A hydrophobic horse? Huh. Poor baby.

Uyghurs? What Uyghurs? /s /s /s

Thank you, that’s genuinely a helpful distinction to make.

Unfortunately, NotTheOnion.

I hate this man’s guts, don’t get me wrong. He was a shitbag before he was disabled, and he’s still a shitbag. But this is elder abuse, full stop. Putting this elder up as a puppet leader of a puppet state is disgusting. A dictator of sound mind is one thing. A dictator of unsound mind like this? Forget removing just him, remove every single person he has ever appointed as an advisor and charge them for elder abuse AS WELL as their other crimes.

Fair point.

I was vegan as a health necessity for a few years. I still prefer eating veggies wherever possible, but when I’m living in someone else’s home and have to adhere to someone else’s diet, it’s not always possible.

Double lung transplants? Before 45? In this country? In one of the most impoverished parts of the country?

I can name maybe 5 people who deserve that. The average idiot who believed a psychopathic liar doesn’t deserve that.

Yzma moment right here.

Narcissists, Machiavellians, and megalomaniacs will always be what they are. But people who’ve been brainwashed literally don’t know any better. I wish I could say it more kindly, but having been on the receiving end of a lifetime of indoctrination into something obviously stupid, I have some sympathy for the people who believed a liar.

I dunno, you called the other guy Eric, so I thought ‘Well, alright, if we’re doing the naming-strangers-on-the-internet bit, I guess I’ll call you Shaun.’ No harm or offense meant, friend. There were places I lived where the bus infrastructure was legitimately that bad. I remember the 3 hour rides to work too. -_-; Those were awful. I spent months camped out at the city planner’s office begging for extra service on my route after I quit that job and got one closer. No dice, sadly.

Well, Shaun, lemme tell ya; I didn’t mind the 4 to 5 hours a week I spent on the train or the bus. Partly, because sometimes I got to meet genuinely lovely and hilarious strangers, and even make friends with people I never would have met otherwise. Or help people that needed help, being in the right place at the right time. I kinda miss that, having chances at being a kind stranger.

And you know, there is the savings to consider. Not having to spend the extra 30 hours at a job I hate to pay for an $800 expense I don’t need was worth the extra commute time, in my opinion. All that extra free time that I wasn’t driving or working to afford driving, I could use to read books. Or write books.

Beyond that, it was nice to have the cheapest and most freeing exercise I’d get. That’s more money I didn’t spend on a gym membership, owning a bicycle and taking it to visit my friends or getting groceries. And when the weather got bad and I needed a car, I’d just call a taxi. Or set up a carpool with a coworker, offer to pay for gas. It was still cheaper than owning a car. It was nice to have a chance to make friends with my coworkers too.

How much effort did it take to plan my entire life around the logistics of taking my bike/the bus/the train? About as much effort as it did planning my life around owning a car.

The only time I ever needed a car, Shaun, was when I lived in the middle of nowhere and there was no public transit. Because the local government designed the infrastructure that way.

I’m sorry that happened to you, dude. Fuck tankies, fr.

o7

I wish more people were this brave. God, I wish more people were this brave.

“They’re giving transgender surgeries to illegal immigrants in prison.”

*Medicaid

It was a spelling goof, it’s all good. Still reading you loud and clear.

I might just be a massive god damn nerd, but I would rather build my own with an old Pixel, a printer, and a Pi. If I can’t be up to my elbows in its guts, from board to code, then it isn’t mine.

Right? AI-generated pictures of Scarlett Johansen as a flight attendant praising Jesus, or an African kid making sculptures of Jesus out of trash. And all the comments just being ‘Amen’ spam. Bots on top of bots. It’s just fucking dystopian.

Not maintaining artificial connections with people who would reach out to me if they actually gave a damn about me has genuinely been liberating.

I like how Discord- and Slack-like socials are set up. It’s just more natural. Instead of a feed, it’s a forum. It feels more like a physical place, with couches for discussion, corners of the room where people take conversation, and a hall outside for privacy. And if you understood that metaphor, then you know how I feel.

And if I don’t like a server, I can just… leave. Never have to run into them again, but still have access to friends. No holes in the conversation where an obvious block or ignore leaves gaps.

They’re not even getting sunlight? And this is the medical specialty detention center?

Fucking hell, why haven’t we ridden in and broken the fucking gates yet???

hehehehe You know, it’s hilarious that you say that. Nobody ever realizes that they’re talking to a starving homeless person on the internet when they meet one, do they? Believe it or not, quite a few of us do have jobs. Not all of us are disabled or addicted. That is the problem with the society we live in. We’re invisible until we talk to you.