Rant

I was checking out some groceries today, and the person next to me was clearly doing something the machine didn’t like.

For the record, @Lalla@slrpnk.net entered my thread to spout some finger-wagging threadcrap:

Why is it that when it comes to bathrooms and sports, transphobes seem to think that transgender women are indistinguishable from cisgender men, they think a transgender woman is just a man claiming to be a woman while physically male, completely ignoring transgender women who have physically changed through hormones and/or surgery, making the situation very much not black and white, they see no nuance whatsoever, they believe transgender women are physically indistinguishable from men

I feel like the online ridicule and bullying has gone on long enough. If you wanna pick a bone with the guy on his values and sensibilities, that seems perfectly fine. But let’s leave the kink and fetish shaming out of it.

I don’t think the guy should be ridiculed or kink-shamed for his fetish, which at a surface level seems fairly non-harmful. I think he should be ridiculed and shamed for standing by Kristi Noem.

I love herbsluftwm. I’ve used it for years and years, with zero complaint. I wanted to try wayland and after digging around, I heard sway was gonna give me the closest experience. It does not. I find the hotkeys, frame controls, and decorations to be rudimentary in comparison. There have compounded enough deal breakers in the last 2-3 months of use, that I’m thinking about going back x11 so I can be reunited with my beloved hlwm.

I’m not going to advocate for crypto, more out of ignorance, but maybe it’s possible to make a coin that’s worth 0 USD but can be exchanged like USD.

They’re just so corpo, it’s so soulless and i hate it. Square pfp with a golden check said “Trains.” oh, haha so funny and relatable !!

I can’t stop thinking about how the dog was militarized. It looked like a working breed, but I doubt he was bred to commit war crimes.

I’ve seen a lot of, girls and women specifically online, claim they’re “soft-hearted” or “cute and kind” but be extremely racist, anti-even documented immigration, say that other cultures don’t deserve a home, and call trans people “not people”. And more.

there’s a pandemic of idiots doing the “I personally” thing. every fucking post and comment, some mouthbreather wants to sound distinguished and whatnot by inflating their wordcount with nothingness. what’s the fucking opposite of this, “I unpersonally”, what?

Nothing bad happens in the post.

I’m not American but Canada is heavily influenced by American culture. To the point many Canadians think the Untied States constitution applies here.

I feel like there’s only a few flavors of different types of people out there. I’m losing it over the constant crooked septum piercings, shaved sides dyed blue, pagan witches, burners, and I swear no one read Octavia Butler until that meme went around last year and suddenly everyone’s favorite book is Parable of the Sower.

I’m perma-banned on Reddit for accidental ban evasion (I don’t really want to get into it), so I came here as an alternative. But there isnt NEARLY as many communities or members as there are on reddit. But I cant go back there cus they perma banned me, that was 2 years ago when they first banned me.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/63574609

I know the answer is they’re fucking racists, but for the sake of ranting I’ll pretend to look for a better reason.

Weird one, but there’s always that feeling that it’s my mistake. It’s just too suspicious.

Our rulers need to make sure that if we’re trying to fight them, we’re making them richer as we do it. Anything else is unacceptable.

It isn’t just Trump supporters. I’ve been having arguments with a friend who is most definitely NOT a Trump supporter. We’re both Canadian and she has been obsessively talking about how people are foolish for thinking Trump can invade Canada or Greenland. Her obsession makes me think she’s secretly scared too. Methinks she doth protest too much. I get that it’s scary but it isn’t going to stop being real if you deny it. Trump invading other countries is a very real possibility and various governments are taking it seriously, including Canada. Our government knows it’s a real possibility, stop being deluded and saying it isn’t. If he doesn’t attack, I think it’ll be because the international community put their foot down. I certainly see no reason to think the Untied States congress will stop him.

Context: I am not in danger, I am doing okay for the situation, I will be fine. No worrying needed on that part. I am actively seeking mental health support, I will be okay.

Once every year or two I’ll have a vivid dream where I fall in love with a completely fictional dream character. It usually involves some sort of loss of them at the end, whether by dream or waking. And it fucks me up for like, days.

i cant get them out of my head hfjfjghg my brain and body are mean to me :(

I mean, I’m glad they refrain from drunk driving, but they’re doing right for the wrong reasons.

I had this idea about process food companies pushed me to eat unprocessed foods because it’s cheaper.

I remember going through the adhd med regime & having depressive episodes, low appetite & lack of interest in anything. I don’t want my kid to go through that. They are having behavioral issues though, & something needs to change. I often feel like I’m failing them, even though my spouse & I are taking all the steps & communicating with their physician & teachers regularly.

The Untied States is literally becoming like nazi Germany and I don’t know if people understand that I’m not exaggerating. I legitimately can’t tell if people realize that America is now a fascist dictatorship, likely to soon go full on nazi Germany and make it explicitly illegal to be part of certain minority groups, at which point it may be too late for people to leave. I don’t know if people around me understand that that’s not an exaggeration.

