Thoughts and prayers
I play games for the games. I might have a preference on the type of TV and shit, but that's all personal preference. If the game is good, it's good on either one.
If you find the idea that queer people have the right to exist to be too much of an echo chamber for you, then that's a bit telling.
"But the bias!"
Maybe it's just me, but if I wanted to know what was going on in the queer communtiy, I would say queer people are the best people to listen to. Just like how if I wanted to learn about the struggles of bring black or a woman, I would consider them the go to source. I wouldn't go to the people causing the problems. Like I wouldn't go to David Duke to learn about what black people go through. Or Andew Tate on how to treat women.
In those case, the article calls out the lies from the sources you say we wouldn't take, so of course I'm not gonna listen to them. Because they're not just biased. They're lies. In this case, it's things such as tuck swimwear being sold to kids. That was heavily reported on, despite being false.
To help explain what a bias actually is, think of it this way:
One article says Bill punched Jim. Billy is a bully. We have someone saying they saw it.
The other article says Bill did not punch Jim. He is fine. We have the video to prove it.
Now, both do have a bias. Yes. One says he's a bully, the other says he's not.
But one of them makes a claim, says they have someone who saw it, but it turns out it was a lie.
So one of these is a bias, one of these is a lie. It's slander.
Should we find articles without a bias? Arguably. But for starters, if the non-biased articles agree with the biased article and all the facts, and they do show with the same video that Bill did in fact not punch Jim, then I would argue the bias isn't the issue. If Bill didn't punch Jim, then there's no real reason to say he's a bully.
Similarly, it is a fact that right wing news sources lied about the swimwear. And they have an anti-LGBTQ+ bias. But we know it was a lie.
So when an article calls it out and has a bias that trans people are fine, there's no reason to beleive its not. And the bias that the right are being bigoted ans trying to take away the rights from trans people then becomes less of a bias and more of just facts.
So we can find another source for this, but when they simply just list the facts, it will only back up this article.
I might check this one out later. I usually use audiobookbay, but half the links are dead if it's more than 5 months old. And i keep forgetting to try and log in at the right time for Myanonymouse.
Even better. Shit in their box. Assert dominance.
Yup. This was it for me. Ordered a burger from a no name local place. It came in a Red Robin bag and container. Apperantly they gave no fucks. Since then if I found a place, and it turned out to be real, I just marked it with the heart. Anything not marked it either a big name chain restaurant, or it's suspect. Especially since we also know about ghost kitchens where it's one place posted under at least 10 different restaurants.
Edit: Just for shits and giggles, I just loaded up the app. First place I didn't recognize I checked and Google shows it in the middle of an industrial complex. No restaurant signs anywhere to show where it's at.
Then I saw "the burger den", which another person said is Dennys. Google maps takes it to Dennys
I also feel like it's become more right wing. Or at least now that some people have left, the balance has shifted further to the right. I went on yesterday, and r/WhitePeopleTwitter, a fairly left wing sub, is now having a lot of Republicans. Really killed my desire to go back. It was something I know a lot of people predicted would happen, but still sad in a way to see.
Edit: Also the fact that the main niche subs I went to are dead. They used to be pretty active, but since they reopened, a lot of users were not happy. So now it's a post every few days. I think one of the subs just got completely deleted. Sadly they're not as active here.
Yeah, I never took it as preferential treatment or anything. Part of it is just that I used Boost for Reddit, so a part of me wants thinks it would be cool to continue to support them. I'll probably just stick here though. I'm sure eventually someone will make an app.
Yeah, I was thinking the same. This just sounds like my usage of Twitter, just without the negatives of Twitter. I have my community on there, but I never really ventured outside of it or followed celebrities or influences.
So I might just actually join. I hate the idea of starting over, but oh well. I'll probably log onto Twitter for the first time in awhile, let people who I talked to know I'm on there, and see if anyone else is as well.
Yeah, I gives me similar vibes as "I don't see color."
But even if we remove bigotry and politics and all of that... labels aren't necesarily bad. Like I am a creature who identifies as one of two main types of sexes that is sexually and emotionally attracted to creatures who identify as the same.
Which is a weird way of saying I'm a man who is sexually and romantically attracted to men, but those are labels, so I couldn't say man, human, etc.
Of course I could also just say I'm gay. While yes, everyone is a little different, it has worked so far for me. People tend to get it.
Labels are not bad. It's an idea only used by edgy teenagers and liberals who want to be good for the praise more so than for simply being good.
Not only is it interesting, and not only is it something they could have left for later
But why would someone be upset at a quick 10 second mental break from work? Take a second to breath. Let out some stress. You didn't send them a novel and require them to read it then and there and throw all of their work off. It was just a quick little micro break.
And it's gonna suck for most of us in a lot of ways. Like I moved up north partially because of politics back in 2014. Now some are eventually gonna follow and move up here as well. Plus, I can't afford a house. A lot of people can't afford one. But when more and more people come, we won't have enough. Unless we see some real, meaningful changes in the way we handle housing, it's gonna be a shit show.
I was talking to my mom back in I think 2020 and the subject of the cost of a home came up. I told her how much they are here, and she said me and my boyfriend should move near her and some other family in St Louis. While I would love to be near family, I'm gay. I'm not moving to a red state. And I'm not looking to buy a house I will eventually need to abandon with no one buying it. That's a lot of money to just lose.