No one who works for ICE should be sleeping soundly at night.
Cool. Maybe they can have life in exile instead of the firing squad the rest of the republican party deserves.
The dating app replaces only the “asking someone out” step, not the actual date itself.
I want to nitpick on this, because I'm told a lot of people use these apps, match, and then never actually ask the other person out. They then are sometimes puzzled why they're not going on dates.
The only thing online dating changes is that people don’t need to take a rejection straight to their face and get embarrassed into never trying again.
It also helps filter out "oh, she doesn't date men", "wow, he's anti-vax", "he doesn't want kids, ever, and i do" kind of stuff. At least, when the app is working and not fully enshittified. That stuff is valuable.
Sorry for the nitpicks. Good post though, thanks.
Every day I hope that someone will shoot everyone working at DOGE, and all the republicans, but people tell me peaceful revolution is actually more effective long term. I don't know if we really have a long term to work with, but that's what I'm told.
I mean, you could make that kind of slippery slope argument about anything. If you let congress pass laws, they might pass any sort of crazy law. If you let your friend grab a drink from your fridge, he might grab anything from your fridge!
We shouldn't be treating this like we're asking for wishes from a malicious genie.
It can be both. The bottom pane is more important, but I think a lot of right wingers have some real animosity in their hearts.
I dated someone for a couple months who was really into cycling. Like, she'd ride from NYC up to Storm King (~75 miles) for funsies. She had the body of a greek god. (Was also super smart and pursuing an interesting career. I'm still sad she dumped me, but she was reasonably kind about it.)
Yeah the tutorial fight isn't a "you should win easy-peasy" like some games. But it's also not like Genichiro in Sekiro where you're supposed to lose. I wonder if GGG published a breakdown of deaths to the boss. I think I cleared him four times on four characters and never died to him, but I also play a lot of this kind of game. (Unlike Musk, who is a fraud)
That's what you get for walking around with 300,000 souls unspent! (meant as a joke, because in text you might read this with actual hostility lol)
Every republican megadonor should be shot.
Should've Luigi'd the boss.
Words aren't likely going to change minds anymore.
The main thing that changes people mind is in-group stuff. Facts don't usually convince people. But seeing you as someone who's relatable , in their "tribe", that opens doors.
If you shut someone out of your life completely, those doors shut. But if you can keep the "hey we're both red Sox fans" or "I see you every week at the running group" relationship warm, you'll have a better shot. They're not going to listen to some "lib", but their buddy from poker night? He made some good points.
Look at all those times people are like "I hated gay stuff until my son came out." Yeah, it's easy to point and mock how shitty their baseline empathy is, but it's also noteworthy that they did change, and changed because someone they saw as in-group was there.
Of course, some people value their political or religious group more than family, and disown children rather than changing. People are weird. If they're getting a constant stream of shit world view reinforcement from all their other friends, their feeds, and so on, it's an even harder challenge.
Anyway, I guess I mostly agree with you.
It's just exhausting and hard work most of the time.