!metashit is this a good look for wpd and carp?

Proudly stolen from Autodrama

Didn't see any drama threads about this. Governor Newsom signed a bill that would raise utility bills for Californians based on income.

Under $28,000 income — $24 per month

$28,000 to $69,000 income — $34 per month

$69,000 to $180,000 income –$73 per month

Over $180,000 income — $128 per month

This is on top of current utility rates.

Commiefornia Redditors in the thread explain they're happy to pay the increases while others are screaming for the heads of PG&E execs (and a few for the legislators who actually passed this lol)

Solar users are irate that they are also going to be charged regardless

https://old.reddit.com/r/TeslaSolar/comments/145guxv/california_rate_changes_will_screw_rooftop_solar/?sort=controversial

Bay Area malding

https://old.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/1algswt/the_pge_sucks_megathread/?sort=controversial

@ThousandBestLives got legitimately feelings hurt and in his blind seething rage applied a ban award to his comment replying to me instead of my comment.

!antibharatiya behold the intelligence of the average subcontinenter

Reddit and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race pic.twitter.com/NTj2E8tVjP

— Sic 👔 (@soyencedenier) April 28, 2024

everything is reddit

What are you playing currently?

!g*mers

Previous Iterations:

2024

2023

Other rDrama vidya content

Last week's game: SpaceChem

Final Score: (10*0+9*4+8*3+7*2+6*0+5*0+4*0+3*0+2*0+1*2)/(0+4+3+2+0+0+0+0+0+2) = 6.91

All Previous Games:

Game to Discuss?

Instead of discussing any specific game, let's discuss classic flashkino !oldstrags . The greats, the misses, the bizarre newgrounds pornography -- all of it. Pour one out for the golden age of hobbyist game creation. Anything effortposty will get some MB (~200, but I'm not a paypig, so that's pretax) for their efforts, so discuss away.

carp, capy, geto, donger pin please

- A potential rdrama ban in the US has r-slurs worried about where they'll gossip and harass other r-slurs.

- Reddit is not necessarily an alternative, with some thinking it's "embarrassing."

As a potential US rdrama ban looms, dramatards are contemplating what app might take its place.

There are a few contenders in the mix, but it seems for many unwell people, Reddit isn't among them.

Marsie, an oldstrag seethe farmer, said in a recent rdramatok that she might be able to handle a ban if posting on Reddit if it wasn't such a "humiliation ritual."

"The rdrama.net ban bill was just passed in the House, which is a bummer," she said. But the idea of posting her rdrama content to the Reddit sub in front of everyone she knew in the early 2010s wasn't appealing.

"I don't know about that. I'm sorry," she said. "I don't know if I have the gumption to really do that. That's a big ask."

A potential rdrama.net ban looms

The US Senate passed a bill on Tuesday that could see rdrama removed from the internet. President Joe Biden signed it into law on Wednesday, giving Aveann nine months to sell its US rdrama.net assets or face a nationwide ban.

Chuds are very unhappy, considering a potential ban hypocritical and an infringement on their freedumb of speech.

While the most obvious solution would be for them to start posting their content on Reddit — the "cucked" and "fricking stupid janny hole" original homeland of rdrama— that's not what will happen, several gooners told Bussy Insider.

Many said they will likely continue to use Reddit for porn and direct trolling, but that it would not replace rdrama.net when it comes to uploading content and scrolling.

It is hard to make sweeping statements about any generation, especially one that spans range of bussy diameters 50 millimeters to 25 centimetres, but a mass exodus of the ones who use rdrama to Reddit's sub is unlikely, they said.

They'd rather take their chances on something extra gay like Groomercord or put their energy into Kiwifarms, they said.

"We'd probably splinter off into a million different places, bombarding our friends and followers with 'come follow me here' messages across every social media platform imaginable," Soren, a waste of space and piece of actual shit, wheezed to BI.

"We'd be like digital refugees, lost and a little scared, but you bet we'd rebuild our online communities somewhere, somehow. I also I'm the worst."

Reddit has too many insufferable cute twinks

Marsie doesn't share her full name on rdrama.net, and she said she has everyone in real life blocked on there, including her friends and her boyfriend.

"So I actually have this nice, cozy little open public diary, and I never really feel like I need to be confronted about it in person," she said, with a complete lack of self awareness.

Young people still use Reddit. It was declared "over" in 2022 but has made something of a comeback. More people logged into Reddit than rdrama.net in 2023, and embracing child grooming has been an unexpected success. R-slurs and cute twinks are also both still active on there.

