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Jfc, that’s where I got mine!

Dammit, I was just talking about this a few weeks ago on lemmy, and it was surprising how many other people have had this happen, and how hard it can be to grieve the loss of that dream life

If this holds up, then mint users are rocking a thirty year old one cup drip machine that only has one button, and only makes one regular mug at a time.

Stallone made great first movies. It’s sequels that he kinda sucked at.

I’d say it’s a tie between First Blood and Rocky for his best performance for sure, with Rocky being a little better as a movie overall.

Tbh though, he squandered his ability as an actor chasing being an action star. First Blood was the last movie he made that had any real acting in it.

I’m not saying that he didn’t do good action movies, he did, and he still kinda does. It’s the acting part that he started phoning in. Even in the Rocky series, the second one was half-assed acting compared to the first, and it went schlocky after that. It’s like he was doing a caricature or impression of Rocky rather than seriously acting.

Now, again, as an action star, he was top tier. He had the moves, the look, and just enough skill to make characters pop a little.

Hell, I’ll usually let someone finger me for two bucks, a good chocolate bar, and the promise they’ll lube up.

That is a very valid point :)

Only people that have never played heals well say that.

A good healer? You aren’t bottoming, you’re the center of a team, keeping the pace and flow.

A bad healer, you’re chasing around a step behind the flow, watching your team go down.

In French, poules is chickens, and said roughly the same as pool. So there’s swimming poules in a swimming pool.

You can feel free to handle your pronouns however you want. That’s your choice, and I have no beef with that. You said you’re essentially venting with this post, so my interpretation that you were seeking some degree of understanding as to why people react poorly to your choice was incorrect, so there’s really little else I can say.

Sorry to have wasted your time.

The only thing I can say at this point is that you’re going to continue to have problems with people while you continue using grammar that’s so far off of the way everyone else does. It comes across as a troll attempt rather than a genuine thing.

I mean, when they’re expressing frustration at people responding in anger, and there’s a significant portion of that anger that stems from poor grammar, I would say it’s totally on topic to talk about the semantics of words, particularly when the post is inaccurately pointing towards a cause for the anger that isn’t accurate, based on things people have said in the open.

My homie, I’m going to quote here

drag’s pronouns are very consistent

That sentence is drag as a possesive noun. The 's means that the “pronouns” word right after the 's is possessed by drag.

You don’t say, in English, I’s pronouns, or mine’s pronouns, or my’s pronouns. You would only say my pronouns. My is the singular possessive of the self.

Like, I have mad respect for you, you make people think, and you handle the bullshit with grace. If you’re going to make it work, you kinda have to choose between following english grammar and structure in a way that communicates clearly, or expect confusion followed by anger. When you try to explain your choices to people, you fall back on incorrect grammar. It makes it look like you’re fucking with people rather than explaining.

Now, if you want to do that, that’s cool. You can make that choice freely. I’m not trying to change your mind, or get you to do things the way everyone else does. But that’s why you get anger.

Again, I dig you. I’ve enjoyed seeing you around lemmy. This isn’t an attack. I’m just trying to explain what other people have said already, but in a slightly different way, since you seem to not see where the anger is coming from. It could be a language barrier, I dunno.

Well, no, transphobia is a specific thing with a fairly well defined set of limits. You can’t apply it willy nilly. Well, you can, but it not only won’t achieve anything, and it waters down the term.

Go through their history, look at the comments. Any venom towards dragonrider is because of the dissonance of the terminology, not because they’re trans. Which, have they even said they’re trans before now? I haven’t checked every single post and comment. This is the first time I’ve seen them mention it.

Neo pronouns aren’t just a cis thing with it being confusing. Trans people get confused about it too, and some directly object to it being lumped into trans rights at all because the struggle for acceptance of established pronouns is already fraught with difficulty, and outright danger. IDGAF, though I’m not wasting my time adjusting my keyboard settings to capitalize it, or translating every single pronoun to drag. More power to anyone. But dragonrider asked something, and I gave the best response I could to it.

They genuinely seem confused why people get angry with them, and the post seemed to be wanting discussion about that. The truth is that people think drag is trolling because it’s inconsistently applied, and doesn’t follow grammatical structures. Regardless of what anyone thinks, you can’t just redraw the grammar of an entire language and think people are going to play along.

