I know I’m sorry doesn’t make it better, especially from an internet stranger, but you have my sympathies anyways.

I hope you’re in a better place now at least.

A person bears their soul about something horrible that happened to them, and you hijack their post in order to shit on women. Real class act you are

Their instance. .ml censors a lot of ‘bad words’.

I mean, God’s fine with taking slaves (as long as they’re not Jewish), having bears rip apart kids that laugh at his priests, and dashing babies’ heads against rocks, so he might be fine with all that stuff too.

Jesus probably wouldn’t have been okay with it though.

it’s not only about how much they have, it’s about how much we don’t have

They may be desperate for people, but how does your industry treat women? I was wanting to get into trade, but they all seem filled with sexist assholes, and good money and fun work or not, there’s only so much sexist bullshit I’m willing to put up with.

Yeah, it’s seems the only way they think that stat can change is if you ‘find God’. Because only an all-powerful God can change an inherent stat.

I think that’s also why they so readily believe that you can ‘pray the gay away’. It’s not because they don’t believe being LGBTQ+ isn’t inherently a birth thing; it’s because they already know God can change Bad People to Good People so obviously he can take other ‘Badness’ away too.

The problem is the local yokels outside the city don’t see this as a good point, but as him being a sniveling fool who needs a Real Man like Trump to run his city. And that’s because they have a very different worldview.

Most same people, like us, see being bad or good as something you do, and as such, with proper care and help and education you can do better.

They, on the other hand, see bad and good as something you are, a sort of fundamental birth stat that can never change. That’s why they think these ICE raids are a good thing, that’s why they want prisons to just be wholly punitive, that’s why they’re fine with writing off whole groups. Because those people are Bad, and so they will always do Bad Things, and only naive fools think that Bad People can become Good.

The really troubling part of their worldview, though, is a lot of them seem to think Bad radiates out from these people/groups and infects things around them.

Arthur is a Canadian-produced kid’s show that ran from 1996-2022 on PBS. The meme is a classic to use when you want to show you found something frustrating or infuriating.

Amusingly, this was just a bit down in my feed

Can’t you go pester Kennedy instead?

Maybe it’s a riff on the people who stuck signs on people’s backs in school and how that one artist never grew up.

Wouldn’t they just use their trunks?

Well, ‘good’ by US standards.

Wish we had Japan standards :(

For him it’s more the heavy rain and lack of safe bike paths… but that’s another discussion.

My friend’s work is over an hour from his house by public transport—if public transport is working, and it’s a weekday. If it isn’t working well, if it’s late, if it’s a weekend or holiday, then it’s closer to two hours (or more).

It’s 15 minutes max by car.

And he lives in a place with good public transportation.

Until we improve how public transportation runs, so that it really is designed around how people need to get from A to B, cars are going to be the more popular choice.

These days people put out a lot of their personal information online. Often people blast their name and location without a care.

Even if you are more careful than that, you probably give away more than you think. And it is still possible to look up addresses once you get someone’s real name and general location. Someone with a grudge can spend a frightening amount of time looking though past posts and such to piece together where you are.

Sadly, yes. Quite often, in fact.

Some people even make sort of a career out of it.

I mean, I understand it. I think it’s stupid, but I understand it.

They believe Good is something you are, not something you do. So anything they do is Good, because they’re Good. If a Bad Person does the same thing, say, running up debt; they did something Bad, because Bad People only do Bad things.

Okay, but what’s with the splash photo, seriously?