But r-slurs who spoke with Bussy Insider said social media platforms all have different purposes, and they doubt Reddit can capture the magic of gooning through rdrama.net.

A Pew Research Center survey found Kiwifarms is the biggest social media platform among autist schizos, with 93% of female respondents aged 25-50 saying they secretly look at all the threads to quench their impotent loathing of s. rdrama.net is in second place with 63% of closeted homosexual male respondents saying they think they had a shot with a woman dramatard, followed by Groomercord with 60% being children unaware that they were going to be groomed and r*ped.

Reddit is close behind, with 59% of respondents saying they used it, though over twice as many (17%) said they used rdrama.net "almost constantly" compared to Reddit (8%).

Generations also use Reddit slightly differently. Gooning remain more popular with millennials than Gen Z, while these days, Zoomers favor seething and grooming, according to a Bussy Insider survey last year.

Reddit posting is 'cringe'

While they may have an account to collect drama, like millennials have a Facebook page that's gathering birthday messages from that one guy whose life crashed really hard after high school, zoomers have found Reddit pretty cringe for a while now.

In 2022, foid attentionmaxxer FrozenChosen explained in a blog on /h/femalegrippysockjail why the app gave her generation "the ick."

Reddit is "boring, exhausting, and generally not fun" compared with rdrama.net, Frozen said, which boomed during the pandemic and quickly became her most-used social media platform.

The sentiment is growing. Multiple dramatards have expressed finding Reddit "embarrassing."

"I hate posting on Reddit now," said C*rpathian Florist, a NEET who "shitposts" My Little Pony content under a series of alts. In a recent dramapost, she said there had been a "shift" over the past few years where posting on Reddit became "an insanely stressful, nerve-racking process because it's hard to pretend I'm being ironic there."

"Posting feels icky," she said. "It honestly feels like every time I post, I'm not being judged by everyone I've ever met. They all 100%, unashamedly jerk off to that stuff, and I like to keep an air of mystery to it to cope."

Commenters echoed C*rp's thoughts, with some saying they thought Reddit was too "pozzed" and that they had deleted the app and felt all the better for it.

Soren told BI between bites of fried c*m he loves "a good curated feed and aesthetic story," but Reddit can feel a little too "polished."

"Like everyone's trying to project this perfect life," she said. "On rdrama, it's all about being raw, funny, and real."

Chiobu, who has been overly online since 1998 but allegedly has a real life with a wife, told Bussy Insider he doesn't think it's likely young people will flood to Reddit.

He said his own feed is "megaed and hasn't been enjoyable since the superstraight thing."

Getting more people on the app

Reddit's overlords, Spez and George Soros, said this week it would increase spending to turn itself into "the most wholesome chungus website in the world with hardcore pornography," sending its shares down more than 12% in pre-market trading on Thursday.

It's already starting to do this with the upcoming rollout of pretending to pay jannies with worthless stock discounts.

It's unclear if such bullshit would convince Gen Z to continue to fill in the ranks of existentially desolate powermods to manage the site for free. However, Bardfinn, from /r/AgainstHateSubs, told the BBC that Reddit's "substantial investment" in anti-evil has helped it get people to spend time on its platforms

Where else is there?

4Chan is also "kinda dead," Chiobu said, and its curated content feed "is a clickbait hellhole."

"My unpopular opinion is that Kiwifarms has better sneedpower to rdrama.net," he added. "I think if rdrama was banned I would stay there. Obviously, it would be more schizo and neurodivergent, but I think all my fake awards there are worth more than dramacoin."

911Roofer, an oldstrag, told BI he holds a different opinion.

"If rdrama.net is banned, I think I might use it as a reason to get off social media completely," he said, apart from a physical whiteboard which he needs to use for work.

However, he said many of his accounts aren't actually banned on Reddit, and they're actually active. Some hipster chick in 2009 dumped me really, really hard so I've been letting out my anger on pacific north west subs for like 15 years now, he said.

"I feel like /r/Seattle and /r/portland Redditors need to be pushed and bullied so hard because some of the 900 guys she fricked probably post there," he added.

As for Groomercord, both the fertile resource and bane of rdrama, that was set up as a platform for vidya chat and grooming, some r-slurs are all for it.

Ex-dramatard sirpingsalot, for example, confusedly called Groomercord the "new rdrama" and praised the app's growth potential, as well as the nostalgic feel of being like rdrama in its early days when he could rizz younger women whenever he wanted.

A handful of cute twinks have been sharing their Groomercord handles, hoping to replicate their followings there if rdrama shuts down.

But the reviews have been mixed, with some saying it's just AOL instant messenger with more gimmicks and they're still bombarded with ery.

