If you’re camping you should have a fire

Not before you get to your destination (and sometimes there, too, if you’re really disorganised), nor in the case of the person I was replying to, who just wants some purse hotdogs to eat on the go. So while I agree about the texture, sometimes you just have to make due with a pale hotdog lol

Vegetarian/vegan hotdogs are great for this, since they can last fine without refrigeration for a decent amount of time. When I was a kid my parents would always pack them when we went camping, take a packet out of the freezer on the way out, pop in one of those soft cooler bags, by lunchtime they’re thawed and good to go, and if you have any left, they’ll still be good for dinner! No cooking should be needed (always double check the packet though), just some condiments, or even a tin of baked beans to make a meal of it.

This.

One of the best ways to confront a bigot is by pretending to be completely naive of their intentions, and getting them to dig their own hole by repeatedly asking them to explain what they mean.

The funniest thing is that the NCD mod suggested in one of the replies in that dumpster fire of a post that it’s the Blahaj mods that are the ones who deserve to be posted there. The lack of self awareness genuinely is staggering…

Pigeon lady (Brenda Fricker) does not deserve to be done dirty like this.

When I was a kid my parents wanted to open up an existing cavity under our house to build a basement, and that never happened because it (E: was discovered during the building inspection that it) was full of Radon. I guess I’m desensitised (but possibly slowly decaying a little faster than I should be…).

This is incorrect. Not only did humans used to work significantly less and we (the working class, anyway) in the past few centuries have less leisure time than ever, but if anything, the introduction of what you consider “civilisation”, and especially class and money, harmed art more than anything by giving the power and control over it to those who aren’t creating it, and leaving those who are, starving, like the rest of the plebs, or completely undiscovered due to lack of privilege, opportunity, and access.

They can find another line, or skip trying to be funny altogether if the only way they can think of is gendered and they can’t be arsed to check the gender of the person they’re talking to.

And lets be honest - it wasn’t that good a joke.

Either way, it really isn’t fucking difficult, and is definitely easier than whatever the fuck this mess is.

Your app would ideally just respect display names and it would require no extra effort on your part to gender people correctly.

Even if pronouns aren’t displayed, it takes even less effort to use neutral pronouns for everyone unless you know otherwise.

That’s not an excuse nor justification for misgendering anyone, neutral pronouns exist, use them.

I uh, I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect people to check others profiles to ensure we are correctly pronouning them

And yet, in that little whine right there, you managed to use the very gender neutral pronoun that would have saved you all this hassle (including the hassle you’re making up of having to go and look up the pronouns of every individual you interact with).

So you know it exists, and you know how to use it, but you decided to try and be funny instead, and it backfired.

You misgendered someone, and now have to deal with the most minor of minorest consequences for harm you caused to another.

You are still free to create 100 different accounts on 100 different instances, just not the one where you broke the rules. No one owes you a platform, deal with it.

Your choice now is to double down and make it worse, or you can be an adult, admit you made a mistake, and learn from it for the future so you don’t repeat it.

I dare to say you have already chosen, but feel free to prove me wrong.

“I have the privilege to be completely oblivious to glaringly obvious racism”

They are police

FTFY

There is nothing weirs about it - those that work forces are the same that burn crosses

Sorry, I was just trying to relate this to autism in a silly way, no criticism or meanness intended.

What’s the difference between deep touch and deep pressure

I don’t know for sure, but personally I would say that deep touch is the opposite of soft touch (like grabbing someone’s hand vs lightly brushing against it), while deep pressure is about deliberately applying pressure deep in to the tissue (so yeah, like massaging, but also like a really heavy weighted blanket or the steamroller with a ball thing).

I must have missed your previous post, or not had the brain power to reply, good to see these conversations happening either way. 😊

You’re new to autism, aren’t you lol

On a more serious note, this is something I needed long before I knew why or what it was called. A couple of decades later, I do indeed know the term, and the reason why I prefer deep pressure to light touch (autism related sensory processing disorder), though I’m sure it isn’t the only reason people need/prefer it.

Either way, if you genuinely want to hear more personal experiences from people who are more likely to know about and have practice with theses techniques, post over on one of the autism communities.

True lol

I wonder what kind of incriminating evidence was on those machines that they ended up in a lake, and if whoever threw them in there realised that the information wasn’t stored on the monitors lol

Exactly.

People not being able to tell the difference between tankie rhetoric (“put all of the bourgeoisie up against the wall and everyone I disagree with in the gulag!!12”) or even plain old anti-communist propaganda, and actual leftist views is for them to figure out with themselves. I said what I said, and I mean it as I said it (including saying that I don’t even think it’s necessary to kill all billionaires, never mind anyone bellow them, which they conveniently ignore).

Sure, I can’t promise I’ll remember, but send me a friend code next time you play, and I’ll add you

Same, having somewhere so beautiful and calm to play and just hang out is really great.