As a leftist I have been arguing with anyone on the right to some unhealthy degree. Seems like either the platforms I do use are just shrinking or the right side of the political spectrum aren’t married to anything and pretty dispassionate now. I can attach trump but they aren’t going to defend trump.

I don’t know if it’s because of the new iPhone update or what but it’s obnoxiously bad now. The predictive text is always wrong and it types out whole sentences when I’m not looking and I look up and it’s nowhere near what I was going to say. It corrects words that are spelt correctly into words that are grammatically incorrect or actively misspelt and it’s absolutely bonkers nuts. I feel like it was actually good like ten years ago maybe? And I don’t know if it’s enshittification, AI being used that’s hot garbage, or a bunch of programmers trying to justify their jobs by adding totally unnecessary updates untill it all crumbles into a gigantic pile of shit, but I’m losing my shit about it man. I switched to gboard but that’s also annoying me, but that could just be a learning curve with the slight differences. It hasn’t actively misspelt anything for me yet or tried to insert an entire sentence I didn’t want in there so that’s good.

Fuck this optimism. We need realism. And I don’t mean pessimism, I mean realism. Pessimism is assuming nothing will change for the better. Optimism is assuming troubles will pass without you having to do anything. Realism is adjusting the sails.

what in the ever living hell is with a garbage quality of corded sub $5 headphones. why must they all have those stupid trash silicone tips that fall off and don’t fit. why in the ever living fuck is there ZERO bass… 10 year old FREE headphones were literally better in all regards. makes absolutely no sense. it’s actually hurting my brain listening to these prices of shit

There is no such thing as competition. As soon as a business does something that sets it apart, it’s immediately hounded by business school people who want to profit off of lowering standards and raising prices.

I often see people say that the majority of America is against Trump. How did he come to be democratically elected if the majority are against him? I know technically he didn’t get the majority of votes, he got just under 50%, but if all the non-voters cared enough, they could have stopped him from becoming president. I know Kamala Harris wasn’t the best choice either; I know it sucks that there are only two viable options in an election, but that’s the way it is. You have to make the best of a bad situation and participate in the election to prevent the fascist takeover.

I used to enroll in a school where every week, you’ll see students being whipped either by teachers, discipline masters or the administration. I tried myself to avoid being in trouble and not get beaten but that failed as I got beaten every year in the school for any small mistake I made. I remember the time I got 10 hard strokes on my palms because I assisted in cheating in an exam. Imagine those red throbbing hands and you’re still trying to complete an exam. That’s why I decided not to help people in exams. If you enrolled in that school and you didn’t get beaten, congrats, you’re an anomaly. This is cuz every student during the whole duration of the school year get beaten at least once. And I’m saying this cuz my class was collectively punished by cane. Sometimes when there’s noise in my class, a teacher or discipline master just decides to beat the whole class including the students that didn’t make noise and I was beaten too.

I put a lot of work into writing up decent documentation and SOPs and making them available. Does anyone read them? Pfft, not if my work chat history is any indication. Constantly getting pinged for basic-ass questions I’ve already answered thoroughly when I wrote up the docs and SOPs.

Doesn’t matter what you make, how interesting it is, what its uses are. What society collectively hyper-focuses on is its impact on the stock exchange.

*Note to the haters: if you threaten me like you apparently threatened the poster of the other thread complaining about cm0002’s multiple accounts which caused them to delete their post and their account and leave Lemmy, I will report you and repost screenshots of your threats publicly. If you act too egregiously, I will report you to law enforcement and/or my lawyer. I have legal insurance and am willing to use it.* *Be civil and let us have a civilized discussion.*

Why are all robot vacuums the same? They all have these tall as fuck charging stands.

The News wants people to care so bad. Reminder Epstein was declared deceased in 2019, think about that. It’s about to be 7 years and these people won’t stfu about it. We all know the government traffics humans, adults and underaged. This is no new knowledge to the American public. The government doesn’t get in trouble and that’s it. Americans instead fight somehow about even that while the government lies even more about the topic at large. Biden for 4 years did nothing about the files. Trump is now pretending they don’t exist. It’s a cartoon comedy show and you are the punchline.

Pick a fucking lane!

Online left-wing infighting seems to me to be about applying labels to people because they argue or have argued one thing on a particular topic, and then use it to discredit an unrelated argument topic or paint their overall character. I know there are pot-stirring trolls and compulsive contrarians, but I do witness users I personally judge to have genuine convictions do this amongst each other.