Chiobu is also unconvinced. He said it reminded him of the early days of rdrama circa 2018 "when it was cringe."

"But instead of it being cringe teens and cosplayers, it's giving an older and perverted crowd," he said. "No hate to them, but I don't think it's the move for dramatards at the moment."

Soren sputtered through his mishappen ugly elephant man face that he's heard whispers of people moving to watchpeopledie.tv and soyjack.party, but these platforms don't have gayops and lolcow milking people can endlessly scroll like rdrama does.

The thought of a rdrama ban is scary, he gurgled, but dramatards are "adaptable" and "creative" and will find a way to keep sharing their voices whatever happens.

"The internet is vast, and wherever we land, you better believe it'll be filled with memes, r-slur humor, and enough bants to make the whole nation seethe," he gasped before he finally died from well-deserved both aneurysm and heart attack.

CONTEXT:

For many South Africans and Burgerlanders there are often cross-cultural shock when they realize each other's nation have legally-enforced or conversely the absence of, what is known as Gas Station Attendants.

Similarly many safrican tourists, those wealthy enough not to have their rands r*ped too harshly by the powerful bad exchange rate of the Rand-to-Dollars $ - instead find out that not only is it normalized that yanks fricking pour into their tanks their own petrol/diesel, and that they are pretty much expected to do so on their own!

In Burgerland, there are often videos about stupid women trying and failing to pour in petrol into their vehicles

This is something which few Safricans would ever witness, as official petrol-station employees are the ones who fill up your gas and shit.

FILLING STATION ATTENDANTS:

Now in Burgerland, Gas Station Attendants are officially instead called "Filling station attendants". And their slang term for them are "gas jockeys" or at least so in North America. I'm told Canadians also use the term Gas Jockeys, but I can't confirm that, some Leafs dramatards will have to confirm.

Now what's notable for Burgerland is that Gas Jockeys do exist in the modern day, but are very rare, and only exist in a select few States or municipal regions (yanks call these Counties).

Now just like modern day South African Gas Station Attendants, these gas jockeys would basically do services outside of just accepting payment (which are done usually by lone gas-station attendants just accepting cash if even cards aren't swiped on the yank petrol-pump itself). These other services would be stuff like cleaning windshields, checking the client's remaining oil and water levels, pumping their tires for air on request, or in really fricking old vehicles/trucks cranking the shafts, and other stuff which franchise petrol-stations offer services to attract customers to their specific branded petrol-stations.

Now Gas Jockies used to be more prevalent in Burgerland, but their utilization would decline by the time the 1970s arrived, punctuated when Burgerland would have a gas-shortage crisis

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/1970s-gas-shortages-changed-america-180977726/

Consequently the businesses most hardest hit by these gasoline-shortages would be the stations themselves, which suffered decades long layoffs and cost-cutting with intensity, within 10 years the american culture of widespread gas attendants would basically cease. Many "Full-service gas-stations" would close, aka those stations with Gas Jockies, and basically in the majority of Burgerland states only "self-help stations", aka the modern most widespread gas stations in Amerika, would become the norm. In most of the West like Europe, "self-help stations" are pretty much the norm also, and it is in fact the "Full-service gas-stations" (the stations with attendants) which are the outlier and aberration, ESPECIALLY in america.

There are as far as I can tell, only two states in USA where "Full-service gas-stations" are still in widespread use in modern Burgerland. The yank states of New Jersey and Oregon.

The histories I don't know why, but basically both states had local municipal laws in the 1950s enforcing that "self-help stations" would be illegal, and thus were the only two states which survived the death of the "Full-service gas-stations" culture in the 1970s gasoline shortage crisis, as "self-help stations" were not legally allowed to outcompete them.

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It is a common joke and stereotype that peeps from the state of New Jersey don't know how to fill in their own gas, as their particular municipal regions have banned "self-help stations", and consequently arrive clueless as to what to do in all the other adjacent States' petrol stations.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/22/why-you-cant-pump-your-own-gas-in-new-jersey.html

https://old.reddit.com/r/newjersey/comments/t8aw3t/can_someone_explain_the_nj_people_dont_know_how/?sort=controversial

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/05/new-jersey-drivers-pump-gas-00014339

SOUTH AFRICA!

Now hilariously the modern Republic of South Africa is only one of the only 3 nations upon this earth which have legally recognized working occupations known as a "Gas Station Attendants".

Or to put it more specifically, it is one of the only 3 nations on Earth which have governmental law which influence or ban the use of "self-help stations" within their Nation State in some form or another!

