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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • I’ve always been of the opinion that if you don’t vote, I don’t want to hear a word complaining about politics, but I’ve really reached my breaking point with that bullshit. We’ve seen it over and over again how ambivalence leads to things getting worse for a lot of people (often including the ambivalent ones). At this point, I’m just cutting people off immediately when they start up and I know they chose not to vote. Shut the fuck up. If it wasn’t important enough to go to the ballot box, it’s not important enough for me to listen.


  • I mean, I get that, and the amount of rage I feel about the fact that Republicans never have any empathy for anyone they don’t know is probably going to give me an ulcer, but this is good news. People changing their minds in response to new information is a positive thing, and we should encourage it. There are plenty of LGBTQ+ people whose families don’t change their minds. That’s how we end up with kids committing suicide or living on the streets. My extended family would never change their minds, and it’s led to me cutting them off, and my cousin will never come out because I’m pretty sure his dad would kill him, or at least do his level best to beat him to death.

    Anyway, I didn’t mean for that to get that dark, but that’s the reality for a lot of us. I’m going to welcome anyone trying to be better with open arms.



  • frickineh@lemmy.worldtoCool Guides@lemmy.caA cool guide to birth commonality
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    9 months ago

    Yeah, everybody’s parents are fuckin between Thanksgiving and New Years.

    Anecdotally, I knew that years ago. I worked in a call center and got so bored that I’d mark the day in my yearly calendar when a customer had that birthday, and September and August filled up quick and had so many duplicates. Took me forever to fill up winter, though.





  • I always wanted to pay $184k to tear down a house! How did they know?

    Seriously, the realtor isn’t even trying. The description is hilarious. I guess when you have the love child of a cabin and a funhouse built in what looks like about 3 of the crappiest trailers in the park glued together haphazardly, there’s not much you can say to make it appealing.