Thanks, I will do that tomorrow.

Hello Mr Agent sir! I’m just doing regular, all-American things like eating hamburgers and loving freedom! 😁

“This person said Fae creatures aren’t real! i am angry at them, BAN!”

When said in regards to not wanting to use a person’s preferred pronouns, yes that is a bad-faith argument. And, while I don’t agree with everything Ada does (or has done here), she is dedicated to making a safe space for her users with one of the rules being that you are to respect pronouns no matter what.

Also, I’m feeling more and more like Drag is dronerights, who was definitely a troll, but that will not make me use the wrong pronouns for Drag, and not necessarily for Drag’s sake but for the sake of anyone who feels better using neopronouns. In a discussion about this post on Hexbear, a user talked about how worried hy was asking for them to be included on the list. Even if Drag is a troll, there are people out there who are not and want these things.

Surely this brand new account can’t be fed, right?!

This link where he’s playing Dittman and he says something along the lines of “her problem was clearly not with the product but with Elon because I was the first thing she posted about.”

Also, in this article’s sound clip, you can hear the similarities. Elon was not on this call, that was “Dittman”.

I laid out my schedule and she said she did want to meet and that we can reschedule. I don’t know when. Waiting for her I guess. I dunno how assertive to be. I’m not good at this shit.

IMO, lay back and wait for her on this one. If she wants to (and is a reasonably reliable person), she will hit you up as soon as she can. If she doesn’t, it’s up to you to decide what kind of effort you want to put in because she’s either kinda flaky (absentminded, unreliable) or just not as into it (friendship or more) as you are. Give her a couple of weeks to a month. Maybe drop some reminders at work (“Hey, I’d still like to go out sometime if you have some time soon!”) but leave it up to her.

That’s an easy way to know if she’s into it, and if she’s maybe not (if she doesn’t get back to you), you could still pursue, but knowing it may never work and that you will be putting in more effort than her. Either way, I agree with came_apart_at_Kmart when he said:

another thing I’ve learned to do is occupy and enjoy myself spontaneously in pretty much any context, rather than refrain from an activity or socializing until an invited person arrives. it makes life more enjoyable and eased any pressure on late arrivals who feel bad about circumstances beyond their control.

If possible, have fun without her. Go ahead and your favorite appetizer, enjoy for you.

Best of luck!!

Buttons. I don’t say but-ins, I pronounce it like but-tons. Idk why I didn’t do the lazy American thing with that word but I didn’t.

I agree with this. Shit happens sometimes. Maybe she fell asleep, I used to do that a lot and miss dates and appointments.

I love it. It’s my substitute for soda. I like lemon and cherry lime. My family got some for me when I came over for the holidays and they didn’t care for it. Lol

Thanks for the recommendation!

I appreciate the thoroughness of your answer. That’s some stuff I haven’t thought about before.

The thing is, and what those arguing against it don’t understand, that it matters to someone and that’s enough to say “okay, who cares if this user is trolling (or dragons aren’t real or what-the-fuck-ever), it matters to someone so it’s worth protecting.”

I think the reminder was basically, “It doesn’t matter if you think either a user’s pronouns or the user themselves is trolling (or problematic, etc.) - the rules still require you to respect everyone’s pronouns.”

Some of them are just too far gone…

The fucked up thing is the way they keep the kids from telling their family what is really happening to them. Like a fascist government, monitoring all correspondence, even when the family comes to see him, it’s totally 1. fake, coached things for him to say and 2. monitored at all times and can be ended at any time.

I still think about it a lot.

Yikes, that post has a real ick factor! Like a pedo apologist’s essay, and what do you want to bet he’s a horny 20 yo?

My brother and I try to talk class consciousness with my dad, and he goes straight into “why did Biden let all those immigrants in?” 🙃

I accidentally made this cursed sticker from this image.

Absolutely agree. It’s cool to see that being a good human can cause so many people to help you out when you need it. Also, I reminisce for the days when the capitalist was the bad guy…