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Fucking. Stop. Shit like this is why bigots make fun of the whole movement. “I can’t keep up with the pronouns!” I can’t keep up with the bullshit, and I’m an ally. Stop. (Xe or Fae or Hu or whatever you are. You’re certainly not a fucking elf, won’t go there.)
LGBT covers 99.997% of non-cis humans. JFC, let it ride at that. (And here comes some 14-yo, “I don’t feel included.” Yeah, neither did any of us at that age, not even the jocks and popular kids.)
77-yo, rolled 130’ downhill, survived with what he had on him. I feel like most y’all would simply die.
This right here is why you go out in all weather (assuming you’re prepped).
I have a Sensi and didn’t program it correctly, though my wiring was on point. HVAC guy puzzled over it a few then called me over to show me what the cryptic options meant. Been solid for a few years now.
I’d like to see those options in the app, but if those were included people would fuck them up and blame the company. 🤷🏻
Looked at my Florida Aldi, no luck.
It really was a lesson! Bear in mind, I grew up on shows like All in the Family and The Jefferson’s, featuring bigots as the main characters, and they were always shown to be assholes in every episode. So ham-fisted it’s hard to watch now. :) I grew up on WOKE shows like the Electric Company and Sesame Street. The 70s and forward were, “Be a racist, better keep a fucking lid on it.”
My parents lived in Selma, AL when King marched through. They had “mammies” to raise their girls. Strange times I missed.
Now I’m wondering if plants that are designed to run enriched uranium will have to be totally rejiggered or it’s a relatively simple change.
Hah! Those horn phones were rare in antique stores when I was a child. :)
I remember my parents telling me we didn’t own the phone (pictured) in their bedroom. Turns out it was rented from AT&T. Young me was shocked at the notion. “But it’s in our house!”
At some point we upgraded to a push button version, of our own. Don’t think AT&T wanted the old one back. Got one out of the trash, sitting here now, wife wants me to toss it. “No! That and mom’s cursive typewriter stay!”
The opening weeks of Star Wars, fans lined up around the block, many seeing it again and again and again. Some had seen it dozens of times. I was shocked.
Sister took me when I was 6. All I remember was eating lunch in the breakfast room, parents asking, “WELL? How was it?!” “OK I guess.” LOL, was not impressed in the moment, turned into a fairly rabid fan for a couple of decades.
NYC blackout was a couple of months later. Not that I had a clue what was happening, but it was all over the news. My Silent Gen parents shielded me from their racism best they could, but I remember mom commenting on the rioting, “Oh, those BUH-LACKS!”
Having a hard time with this question, but yeah, that’s an early memory. I just thought it was exciting that a volcano blew up in America! Had no concept of the devastation, but I do remember ash raining down hundreds of miles away. Was bummed we didn’t get any in Tulsa. :)
I’m not mad, just saying that other people think much of this is silly at best. You just have to frame me as angry to have any sort of rebuttal.
And no, not a soul has asked me to call them any pronoun. I go with what seems to make sense and would be happy to be corrected. But I would still refuse the bullshit pronouns in the pic I posted.
How would you say “ey/em” can go fuck themselves?
Only young people think middle age is old. I figure I’ve got another 20 until I really start falling apart.
Yes! Treat them as ignorant, not stupid. Asked my ex-wife why kids like me when I’m don’t like them so much. “You talk to them like real people. They get that.”
The hell are you on about?! I’m merely stating that little imitation was nothing to get up in arms about. Did you actually watch the video? I had expected something utterly heinous.
FFS, the prime minister of Japan chased Trump around a palace today, corralling him like a toddler. Then he ranted to our seamen about fucking magnets. I can hardly be upset that he quoted Modi in his actual accent.
I’ve been banned 100 times for speaking, uh, loudly about this administration. Go check my posts if you think I’m MAGA.
Not a thing the President of the United States should be doing, but that was nothing, at all. He imitated the man, for a single phrase, nothing outlandish. I do that all the time telling stories of personal interactions.
Anyway, we’ll both be banned from lemmy for “inciting racism” or some such. 🤷🏻
Thought about doing monthly fees with my old tech repair company. Got a great job and gave it up. Lost said job, maybe I should get back in.
That’s thinking too big, too fast.
Don’t over-complicate it. Just start.
You don’t need loads of capital to get rolling. There’s a kid and his sister that walk the neighborhood knocking doors and mowing lawns. They seem to be doing well and the boy is especially persistent. Too broke, but I paid him one time just because I was impressed with his gumption.
My wife makes a couple of hundred a week picking up crap on the side of the road and shopping FB Marketplace. Sells it at the flea market most Sundays. She hardly works at that at all.
I was hard up in the 90s, couldn’t land a job, refused to work in food again. Had a newspaper route so I posted flyers in the trailer parks I visited. “Yard mowed $10” Got loads of responses.
All I had was an old passenger car and a borrowed lawn mower. Didn’t even have a phone number, had to give them mom’s and check in on payphones. First day a lady asked if I could edge. Mom: “You don’t have an edger.” “Tell her I can do it, I’ll have one after I get paid on this job.”
Got tons of referrals after I started rolling. Could have turned it into a serious business if I hadn’t been whiskey drunk that whole decade.
My wife’s ex-husband is the biggest lumber customer at the local Lowe’s. He started a fence company a couple of years ago, doing the work himself and her helping, at 71. He’s quite well off now.
Wife wants to start a child care in the Philippines. She’s got a bachelor’s in early childhood education and was already successful the first time around. We’re talking about running it from America. She thinks a couple of thousand will easily get it off the ground.
Point being, there’s so much opportunity out there.
Don’t over-complicate it. Just start.
First off, a kid doesn’t become gay. They are or they aren’t, maybe in between. (I know you know this.) I was in the single digits when I got chubbies from Wonder Woman comics, especially where she’s tied up (😮). I knew where I stood. Nothing has changed in the last 5 decades.
Yes, I would be worried if I thought my son was gay (he isn’t). The extra hassle, the ass beatings, fewer partners to choose from, the bigotry, yikes, thankful he won’t live that hell. It’s got way better since I was a kid in the 70s/80s, but we got miles to go.
I am worried he’ll become an abuser/harasser. He’s only 10, and I only get him a few times a year, but talking to him about such things when he starts puberty is top of mind. He’s an angry little fucker, thinks I screwed him and his sister over. (Long story, mom lies unabashedly.)
I am worried that this post comes off “if not gay = harasser”. I know you don’t mean it like that! But this is the sort of thing young cis men feel attacked over. Can you see a 14-yo cis kid reading this and thinking, “Well fuck me. I’m straight so they’re saying I’m evil.” And off to the alt-right pipeline they go for validation.
Hard to talk about dancing around young cis men’s feelings when they have all the privilege in the world. Been there, done that, got the privilege. But we must be cautious not to turn them against us, include them.
Am drunk. Any of that make sense?