$700/month for THAT

okay i was really unhyped about how much higher the rent is in my new city than out in my old village, but for some reason i suddenly feel a lot better about my own financial decisions

I’ve had trans people try to convince me that I am trans

I mean yeah, same, i’ve had people (trans and cis) tell me i should transition, or get on T, or “wait, you use she/her? really?” - but the difference is that i’m capable of understanding that these are just shitty people who have a problem with GNC people and/or women who aren’t feminine or conventionally attractive. Is it misogynistic, implying that women should look/behave/dress a certain way? Yeah, absolutely, but that makes that one individual person a dick, it doesn’t fucking imply that an entire group of people are a cult or shouldn’t have rights or some shit, jesus.

this kind of sucks, like, pirates will come through and archive stuff like disco elysium and subnautica but god all the tiny indie games are fucked

any child and dog on earth would pick one of those up

my general RPG setting notes/planning doc is 42k words long. i haven’t even had time to run anything in it yet lmaoo

“what the fuck do you mean redditors talk a certain way?”

*proceeds to type in the most redditbrained way possible*

Comrades I have my first ever job interview tomorrow, any advice? It’s for a pretty big tech/finance company and I am qualified, but I’m also socially anxious and a fresh graduate.

What do you wear? I have a black button up, a white button up, and a short sleeved blue button up, but that’s it. Do you wear a tie? How much am I going to be fucked over for being a butch? I mean, I couldn’t “dress as a woman” even if I wanted to because I haven’t owned makeup or women’s clothes since adults stopped being able to physically force me into them, so a “male” outfit is really my only option anyway. I have a full suit, but that would be overkill for a zoom interview, right?

My friends in tech (all men) have said that companies generally want women and lgbt people for the sake of quotas so I should have an advantage, but personally I can’t help but assume the opposite. idk

Isn’t it more dystopian to be forced to own a car?

no, something can’t be dystopian if middle class americans already do it, that just means its normal. and coercion is when someone is pointing a gun at you - economic coercion, material conditions? never heard of them.

neoliberalism has become pure self-replicating ideology, nothing real required

chuds whenever something good might happen:

lmao okay this really is reddit all over again

noooo! the most recent of lemmy’s evil plans to disrupt communism, fucking with our emotes art!! this is what stalin gun is meant to look like. i hope one day lemmy uses will be able to be see him and his giant spoon in all its glory 🙏

Rebels and protesters don’t think about all the costs involved

THATS A FUCKING CHILD

Moralists don’t really have beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child’s toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded. Centrism isn’t change – not even incremental change. It is control. Over yourself and the world. Exercise it. Look up at the sky, at the dark shapes of Coalition airships hanging there. Ask yourself: is there something sinister in moralism? And then answer: no. God is in his heaven. Everything is normal on Earth.

liberals don’t have values in a broader sense. in their day to day lives, sure, but about the world at large? it doesn’t impact them, they’ll believe whatever needs to be believed to allow liberalism to keep trucking along and extracting profit. supporting peace looks good so they’ll talk prettily about it in peacetime, but as long as war doesn’t come to the west and everything remains “normal” for them, they don’t actually care.

“russian people aren’t warmonger creatures”? fucking WILD that thats supposed to be a bad or absurd opinion. someone get these freaks the calipers

having been a tf2 player and a wow player for going on two decades, i can kind of understand where they’re coming from with the “toxicity makes it fun” idea; blowing shit up, teleporting people off of cliffs, owning someone so hard they quit, rude emotes, etc is part of the fun to a lot of people - like, some of the things i’ve heard that you can get done for in some more recent games (like “bming”?) does seem excessive, trolling has always been part of the experience, but there are a million ways to fuck around with people that don’t involving being a racist prick. Theres a massive difference between healing the opposite team or tea bagging vs just doing the laziest possible thing and calling people slurs.

but anyway all other countries are oppressive and evil and control the media. amerikkka is the only hope the world has for preserving

these countries believe they need to band together to protect themselves from us for some reason

so we need to stab them about it

i used to live in one of these and the stroller wasn’t an issue tbh. although i can see it potentially becoming an issue for anyone who has mobility problems

i’m so so glad that tumblr outgrew insults like this in like 2015 and i haven’t had to see them since. overly verbose “i’m smarter than you and so not owned” insults are up there with the most cringe ass shit the internet does.

Yeah. I think one of the most depressing parts of my education was a professor (who went to the same university) telling me how different the student experience was 40 years ago. He told stories about storming each other’s dorms, off-milk water balloon fights, breaking into the canteen kitchens to cook after nights out, operating all sorts of delicate science equiptment extremely drunk, etc etc etc. The sort of college shenanigans you see in films and assume are made up. Then he asked what the equivalent is for my friends. I had to explain that we studied ourselves into ill health and went into crunch for weeks for the sake of getting top grades, then tried to sleep or distract ourselves with videogames. Maybe go to a bar occasionally. It really illustrated that massive parts of my life aren’t normal and shouldn’t be normal.

Apparently this anxiety and constant demands of perfection are new. Its a generational thing. Its not normal to have never failed anything and be fucking paralyzingly terrified of ever doing so. He was so upset at how lame and depressing modern kids are, that the spirit of the university is apparently gone, but at least he had the decency to be upset at the culture rather than us. I wonder what it felt like before, if kids were freer?