and in turn people call them tankies,

It’s hard not to when their first message is a dismissive “another fucking lib 🙄”. You try to be civil but every comment after that is along those lines. It only sounds fair when you don’t consider the rest of the context.

Fair enough. I wish I had saved the thread that time I got piled on by 40 Hexbear and .ml users acting like children when they misunderstood my point about communism. It would’ve been a great example of their pretentious and shallow meme culture.

I love amberlamps

Questioning your mainstream/western/capitalist beliefs and arguing about it

I wish that’s what they actually did. Instead we get 12 year-old Twitch chatters pretending to be wiser than thou punching down

I have yet to see any egregious behavior

Lucky you!

I usually do headshots, but the majority are eyeshots. And when I use my shotgun there isn’t much left from the torso up…

Enjoying the menial tasks. I enjoy sweeping because of it, it’s very meditative. My grandfather used to love it and I see why now.

They need sanctions proportional to their wealth. And checks and balances. The less they can play the system, the better.

I don’t, but I’ve suspected that’s what I’m supposed to do if I ever do it. Lol

Yeah, although some languages can be used for practically anything, including JS. Some people program microchips with it. Lol

Some people can’t turn off their inner monologue?

Apparently not. I struggled with that as a kid and I remember having some sleepless nights when my head would be yapping nonstop. Then one day I learned to stop it.

But I mostly remember this in threads where people on either side of the inner monologue vs no inner monologue discussions discover the opposite exists. And so I’m like, what, you guys can’t just turn it on or off? I’ve concluded that we must be in the third group looking on, who can do either at will.

I can turn off my inner monologue at will. Complete silence but it limits the complexity of my thoughts.

Nice! I made an almost full recreation of Settlers of Catan in 3D complete with multiplayer. But it now sits somewhere on my hard drive due to copyright and platform concerns (I set it aside during the Unity scare). It almost landed me a shitty, low-paying job so there’s that.

And then proceed to stare them down.

And Read Outlout! So handy for all these news stories on Lemmy.

Whoa, I wonder how you worded that. Was it a straight up no? Lol

I’d go back to fuck at a Roman bath house in ancient times. Fuck it, no regrets.

Just finished The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. Her imagery is beautiful and you can feel her talent. It’s a an autobiographical roman à clef of her struggling with bipolar disorder/depression. And the only book she wore before taking her life when the love of her life left her for another woman.

Whoa! Interesting. Thank you for following through with the story. I saw your message below. Totally worth it. The book I’m currently reading mentions the Red Scare quite a bit, so reading this is even more spooky considering today’s political climate.

It wouldn’t have changed my stance. A follow-up message would’ve pressured me to let them down easy seeing they were still interested, but their silence felt indifferent.

Yes, usually, but I’m more frequently using the Read Aloud extension. It’s the least effort that gets me there.