Have you ever noticed when you make a point there always someone saying well what about x, y and z? Or pointing out that something they personally relate to wasn’t directly called out so they’re being excluded? A lot of people would see something focused on workers rights/labor and go off on some tangent about how they’re unemployed so they’re being discriminated against or how it’s more important that we focus on trans issues or some other hot button identity politics issue and labor is just a distraction/you’re purposefully trying to distract from other movements or the group that only wants to destroy because they don’t believe what we have is worth saving (these types are overwhelmingly abelist and don’t realize how much disabled people would suffer and die if we just threw the whole system out) we don’t have a labor focused movement because there’s so many voices that want center stage for their pet interests and they understand a large unifying movement that allows people they see as less morally righteous on the door is a threat to them and their imagined moral superiority

No, not at all. When you get a ton of downvotes but zero responses, assuming you didn’t just post literal nonsense, I consider it proof I’m correct and it’s just a truth people don’t like. When you’re wrong people will downvote you and tell you why, which should be a learning experience that a person should be humble enough to accept but just downvotes or responses only attacking you not you points is pure validation you’re speaking an uncomfortable truth

Also like… you can legally just name your file wtf ever you want, I can make a folder full of pics of my dogs and name it “Chernobyl” it’s not illegal to use a word to name a file

Meds

The one with 3 Man

She’s already part of a religion that hates her for being a woman, no need to give them even more reasons

Where would I find a way to know if an instance aligned with what I wanted or not? I’m supposed to personally find and explore a bunch of different ones?

Look at it from the other persons perspective they 1) feel comfortable doing this and 2) have the financial means to do so why not let them give their best friend a nice gift? I’m very fortunate to be at the income level I am but as a mom of a 19 and 20 year old if they had asked me to give their best friend a phone I would ask some questions like, do they need one? How old is theirs? Why can’t they afford one? Assuming they had a shitty old phone because they’re poor I would absolutely be ok with my kid giving a (long term) best friend a phone, especially if the friend was also open to it

Assuming they’re just well off and have normal parents I think it’s very possible this is a reasonable gift.

Anytime we have an expensive gift to a friend they personally called us on the phone to thank us, it was always awkward as hell to me but polite, so I think that’s the etiquette when you get a gift life this, to call and say tanks in person or to see them and thank them in person (the kids parents, assuming they bestie didn’t pay for it all on his own in which case that’s between the two of them imo the point of extra money is to spend it on people you love, you can’t take it with you after all)

A secret no one kept is still technically a secret, an open secret maybe but a secret. I want to know if the people using these phones know about this software

When I was about 17 was looking at several full pages of names of people who died in 9/11 when looking at a news paper and started crying

I cry sometimes when I see what is happening to the people and babies of the world

I cried when those women in Sudan were at a hospital and rebels showed up to rape and murder them then trapped them inside the clinic and burned it down

The world is a sad place with so much need for mourning

Why tf is Uber notifying people of anything not directly related to a ride they’ve ordered??

Yeah and I’m tired of pretending it’s not!

This dude came to my spouses work to do some sort of work/help (I don’t know the exact details) and someone wrote a doc he needed to review. It was a lot of work not just like a few notes but a proper doc and all he wrote back upon “reviewing” it was a thumbs up emoji!! 👍🏻 everyone was shocked lol, no feed back, no notes nothing just 👍🏻

When I was in the ICU for months and I asked my husband to please just tell me it would be ok and he told me no and that he “couldn’t lie anymore” - refused to give me even a drop of comfort in my most dire hour, being ok didn’t have to mean I would live but that he and the kids would soldier on and he would try for them but instead I just got a no and scolded for asking.

I got them on the fairly regular before I caught my ban and I never even argue I say my piece and gtfo, I don’t respond to people who respond to my comments… it serves no real purpose

So people can send it to others to harass them? It doesn’t work on Reddit why implement it here? Talking about suicide could actually increase the likelihood of it happening so beyond the fact it will be used to harass people it might be making things worse

Generally a good thing to be attracted to the person you’re fucking

I was at a 4th of July party and got way too high and there was so much going on, some kid with a super bitch mom was harassing my dog, there was lots of BBQ smoke making it hard to breathe and I was using portable oxygen at the time so it was really fucking with me and Independence Day was on the TV but I was so high it was like the frame rate on the TV was too slow and I started crying and I told my husband “I don’t want to watch this anymore it’s like a really long gif” which he laughed at but it was embarrassing to be crying in the living room over Independence Day surrounded by mostly strangers lol

The person yelling. Why are you yelling? Will yelling somehow upload the “correct” (you approved) knowledge into their heads? An “idiot” is often someone just doing something differently but even in the case where they are just an idiot, it’s not like they chose to be an idiot, you might as well be yelling at them for their hair color.

As a person who has had a double lung transplant, being “useful to society” isn’t one of the dozens of criteria you must have

Also old people can give organs and tissues, my lungs are 21 years older than I am and my donor was 51 when she died.