the US right now

Fields of Mystria is a Stardew-like that plays excellently on the steam deck!

Just so you know, someone isn’t “really nice” if they make jokes like that. Maybe she used to be nice, but she isn’t acting that way now.

I’m not sure how old you are, but it sounds like you’re both still teenagers or maybe young adults. People are trying to figure themselves out at that time, and sometimes what they try out is edgelord (especially when the edgelords are gaining political power). She may be testing boundaries of what is socially acceptable, in which case it’s in her best interests as well as yours to gently push back against this kind of behavior (or more forcefully later if she doesn’t take a hint).

Something like, “hey, it makes me uncomfortable when you make those ‘identify as’ jokes. You know I’m nonbinary and that sort of humor makes me feel like you don’t respect me. I fully support your identity, including your faith, and as your friend I hope you would do the same for me.”

Even if you are 1-on-1 for that chat, she is almost certainly going to respond negatively to that, so I would drop it there, but be prepared to remind her that you don’t like it later. Ideally after some reflection she wakes up and realizes she’s causing harm to your friendship, but be prepared to break it off entirely with her if she doesn’t want to treat you with respect.

This post is less than half an hour old, can you let people see it first before complaining of silence?

Shoulda made the alias instead it sounds like!

It shows up as “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)” outside of the US apparently. That seems like enough to make a fuss to me; bodies of international water have specific rules around name changes and the US can’t unilaterally decide differently.

Well maybe let’s not “and all” the racist parts. You can still be critical of works you otherwise enjoy.

I think it’s easier to separate the art from the artist when those artists are long dead, like Poe and Lovecraft. It is materially more difficult when those people are alive and still benefitting from their works. This has been a big issue with JK Rowling for example, where consuming her media (book and movie sales, video games, theme parks, the new show, etc.) often directly benefits her and her transphobic crusade. Gaiman doesn’t have that kind of political baggage necessarily but it’s also understandable that people don’t want to support him in any way now. So, like, don’t trash your already purchased novels or anything, but also I think it’s perfectly reasonable to avoid Good Omens Season 3 if you want, you know ?

Pickles on the side?

Bad news, privacy is sadly political. When you build your brand on “trust us with your sensitive information” it’s less than ideal to align yourself with the “if you’ve done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear from privacy invasion” party

OP is literally a Trump supporter

Specifically on women’s mental health deteriorating in this situation, often this can occur when she’s still expected to pick up the majority (or all) of domestic labor in addition to her well-paying job. Women are still largely expected to “do it all” by not only their partners but by society. If you’re not a perfect businesswoman, mother, and domestic servant all in one all the time, well you’re failing your spouse, your children, your boss, your identity as a woman, etc. Women don’t just need their male partners to step up for them in labor alone, but also to reevaluate their social role that they are propagating through their (in)actions. What are you teaching your kid if mom is the only one who cooks dinner? Or cleans regularly without reminders? Or keeps track of doctor’s visits, field trips, etc?

Ah, yes, understanding where capitalism has produced a worse quality, minimally viable product that makes people a little sad but not enough to effect profit margins enough to change, is clearly due to class divide and not the estrangement of the general population from the products of their labor.

Also that’s Ms. Bourgeoisie to you

All you spaghetti haters in this post need to get bronze die cut pasta. Modern machines produce pasta that’s too smooth so sauce doesn’t stick. The old school extruders/cutters leave a tiny surface texture that allows sauce to cling on!

bro is gonna loose it when he learns about bisexuals

No protests from me, just stating facts that there are plenty of people who don’t as well

Bruh forgot about trans people, lesbians, and asexuals

Counterpoint: a greater number have touched a vagina (but that framing doesn’t obsess over a woman’s sexual purity, so, clearly less important)

Are you sure they are intending it in a diminutive sense and not a familiar or affectionate sense? Buddy is pretty common to call people you are being friendly with in American English at least. If you don’t like a nickname or term of endearment, you can tell your friends not to use it, but fair warning, friends of your age might just tease you about it instead of respecting your wishes.

Most of this is minutia that I am not in an informed enough position to comment on, but what a take three quarters into the article that they should keep their local cops because they don’t have an inquest process when people are killed! Like, no dude, it’s actually good that cops have to do the bare minimum investigation if someone dies on their watch. It ought to be more!

Seems like the author is a conservative radio host so I’d take most of this article with a huge grain of salt.

Archive link here.

Given that the council will get to replace her within 20 days of resignation and voters won’t be able to vote until next November, what does this mean for the council make up over the next year? Another member bowing to NIMBY and pro-police pressures?