wizardbeard @ wizardbeard @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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So your first priority needs to be securing shelter. Do you have any friends from college you can contact? Family?

Any chance you could explain to your parents that asexual just means you don't think you want to have sex? Obviously living in that household is not the real end goal, but from a sense of practicality that's where your stuff is, and buying time to get shit prepped to get away is better than being homeless.

Some other people have suggested contacting your parent's church. Unless you know for certain that their church would agree with them, DO IT. Make a Facebook account, join the church's page, and aak for help. "They think I'm going to hell because I don't have any interest in having sex, and they threw me out of the house with only five minutes to pack things. I have nowhere to sleep and no access to food. I need help."

Put them on blast on whatever social media you/they were on. They've left you to starve because of a desktop background.

Now is the time to lean on any people you know. "My parents threw me out of the house with only five minutes to pack things. I have nowhere to sleep and no access to food. I need help."

It's Facebook brand Twitter, and is or was planned to be compatible with Mastodon (Fediverse Twitter)

Short version:

Do you want to have a relationship with your son? If so, you try.

King clearly matters to your son, so if you care about your son you should try to put your own shit aside.

This isn't your son trying to ruin your day, and that text message makes it abundantly clear this isn't just some casual request, or even the first time he's asked you to try and give King a chance. If you can't see that this is important to your son, you have a ton of self relfection to do.

Longer:

Is the age difference really your only reason to dislike him?

Disclosure: My wife is around 15 years older than me. We've been married a few years short of a decade.

I won't pretend the age gap between your son and his boyfriend isn't concerning (or even that the one between my wife and I isn't). It is.

They are both coming from entirely different place in life. They both have vastly different life experiences. King having more life experience and likely already being well established creates a power imbalance that could be dangerous or used in an abusive manner towards your son.

All of that said, do you have any reason to believe any of that is actually occurring?

If not, then treat it for what it is: a normal relationship with some weird attached. Not a big deal. Every relationship will have its quirks, your son's just so happens to be a publicly visible one.

At this point, your kid's an adult. You can talk to them about your concerns regarding the relationship (once), but beyond that, you need to let them make their own decisions. Whether you think they take it seriously or not, whether they reach the same conclusions or not, it is their own decision to make. Their own mistakes to make.

Your son has already made it clear that he doesn't need your approval to have this relationship. At this point the only thing your grumbling/grumpiness will do is drive a wedge between the two of you.

Another disclosure: My personal story of "that one big bad crazy ex" includes my parents and numerous other people trying to warn me. I didn't listen. I still lived with my parents at the time, and what their constant grumbling etc did was drive a massive chasm between us. I moved across the country to get away from them, effectively crashed on a couch with no safety net whatsoever, and almost ended up trapped with the crazy when shit hit the fan. There was literally nothing they could have done or said that would have made me see things their way. I had to reach my terrible conclusions myself. There is still lingering baggage in my relationship with my parents nearly 15 years later.

The important thing is that you be there for your son in a way that doesn't drive him away. But for his and your sake, really deeply reflect on what your issues with his boyfriend are.

Dangerous is dangerous. Shitty personality is shitty personality. Age gap on it's own is just weird as shit, but weird isn't inherently dangerous.

Ask me how I know you're under the age of 30.

Not specifically for youtube videos, but half the examples people are posting here aren't originally from youtube anyway.

Antique Memes Roadshow- !antiquememesroadshow@lemmy.world

Jean Luc was from YTMND, but yeah, absolute classic

That predates youtube in fact. It was from YTMND or Newgrounds if I remember correctly.

Everything I don't like is Liberal: A Guide to Modern Lemmy Discourse

More seriously, lives are not at stake in this particular comment section.

Edit: and I never told you to stop, just that it's abrasive as shit and likely why you're being banned so damn much. Do with it what you will. I'm not your parents, the police, or your boss.

Then maybe don't waste energy being shitty online and instead build the local community and personal resources to protect your ass.

If I was in your situation looking at the changes Trump did in just the executive orders his first day, I can tell you one thing that would be at the absolute fucking bottom of my todo list: argue on the fucking internet.

I got banned from every platform, and my account on lemmy.world was also banned.

Gee, from your comments on this post I could never imagine how that could happen.

