if it makes you feel better, i thought the same thing

this is great and all, but where the heck is that asterisk footnote meant to link to?

wow that’s a lot of words. so, basically, you want a term to say ‘i’m straight, but i’d never date a trans person’, but you want it to somehow shield you from any suggestions that you might be somewhat transphobic, and you want it to free you from any obligation or expectation to introspect and unlearn the transphobia that society has programmed you with?

it’s fun, but alas, false.

i got excited seeing the post title, but as it turns out, ‘politically homeless’ is not here referring to anarchist squats or whatever, but instead just means you don’t vibe with mainstream politics

that’s fascinating. i was unfamiliar with tempeh and just read a bunch of wikipedia about it. i’ve been making my own tofu (usually out of black beans) for a while, but never tried tempeh.

so there’s three methods i’m aware of:

1. patreon, or some other similar scheme, as you said
2. use a following from writing fanfic to promote other, non-fanfic, work
3. take commissions from individuals

i’m a fairly deft hand at pottery. i’m also decent at fiber crafts. depends when and where during the stone age, of course, that’s a pretty big expanse. if i’m really lucky, i’d be in one of the many cultures with special spiritual roles for trans folks. i’ve also got good rote memorization skills, so i can help with oral history.

wow, i am shocked at how bad everyone seems to think it was. it was definitely a significant shift from the original trilogy, but i thought it was still a pretty solid film on its own merits. also, definitely still cyberpunk.

your country banned it? that’s f-in wild. i had no idea governments anywhere gave enough of a shit about lemmy to censor it. you could try petitioning your state, or using a vpn, but i doubt there’s anything lemm.ee can do about it.

capitalism is the system whereby greed is raised above all other human impulses though. in most other systems, sure, people can be greedy, but they aren’t rewarded for it, and people who aren’t naturally greedy don’t get pushed and trained to be greedy as the highest aspiration.

also, he only has to spend like 30 seconds a day commuting to work.

idk what a ‘hierarchical’ polycule is, but it sounds miserable.

why? why boycott? why bans?

i can only speak for my experience. growing up autistic, i was targeted due to my different ways of thinking and acting for bullying, using the r-word to belittle and demean me, far too many times, for hearing it used to mean ‘bad’ to feel like anything but an attack on me or those like me. when someone uses the r-word casually, it hurts, and a fully automatic system, borne of hard experience, files that person away as a probable threat. i don’t understand why people want to use the word so badly, knowing it hurts people, and knowing it’s not necessary or even all that useful of a word.

seems to work now!

borderlands science in borderlands 3 is probably my all time favourite mini-game in a video game

is the link broken for anyone else? it seems to just redirect to the imgur homepage.

same for the others honestly. ‘i was just following orders’ is just what one says when you get called out for doing heinous shit so you can pass the buck to someone else in your organization.

this has been my only bike for probably five years or so, and i haven’t had to do anything with the belt. so far as i can tell, it really is basically maintenance free.

i don’t really know much about belt drives beyond the basics and my own specific bike. i didn’t even know there were different types until ya’ll started bringing them up.

the internally geared hub is a bit of a PITA, but idk if that’s normal, or if mine is just janky. i also have no idea how old my bike is originally, since i got it used from a community bike shop. my hub though has an annoying habit of ‘skipping’ if you apply too much torque, and slipping out of the low gear unexpectedly. i wish it had something like a schlumpf drive with some variety of single speed hub instead.