Get a call blocker app, tell it to block every single phone call, whitelist your contacts. If they are not in your contacts, but its important, they will leave a message.

Try to get a quick lunch, sit down to eat, asshole in corner listening to tiktok at full volume, imagine murdering this pos through the entire meal.

Make them poor so Trumps daddy can take them? who knows anymore.

It is a tough situation, because yes it makes complete sense to say “I cant stop them, but I can ensure their safety” since we know abstinence is a pipe dream, but its also not fair to say your ideas on how to parent supersede another parents. Hell this could even be a teaching moment for your child by explaining this in full candor with them so they understand your concerns with the request and why you made the decision you made, it can be helpful for them to understand that just because other people do things in a way you don’t agree with, doesn’t give you the right to force your ways on them, a lesson in desperate need across the world lately.

All these takes going against this advice feel like we might be being astroturfed by an army of horny preteens trying to manipulate their millennial parents lolol.

I had a friend who ran away from an abusive home

Can we agree “I want to talk to her parents before u fuck their daughter in our house and with our knowledge”, is so far from an abusive home scenario that they are in different solar systems?

I am all for trust, but in this scenario we are discussing the honesty of a teenage male trying to get laid, and I wasn’t born yesterday, and I was him at one point. The downside of “Your son violated my little girl in your house and you knew about it!!!” is quite high to let trust take the wheel, especially when all you had to do was ask your son to have her parents call you.

This meme format never shows a scenario that isn’t made up anymore.

Most every major company isn’t entrenched in people’s lives as deeply as apple is though. If I want to leave Netflix it’s as easy as switching subscriptions. If I want to leave Apple I need months of migration and multiple product replacements.

Or at least that’s what it looks like to someone who has avoided Apple their whole life, it was apparent to me as a teen that the walled garden was a trap. The iPhone and iPhone 3g where the only and last peices of apple hardware I’ve ever owned.

Just discussing potential.

Pretty narrow vision. Microsoft can suggest hardware for you and charge the seller for the advert.

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Schools should really put much more focus on explaining what science is and what it does

Hard agree. The US is currently speed running to third world status and its entirely because of education, and i assume its happening elsewhere based on the rise of conmen in leadership. Anyone who thinks for themself who has ever had a conversation with anyone MAGA on why they believe what they believe, will know that it was just because they were told to believe it. They do not have any sort of internal reasoning, they look to someone that fits their world view of what a leader looks like and then they believe every word that they say. It is the same way most people relate to religion, do not think about it, just have faith.

So when you mix together a wildly de-funded and heavily politicized education system that turns out followers who outsource reasoning to authority figures, with modern American solipsistic culture that allows the worst human beings alive to be seen as role models, then it was always just a matter of time before conmen took the reigns of the country. Anyone who is ever trying to argue their point with reasoning and facts will appear on the defense to any conman that is just riffing innacuracies, and the uneducated masses will see the conman as in control, which will then make them trust that person, it doesn’t go any deeper than that.

Humans are fucking stupid.

idk what to tell you, but that is what that number means. Here is mine, you can see it shows a 1 as ive only ever made 1 post, and not a 3 for the number of points on my only post. Also im not sure this applies to other lemmy instances, might just be a lemm.ee thing.

that’s number of comments, not total points.

Do you know any regular people? Most people I know have never even heard the word fediverse.

The irony of someone calling other people 13 year olds during the most 13 year old take I’ve ever heard lol.

“Are you waiting to receive my limp penis!?”

“QUIT ATTACKING SMALL KNIFE PARTY FOR STABBING YOU! AT LEAST THEY’RE TRYING TO STAB YOU LESS” - Every pro DNC argument.

The dems “trying” to do something is fucking meaningless, also the thing they are trying to do, is to generally stop the gov from going more right, never reversing direction. And you can mock the left hoping things change, but unfortunately the left has been effectively removed from politics, so outside of the outrage bubbling over into revolution there is a single thing the left can do. You must live in a different reality from me i guess, enjoy it, sounds nicer than the real world.

I mean I feel like i agree with you on everything, other than you believe political change is possible and I dont. I also do not believe you have argued that the outcome is remotely likely, only that its more possible than revolution.

It would be easier to get a shitload of progressives elected into positions of power in the US via the democratic party than it would be to lead a successful revolution to overthrow the US government

Let me float a third option, which is the current state of the country will remain unchanged. The economy will eventually collapse under the weight of the capitalists, triggering worldwide economic collapse, and then WW3. I’m just praying fascism loses again in the end, and that the systems can survive long enough for me to die naturally first.