If everywhere you go people smell like shit, maybe you should check your shoes.

I'd strongly suggest that the issue isn't your beliefs, but that you're about as abrasive as kissing the pavement at 75mph.

Speak for yourself.

There were a lot of people that looked for a Reddit alternative not because of particularly strong feelings politically or towards corporations in general but instead because Reddit broke their main method of interacting with Reddit (third party mobile apps) while simultaneously completely breaking the moderator tools to quell the shitstorm and maintain quality discussion.

I left Reddit because I saw it going further to shit faster than it ever had before, and they communicated loud and clear that they didn't want users like me that cared about having control and options over how we interacted with the site.

None of my accounts there ever had a single comment removed by a mod, although I had been preemptively banned from multiple subs due to posting in others.

When the hell did they start updating the site database to include downloads of externally hosted patches?

That effectively means the site is back!

Why the fuck wasn't that posted about fucking anywhere?

All I can find is articles about the site going read only except for the forum and news posts back in August 2024. I used to check the site weekly, but stopped in September after none of the community made continuation projects seemed to be taking off.

They have to, effectively. It's covered in one of the executive orders Trump made day 1. You can look through all of them on whitehouse.gov if you want.

DEI is explicitly prohibited in governement orgs now. And Trump has his own little personal government force to use against any that don't play along through the DOGE project/group, headed by Musk.

The Bible uses tons of masculine AND feminine descriptors for God. It boggles me that so many Christians have such a hard fucking time with trans topics.

That's really hard to say. Comparing 1925 to now is crazy.

I think embedded tech would be in just about everything, and we'd probably have implantable tech as well. With that, I'd imagine that virtual reality would be nearly indistinguishable from the real thing.

If we're sticking to the positive, that would be amazing to effectively make distance meaningless for most aspects of relationships and interaction. Would absolutely change life as we know it.

ITT: People who can't put aside doomerism for even a moment to try and engage with a basic hypothetical.

(Putting my response to the "prompt" in a separate comment)

For the sake of the question, let's just assume that no apocalyptic event happens that wipes out the human race.

Come on man. Did you not understand the assignment?

This is why I keep insisting that Kodi (and other open source "media center" solutions) really only work for people dedicatedly ripping their own large collection of physical content, or for pirates.

I would kill for an all in one, "single pane of glass" way to browse and watch even just only my legally obtained media library (personally ripped discs amd multiple streaming services). But at absolute best I still have content from different sources all squirelled away in their own separate menus, and if I use something like Kodi for the rips I'm stuck at 720p for streaming (assuming the unofficial plugin for Netflix decides to work that day).

And not even proprietary closed source stuff gets it right. With a chromecast dongle (or whatever they've relabeled it now) at best I can search for a specific piece of content from the main menu, and then it's a crapshoot if say, the Amazon Prime content found by the search is included with my sub or a separate cost. It's a crapshoot if the "link" will just open the associated app or actually take me to the fucking content in the associated app.

I don't get why these streaming services think people care about the brand at all. The less I have to think about the service itself, the more likely I am to ignore how infrequently I use it. The more I have to deal with friction getting to the content, the more I have time to think about if the subscription is even worth the cost.

Why is this posted in the shitpost community? Nevermind. Community sidebar explicitly says anything goes. That's definitely not what shitposting is, but I'm not a mod.

Also, maybe post/link the receipts themselves. The only "breadcrumb" evidence is the characterfile example in the Eliza wiki being AI Trump.

People can write whatever words they want, and there was a hoax a while back with doctored screenshots of "twitter code" that supposedly exempted trump and white supremacist accounts from filtering. It was easily disproven by links to the leaked/unintentionally open to the public codebase.

Anyone who's been paying attention to things should be well and aware that what the post claims has been going on for years by perpetrated by multiple actors. MAGAs have already been flooded by similar "I couldn't stay quiet about this anymore" posts allegedly by shareblu employees that started coming out as far back as Trump's first campaign.

Coincidence and "breadcrumbs" aren't likely to convince anyone new that this shit has been happening.

Don't feed the troll children

Edit: I thought we were past the "I identify as an Apache Attack Helicopter" type shit a decade ago. Boo! Get some new material!