I’ve been learning a lot of things about him on Lemmy recently that seem to be confirming a suspicion I had when watching a star talk episode.

He had a guest that was just this tiny guy sitting close enough that Tyson was able to touch him, and boy did he do a lot of touching… Felt really odd and I always wondered if he was actually not so cool and yet another one of “those guys.”

Obviously this post isn’t all that bad, but definitely a strange thing to want to repeat so many times lol

THOSE MOTHER FUCKERS BOUGHT A RAINBOW!?

I’m impressed.

THC believe it or not, straight to panic attack.

It actually is a trigger. CBD on the other hand… That’s my godsend. It will squash my panic attacks almost always.

I used to be able to smoke “regular” weed as long as I made a blend of CBD and THC, but within the last month that’s gone now… Could be 90% CBD and a sprinkle of THC and I’ll still feel like I’m having a heart attack…

Anxiety sucks. :(

I’m going to go with “the like isn’t reciprocated.” Lol

Introducing Walz as a VP hopeful sounds like they’re describing a Palin-level government official, not someone who has been active in politics for years.

They did the same to Vance though. Isn’t he a Senator? They didn’t mention that, just that he’s somebody hoping to be Trump’s VP. They also provided what I would see as a positive point for Walz: a football coach. That could be taken as he has an interest in teaching others, possibly children, but they don’t specify there.

I’d have to agree, however much I know media is biased, that this one is fairly neutral.

Nintendo:

MOAR! MOAR! MOOOAAARRR! IT IS NEVER ENOUGH!

I have the luxury of renting someone else’s garage, living in the upper portion of it and paying their entire mortgage for them…

I was just coming to say that! I get the “best” of both worlds, Excel sheets to track production while I sit in this shitty factory and breathe God only knows what!

Bonus: I can’t even afford a home after it all! Yay America!

Die über toe!

Not exactly the same but I just went to Amazon to reorder my coffee as I’m getting low and for whatever absolutely bat shit insane reason they decided to double the price in just a handful of weeks… So fuck that. Now I have to find something else. :/

Unfortunately what I really think is happening/happened with “woke hate” is manipulation for political gain as you mentioned with propaganda.

These people couldn’t care less before, other than the religious zealots that would crusade against anything “gay.” The political right (I really believe this started in earnest in the US) found a pressure point to use that puts them in direct opposition to what their political adversary aims to achieve (acceptance of all people for who they are). As it stands in the US the right operates almost entirely based off of “whatever the left aims for, make it appear evil. Always oppose all that they do.” as opposed to having specific goals of their own other than “shower the wealthy with benefits, remove all barriers to retaining the entirety of profits.”

Steve Bannon recently aimed their manipulation at what he described as “rootless white men” through the lense of gaming and societys affect on games/movies. Ever since that started there’s been an “explosion” of “this game woke?” discussions in Steam discussion fourms and in regard to movies. Before this manipulation these people just wouldn’t care and if anything you’d just see the odd person here or there complain about 2 guys kissing in a specific scene or something. They are made to be even more angry now because they’re made to believe it’s an affront to them and an attempt to manipulate them and society… Which is “funny” because they are being manipulated, just not by gaming/movie media.

Fun fact: the circumference of the earth is 24,000 miles!

I used to work as a service technician so I’d also have to travel more than the circumference of the earth every year. I feel your pain lol

It’s not just that, it’s the AI bullshit they’re adding too that will absolutely have forced data scraping eventually since we’re “using their product.” They’ll have some bullshit excuse like “we don’t take your browsing data, just the data of any interaction with our AI product for training purposes.”

This is actually perfect in that enshittification is exactly like death: it comes for everyone or in the context of technology, everything.

There is no popular product or service that doesn’t eventually get the enshittification treatment to squeeze more blood from the stone.

Dragonball Z introduced me to anime which became a life long enjoyment.

Clarissa explains it all exposed me (a guy) to more female lead content and I learned a bit more about other perspectives.

Captain Planet introduced me to the idea that we’ll never really stop pollution because super heros aren’t real lol

I’m not totally delusional! I know she’s a hallucination, I mean how else would I be with someone who loves me?

A stable career path, a loving relationship, and permanent housing.

More concise: Stability.

It’s all I ever wanted and seemingly the only thing I can never have even since childhood. I move every 2 years on average and since adulthood that’s been from basement apartment to basement apartment and now to a garage with no end in sight… I finally got to the point where I could consider buying a house and then COVID, WFH, and the invesestment parasites all blew up at once and took that away from me… I gave up on the relationship bit years ago.

Could be, but in my experience that phrase is never followed by something good. :/