This. The invisible hand doesn't work if monopolists buy control of all the fingers.

I think Smith would probably prefer playing ball with Marx over whatever this hellscape is

One of my fondest memories was beating our old HP printer to death with the baseball bat we keep for potential intruders. I now print at the local library and regret the beating incident less and less every year.

Over the years this has honestly become one of my favorite parts of my brain. I might forget trivial stuff like teethbrushing, but I have these funny bits of people I've lost that I can pretty much revisit in 4k. Probably mostly doing that when I should be doing something else, lol, but I wouldn't trade it away

I know it's still intense, but I am honestly shocked at the civility level of this conversation. This really is not reddit. In a good way.

Is it normal, as a Texan evac, to be afraid of joining PFLAG in another state? I used to feel that was just one of my psychosis symptoms, unwillingness to join a formal rainbow group and actually socialize, but now I'm increasingly unsure

As a queer person, for me at least I find the 'default' language pretty funny. I think it could just as easily be seen as acknowledgement of privilege as the other way around

Honestly pretty amped that terfy name is finally being laid to rest.

I moved to Reddit after the sale of Tumblr years back. Now, fired Reddit for similar reasons and I'm here. Gotta say in my experience so far on Lemmy feels miles less noxious to women than Reddit was in those days, (or kinda at any point since lol). And I've seen far more women and queer folk comfortably hanging out.

Course that's just me, I'm not very savvy, but for real, it was clear by the time I got here so much work had already been done to make everyone feel at home. Thank you so much

I gotta say as an American I really appreciate some of these recent things the EU is doing with privacy. They seem to have a bigger impact here than any actions American politicians come up with, which is depressing, but still deeply appreciated

I don't blame you for not wanting to mod a sequel to 2XC. I agree it would be cool to see something a bit lighter than what that place turned into, felt more about controversy than connection or support.

I feel similarly. My job uses all kinds of 2FA and email-chain nonsense that pretty much require me to keep one as well. I'm starting to learn how to retrofit a special half-dumb phone to do those required things, but it's quite a process compared to what George Clooney got to do

In my little college town, there was this intense party culture. No frats, just kegs. In the 80s, apparently a school wide party became so large the local police force was unable to shut it down. The students commandeered an entire apartment building, and everyone just kinda had to wait for it to be over when they said.

Maybe explain, as you're doing so well here, that your goal isn't to be invalidating. You could point out that sometimes distracting, venting, or leaning on coping mechanisms can actually become the problem. They can become a way to avoid and minimize our own feelings, abilities, and issues. Even basic actions, like taking a much-needed shower, taking a brief walk or finally making it through a whole workday can trigger massive chemical changes in our brain when we're in a crappy place.

I hope this helps. I think you're bringing up a really helpful sticking point here, and having received and misunderstood many a "man up" pep talk during depressive episodes, I gotta say it's a very cool move for you to workshop supportive language like this

Hahaha right? Have you seen the property tax rate in Texas? Real liberty lol /s

I really don't know where I would start explaining this to be honest. In a nutshell, Reddit has a somewhat problematic assortment of communities for survivors of Christian fundamentalist sects and homeschooling. We place a high value on denim and worship a raccoon named Lord Daniel. That's the broad strokes of it

Are there any other people from the weird side of reddit that keep thinking this jeans stuff is about the Duggar family?

Far more accurate lol. Nothing's trickling down except some half-digested oats covered in horseshit

I need that lol do you have a link

I like the Ancient Soviets theory better than Ancient Aliens

Right? I wish it were socially acceptable to use them all the time

Amen. It's friendship, not a customer service role