This was a joke.

YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND. What if I want us to do things sideways, frontwards, backwards, upside down, 360 degrees, in the living room, in the bedroom, on the ceiling, in the closet, on the fridge, in the car in our Disneyland resort hotel?

Do I want the results of the war being that my hometown needs to be rebuilt from the ground up?

Or do I want to have that be the case, except we gotta wait 5000 years for the radiation to be at a level where we can do that safely?

Three years ago: Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant crisis

Nuclear’s always a fun idea until someone decides to commit an act of domestic terrorism. Or until some freaks decide to target the nuclear facilities of their enemies.

Listened to Dancin’ the Night Away by Voggue. Easily highlight album of the week, did not expect it to slap as hard as it did.

Also listened to True Blue by dj TAKA, which was nice, and gave the TEXTILE EP a listen. Overall pretty good lately.

Show me a right-wing content creator who has claimed games aren’t political. I’ll wait.

They always say that it’s political because a minority is in them, or because they didn’t make a woman eye candy.

I’m not gonna bother anymore.

Don’t think it was, they had a much more cartoon strip art style, and the format of it was made to parody those political comics you’d see in a newspaper.

Edit: It was Yolo Swag Studios I was thinking of.

This reminds me of that cartoonist on Twitter who’d make those absolutely hilarious and deranged comics that parodied conspiracy theories. Wish I remembered the name, just recall they used a certain dog character a lot.

Women in games is not political. Accurate depictions of history are not political. Queer people being happy is not political.

Just because right-wingers say they are doesn’t make that true. By stating that they are because they claim them to be, you give into them and find yourself playing a game in which the rules are dictated by them and what plays into their advantage.

That’s how we got here with trans rights to begin with. They were not political, and they still aren’t, but because some freaks with nothing better to do with their lives than complain about others decided to say that trans rights were political, and because some people decided to follow that up with “debates” rather than outright saying “this is not political”, trans rights have been eroded to the point where “left wing” politicians like Gavin Newsom are now seen in good light despite anti-trans policies.

Also “there’s no politics in sports”. You are right, but if you’re going to work on that same pattern of logic, there’s literally a huge nothing burger over the Super Bowl halftime show right now that people are pretending is political. Like congrats, by following Republicans in saying this is now a political issue, you’re basically just allowing them to say “see, they’re confirming it’s political, therefore let’s get rid of rights for Puerto Ricans” or something along the lines.

Maybe don’t blame the people that follow a healthy amount and decided to do something when the election date came rolling around. Just a reminder, 80 million didn’t care enough to vote, and higher turnout just about always works against Republicans.

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” When making the vast majority of a platform political content doesn’t work, you don’t solve that by doing it even more. Wanting to pull away from politics to improve one’s mental health shouldn’t be seen as criminal, but maybe when people see so much of it that it affects their mental well-being, they get turned away from caring entirely (which is not my case for the record).

Okay? I like politics too, but I don’t like it being literally everything I engage with. Sometimes I want a break, I know that’s hard to imagine for people that in order to be a good person and follow on stuff, that your online activity doesn’t have to be over 80% political content.

This may seem wild to people, but maybe I engage with politics in a different manner like through commentators on videos and podcasts. I can curate my feed there to have an equal balance, it’s a lot harder to do here and have things still be worthwhile because it’s a smaller platform, and the majority of the time someone makes a new account and new communities, posts, or comments here, they decide to contribute politics and just about nothing else.

Oh, and bonus points if it’s really low-quality stuff like this where it’s literally months behind with the news just to say “Trump bad”, where nothing of substance is added to the conversation.

Right, the culture of the platform didn’t factor into things at all, when something is bad, there can only ever be one thing bad about it.

Ah yes, the two sides of existence where there’s zero middle ground:

Being someone who follows nothing because I don’t care enough to follow stuff

or

Duct-taping my eyes to the screen as I scroll through every single thing on the internet about every minute little detail that happens in politics to the point where it’s my entire identity.

Clearly no middle ground possible here, no-siree, but let’s just pretend that Lemmy doesn’t have a problem with user growth because people get turned away because it’s 90% political content on the major feeds and nothing else.

“Man, Reddit sucks, you know what Lemmy needs? More politics!”

I’m sick of seeing this guys face and reading his name anywhere and everywhere, but hey, continuing to never shut up about him “spreads awareness” or whatever the hell, therefore I need to have him plastered everywhere 24/7 as if people don’t have anything else to focus on like what makes them enjoy themselves as a brief getaway from this crap.

Also adding I’ve blocked a number of terms, communities, and an entire instance in part for this, and it still gets through like this. It’s not a hard ask to be able to get away from it.

Oh! Sorry, I didn’t see this post initially, I just changed my settings to show NSFW posts with blurred thumbnails since something I posted disappeared after posting, and this only showed up for me after the fact.

There are dating apps specific to people on the asexual spectrum if that at all helps, acespace comes to mind, which may help you find people that are more on the same page as you. I wish I personally had more to offer beyond that, but play partners are a concept I’m not the most familiar with admittedly.

Considering the fact that Google is labeling ICE officials as a vulnerable population, I wouldn’t count on them doing anything against this. Hell, they might be well aware of the fact, whatever pays ammarite?

I’d just move away from Google entirely at this point.

I find it hard to understand either, but I also find it hard to understand how I’ve fallen for crazy types in the past without alarms going off in my head that that’s what they were lol.

It depends on the school board. Here in Calgary it appears that Fridays are early days off, but in Edmonton where I took school, Thursdays were when we had the short day.

Think it also depends on Catholic or Public school board, since I remember friends of mine who were in ECSB having a different day that was shorter. Can’t remember what day it was though specifically.

…because it’s happened to me before?

Had an ex in junior high tell friends and others that I tried forcing myself onto her after I didn’t feel comfortable getting intimate with her like that when visiting her place for Christmas, which was her cheap excuse to justify to them why she cheated on me.

The exact opposite was the case where she threatened to blackmail me if I didn’t do something, which she then did anyway. Didn’t realise I was on the ace spectrum until years later.

You don’t solve the issues you face by diminishing those of others.