Originally, meme was defined as the counterpart of the gene. From Wikipedia: “In the popular science book The Selfish Gene, published in 1976, the English term meme was coined by Richard Dawkins to describe the dissemination of cultural information, but in the course of the digital revolution it was used to describe a specific type of internet phenomenon.” Thus, today a meme is a photo of Kim Kardesian’s fat ar$e with a stupid text, not a philosophical concept. This inflation of an important idea is symptomatic for the degeneration of humanity.

It’s literally just someone else’s computer! I find so many people believing it’s some sort of ethereal space where data is arranged neatly by advanced druid magic or some shit – solely because it’s called “The cloud”

Any good blocklist will include rules that filter out the complete cancer that is imgur. I can’t see your memes. Use something else, or just upload them to your instance.

I feel like it should be a part of internet etiquette to not start your forum posts with a general question only to clarify in the text post it’s about something specific. Like at that point if you want to use a general question as the title you could start a comment thread with your specific situation. I know it would end up with people commenting outside your comment thread with your specific situation in mind but in a better world the OP’s problems will get solved and other people with the same general question but specific situation could get help as well in another comment thread.

It wants to seem smart, so it gives lengthy replies even when it doesn’t know what it’s talking about.

If you have a video that autoplays at the top of your article, and I have to scroll past it to read the article, I don’t want it to pop out and scroll down along with me. It blocks the top third of the screen. Who even thinks of that? Why would a person in charge of making decisions say “Oh, yeah, neat. I like the way that works, let’s not change anything.” I don’t want any videos to autoplay at all ever for any reason. If I scroll past it, it should autostop.

That's it. I'd never say don't shitpost, but confine it to the appropriate channels. Or at the very least shoot your shot better.

After my bicycle was stolen, the police could not be bothered to look at video surveillance recordings around the scene of the crime. Yet surveillance remains a form of oppression against everyone as police fixate on victimless crimes (drugs, undocumented people, traffic violations, etc).

The argument people are using is that Snape shouldn't be black because Harry will be racist for suspecting him of a crime.

Look man, I don't know your story, and I don't assume to. I'm perfectly aware no one owes me a explanation. That's why I'm asking. I'm fine with you not explaining. Be miserable somewhere else. My question is not for you.

The very idea that a bunch of rag tag untrained gun toters would stand up to a disciplined and hardened fighting force is ridiculous. The authors of the constitution fully intended for the rights of the people to form regulated militias with amrs shall not be infringed, not just any loonatic off the street.

Getting burnt by repair-hostile makers of washing machines who refuse to share documentation inspired this form letter (in LaTeX):

I noticed two communities where centralised concentration of power is antithetical to the purpose and topic of the community, despite side-bar promotion of the imperial Cloudflare empire: https://slrpnk.net/post/25302329 https://slrpnk.net/post/25302230

I've been seeing a bunch of video ads on Facebook of games that are similar to Tetris. I find them mesmerizing and oddly satisfying to watch. But when I tried downloading a few of these games, they are nothing like what was shown in the ad.

There’s a search engine called Kagi and I’ve noticed Lemmy users trying to verbify it by using ‘kagis’ like people use ‘googles’ to mean they used a search engine to try to find some information.

There. I said it. 68 years old and that's it. That's all I got.

For the third time since I've lived here in a moderately sized city in the UK, I've seen a black male argue with white trash. I don't know why or how they keep managing to find these "people" and end up arguing with them, and I'd be remiss if I wasn't aware that the pale ones are likely to have found him and started it. The first was a friend of my neighbour and after their heated debate he just swore "Ni**s!" (I abhor censorship but in this particular case I'll let it slide, lest this entire rant be censored). Knowing how systemic oppression of the ethnic majority is ignored or censored, and I see nobody standing up for the victim, that sent me into a fury. Well, today was the third event with the same dark-skinned dude. He had just stopped following this heavily tanned piece of trash that was spewing weird shit. ""Not like us", no, we're nothing like you!" ... "That's why we're going to Mars and you ain't!" My maggot in Christ none of us are, not even the trillionaires. What are you jacked up on.

Look, I know there's all kinds of drama going on, especially after the YouTube livestream etc, but this woman is so cool: - she's a helicopter pilot, and a really good one. Landing a helicopter on a boat? That's gotta be tricky stuff. - she speaks four languages. - CEO of a environmental ocean protection nonprofit.

A couple years ago, I decided to switch phone carriers. While looking at the plans, they offered various models of new phone for new members including an iPhone SE. Up until then, I've only owned the flagship Android phones that came "free" with other phone carries upgrade plans, so the fact that I could own an iPhone for around the same price was very enticing to me.

I know everybody is probably sick of hearing that the lotto is a tax on people who are bad at math, but it's far more deceptive than just a complicated expected value equation. Powerball and Mega Millions advertising the sum total of a thirty year annuity as the value of the jackpot is simply a lie. It is false. No, the Powerball is not $248 million dollars. That's literally not what the value of the jackpot is worth.