hydrospanner @ hydrospanner @lemmy.world

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Yep, I had a bully in elementary school and my mom tried to work with the system of teachers, principal, admin, etc. for months, and nothing at all was ever done about it.

Finally when the bullying escalated to physical levels and started to impact my personality outside of school, my parents basically told me that while I might still get in trouble at school, they wouldn't be upset with me at home if I did decide to stand up to the kid. They stressed to me the fine line between standing up for yourself and becoming a bully yourself, and sent me on my way.

A few days later, my bully found me at lunch and started messing with me. Pushing over my stack of booking, taking some food off my tray...I didn't do anything until he tried to push me out of my seat then it was kind of blurry, but basically I just took a swing at him and knocked him back out of his seat and he hit his head against the wall and started crying.

I did get in some trouble at school but nothing too bad (especially once Mom was called in and she explained how if they tried to suspend me, she'd put them on blast for how they'd ignored the situation for so long), and that kid was nice as pie to me for the rest of our schooling.

Engine breaking destroys the engine.

Unfortunate typo.

This is a good point, although maybe I'm just unlucky, but quite a few times over the years, I've encountered friends, and friends of friends, who were vegetarian or vegan and seemed to make a primary hobby out of shoe-horning that information into any and every conversation they could. And every time, it was very deliberately and openly presented in a way to praise themselves and demonize anyone not like them.

Not only is food very foundational, as you've said, but I also strongly feel that a reason this particular set of -isms is such a lightning rod is because (perhaps due in large part to that foundational aspect of food in society), it seems like vegetarianism and veganism very much becomes who someone is, as opposed to simply describing an aspect of their lifestyle.

Not only that, but it becomes a part of their Identity in a way that frequently impacts the people around them.

So someone is a Catholic. That's cool. I'm not one and I might have my issues with the Catholic church, but unless they're extremely devout, chances are, their Catholicism is more "how they worship" and less "who they are" in everyday interaction. It just isn't likely to affect me, and as such I'm much less likely to really care. As such, I'm cool with Catholics. Add to that: most Catholic people aren't painting their religious belief in superiority either overtly or implicitly these days. They're just going to mass on Sunday and doing their thing.

On the other hand, someone is vegan. That's also cool. I might have preferences and a lifestyle that conflicts with their views and vice versa but we can coexist, and our preferences on what to eat won't ever lead to conflict between us, right? Well...if they're a coworker...or a member of a friend group, now any and every time that group of people wants to eat, that foundational aspect of society, now the group must accommodate that -ism which they don't share. And that's probably fine for everyone in the group sometimes...and some of the group all the time...but generally speaking, looking at all of the group, all of the time, that's statistically likely to eventually rankle at least a few people. Then, depending on the individual, there's a very real chance that they eat with this group, some of which may already be annoyed by having their food options limited by the choices of this individual...and on top of it, that individual takes that opportunity to make a comment that invokes morality into the situation...and it should come as little surprise that this type of person gets a generalized negative reputation.

If you'd like to break the stereotype of insufferable vegans, you might consider starting that process by not being one.

They said they want to watch them all, not just the first half of the first movie.

Anyone who thought he might have done anything other than what he did in the impeachments was clearly asleep for the Gorsuch and Barrett confirmations.

I switch from Google to PA with the first email like this that I got from Google.

I tried maybe 4 alternatives and ended up sticking with PA. I don't really like it...it's most used icons are small and hard to reach, navigation is very unintuitive to me...but basically it sucked less than the other options.

That's pretty disingenuous, considering the amounts of respective materials involved.

By that rationale, your home is made of paint. It just uses wood and concrete for structure.

That's like saying cars and trucks are made of paint because they have a layer of it on the outside.

Can liners are both an extremely small portion of the overall container as well as being absolutely essential for most canned beverages.

Additionally, many/most manufacturers have or are moving away from liner materials that contain BPA.

For both.

I mean...why would you want to?

Mogg?

Half man, half dog?

He could just ignore all that shit, claim immunity, and refuse to leave office.

No reason it can't be both!

Also let's not ignore the big unsaid:

Even if Biden really were as horrible as some of these people want to make others believe...

...is their implication really that the only other viable option, Trump, would be anything other than orders of magnitude worse in all of those areas?!

You swap that breading for a quick swim in tempura batter and some toasted sesame seeds and I'm in.

You're talking about people who will straight faced tell a news reporter that we need to end all the welfare in this country...then when the reporter says, "wait, but didn't you say you receive Medicaid and food stamps?" they'll say, "yeah but that's different. I need that. It's the welfare that we need to put an end to!"

Yeah you know me.

Yeah, "advice" like this always just comes across as "well have you tried not being poor?"

Eh, Kellyanne is a pretty good Scarecrow.