dragonfucker

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

This is great. Dull men's club is a great community and it doesn't deserve to be lumped in with the rest of .world.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Drag is willing to watch one minute if you provide a timestamp, and 0 minutes if you don't. It's your decision.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (6 children)

In one particular instance of this happening, the mods said it was against the instance rules. So drag went to the admin and asked if it was okay. The admin said promoting violence against nazis is fine as long as it isn't actually planning a crime. Drag went to the mods to say "look, you're not protecting the community, this isn't necessary", and they didn't care one bit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (6 children)

That's not a proper citation. The video is 47 minutes long. Provide a timestamp or a quote.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

While talking about suicide doesn’t increase risk, you should limit specific details about methods used in suicide, since sharing these is known to increase deaths by suicide.

When drag was suicidal, many years ago, drag did drag's research on methods of suicide. It turns out, most of them are very unethical. They leave behind messy crime scenes which can traumatise other people. Suicide by train is especially awful. Train drivers have a higher rate of mental illness because they see so many suicides. Pills are the least "messy" method, but they have a very high failure rate, and failures can involve permanent disability such as brain damage. So drag kept reading, and drag decided suicide by falling was the best way to go. Fortunately, drag didn't have easy access to any high enough places, and drag's research delayed drag's attempt long enough for the worst of the feelings to pass. A couple years later, drag transitioned, and has never felt so hopeless again.

Drag is intimately familiar with the mindset of a suicidal person, of that person on that day. You are clearly not, because you haven't taken the time to understand anyone else's point of view about this.

Drag would never incite anyone to suicide, and as you can see in that screenshot, drag didn't that day. But what drag did do, is delay. The same way drag was delayed by that research on the ethics of suicide. Drag gave that person a plan, a productive plan. Not a hopeful plan, because they were not in a mindset to receive hope. But a plan that they could see the value of in their state of mind. A revenge plan. A plan other than suicide. And having a plan other than killing yourself today is a lifesaving thing. Drag doesn't know if you'll ever be able to understand that. And since you haven't understood it in the past weeks of harassment, fuck off and leave drag alone.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

There are gay people who say bi people's existence makes a mockery of them. And bi people who say accepting trans people is hurting the queer movement. But that's the OPPOSITE of how this works.

First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me

Solidarity is strength and you choose weakness. You're hurting the trans community.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (8 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

They won't admit it, but most AAA game companies are casinos

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Fun fact: allegory had a different meaning back when Tolkien lived. Language evolved. Tolkien never mentioned hating what allegory now means - an interpretation of a story by the audience as representative of another issue. In fact, he said he was a fan of that sort of thing in your quote.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The rights of the consumer are more important. Monopolies are too high a price to pay.

 

Drag has spent all day in voice chat with drag's trans friends in America and now they're crying. They're going to die if they don't pack up their entire lives and never see their family again, and they don't even know how to financially accomplish that. No matter what happens, their lives as they know them are over, and they're going to suffer. They thought they had more time. They thought Harris was going to win. Now they know that if they can't get out, they're going to be murdered. They're scared and sad and they're crying.

Fuck every single person who contributed to this. Drag's friends didn't deserve this. Whatever fascist agenda made anyone think this was an okay outcome, fuck them. This is not okay!

 
 
 

Drag's refund request for Planescape Torment was denied by Steam. The game has sat in drag's inventory for several months, but drag has only played for 8 minutes and in that time decided not to play it.

Drag would like advice on gaming the Steam refund system, because drag doesn't agree with their reason for denying the refund. Are there any gamebreaking bugs or problems like that which Steam might accept?

Drag will post the reason for wanting a refund in a comment, and asks that you confine discussion of drag's reason or why drag should just enjoy the game to underneath that comment, so that the rest of the thread can be about the actual question.

 

Assume the smoothies have the same nutrient profile as a regular diet. Like if you drank runny mashed potatoes and protein powder to simulate a normal food intake.

If you do poop because of the nutrients, is there a healthy diet at which waste products are no longer left in the intestine to turn into poop?

Drag has no intention of doing this, drag is just curious about the science.

