The Thot has Begone @RowanBerry@computerfairi.es

@beegrrl@radical.town extremely good take, 10/10 would defend

@Kat@snouts.online It's why Uber/Lyft became so popular. People need a system that can called on from anywhere, arrives wherever they currently are, and can take them wherever they need to be locally. The only model that seems to work is like you said: modular mass transit that uses the infrastructure we already have to be as flexible as possible

@Kat@snouts.online "if we just keep pushing the same flawed system with no changes, then we can overcome another flawed system that is constantly adapting to the times!"

I got these from Walgreens and it took a solid 8 hours for my brain to register the concept. This is an anomalous item and I am afraid to consume it

@Anarchist_Mallrat This is getting very rant-y and explain-y on my part so I'll just say that you're chill, everyone is chill, and sex is chill, so just vibe out and do your own thing without worrying too much about it.

Economic preference cannot and will not make you a rapist.

@Anarchist_Mallrat Yup. It assumes that you, as a living breathing human being with your own free will, is incapable of giving "real" consent if you are under literally any societal influence.

The often-ignored other side of the equation is that if you genuinely believe that society makes all sex coercive, the act of NOT having sex does not magically remove you from society. You're not "more pure," you're just celibate.

@Anarchist_Mallrat But maoism— at least from a leftist economic perspective— has very little to do with the politics of sex and a lot more to do with the way Mao incorporated various economic ideologies into his own.

tl;dr you're getting the facts about Mao banning premarital sex and very modern sex-negative TERF nonsense mixed together.

@Anarchist_Mallrat Hi, I don't know very much about Maoism but I can talk about the whole sex = coercive thing!

It's built off of a very convoluted idea: Modern society has baked-in power imbalances. Therefore, everyone is in some way affected by those imbalances. Sex built off of imbalanced power dynamics is coercive, and all humans experience imbalanced power dynamics, therefore all sex is coercive!

...except that's not how coercion works, so it's nonsense.

Okay I know I'm ranting about this at this point but. It baffles me that gamers can look at the concept of the G-man and definitively say "this story is not allowed to end until we know exactly who this guy is and who his employers are." What??

He's a symbolic entity! His whole gig is that he's mysterious and works for something even more mysterious. Do people seriously think that not revealing everything about him is "sequel baiting?"

I have been going along with "haha valve can't count to three" jokes for so long. Assuming that the reason Valve didn't make HL3 is because it would have to be a huge, bombastic conclusion to the series. Meanwhile the wiki is like

Wait. Wait.

So you're telling me that all this time, Half-Life 2 doesn't end on like. the world's biggest cliff hanger? And that the mythical Half Life: Episode 3 was basically gonna be Gordon blowing up a boat?????

The fact that people have been fuming over this for years makes me... frustrated

I swear I am going to leave this country, buy a few acres of forest out in the countryside, find a river, and then bathe in that shit like a nymph every day for the rest of my life because it's the only way I will ever stop being angry about America

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@witchfynder_finder related statement: there's a lot of overlap between the idea of "I'm not allowed to enjoy things with flaws because then I'm not being critical" and cringe culture. It's the same sickly feeling of enjoying something that you're "not supposed to"

@witchfynder_finder There was so much toxicity in my life before I realized this. Someone would tell me "but this thing you love has [problems]" and, being the angy teen that I was, I thought that the only responses were to either stop enjoying the thing or double down and pretend that the problems don't matter.

I was like "boy howdy I sure hope I have a job lined up by july" and now I'm running a Homestuck book club