Boozilla @ Boozilla @lemmy.world

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Only these psychopathic dipshits would think shooting an unarmed person makes you some kind of badass.

I have not tested these. They...might work?

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https://northernwoodsmen.com/rite-in-the-rain-all-weather-pen/?sku=RR-OR97

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarsier

Ree-luh-tur instead of reel-tur.

I understand the appeal, even though it doesn't appeal to me. As a business it's pure marketing genius. That dude took it from a shunned nothing to the entertainment money printing apparatus that it is now. Which makes me even less interested. I don't hate popular things for being popular. But that tier of money printing makes everyone at or near the top an evil asshole.

I'm one of the oldest people in the multiple tabletop gaming groups I play with. There are a lot of missed references in both directions. There's a wide diversity of taste in music, movies, books, streaming shows, etc. We just laugh it off, or ask to be caught up when we don't get it. Helps a lot that we all like each other, and have the games in common.

So it is possible to move past it. But it can make it more challenging to click in the beginning.

Conservatives shit their pants over things like SNAP and DEI. But they see this fucking moron and say: give him all the tax dollars.

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/rockstar-accused-of-the-most-ruthless-act-of-union-busting-in-the-history-of-the-uk-games-industry-after-firing-dozens-of-employees-who-were-allegedly-attempting-to-form-a-union/

Depends on the sauce, but one trick is to put a little sour cream in it. Do a taste test before you commit.

The way some people pronounce jewelry and realtor makes me wince. I never say anything, but I feel a secret burning rage for people who add a non-existant syllable to the middle of those words. (Which is, unfortunately, most people where I live).

I'm not on X or FB, and while I do have a "mandatory" LinkedIn account, I never post anything. No future healthcare for me, I reckon.

Stickers like that don't bother me much, as people often get them for free and naturally sometimes feel an urge to stick them on something.

What blows my mind are the douchebags who pay a premium to buy some t-shirt or cap that's essentially a walking billboard for fashion brands.

Anything that requires a good sense of direction / orienting / navigating. I have always been terrible at that kind of stuff. GPS was a huge life changer for me.

Here's the top 3 things most people in the US have not heard about:

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You have good intentions, so that's a good starting point. I think the trick is to not overthink it to much. You don't have to overtly prove that you are safe and supportive. And as you already realized, you don't need to call attention to the person being trans.

I play tabletop games at a local gaming store at least once a week and there are often a half dozen or more trans people there playing games. My friends and I just talk to them the same way we would talk to anybody else in the store. That doesn't mean we're all exactly the same. Some of us are bubbly and extroverted, some of us are more reserved and introverted. But the key thing is: we don't change to some other "mode" of interaction when the person we're talking to is trans.

So if you normally casually compliment people on their fashion choices, etc, and you can do it in a nonthreatening socially smooth way, sure, I think that's fine. But if you are being "extra" just because the person is trans, and doing some kind of role play you normally wouldn't...don't do it.

I hope that helps.

In the book of Job, Satan is depicted more like a friendly prosecutor or advisor to God than an enemy. He and Yahweh are like frat bros torturing the poor schmuck.

Fair, but I did try for a while. Lemmy has a lot of "snipers" who don't contribute anything more than condescending AKSHUALLY "corrections" or pure snark. You go into their history and that is 90% of what you see. I have blocked several. I think it's leftover baggage and trauma from reddit. (I don't consider your meme reply to be a snipe, hopefully that was not implied.)

The lack of active niche communities is frustrating.

I speculate it's mostly Ouroboros style funding and phony metrics. Bots selling "engagement" to other bots is pretty profitable, I guess. At least for now. The only person I know who still openly uses reddit is an obnoxious drunk white woman in her 60s.

Sorry I wasn't more encouraging. I guess I have become a bit jaded regarding overly extroverted coworkers over the years. I do think going to management would probably do more harm than good. Only you can judge how obnoxious the gossiping folks are, and your own tolerance threshold for it. I'm just some rando on the internet. But I do completely empathize with your situation.