 
 

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/troll - Troll: to antagonize (others) online by deliberately posting inflammatory, irrelevant, or offensive comments or other disruptive content

If you think drag's pronouns are designed to offend you, then it's time to introspect.

 

Five days ago, drag was banned from [email protected] for using neopronouns. A comment explaining drag's pronouns, and a comment saying "drag" isn't a nickname, were removed with the reason "trolling". Drag understands why someone would think that using different pronouns than most people is trolling - transphobia. However, drag is confused how on earth not liking a nickname is a violation of any rules anywhere.

Context of the removed comments:

Drag would like to pre-empt any further accusations of trolling by asking a question: If drag were a right wing troll, and you chose to freely accept drag's pronouns, wouldn't that completely neuter the trolling attempt? Trolling is about trying to make others upset. You don't have to get upset when someone uses unusual pronouns. If you aren't transphobic, then it's impossible to troll you that way. And drag promises: drag wants you to not be transphobic. Drag is not trying to upset anyone. If you do what drag wants you to do, then you get what you want too. This is a non-issue, there's only a problem if you want there to be.

EDIT: DRAG DID NOT TELL ANYBODY TO USE DRAG'S PREFERRED PRONOUNS.

 

Imagine that time travel is invented. Not now, it's invented in the year 2875. The future people came back in time to this period to give us knowledge of how to build time machines so we could explore time freely. They also gave it to every other time period. Ancient egypt, the roman empire, alpha centauri, the 1960s, the reign of king arthur, victorian england, they're now all places you can just go. Time travel is as cheap as a plane ticket.

If that happened, then the sorts of people who currently claim that the 1960s were the greatest period in human history would probably change their minds. Not because of any sensible reason, but because the 1960s are now a Foreign Place. They'd start being xenophobic and complaining about all the immigrants from the 1960s stealing jobs and living on welfare. They'd be racist against the past. They'd keep on listening to Beatles and Pink Floyd like it's the only good music ever written, but they'd scoff at all the hippies on the other side of the time portal.

And not just the 1900s, either! The romaboos would probably call roman empire immigrants racist slurs. Those neo nazis who wear norse runes would go back in time to do hate crimes to actual vikings. Weebs would say the Edo period just "doesn't get it". Science fiction fans would accuse the future of being woke SJW trash.

 

Earlier today drag was banned from [email protected] for this post: https://lemmy.nz/post/15864724

The reason stated was "Dishonest headline and quoting".

The sidebar of the community states the following on article titles:

Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive.

The article's original title was "Harris vs. Trump spoiler’s supporter says the quiet part out loud" - in drag's opinion, this is clickbait. The quiet part is not stated in the title. The reader has to click on the article in order to learn what it's actually about.

Drag's post title was "Jill Stein ally says the Greens' strategy is about making Harris lose the presidency" - this clearly states which group is involved and what precisely the controversial statement was. But drag was banned for making the title more clear.

The sidebar of the community states the following on article quotes:

Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.

Drag quoted three passages from the article in the post body: The quote from the Jill Stein ally which the article was about, and two passages about Donald Trump's relation to these events. None of the quotes were edited. As asked by the sidebar drag did not post the entire body, only the parts drag believed was relevant, and drag was banned for following this rule too.

The vast majority of comments on the post, including all the highly upvoted comments, agreed with the points made by the article and expressed zero problem with the presentation. There were two comments which had a problem with drag's presentation of the article:

…um, where is the second half of this article? (2 upvotes)

This comment is a non-issue; posting the entire article in the body is against the community rules. Drag was following the rules by only posting half.

Least dishonest LW politics OP quoting an entire article out of context (1 upvote)

This comment agrees with the moderation decision but does not explain why, and drag can't work out why on drag's own. Drag tried drag's best to represent the article accurately.

 

Burgers were invented in America.

Now sure, the Hamburger is named after Hamburg in Germany. However, the German version is actually the Hamburg steak. In other words, the meat patty. And a patty does not a burger make.

America was the country that put the bun on the hamburger. This, in drag's opinion, is when the Hamburg steak became the "burger". A new word, losing the ham and becoming what would be translated from German as "The people's meal". An apt description for the American burger.

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