Holy cow do we now have the advanced tech to pin megathreads?
Can't wait to goon in big dumb daily threads again
I'm glad it's not just all pinned posts, main sometimes had like 8 pinned lol
It might be a good compromise to have them collapsible like the "featured posts" are on the main page? Just spitballing.
I'm seeing 2 pinned threads under "featured posts" at the top of the homepage, NOT within communities. I think the time is now!?
Even Idahoans are getting involved with socialist organizations, you love to see it.
Even Utahns are getting involved with socialist organizations, you love to see it.
Honestly from what I've seen in red western states, the left of center people that live there tend are further left on average than what you see back east.
I think there are a lot of voters, many of whom are well informed, who don't view politics in either an ideological or even personality sort of way, who also view being non partisan as important.
The entire metric by which they vote for someone is did this group make my life better over the last 4 years or not? If yes they vote for them, and if no, they then ask did the other guy piss me off recently to determine if they'd vote third party or not.
sigh told a friend/comrade that I have a crush on them and it didn't go well. we'd been getting closer over the last couple of months and they started touching me more so I thought odds were good.
I tried to broach the subject in person but took a kind of roundabout path by bringing up how we were getting closer, how intimate touch is for me, etc, and they gave me a kind of panicked look and a total non-answer in response when I asked about how they were feeling.
but they were fairly drunk and tired and they fell asleep pretty shortly afterwards so I figured one of two things had happened - either they wanted to say no but weren't comfortable doing that or they misunderstood what I was trying to say and took my comments as a complaint. so I sent them a text clarifying that I was saying I had a crush on them while making it clear that the friendship was more important to me and that there was no pressure to respond at all. so naturally, they didn't respond (which is fine) and I'm feeling kind of down about the whole thing.
this is the first time I've been interested in a particular person since I started transitioning almost two years ago and it was pretty rough to work up the nerves to broach the subject in the first place (what if I'm not enough of a woman for them and other dysphoria things) so it feels crappy but at least it will be easier to try again in the future.
sigh mope, mope, mope
Hang in there comrade, and be patient! feelings can be a war of attrition.
And if they don't respond or cannot reciprocate your feelings, do not despair! Be proud that you took a risk and let yourself feel feelings for someone again. That's a big, difficult step and I'm proud you took it. As you said, it makes the next opportunity less scary.
Hey you know that thing people say where if you exercise you actually feel better? Turns out it's true and you should try it.
do you ever get depressed when you're at a grocery store and realize that every single item on the shelf is there because of the grossest exploitation of labor at every stage of its production and distribution
There's this weird psychological paradox where by giving people too many choices, it actually makes them less happy and satisfied overall.
If you have too many options, there's a nagging fear of missing out by "choosing incorrectly".
(Forgot where I read it but I swear that it's a real scientific study.)
Choice overload is the term you're thinking of! It's why the brag that capitalism making a million of the same product with different packaging is a very confusing to be proud of
Remember when some Turning Point USA dork went to Cuba and visited a grocery store, clearly expecting the shelves to be empty, and when they weren't he made up some dumb bullshit about how it's oppressive that there was only one brand of canned tomatoes?
I worked at walmart once, and besides that one guy who bought a TV, the only time I ever saw people spend more than $100 was when they were getting groceries for their family
how is it that we have such a small userbase but we have the best posters
Because all the people from the old sub that aren't here we're never really that active. It's basically the same as it was, just with less content.
Jesus Christ I’ve seen it all
Jokerfied by the fractal depth of sexism and gender bigotry
A fuckin trans TERF? Jesus Christ I’ve seen it all
Sounds like she could have a successful career as a right wing grifter
You know, I though there was someone with a similar-ish grift, kind of down in the C-tier somewhere, but I couldn't quite remember. Fuckin ideology or something, idk.
Biden gave a 25 minute speech without mentioning policy. The bar has been set so low that it's buried underground now.
i thought that was just to protect the site from my cringe.
I like the stickies but don't do more than two at a time, it gets too cluttered
2 is the perfect amount for a daily discussion thread and 1 other important thread/event
nice, also stickies don't show up unless you're logged in, is this intentional or bug? would be good to have the discussion threads showing for lurkers at the top too
Is it me or are there now almost 2000 people online? usually there is around 900 people online on average so i guess something special happened
does the online count show registered users or is it counting lurkers? cause we're up 3x in the online category since like... yesterday... and only up a few hundred accounts.
make an account, lurkers. this isn't reddit and the whole community has really cooled off because of it. the vicious energy between posters is waaay down and we're starting to get to know each other, I think because we're not trying to hold turf against waves of centrists and fash. and there are whole pages dedicated to cool and fun things - like gardening and music - that would have gotten buried on the old sub.
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