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  • bzzzt. "single-handedly" might be read as "not a team player". talk about how you "led a team that performed the upgrade" instead, or if that's not true, maybe you "worked with stakeholders" (i.e. you texted your roommate "i replaced the light btw").

  • if you've found a few legitimately bad actors here, then ban them and move on. don't burn the place down.

    when i see someone from one space advise about how to safely access procedures or drugs that are illegal in some country, and then i tab to 196 to see that same person on the receiving end of the most harshly worded accusations of transphobia, i'm sort of at a loss for how to respond to that.

  • on my phone

  • Violence should never be a first resort, but has it’s place among negotiations.

    i agree in the abstract, i'm less sure in reality. SCOTUS makes an unpopular ruling that takes away right to abortion for half the country: doctors in affected areas feel the credible threat of violence "i'll lose my home and i'll be locked behind bars if i perform abortions", but SCOTUS don't feel any threat like that. they're free to make millions worse off because they don't really fear repercussions for it.

    violence isn't a first resort, but organized society as we know it depends on the credible threat of violence. if only one party feels that threat to be credible, then "negotiations" are one-sided. "demilitarize the police" is a great way to balance those threats of violence by reducing violence (yay), but failing that how else to make the side you're negotiating with treat your threat of violence as credibly as you treat theirs other than to actually use violence?

  • my favorite is whenever i encounter the phrase "non-permitted protest". like, the idea that you should ask permission from the authority you're protesting before doing so: it's just so laughably missing the point

  • wait is that actually a rule? i thought it was just convention.

  • amongus bottom pic

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  • nothing wrong with being an outlier

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  • curious your reasoning because from a hierarchy of needs i'd put food as more fundamental than most of healthcare/medicine (i.e. preventive care, quality-of-life care; ER services and life-threatening sicknesses could be as immediate as food though)... plus the cost of some baseline of universal food is surely a lot lower than universal healthcare.

  • hey, i finished Mousou Telepathy this morning, just wanted to come back here to thank you for the rec :) nobel sure knows how to draaaaag out a plot, but the character growth was worth it!

  • congrats on winning the "most cursed post on 196" award this week, you know how competitive that category is.

  • people who get paid to shave ants, no less

  • for manga specifically, Komga can serve and track your progress. it integrates with tachiyomi and also runs a webapp that you can fallback to. i tried Jellyfin for manga and the UI just was not fun to use tbh.

    neither of these track your progress publicly in the way that MAL does though, AFAIK.

  • just spent at least ten minutes considering all the possibilities that could lead to a mosquito landing on your balls in the first place.

  • you know just like the “i’m apolitical” copout, there’s a similar copout along the lines of “well i voted (and didn’t do shit all other than that), so my hands are clean”.

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  • 5 letter alternative spelling of a 6 letter word with a controversial past and present particularly in the US.

  • i hadn't heard of it, but i see the connection! just peeked at the first few pages, bookmarked so i can come back to it in the evening :)

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  • and Mexico too, Americans are always forgetting about their neighbors smh

  • hey but at least it's equal to, not less than