What’s the worst thing you’ve done to mess up a relationship with a crush/partner?
Agreed. I've followed less and less of all content since probably mid October.
Americans are mad, everyone else is mad at us for what happened. I don't fault anyone for being mad, but I feel we've only got like a dozen Trump people on Lemmy, so everyone's just taking it out on each other.
We're gonna be screwed for a long time if we can't stop infighting.
I mean, most of us came here because we didn't want people to tell us what we could or couldn't do other places.
Why do people want to tell this person they can't be a dinosaur dragon if it isn't hurting anything?
Again, read drag's comments and not the pronouns of they bother you, and they are quite typical. If people didn't go on the offensive against them, they wouldn't particularly stand out from most others' comments. And that's not to say I feel drag is the one that needs to knock it off, I feel it's a hang up on the receiver's end of things.
You won't find me insulting anyone here because while there are people here I'm not fans of, it's not my place to tell them to get lost. I ignore them, or block them if it's too much to ignore.
I suppose that's dependent on what you want to look at. I still find the platform wholly engaging, and overall more diverse, though I feel the front page has become a bit dominated by polarizing opinions, but we do feel to be on a crappy slice of our timeline right now, so I can't totally fault people for that.
This particular scenario is a little inappropriate to say this is us maturing as a platform, but it's definitely...a thing that is happening...
Stop, you're making me hungry! 🤤
Exactly, I appreciate them as a condiment, not a main dish!
I come on here to escape the shittiness of real life and to be positive. It doesn't matter to me who or what anyone here wants to be, as long as they're here being cool with everyone else. Online is built for freedom, escapism, and expression of all kinds, and I don't like seeing people step on that. For those of us that can appreciate the unique color you bring, I love it as an expression of that freedom.
People here will play as a DND character, a LARPer, study HEMA, or treat the Tolkien universe as a pseudo-reality, and no one will bat an eye, but someone wants to be called a dragon out of established content and all of a sudden we have to crush them? It doesn't make sense to me. Again, they can ignore you, or filter you out, they don't need to throw insults when they see drag pop up. I don't get what that accomplishes.
I don't want to keep going with this here, as it appears I unintentionally dragged you/drag into something that drag isn't directly involved in, so apologies for that, but I'm still pro-drag based on my personal experience. This might make me seem foolish to some, but what you are doing fits in my vision of online freedom is with no issues.
It's just too much. Even the ones I find funny, there is just too much, and with so many communities and cross posting they multiply. And things like the Star Trek instance, I've seen some episodes and some of the movies, but I'm not into Trek so much I need a steady stream of that every day!
I like when people reference memes in response to something I post and I can look up whatever it is on Know Your Meme and enjoy it. That's probably not how memes are exactly meant to be enjoyed, but it's how I can appreciate most of them. Maybe a little too Abe Simpson yells at cloud, but I'm allowed to operate how I want! 😇
Thanks for the clarification that it was an enforcement rather than a change. I feel that is significant to the story.
I still believe that it isn't trolling, as you/drag are far too consistent and what you/drag posts is really just regular, responsible, non-inflammatory stuff, at least what of it I've come across, though I avoid most edgier posts in general.
If people don't like it, they have numerous options to ignore or avoid the posts and comments, I don't see why so many have to actively trash what guidelines you've/drag have asked people to respect.
As a CIS/het, I will freely admit I don't know enough about the issues to judge if this is helpful or hurtful to the non-binary community as a whole, but until I see you/drag do something rude, I have no complaints about giving you what consideration you ask for, as you/drag have been nothing but respectful to me. It doesn't make me feel like any other non-binary people are a joke or anything like that. Different things make different people happy, and if what I've read from your comments has all been genuine, your/drag's life isn't the easiest, and if me be respectful of some word choices can make life not worse, it's the least I can do.
I mean, it has drug me into it despite me having them hidden in my feed, so it's effective.
Not the type of things I usually look for, but I know many do enjoy it.
Thanks for these responses. I hope everyone reaches a satisfactory resolution to this. I don't like to see communities or instances infighting, but I suppose it's just part of us growing as a platform.
I block most meme based communities because they overpower the rest of what I like, but I've been picking up bits of the events from context.
Does this center around the one individual using, shall we say, a very distinct set of pronouns that a lot of people took issue with?
I kind of enjoyed that person in a social commentary way, but I can see why people more directly effected by pronoun usage may have taken issue and blahaj changing their rules due to it, but if that is what is causing this big schism, that's a pretty wild thing that all is this is the result. I'm interested in the opinions on both sides, but it's one of these things I'm afraid to ask due to polarization like this. I have genuine curiosity but I can totally see how someone could trollishly go after the same info.
The McCormick Bacon Bits are vegan, are they not? They're soy flour and veggie oil.
There also looks to be some varieties in packets that look to have a more chewy texture these days.
No favorite brand or recipe for a smokey crisp salad topping?
Valid points. My brain is placing this supposed electric conversion time period during the same time as everyone was dropping an LS in all the things, so I remember feeling why can't we electrify the things instead.
Oh shoot, I'm not so far from you. I live more south of Allentown, but work closer to Philadelphia.
That sounds promising about Edison's background. It sounds like they have both personal interest in getting the projects to be successful, and also real world experience with the types of industry things they're looking to improve. I'll have to check them out.
I vaguely remember a time when it felt like all these small companies were supposedly working in vehicle conversion kits and I was excited about all the cars that could get saved and brought into the next century, but I feel they were all vaporware since I've never heard of one actually existing in real life.
It was one of the few moments where I actually felt close to being alive in the future that was promised to me as a child. Maybe someday...
I'm not LGBT myself, but while in my angsty and edge lordy early 20s, my LGBT friends didn't really like the ICP music, but they strongly preferred the messaging over the early Eminem of the same era.
There is (was?) a lot of violent imagery that not nice people could fixate on, but the targets of that violence are all racists or authoritarians of one kind or another. Beyond that, a lot of the music was about just doing what makes you happy and chilling with your friends with some slightly veiled Charlie Brown level Christian values mixed in.
Every Juggalo I've met has definitely been a little out there, but not in a bad way, just a marches to the beat of their own drummer type.
Bruh, that's obviously excess yellow bile.
Ah, that G2 Titan is what I remember when I think of that model.
I do like the snub nosed look, that era truck just makes me think of Hank Hill, but I can imagine it could get tight under there, especially compared to other trucks going bigger and more boxy.
I forgot about Previa too! It's got a dated look now in that way that they said things would look in the year 2000 back in the 50s, but I honestly still kinda dig it in a retro-futuristic way. I think they could pull off a Previa reboot today if they wanted.
Hands down, ignoring my depression for so many years. Cost me countless friends and relationships.
The shame people at least used to put in getting any kind of help for mental health made me try to overcome it all on my own, and for most of my life I've probably made things worse for a lot of people and don't fault them one bit for not wanting to be around me.
Getting help, for me at least, was very easy, cheap, and straightforward, and I almost immediately did a 180 in most every aspect of my life. I hardly recognize how old me used to live now, but I also have the guilt of all I did while I was untreated.