This kind of reads as being addicted to the smell of your own farts?

Nothing in that godawful, arcane, confusing black screen with white text is ever going to be better than clicking on buttons that have English words I can actually understand.

If you were raised by the matrix and like doing things the hard way with memorized commands, that’s fine with me and kind of cool in a way, but it is definitely the hard way.

Windows 10 is good, so I don’t trust the rest of this now.

Marjorie Taylor Greene may yet be our Gollum.

Family is usually everywhere in your life. Not everywhere-everywhere, but everywhere for you. The ways it’s fucked up aren’t obvious from that perspective because there’s no contrast from inside the system.

Your aunt is displaying a pretty gross and spineless “genes over well-being” attitude present in a lot of families. It can be very useful for getting through lesser hard times together, but it’s poison when used to excuse treachery.

It gets used to excuse treachery like your aunt did because not excusing it implies seeing how awful it is, and the realization could break her conception of the family, which could break her. While your aunt’s words are dumb as fucking bricks, the thing to picture here is her nervously texting you, trying to cobble together some victim blaming horseshit as a way of not having to make eye contact with the Madness Demon staring at her from across the room.

A lot of what gets labeled as (and is) “complicity with evil” is fueled by this. People blame victims because they don’t have the strength to see that the victim is actually just in that bad of a situation. They can’t handle the heartbreak of seeing it, or the fear that it could happen to them. So they blame you because that means (it doesn’t but they tell themselves) you could have done something to prevent your own awful situation, and by extension, so can they. Your crappy situation dispels their illusion of control; victim blaming scotch-tapes it back together. They don’t see that they’d be safe without it; they think if that illusion of control goes, the universe ends. They’re scared. Very tense, no way to live.

I don’t have advice, I can just tell you for sure that you’ll see this much more clearly, if not more simply, with distance, by seeing the family system from the outside. But that does mean leaving the family in some sense, which isn’t for everybody. So maybe reading this can give you some sense of what your own eyes would probably tell you if you could get the angle on it you needed to verify it yourself.

Oh yeah that’s a really bad ambiguity to end up in an article.

Even if you’d get a vengeance kick out of it, the suffering won’t produce the good results you want.

Yeah in the old world where a little elbow grease was all you needed to afford a house, this would have been a coward’s move and creepy as hell.

Now, it beats the pants off of most jobs. Which is all the evidence you need of how much of a failure society has become. This situation should be awful, but it’s pretty nifty by comparison.

It probably helps in one way and harms in another to say: it feels that way because it is that way.

It’s at least nice to know you’re onto something. You’re seeing what’s there. Your head is screwed on straight! Yay!

The situation still sucks, but a partial victory is a partial victory.

How did he gain and lose all that weight so fast to play both??

If anything, Democrats would do better. Trump didn’t give a fuck, was a huge asshole, and won.

If Democrats were fair in their vicious scathing of what’s terrible about Republican policies, and used it as a tool in telling the truth clearly, they’d do great.

Maybe once there’s no nazis, civil will work.

Used to think GMOs are unhealthy until a friend set me straight. Now I can see it’s just liberal flat-earth shit.

This is the best comment on Lemmy.

For a lot of things yeah, but not for like, a fridge or a couch. Was wondering about other things in that category I hadn’t thought of.

This is probably a different discussion, but anybody with tips, tricks, and details of where and how to do this safely, this might not be a bad place to show off what you know.

The people who voted for evil do.

The people who failed to vote against evil do, but less.

The people who voted against evil? No fuckin chance.

“America” is too wide a brush, but I get talking that way.

Three.

Do we have to be 57? I just wanted to be part of a counting train.

I don’t like this chapter of Alice in Wonderland but the writing is good

God damn this is stupid. People area gonna die and worse. Use your damn head.

Heh.

Are you kidding? Watching it happen in real time, it makes less sense than it ever did.