I know Threads sucks, but where would it fall on this? Another Networking one?

depends on where you go upstate, but yeah, rural America in general is where you find confederate flags

The p isn’t silent; English phonology just doesn’t like the /pt/ sound. Likewise with the p in psychology. Or the p in pfizer.

really a person without an agenda trying to protect a community from a supposed malignant moderation, or is it someone with an agenda trying to call everyone to the left of centrism a Tankie?

this is a weird false dichotomy. if they have an agenda, why must it be “everyone left of center”?

oh man I wouldn’t honk at a pedestrian or other non-car, that’s different

I’m not a fan of crack at all, but I’m glad it exists for those who do

so apparently from this thread i’m figuring out that if i just repeat myself, i am communicating well and i can blame you for not understanding. let’s give it a go: All speech is metaphor.

bummer now some random on lemmy who still doesn’t know me thinks im an old fuddy duddy, what will i do!

surely this feedback is from a credible source with my own best interests in mind, i will certainly take your rando advice to heart.

i’m so glad i plan my life choices around what strangers on social media think. this’ll work out great!

(do you get the point i’m trying to make? no matter how correct you are (or you think you are), you might as well be shouting at the wall. who the fuck would actually take your life advice to heart? you have no idea who we are; why would we change our behavior based on your opinion?)

I think on some level you know this but you just wanna preach. maybe you should have this conversation with someone special in your life. or maybe… you know, the positions we argue most fervently are often ones we’re trying to convince ourselves of. since we’re giving unsolicited life advice, maybe think on that one?

all speech is metaphor.

and it’s abundantly clear from this thread that so many of you are acting like self-righteous, arrogant jerks who do not understand that. “so it must be wrong, if someone as smart as ME doesn’t understand it, with my perfectly accurate speech!”

my god this would drive me nuts. have you ever experienced pain?? why would your want to be bombarded with questions? give em a hug and leave be jeeeeez

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psychosis isn’t something you have, it’s something you experience. we say “in” active psychosis.

and it’s pretty fuckin bad lol it’s a difficult symptom

We’re asked to remember them. There’s lots of young people who were swindled into enlisting and died for a country that doesn’t give a shit about them over a war for nothing.

Can we at least have a moment of silence for them?

Or for the ones who survived, but disillusioned, and struggling to readjust to life back home? Not every vet is a chud. Not every vet is pro war. Not every vet is pro America.

Not everyone who wears this is forced to wear it.

I’m so sick of sharing this relevant xkcd

I have no desire for tails

that’s totally something Jessica would say

god felix is such an inspiration

an argument against regulating sex work is that it would place government control on what we do with it bodies

That’s also happening with banning it, of course, but I’m not sure if the jump we necessarily want is legalization plus regulation. Just a thought, no stance yet