I heard an incredibly talented teen belt this out this, accompanied by her dad on guitar, after her older brother gave a masterful irish drum performance. Really top notch performance, but there are some… awkward lines to hear in that context.

PMOS (now) is one of those conditions where after you’re close with someone who’s open about having it, once you learn about it and get a sense of it’s contours, you can’t help but wonder how many people in your life have been affected by it. Like learning about adhd for the first time.

Quit using fb years back, maybe five? Have checked it twice to message people i’ve no other contacts for.

I’ve used reddit maybe a half dozen times since moving to fediverse during the 3rd party app exodus. Each time to find a specific niche thing, often to no avail.

So i’d say honestly no, but i never like social media much to begin with.

It looks to me less like plebs reducing each other’s numbers and more like the rich playing their favourite game.

duck://player/L8zhNb8ANe8 (Blegh don’t wanna link to YT, can’t be bothered fixing the link. Killing the Poor by Dead Kennedies)

US elites view it the same way, that’s why they’re all looting the place and developing closer relationships with the US empire’s rivals.

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I don’t think you can say that no rites of passage means not becoming an adult. Rituals smooth or explain transitions, they’re not a requirement for the transition to happen.

And besides their are plenty of rites of passage into adulthood in the US - first car is huge, moving out of home, first job, etc.

I worked at big CA-based drug company, granted it was largely a phone-room but it was still a fairly serious job, with serious pay.

Most staff came up from CA and loved disney so hard. Disney movies were a topic at meetings, they expected everyone would know the characters, used disney references in presentations, characters as test patients, etc. Managers too.

Finding others who hated disney was like finding stoners at work before it was legal - all euphamisms and inuendo until you work out who to trust: “No i don’t really have a favourite character”, “I’m not familiar with that”, “No, I ugh… haven’t seen… i’m not super into… Oh thank god, yes, of course i fucking hate disney, who could possibly like the least interesting version of a fairytale marketed by a billion dollar empire founded by a nazi and evil enough to copyright happy birthday?!”

THERE IS ANOTHER ELECTION BEFORE THAT.

It’s two years away. It’s not even the next election! And this is all presuming that there even is another election, which is far from given.

There is absolutely nothing you can say about a hypothetic 2028 election in 2026.

It doesn’t work like that, i’ve already been allowed to attend at serious medical events without her being able to say so.

Neurologically.

There are some great studies using brain scans that show when you give people extra privileges, even in limited contexts like games, the empathy centers of the brain are supressed and show weaker activity.

Higher status individuals regularly fail to read emotions as well as lower status people do. Brain scans also show that power makes your resource reward centers more active and makes you less able to regulate these kind of impulses.

Power makes humans cruel, selfish, greedy and impulsive. It’s how human brains work. Heirarchy and justice are mutually exclusive.

This is objectively correct. We are social mammals and everything we do is steeped in politics. We live in a social world and we navigate power, privilege, wealth and ideologies in everything we do - politics.

Believing you can go politics free just marks you as either naive or callous.

At least this is in a shitposting forum, the correct venue for such an idea.

Almost word for word what i was going to say.

I’m in a committed, 9year relationship, we’re in our 40s and married in all but name.

The state can fuck right off.

We know what we have and no piece of paper steeped in millenia of patriarchal property ownership could ever affect or authorize that.

All nation-states are vermin.

Can’t wait!!

🤤🤤🤤 I just ate dinner and this is making me hungry again 😂

I’d love to go back, i really want to visit like a million historical sites and food places. I’ve heard such good things about Hunan food. I always make sure to say “要大辣” when i order chinese here in the US, hoping they will make it proper spicy.

好啊！Where in China are you from?

I studied for a semester in 云南. 好想吃米线啊！

I miss so much food from China. Stumbling home drunk and getting fried rice cooked over one of those intense burners that sound like a jet engine. All the 烧烤 was incredible. And in 云南 the 傣菜 was always so special. 🤤

Because the fediverse is small, niche communities tend to have little content and it’s quite likely that most popular content will end up in your feed. I found it was helpful to subscribe to communities after i saw a post i liked from that community.

Welcome, hope you like it!

Lol sure 😂😂😂 and bean farts have nothing do with beans.

Dems had a supermajority. They enjoyed widespread public support. Sarah palin made the loony right look pathetic. Obama was never afraid to overuse executive orders either - dems had a lot of levers to pull and a lot of leverage to pull them.

If they’d investigated the rampant illegality, that would’ve been very hard for a post-loss republican party engaged in in-fighting to defend against. A new generation of republican hopefuls would’ve been tempted to get air time by twisting the knife in the old losers.

Remember the hype around the special master under biden? Imagine that, aided by obama’s charisma, with a super majority and before republicans completely corrupted the supreme court. They had a mandate and a lot of power.