assuaged by their “superior liberal intelligence” compared to those “silly tankies”.
So many drive-bys that sum up to absolutely nothing but getting dunked while they can maximize the self-stroke smugness.
Bit of a vent post. I tend to have a thing where (with very few exceptions) I avoid anything that has MTX in it because: 1) I know they tend to operate on exploiting impulsive spenders, 2) I know the design of a product nearly always necessitates being made worse to accommodate them, so that people have an incentivize to buy them, and 3) I know they can get in my head, personally, in spite of being overall frugal.
And I also got into a hobby of learning languages with the help of gamified language apps. Those with any familiarity with them can probably guess where this is going. I’ve had more than one time I liked an app and then it added MTX so, due to the above, I had to quit. And even when I can find more that don’t have them at the offset, it’s getting to the point where I don’t feel like I can trust any of them in the long-term. Or in some cases, the apps are just silly overpriced for what they offer.
I still have one that I use for helping to learn Chinese, TalkMe, but I don’t know if that will eventually go the same way as the others. It’s just very frustrating. Oh and this isn’t even getting into other kinds of changes that I’ve seen happen, like UI overhauls that make a unique app look like a Duolingo clone. Or revamps of achievements that mess with what you already had, trivializing the point of it being gamified to motivate you. And this is on paid products too, not free stuff where you’d expect the “you’re the product if it’s free” capitalist thing. These are subscription-based apps that it keeps happening to me and they all want to be Duolingo I guess. It just hits home how frustrated I get with capitalism in general and the nauseating behavior (that seems worse in the digital space) where companies can never sit still with a consistent profitable business model and have to “keep growing” to “be competitive”. But if they happen to ruin things for existing customers along the way, I guess that doesn’t matter as long as the God of Profits is fed.
By MTX, you mean microtransactions, yes?
I get really anxious and want to buy things easily when there are such things.
Yep. Although it’s weird as a term because by this point, it’s more like macrotransactions in practice with how much they charge for some of the stuff.
Fuck RFK Jr.
That’s all I have to say.
He’s gunning for us Autistics next.
I’m Autistic as well. I don’t think I’ve mentioned that.
Me too. didn’t find out until I was in my 50s and got away from the family that had been abusing me my entire life
God almighty, why was I cursed with the geopolitics autism?
I used to be the same way, tbh, but lately, I’ve been trying to learn more about domestic history near me.
Just be glad that it isn’t the Conspiracy Theory autism. That shit will get you into the psych ward.
I’m against conspiracism and I’m Autistic af
I’ve worked at a lot of different places, mostly commercial companies. I have never been closer to actually workers’ mutiny than I have been at my current employer, the actual union. Our board of directors are absolute dictators and the working conditions are insane. They won’t listen. They act like we are lunatics for some reason. No sympathy whatsoever for us. And we have had enough.
The comraderie this creates is nice though. Gives me energy.
So, in I think 2021 North and South Korea were about to sign an agreement which would include an end to war. Then I think Sullivan wrote on behalf of the US that they do not agree with it fully and that was the end of it. Does anyone have a link perhaps?
What are some alternatives to Reddit that are more popular than lemmy?
More popular? Hexbear perhaps?
Nothing really …
Hackers News I guess, but that’s pretty niche.
Edit: by reddit alternative I assume you mean a threaded long-form platform
I find it funny that the people in a country, who couldn’t be arsed to mask up or follow basic safety rules during a global pandemic, deem themselves fit enough to fight an actual war
They can’t stand the prick of a needle so they let their children die of preventable diseases but also think that they are the greatest nation in history and are the rightful world hegemon.
Fotos of Xi Jinping’s reception in Vietnam!
