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They are explicitly complaining that there are several users posting content they don’t enjoy.

Don’t you know the entire fediverse is supposed to be cultivated to PatFussy’s personal taste?

Now we called them demotivationals because they were made in reaction to motivationals, which were all the rage in Shelbyville. And one demotivational was worth ten motivationals. ‘Gimme one for the ten,’ you’d say, and you would post your motivationals so the wizards of memes could photoshop them, or you might say “shop.” Which was the style at the time.

You could always tell a shop from some of the pixels, or from seeing quite a few shops in your time. Whichever was easier.

(I put way more effort into this than it called for.)

I’m white. I have blue eyes. And when I was young, my hair was red. I was working retail, and this old lady said “Merry Christmas.”

Me: “Happy Holidays!”

Her: “It’s Merry Christmas. I know your boss doesn’t like it, but you should say it to me. So Merry Christmas.”

Me: “Are you Christian?”

Her: “Yes.”

Me: “Well, I’m not. So Happy Holidays.”

She got so stunned, like I’d slapped her. I was quite ready to get called in for being some kind of way with a customer but I guess she was too afraid of dealing with a heathen. Still, if you’ve ever worked retail, you’d know why this felt like a victory.

The thing about this is, you’re saying you have a small dick, but this is big dick energy for real.

Maybe someone needs to come up with a better name for it because it’s a very real phenomenon and most of us know exactly what it’s referring to.

I promise that I’m not but I appreciate it anyway. ❤️

For others, this comment is “Hai,” or “yes” in Japanese.

Boundaries are good and healthy.

“Stay mad”
“Lives rent free”
“no u”

I miss when trolling was a art.

I appreciate your answer! I would like to offer a counterpoint; at what point does a person become responsible for their own ignorance? And how often is ignorance, whether intentional or otherwise, the direct cause of malice, or malicious behavior?

In the slim chance a person here sees what they said, and does not know that Amazon is “evil,” merely saying not to work with an evil corporation is not educational, and therefore serves no purpose.

Since there was no effort to education, we can assume within a reasonable amount of doubt that they are speaking to those who are already educated. And if that’s the case, then all they offer to the conversation is, at it’s heart, self-satisfaction. Anyone aware that Amazon is evil who chooses to continue to use their services has either come to the conclusion that they have no choice, or simply doesn’t care.

They add nothing to the conversation, and in fact, might reduce engagement with the premise (use this affiliate link to reduce the harm of doing business with Amazon).

I agree with your statement, that we should treat all actions with reasonable doubt. Offer that before assuming malicious intent. Which is absolutely true! I don’t believe the commenter intentionally thought, “I’m going to shut down this conversation while also virtue signalling.” But the effect is the same for the purpose of conversation. It adds nothing of value and may even discourage discourse. It is equally as useless, to me, as pretending to champion a cause from a screen, patting themself on the back for their wise ways, and doing nothing. It provides the illusion of helping, while adding nothing. And that’s a dangerous thing.

I would correct my statement in the presence of anything at all to “add” to the discourse. Explaining why using Amazon would be unwise if it can be avoided. They did not make that effort. I stand by my previous comment. But I want to thank you for taking the time to engage me, and I really hope you continue to try showing other people the value of giving people the benefit of the doubt! It’s so important, and does so much kindness in society.

Oh it would.

I feel better being more fit because a lot of my interests (and my job) are very physical, and being as large as I am now makes doing the things I enjoy doing more difficult.

Not everyone has those interests or that type of work, and that’s okay, too. We all have value.

I hope we all find a shelter from these pigs on the wing!

I’m glad someone said this here. It feels vile, being forced to do business with these corporations, but I end up getting bulk couscous (which has been scarce even in single bags or boxes in my rural, deep south community) for my autistic stepson who has very specific dietary needs. I can get very specialized disability equipment there, and it’s delivered in two days (which is already two days longer than we can afford to wait, sometimes, but we make do.)

Yes, obviously, be ethical everywhere you can, as often as you can, but a blanket “dOnT dO bUsInEsS wItH eViL” is useless, whereas minimizing harm like with tips for links like this one is very helpful.

It’s so insanely privileged. Reminds me of the same keyboard warriors who like to “raise awareness” by pouring ice water on themselves and then doing nothing else, feeling smug they did “something” when their only involvement with our causes is posting smug one-liners on the internet, or, of they’re feeling particularly “helpful,” changing their profile picture to reflect someone else’s cause.

Back in the dark times when I was an admin for a very popular website, some very hateful nazis were sharing images of a dead Jewish child and laughing and claimed to be literally jerking off to the image. They claimed she was 9.

So yknow. Not in a hurry to see pics. Just want a trusted source to verify that they exist.

This is intentional.

I explained to my cat before his surgery that if he didn’t stay a little boy forever, his instincts would drive him to leave home and the life of constant play and treats and being allowed to sleep under the covers with me at night, and he would murder and pillage every creature in the neighborhood and would be an ecological disaster instead of my cute fuzzy boy.

I took his purrs and headbonks as consent. Years later he still seems happy with his lot.

I didn’t get to the boss. When the game started giving me debuffs for talking to these women (which is like, half the point of the game) I noped out. How am I supposed to answer their questions for maximum points to prove I like them if talking to them makes the game more difficult? Look up a walkthrough? If I wanted to look up gameplay somebody else did, I may as well watch someone else play it, and if I’m doing that then why bother playing at all?

Fuck that. Bring back the ridiculous “Hey, just curious, what did I tell you my cup size was four days ago?” quizzing! That’s such a hallmark of these games! Getting to know her isn’t supposed to make it more difficult to get in her pants!

I think the writer of the game didn’t realize that a lot of the players were women, too, because some of those debuffs were fucking idiotic. The porn star gets a “Busted Vag” debuff? What kind of unrealistic incel garbage is that? That is not how women work.

That one wasn’t what made me quit playing but it’s the one I remember most. If I was going to punish the player for talking to a girl (big NO on that) I would at least choose better debuffs (you have the same name as my dead father, xXPussySlayerXx, so I get sad when I say your name - boom! Don’t Say My Name debuff).

And also I get to meet people who love a challenge and make me something new to enjoy like stuffed squash blossoms which are just… so yummy.

I’d ask which one meets my dietary requirements and then never be offered any goop again.

Which sounds sad but I’m the only one who bakes and makes sweets so I’m delighted when this happens. And much more delighted than when I eat something and spend 12 hours firing from both ends.

The eyebrow ring is a fantastic touch.

I will not see tvtropes.org! I have an appointment tomorrow afternoon!