I knew someone whose family lived in a suburb/rural area north of Albany. The neighbors flew a Confederate flag.

I feel like the evangelicals have a “boy who cried wolf” problem, there. They’ve been saying everything from magic cards to pokemon to electric guitar is satanic, that no one outside of their bubble takes them that seriously. Honestly, if an evangelical told me something about the world I’d probably want to check with a more reputable source.

Satire is dead. I can’t tell if the original is being ironic or sincere

I read an article a long while ago about a group of people who were sexually attracted to children, and didn’t want to be. It was really sad. But a key thing was they weren’t abusing anyone and didn’t want to. I don’t think those people deserve to be crucified. It’s better if they can reach out for help. I think right now if someone admitted what their involuntary response was, they’d be lumped in with the worst sorts of abusers.

Who would vote for musk? I thought conservatives hated him because he said mean things about trump. Most everyone else hates him for a variety of reasons (is a billionaire, is a nazi, whatever the fuck doge was). Does he still have fans? That vote? In the US?

I’ve been unemployed and realized too late the campaign was paying canvassers $30/hr (per the job posting). I would have done that!

Now I’m just refreshing his jobs page hoping for something new. I’m tired of tech work anyway.

I’ve been in the supermarket business for 54 years,” Catsimatidis said

Fucking retire already.

Is that a leather jacket with a hood, or a jacket on top of a thin hoodie?

That’s likely true for some people, or falsely believed to be true, but that doesn’t justify the immense costs of going into an office for most people. Two hours a day, unpaid, just gone. Environmental damage from all the transit. Wasted energy from the bullshit most offices do- TVs on no one watches, AC keeping empty rooms at 62f, etc. Increased exposure for diseases. All the lost productivity from people who don’t work better in an office.

Maybe you could get a local coworking space? My old boss did that because he found it hard to focus in his home with the dog and kid.

A recruiter today told me that almost all of her clients are onsite, some of them six days a week. And the employees like it, she said, because they’re mostly young and miss socializing after COVID.

I think I responded with something like “capitalist hell scape” and the call ended shortly after.

I think even in star trek they don’t just track people. All those episodes where someone sneaks off or gets kidnapped wouldn’t work if their badge was an always-on tracking device

This feels like a setup for a comic like

Villain: casts this spell. “You fools! You’re now too gay to defeat me! Cower before my mighty hetero–”

Gay fighter stabs villain

Double gay ranger shoots him with an arrow.

Pause for a beat

Party: “So pride is this weekend you want to go to the beach?”

Like, the spell had no impact on their combat prowess and the bigot thought it would.

Man, I’d love to play more WoD. One time I got a game going and it was a lot of fun. The other times I’ve tried, there was always at least one player who didn’t read the books or pay attention to the explanations, and dragged the game down with “wait, who are they? Why are they doing that? What do I roll?”

Not everyone needs to be an expert on all the minutia, but sometimes it’s just a mood killer to have to keep explaining the basics.

Not exclusively

Slight tangent but I feel like it is, or should be, illegal for trump to use truth social while president? Like, that’s his private entity that he’s personally profiting from by making announcements like this on it.

Oh. What I meant is when ENM shows up in media, it usually feels like it was written by people who don’t know it very well. Like when hacking shows up in in movies. If you don’t know anything about computers, it probably looks plausible. But if you do, you’re probably going to be sitting there like “that’s not how that works” or whatever.

Like, throuples are really rare in my experience. Two couples dating each other is also really rare. But they show up in media. The more common configuration of “A is dating B and C. B is also dating D. They’re all friendly, and everyone takes their relationships seriously, but don’t hang out much all together” doesn’t show up often.

“Casual hook up with no strings” is one way to do ENM. it’s valid if all parties buy in. But it’s not the only way to do it. Many people have multiple relationships that run in parallel, but aren’t casual. Or “kitchen table” poly where everyone knows everyone, but only to the degree that you know your friends’ good friends. There’s hierarchical and not. There’s other options.

I can only think of a handful of media that had polyamory. Only one that did an interesting, believable, take on metamor relationships.

Writing this on my phone so it’s a little disorganized, but hopefully made sense.

I don’t think I understand your message. What am I invalidating?

“Casual hookup with no strings” is a pretty narrow slice of ethical non monogsmy’s options.

It would be cool to have the show show ENM in a positive, accurate, light. Most people think it’s just like all shallow, or very hierarchical, but it doesn’t have to be.

You’re being weirdly aggressive, but okay.

Most people know the symbols for addition subtraction multiplication and division. Far fewer people know the established order of operations. That’s what powers those “only 3% of people solve this problem correctly!” math memes.

But okay. Communicate badly (ie: by failing to acknowledge your audience’s context) and be smug if you want.