I have my phone set to DND at all times, and I can confirm that you can allow certain notifications to come through. Only important notifications and calls from contacts come in. My peace of mind improved quite a bit with this change.

Astrology is just a compendium of story tropes than can help people find advice for themselves in a fun and engaging way. That’s how I see it, and that’s how I use it. Truth and reality aren’t as easy to define and you might think they are.

Fuck, really?

I like to point out that one of the first lessons the Bible teaches the reader is one of hierarchy and inherent supremacy over others. Eve is lesser to Adam, as all women should be to all men. Man is the dominator of the land, bending nature to his whims. All men are to worship a supreme being because he’s bigger, stronger, more powerful, and these are respected traits held by any authority. It’s baked into the values that some of us should be supreme to others, and the inherent violence of this philosophy can be used to justify wars and genocide, as has happened time and again.

Christianity is only good if you use confirmation bias to pick out the parts you like, but the whole text creates drones and fascists by design. I believe in God, but I would never in my life subscribe to Christian beliefs (not even getting into the open hostility the church has held against my particular section of belief throughout history that persists to this day).

It’s culture war bullshit. I assure you, a statistically significant portion of the right believes wholeheartedly that this is a good thing. It’s exactly what they voted for.

Greed is a tragically reliable behavior to anticipate from a Corp.

What’s stopping McDonald’s from just saying that they need to increase prices by significantly more than that to accommodate the increased wages? Y’know, with lies? It happened with groceries, so I can imagine them seeing this as a good excuse to try to squeeze some more profit out.

This. There are much more deserving targets for hatred. You did nothing to earn it.

I had the earring thing in mine too, but it had to be the right ear to be gay. Left ear was fine.

What did he mean by this

Oof. Kinda awkward, but…

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I’m late to learning to drive, and I fear I could do this without realizing I’ve done it. But after this, I can tell you I wouldn’t do it again.

They may well lead to the thing that leads to the thing that leads to the thing that leads to AGI though. Where there’s a will

I just tried chatgpt with all of these failure points–a 5-letter word that fits alphabetically between amber and amble (ambit), a sentence that ends in the letter R (it ended with “door”), and a poem that rhymes (aabbccbb). These things appear to be getting ironed out quite quickly. I don’t think it’s much longer before we’ll have to make some serious concessions.

Democrats are criticized by democrats all the time. Republicans actively censor all criticism they have control over.

I think that retort is just there to point out that other social media platforms definitely will not be banned at any point, calling to question the legitimacy of the claim that the ban is because of invasive spy practices. Hypocrisy is loud.

The awful ones are awful. They’re allowed to take power in the current system. We have awful rulers and the awful people who support them. We need only be aware of this phenomenon to mitigate it. Your solution appears to be not accepting possible solutions, which is just inaction. How does inaction stop awful people from destroying the planet?

Community is hard to come by here. It’s bad.

Bro you literally, unironically with caps told everyone to wake up while declaring your love for the bastardized republican party via your negative misappropriation of the word “woke”. You are a caricature of a MAGA republican. Calling you a bot was a show of delusional faith that surely real people aren’t as lost as you displayed. I don’t like dehumanizing real people, but your type is simply impossible to level with. But hey, enjoy the tariffs.

Cishet is the term you’re thinking of for that.