You joke, but I recently met a heterosexual conservative couple at a bar in Austin. We were having a great time up until they learned I was gay. Then they implied I was un-American because I am both gay and Asian.

To me, the cold behavior exhibited by the couple was un-American, not my sexual preference.

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I love casually lying to congress about my ethical principles and morals.

Well said, and well put. Sometimes it feels a little lonely on Lemmy and the fediverse, but I feel good contributing to a decentralized web.

Yeah that’s ultra surprising

Dude that’s dope af

That’s a pretty neat Pic.

This reads like the prologue of a VN to roleplay as a republican.

My favorite confederate war hero

The social contract is an implicit agreement we sign when we are born into or under whatever nation/state/government we reside within.

Torching the contract will throw us in mass chaos, mob rule, hyperpartisanship, tribalistic regression, the list goes on.

Used to think it was blown out of proportion in the hyper-reality of social media, but I see it in everyday life now. Small cracks in society form huge wedges between people.

Basic trust in others, society, the government and it’s institutions has been eroded. That might not seem like an important thing for daily life to some, but it is essential to work together as social organisms. Restoring that trust is a generational task. Complicating that task are modern problems beyond the wildest dreams of even the wisest philosophers.

In the next congressional cycle, I’ll bet my right kidney that it’ll be more than just 2 nickels

I want this as a sticker for my laptop.

I’m gonna shill for FreshRSS and Feed Me. Been a fantastic combination so far.

Self hosting FreshRSS allows me to curate shit I care about. Even better, it’s private aggregation. Sometimes though, I miss the conversation around these topics. For that, Lemmy exists.

So I was listening to a Bloomberg Tech Podcast about this. Someone from some random media group actually said “consumer demand for ad supported content over netflix’s usual high production value dramas is up”

For some reason, that statement was both incredibly threatening and incredibly ominous

Is that Descartes?

I would laugh if only this wasn’t a terrifying plausibility. Imagine you have pneumonia and need a chest x-ray to confirm that was denied because you were out of network. Imagine there is no recourse because all customer service has been outsourcedto a very friendly chat bot who will kindly tell you ‘DENIED’ after arguing with it for 30 minutes.

It’s 70 F here in Houston, Texas. It is also wet and disgusting outside.

I wish I was eating cereal so I could spit it out to express displeasure.

Bruh

Amen