I don’t expect the gun lobby to ever full throatedly take a libertarian stance when the biggest purchaser within their space is the federal government and they represent gun manufacturers at the end of the day.

Conservative leaders were always the more likely destroyers of 2a rights. Trump in his first term suggested removing guns from people prior to investigations about their mental state.

Codependency is self-destructive, not romantic.

Chronic Anxiety and chronic depression are very similar and tied to similar thought processes and self-fulfilling cycles.

You can’t truly be there for others if you aren’t there for yourself.

Perspective shifting between others and yourself is a powerful tool of understanding and affording yourself the benefits of the doubt that can be hard to muster sometimes.

https://piefed.world/u/The_Picard_Maneuver he’s still active and modding a few communities still.

The_picard_maneuver I feel was a large reason there was even enough meme content to make it start feeling like a reddit replacement for me. I don’t hate power users here since we need more posts to keep the fediverse content active. Maybe if we had 10k+ upvote posts in a single day it’d get old seeing the same faces, but if the content is good it’s elevated. I’d only want something done about it if there were bots who follow-voted to achieve misleading numbers.

I think there’s some humanity in shared sorrows regardless of your power to stop it. Everyone can contribute a little also. I think with enough motivation empathy can lead to discomfort that can inspire massive change in an individual for the better and in some cases massive changes in a society for the better.

Empathy is something to be proud of. We’d just be dogshit conservatives without it.

Same, I struggle with posting before reading on the phone especially. My confidence despite only being 10% as accurate on the phone is exactly the same after finishing typing on the phone.

About twice a comment on my phone and about once every 5 comments on the computer.

Better door, better lock, better strike plate, longer and stronger screws. The rest can be visual deterrents like cameras, window sensors, and proximity lights that make them visible to neighbors and drivers.

Productivity goes up, all tools are used to achieve it, but pay and hours stay the same.

Assessing the value of a statement before you say it helps you make significantly better impressions. Other people do this too, they just don’t have the same impulse on the time scale they’re allowed to think about it. Fundamentally you just have to force yourself to do it and then observe the benefits in your social life.

Yapping is a good trait if the value of what you’re saying is appreciated and if you’re showing that you’re still engaged with the entirety of others’ statements.

Thanks Sean Fain

Can’t say I’ve ever thought about it as a cis male. It’s pretty easy to come up with the best sounding derivative though. If you feel that this may be an important choice for you it may benefit you to explore further and perhaps talk to a therapist who has helped others with dysphoria.

It may also help to add that I’ve gone through phases of not liking my name. It’s not a “normal” name and people very often mishear it as something else. Through this I’ve only ever considered other cis male centric names, also derivatives of my actual name.

He was a Canadian material science nerd with a lot of industrial knowledge and dirty humor. He would open up tools and talk about where he felt the company cheaped out, how good their molds were, and sometimes give ideas about what might break first.

Seeing unexpected gore has ruined my day before. It’s not that hard to give a warning.

It’s been too long to try and find it, but the gist was he was talking about how his daughter got in trouble at school or maybe a daycare for singing it the racist way instead of tiger. He went on to say he told her that she can only sing it that way at home. Barf

I’m in the same boat here. I think that video was great and didn’t read as an attempt to sell me on anything. They talked generally about the technology differences and it was more of a history lesson that I’m sure dispelled some nostalgia for items that I used when I didn’t have aching joints, leaving me to think they were more comfortable.

To put my own perspective into a box, I was just getting into the hobby and he is the highest quality channel on the matter. It was just disheartening to get the impression that the barrier to entry was so high, but it’s fair if he wants better for his fans so long as he couples that in with statements like “my standards are way higher than a beginner’s” etc. It’d be similar to MKHD propping up phones that are well outside a reasonable expense for a lot of people.

Can you imagine the hemming and hawing he’d do if his employee unionized? He’d crash out for sure.