Well, I gotta err on YDI with this one.

You went hard in a meme community that specifically has rules against what you did. Like, it doesn’t matter if you’re right or wrong, it doesn’t even matter that the mod was a prick about it (though that would usually lean harder to PTB in a borderline issue) and breaking their own rules by doing so.

I sympathize to some degree since a ban is a tad harsh for a first offense when the fediverse is harder to verify rules in than reddit was/is. But it’s on the user to do so, or accept the consequences when we don’t. I’ve had bans for just that reason; didn’t mean to cause a problem, but didn’t verify rules. You gotta suck it up and move on ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In that first pic , both of them look like they’re trying to get away from her

Daaayum! When you can’t even catch a “hell no” because tomato and mayo!

Tomato pie: what am I? Not good enough to dis?

https://www.southernliving.com/tomato-pie-6540052

Yeah, sorry, that’s a fake. The image doesn’t fit the actual shirt

Sorry, but you’ve obviously not read the discworld stuff, or at least not enough, nor things about the author.

In this case, what you’re seeing is a humorous take that is one of many tidbits about various animals, and is no more or less inaccurate than some of the dogs in the stories. Everything in discworld is a little rough around the edges because of the society he’s mimicking. The two main cats in his books, Maurice and Greebo (pictured in the post) both save the day quite capably.

Death, a major character in the series, is a known cat lover that takes a dim view of anyone harming cats. Which is more indicative of the author’s real views than an out of context quote from a work of fiction.

It’s not a literal trap, it just looks similar to a deadfall trap, well baited with beer and wood

I’m tempted to pass this one by because it’s so damn self congratulating.

But it isn’t an unpopular opinion, it’s too common for that.

And it’s not really accurate in the way you present it.

It’s a numbers game. If 90% of people are assholes (and that’s a low estimate), then the more people in a given group, the more assholes are present.

But, if the group is started by people that fled to avoid assholes that also weren’t mostly assholes, you get a period of leeway where assholery is very low. That period passed maybe a year and a half ago, +/- six months.

Since then. The numbers have gone up and the game is shifting towards the usual assholery.

Ngl, I’m not sure I want to lean against walls either. Public toilets rarely have lids, and even less often are they used when they do have them. So you’ve got the usual aerosolized poo water landing everywhere.

But I agree that good hand washing fixes half of the problem. The half being trying to aim a penis one handed, then zip up one handed too. I can aim one handed, not so much the zipping lol.

Truth be told though, the types of pathogens involved are fairly low, and they don’t all survive well on hard surfaces. But they aren’t non existent, and the ones that will transfer that way tend to be the worse ones. Enough so that I don’t blame anyone for being upset at a pissy seat, much less a crappy crapper.

Yo! Bif Naked ftw!

Been a fan since the Buffy appearance lol.

It supposedly has an edge in terms of pulling out oils in particular.

My problem is that, as you said, it’s harder to find, and I have a limitation in what I can use to begin with.

I can’t say, when I have used a powder vs a liquid in the past that the difference is so significant that I would bother to hunt down a powder that also fits my niche needs. But if you’re not limited, I would say it’s worth it on average

You know the one-onehundred counting thing that approximates a second? Just say/think the word one, it approximates a quarter second.

As a reminder to passersby, there are actually people that can’t balance on one foot at all. Or even lift it that far.

For them what have need to cope with this and no choice about needing to sit.

A small baggie with some surface wipes and some gloves will fit in most pockets with ease. Ideal, no. But it’ll get you by for a non optional visit to a public (or badly kept private) toilet

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Well, shoe most places, but I feel you.

10/10 film! Will watch with gusto!

Well, we’ve hit a snag.

Who is “y’all” in this case?

See, by that sentence that started “I was assured y’all”, you’re in/out grouping and making an assumption that not only is there an out group for you to categorize people into it, but that I’m a part of that group.

Secondary to that, I’ve never seen a discussion where someone starts thinking in terms of “me vs them” that ended in anything but ugliness. I’m willing to accept that this might not go that way, but I’m dubious as fuck. So, if that’s where you are, do us both a favor, don’t respond to this, and just block me. I don’t have time or patience for that bullshit.

Besides, it’s why I so rarely engage in discussions about the subject matter of a post in this community. It isn’t the place for even gentler debates, much less those that run hot.

That being said, if you’re drawing parallels between a slave revolution in haiti and the Israeli pogrom going on currently, be aware that Israel is the slave masters in this case, not Palestinians. The direct equivalence would be if Palestinians got armed and took back their lives. Then, any remaining Israelis were put to death instead of shipping them back home.

See, you expect a degree of over reaction by oppressed and tortured people. It doesn’t make it good, but it is totally understandable, and can even make good sense strategically.

To redraw the comparison, let’s say that Palestinians, now running their own independent nation, had allowed their previous oppressors to remain for similar reasons. What are they supposed to do with them? integrate them into Palestinian culture? When their oppressive neighbors are still planning death and mayhem, and the Israelis inside their borders are just as likely to side with their oppressors?

What then? Send those people back to Israel, where their resentment and sense of entitlement will continue to be a problem? Or wipe them out and be done with it? Sending a message at the same time of “stay the fuck out”.

Now, is that morally “good”? Fuck no, we’re all supposed to take the gentler path when we can. But put yourself in the place of either peoples. Are you so certain of your moral superiority that you wouldn’t make the strategic decision to eliminate a threat? A proven threat in both cases. Remember, the Haitians were coming off of centuries of slavery, rape, torture, and not just “regular” slavery, chattel slavery. The Palestinians? Holy fuck, for it being a relatively recent reoccurrance of violence against them, they’ve had a violent boot on their neck for generations too.

Me? I’m not that confident in my ability to pretend moral superiority in the same situation. Hell, I’m pretty damn confident I’d be willing to do the killing. I’m a nice person, but I am not a good person when it comes to protecting me and mine. Oh, I could be talked into holding off if leadership had a good plan in place, after all, the cycle of killing is hard to stop just because you were justified; that’s how we get generational warfare.

It’s also interesting to look at the ww2 comparison. Me? I have said publicly that the worst mistake humanity ever made was in letting nazis live. Some shit needs to be crushed as hard as possible. Not because it prevents the insanity from coming back, but to draw a line in the sand and say “nope, if you pick up that banner, you will share the same fate.”

I think that’s what the Haitians did back then. They said nope, fuck slave masters, and anyone thinking they can try it again.

Is it a moral good? Nope. But I am absolutely okay with an oppressed people making bad choices while they get their feet back under them.

Maybe you’re a better person than me. Since I don’t believe in a real deity, I suppose only the collective consciousness of humanity can be the judge of that. But I just can’t find it in me to care that a bunch of ex slaves went hard. I don’t blame them. Maybe if they hadn’t been treated worse than animals, they would have had a chance to be the kind of people that don’t make the choice. But they were, and I suspect that any group of people so treated would as well. Which seems to me a matter of ideals vs reality, not a pure morality

Fish need to hunt too

As someone who is always right, I can definitively say that when someone wrongly thinks the world revolves around them, they are the most annoying thing compared to someone simply being wrong in my presence. They should know the world revolves around me smdh.

Legit though, solipsistic narcissism is more entertaining than inaccurate pedantry, so I go with the knowitall