MagicShel

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[โ€“] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 22 points 5 hours ago

I'm cis and they give me environmental stress. "Dude, I'm just trying to order lunch. Why are you sharing these inside thoughts with me?"

I wouldn't trade it, but one bad thing about being an old white guy is assholes think I'm safe to unmask around, and Christ it skeeves me out. No, man, take those fucking thoughts to your grave.

[โ€“] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I haven't heard anyone use "Jap" outside my grandfather's generation โ€” and he fought a fucking war against them so no surprise he had some big feels there. But he's also been dead about 25 years and I've never heard the word since.

But also I don't hang out with racists, so what do I know.

[โ€“] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What's someone who doesn't hate bass, they just hate your bass?

[โ€“] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago

If you asked me to pick a different name remaining a guy I don't think I could without a lot of thought.

[โ€“] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 days ago

Upvoted for entertaining insanity. But Jesus Christ.

[โ€“] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Shitty steak sauce for people who think "well-done" is a cooking instruction rather than a compliment?

[โ€“] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Interesting. My grandpa was Albanian. Not that he ever talked about it, really. Or maybe I was too young at the time to listen.

Anyhow, I'm glad we weren't dicks to his people. There aren't many countries you can say that about.

[โ€“] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't have context for your question, and sometimes someone gaslights you into thinking what they want is the right thing. But taking your question at face value, having someone encouraging you to be your best self isn't a bad thing. I think that's one of the ways we grow as people.

[โ€“] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

We started putting our shit up almost immediately after Halloween. I don't mind all the gaudy bullshit, just the work and storage space. I just want to put up projector lights. My wife complains that they look like someone didn't put any effort in โ€” I said that's exactly why I like them. At least we were able to agree on a prelit tree with no extra ornaments. I do miss the extravagant trees my grandma put up when I was little but it's so much breakable glass shit.

Last year I put up permanent Govee lights. They were pretty good but then we had our roof redone this fall and I noticed half of them don't work now. C'est la vie.

[โ€“] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Greetings, Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the Frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada

If only because I would love to be recruited into space for beating a video game.

By far my favorite movie about a video game that doesn't exist.

[โ€“] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There's enough biological diversity that fairness is basically an illusion anyway. I don't care enough about sports to have a strong opinion. I think it's fine to say giving up competitive sports is a cost of gender transition. I might think it's also fine to let trans athletes compete except I would hate it if the women's league became the trans league or if poor young kids felt pressure to transition in order to compete at a higher level and get life-changing scholarships or even a professional career.

Is that a legitimate fear? Maybe not. At the end of the day, I rarely watch sports. I would support letting them compete and seeing if it is a problem before passing laws to fix issues that don't actually exist.

[โ€“] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

I agree up to the point where the amendment is pointed at as disallowing reasonable regulation. If that's the case, end 2A. But my goal is regulation, not abolishment. If 2A folks (mainly the Supreme Court here) can accept regulation existing in parallel with 2A, then I'm happy.

I'm mainly thinking about preventing school shootings and domestic violence and murder, so restrictions of some sort on mental health / violent history.

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