WideningGyro

joined 3 years ago
[–] WideningGyro@hexbear.net 8 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

I once had a heart-to-heart with my sister, who is a kind, intelligent and perceptive person, who set me on the path that led me to communism, but is now a comfortable suburban lib, and I tried to explain this to her- the gravity of climate change. She looked at me and just said "I have two kids. I need to believe that things will get better." There was such a pleading, desperate look in her eye that I just had to drop it. If I'm right, she's going to have to face it someday anyway, and if I'm wrong - well, then the future is better than I can imagine right now.

Same with my parents, who are at their best well-meaning libs. There's just no point in trying to get them to understand what's happening. They'll be long gone by the time everything truly breaks down. I don't really feel like I have the right to force the realization that the world they've inhabited all of their life won't really be there for their grand-kids.

[–] WideningGyro@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Looks amazing! I have to ask, what's up with the beans in the first pic?

[–] WideningGyro@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

I had a desktop background with the word "removed" as a teenager (don't know if anyone here remembers Maddox, but this was his influence). Then my older sister saw it and (verbally) beat the shit out of me until I removed it in shame. I owe her a lot.

I also don't have a totenkopf or did 18 years in Blackwater.

[–] WideningGyro@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

I had a desktop background with the word "removed" as a teenager (don't know if anyone here remembers Maddox, but this was his influence). Then my older sister saw it and (verbally) beat the shit out of me until I removed it in shame. I owe her a lot.

I also don't have a totenkopf or did 18 years in Blackwater.

[–] WideningGyro@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just to add context, he claims his totenkopf and the "bolts" (SS insignia) that his fellow marines/soldier boys had were just gotten as a show of team spirit and that it's clearly preposterous to suggest that soldiers in the US army would be nazis.

Fuckin wild

[–] WideningGyro@hexbear.net 33 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I know we say it a lot, but god damn what a disgusting society (edit: it's twitter, but still)

[–] WideningGyro@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm a dumbass, can someone tell me what this means? No third-party/unsanctioned apps?

[–] WideningGyro@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Maybe I should watch a playthough sometime, because I just couldn't force myself through it

[–] WideningGyro@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What non-vegan food do you think is essential for babies other than B12 and maybe iron (both of which can easily be supplemented)?

[–] WideningGyro@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago

I mean, the only time I've had the displeasure of interacting with a self-proclaimed carnivore, he tried very hard to convince me that meat production is really not connected to climate change at all. So it's hard to think that these kinds of influencer-diets aren't a psyop to make people more invested in animal products, at least to some degree. I'm sure there are some true believers as well, of course.

This had less to do with raw/cooked food, and more just a general vibe of "meat is the real superfood (and I also really like the taste), therefore it can't be bad for the environment!".

[–] WideningGyro@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Ah yes, religion. Famously not part of anyone's personal experience.

[–] WideningGyro@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago

Who said the second one? I never heard that

 

IIRC the one I played ca. 2006 was called Globalia. It was super nerdy shit where you had to structure your posts like official government statements, very "model UN" kind of thing.

Shoutout to my based younger self getting to play Cuba and immediately allying with Al-Qaeda and trying to get nukes (they kicked me out for this)

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