Seriously, have you not seen drag around lemmy? The heat they’re taking is directly because of the confusion around the weird choice and the explanation not matching what they write. Nobody is all “oh, you’re trans, you suck, go away”.

I mean, c’mon dragon rider, you have to realize that the inconsistent way you use drag as pronoun makes it confusing as hell, even to the best intentioned

And the choice of it as a pronoun is a hard sell to begin with. Neopronouns are pig dubious value, and a ton of people will point out that it makes it harder for trans people to be taken seriously against an already douche filled world. With it also being part of your screen name, the entire thing looks like a troll attempt.

Hell, I’m not certain you aren’t trolling, and I enjoy seeing you around, making people think.

Truth? If you stuck to replacing gendered pronouns, you wouldn’t run into the confusion. Replacing I with drag really, really doesn’t work grammatically since drag is part of dragon rider. I, my, mine, they just aren’t the same as gendered pronouns, and when you’re wanting people to ignore a lifetime of speaking english with the rules of grammar as they are and replace self referential pronouns with a random word that’s only for you, I’m surprised you haven’t ended up banned across lemmy.

Seriously, you seem cool as fuck. But choosing to apply drag to I, me, mine, and then using drag’s, which is a third person possessive, it just isn’t ever going to end. You’ll always have someone confused as the best case scenario. You could be the most awesome person on the planet, and the dissonance of being expected to adapt to inconsistent rules using an awkward word is offputting enough to make it not worth the effort of communication with you. If I had to try and remember to insert drag for every “you” in this, I would have quit entirely. It just isn’t realistic to expect the majority of people to automatically obey your arbitrary rules.

What you’re experiencing isn’t transphobia, period. It’s the dissonance of choosing a random word as a pronoun and expecting people to know what you’re saying.

Preach on.

I’m infuriated over the bullshit. Don’t come at the people I love just because you’re a backwards jackass.

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This is why I’ve started blasting the fuck out of every one of them. You do enough cursing and insulting, they tend to actually stop texting and calling. I got sick of having to tell them to fucking stop the spam, which didn’t work. But, amazingly, after a few days of going batshit on every one of them, they’ve stopped almost entirely. No texts at all in three days for me, though my wife and dad still get them.

I’m worried we’re past the point of the first two working.

You know, I tried a lot of tactics to get the spam calls and texts to stop.

What ended up working so far is telling them that I’m sick of the spam, and that because of it, I’m staying home instead of voting.

Mind you, I’m lying, but they don’t need to know that. But it worked, so far. Haven’t gotten any in a few days now, and they were coming in multiples each day before that

Yeah, that’s been a thing for ages. All the way back to tapes being copied because my parents had the best double tape deck out of anyone I knew. Vhs tapes of skinamax (skinemax? Idk how that should be spelled lol) movies, or regular ones being swapped around.

I still swap files in the same way. Well not the same I don’t use magnetic tape lol. But yeah, if someone wants something, and I have it, all I need is something to put it on. Since I have a disc burner, it doesn’t have to be a drive, though they’d need a drive to access anything on a disc, which gets less and less common. I don’t loan out thumb drives to just anyone, but I’ll usually be glad to copy files to theirs. Hell, that’s actually my preferred method for swapping files. It’s faster and less prone to hassles than p2p methods.

Me and my best friend serve as each other’s off site storage too. He keeps a drive with important/hard to replace files with me, and vice versa. When we visit, we’ll swap out with a second drive that’s updated. Ends up with triple redundancy, since there will be the last drive at each other’s, plus the second drive that’s being updated between swaps, as well as the original files on whatever device is the main source. I have another drive like that that I swap out at my sister’s.

Most of those drives we swap aren’t media, though there is some of that, what with hard to find stuff being easier to keep multiple copies of instead of trying to hunt down again. The media files, those are open to copy off, so it’s a form of sneakernet in that regard, rather than only being backups of stuff of our own.

Yeah, that was my take too. Interesting, and decent overall with no real high points, but it wasn’t some kind of horrible show at all. Just kinda meh, more of a fanfic idea than a real show.