despite everything, still here

[spiribia]

we do need to revisit the wording of "you can't have your cake and eat it too" because i don't think it clearly enough conveys that it's more that you can't simultaneously retain a cake and also get to consume it (which would render you cakeless). for years i was like But why not....it's my cake....?

[ferrettoy]

this fucking problem is how they caught the unabomber

[m0thmancore]

hey you should uh. elaborate. for my own personal satisfaction

[ferrettoy]

the unabomber was pedantic about idiomatic phrases like "have your cake and eat it too" and rephrased it to "eat your cake and have it too" (which to be very fair makes sense). fast forward to when he starts writing manifestos. he uses the phrase word for word in his pedantic style and his brother (who has been keeping his eyes on the unabomber shit for obvious reasons) notices the phrase and is like "oh fuck that's my fucking brother no one else fucking says that" and calls in an FBI tip

[tetrafelino]

Well you can't deliberately speak in a way nobody else does and also stay anonymous you know. Can't eat your cake and have it too.

[barneycalhounslutmoments]

literally the reason online discourse is Like That is cuz ppl havent found real problems yet

[barneycalhounslutmoments]

when ur pushing 30 and renting an apartment and reckoning with your health and future prospects ppl drawing pokemon porn becomes a lot less pressing of an issue

[furryprovocateur]

i think ultimately you do really have to kill that part of your brain that vividly imagines how you would redo parts of your life.

[smuganimebitch]

"the western narratives around opponents of western hegemony are often biased and distorted and not actually reflective of reality and shouldn't be taken uncritically"

yes absolutely

"so the best way to counteract those biased narratives is to uncritically believe whatever the counternarrative is"

no, you don't actually have to do that

[yuriinullification]

The nostalgia for Skype is so fucking funny. Like come on. Even now discord is objectively better than it ever was. Skype was genuinely dogshit and anyone trying to pretend like it wasn't either never used it or has completely forgotten what it was like

[yuriinullification]

Skype's groupchats were limited to like 100 people and started lagging and becoming unstable way before you got to that point. The moderation features were extremely basic and close to nonexistent. Your screen was locked into a permanent blinding white light. No distinct channels, no voice chats and no options for customization. No roles, no custom emotes, no officially supported bot API (from what I can remember), the mobile app is (was) dogshit etc etc etc. Like come on. Be serious.

[dumbpuppyfag]

"i can't benefit from oppressive power structures, i'm literally nice :)" is a disturbingly common sentiment on here and if u express it then i can never trust u again

[dumbpuppyfag]

AND THEY ARENT EVEN NICE!!!

[fluttershyplushie]

honestly the boundaries between friendship and romance don’t really matter that much like at all if everyone involved is ok with it

[fluttershyplushie]

like most of what is and isn’t romance is cultural/constructed anyways... you can take and leave what you want with it as long as you maintain boundaries. does that make sense

[frankiecorleone]

Deadbeat older sister

[citiesonjupiter]

I don't understand how people just Do things without daydreaming. like how are you not off in a silly little fantasy world rn

[pansyfemme]

thinking two characters have had sex does not equal shipping at all… i dont have to like it i just know it happened

[thebraveliltoastie]

im sorry but this is the funniest fucking tag i could have seen

[myfootyrthroat]

I'm seeing a lot of posts where the overall point is good, but it's still full of dubious information. People act like questioning the sources is a betrayal of the virtue of the point, but, and I cannot stress this enough:

You should still question sources you agree with.

[dostoyevsky-official]

the worst part of "you'll understand when you're older" is that you really do understand when you're older

[aqueerkettleofish]

The second worst part is, once you get older, you find yourself saying "you'll understand when you're older" with Full Comprehension of how fucking annoying you're being right now, but also knowing that it's all you can say.

[thealphapigeon]

Your goal should be to get weirder with age and im not kidding. Become that odd estranged extended family member that owns a whacky home wherein a powerful magical item is kept that is the catalyst for the story of a children's adventure novel protagonist

[googlemenot-deactivated20230921]

[gayleafpool]

i love reblogging something w multiple characters in it and only tagging one. thats my sweet angel and then the guy i dont give a fuuuuck about

[homeboygirl]

"it was in 2020" oh so like a year or so ago. a couple years. im sorry 5? did you just say five? five years ago ?

[unbotheredmuse]