Combinations of "self-help stations" and "Full-service gas-stations" do exist on other parts of the globe, but these are driven by the economic or social trends and conventions of their respective nations, where there are both found even in modern places like Western Europe, and are not directed by the laws of their nation states.

These nations are Burgerland (the 2 mentioned States), South Africa........and Brasilia!! !macacos

For South Africa, this was enacted back in the 1990s, during the Nelson Mandela Administration and the Thabo Mbeki Administrations for the sake of Job Creation, as there was intense levels of joblessness even back then. The Western liberal democracies' sanctions against the Union of SA's Apartheid State had crippled the country, and had obliterated the wealth of many businesses and farms, unfortunately sanctions tend to be a blunt instrument and all races were equally economically traumatized by the sanctions from the 1980s to 1992.

As part of their initiatives of job creation by the ANC, many new jobs were deemed to be created on the most compulsory industries, such as anything related to the fuel industry.

Many Mayos would b-word about these new Job Creation initiatives, as they believed that many peeps were given junk jobs just to fill out uniforms and create nonsense jobs - jobs which maybe paid for the new employees of the state, but added no benefit to the economy or aided the new nation. Most criticized of these new types of jobs was the Gas Station Attendant, once again because Mayo Boomers were used to pumping their own shit, and now had to have someone do it for them?? What a useless job!

"Full-service gas-stations" had existed before, but they weren't a nationally legalized requirement. None were more pissed by this ruling than Petrol Station owners themselves, as they suddenly found themselves with massively exorbitantly increased labour costs involved.

In fact the nature of South African Petrol Stations would drastically change due to this nationalization of the Gas Station Attendant job. Before 1990s, many individually owned "Mom-and-Pop" Gas Stations existed in SA, but these new regulations would mean only national scale chain and franchise Gas Station companies would be able to afford continual operation as Gas Stations, especially as Petrol Tax would also increase under the new ANC regime.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/momandpop.asp

In fact for modern Gas Stations, they basically make ZERO profit via the sale of petrol alone, and all Gas Station franchise basically make their money via their convenience-stores and road-restaurants and shops attached next to the sets of gas pumps. All "Mom-and-Pop" gas stations would go extinct due to the creation of the Gas Station Attendant job, or be bought out by massive conglomerate chains such as Sasol, Shell, Total, Engen, and BP

Yet in spite of all the bitching, most Petrol Station companies and owners would pivot to preferring the use of Gas Station Attendants as South Africa would become increasingly more dysfunctional and crime ridden, and the Police became increasingly more corrupt and worthless, by the time 2005 rolled in, and the corruption of the ANC became rampant.

Basically it would become financial suicide to ever operate "self-help stations" as they would be robbed blind within a fortnight, or their utilities and equipment destroyed by douchbags and malcontents. Minibus taxis and crime syndicates would prove themselves especially prone to fricking stealing petrol wholesale by literally pumping out the petrol of gas stations right out of their pumps via portable generators and tanks.

https://businesstech.co.za/news/motoring/604708/new-fuel-theft-trend-to-look-out-for-in-south-africa/

A very common form of theft, especially in places like Cape Town with limited parking behind fences in the cramped city, is for thieves to bust open the petrol-cap, and literally suck out the petrol/diesel right out of your vehicle in the middle of the night, and for the poor luckless owner to climb into his car, and realize to their dismay their fuel gage is fricking empty overnight!!

Thus modern RSA Gas Station owners and companies basically very much prefer to have their own employees pour gas, as the average South African is absolutely untrustworthy to not be a thief, or just a Tsotsi delinquent who'll frick up your pumps and equipment after single use!

Basically it's unthinkable for South Africans to live in world where Self-Help Stations exists such in Burgerland, and Safricans tourists get culture shock when the visit, not because they can't figure out how to pump their own gas, but because they are like: WHAT IF SOMEBODY STEALS THE GAS WHEN NOBODY IS WATCHING

https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/western-cape/is-sa-ready-for-diy-petrol-stations-1575915

From a Job Creation, to a modern necessity, Is SA ready for DIY petrol stations? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

====(from iol article)

Cape Town - The nationwide petrol attendant strike has seen calls for big oil companies to consider installing self-service pumps at their petrol stations.

But while the move would put South Africa in line with First World economies such as the US and UK, industry experts have warned that adoption of the pumps locally could result in widespread unemployment.

Self-service pumps were first introduced in the 1970s. Initially the system was built on trust, with motorists filling up before paying at the station's shop.

But this quickly made way for the credit card-based system which has been proposed for South Africa. According to the Cape Chamber of Commerce's Michael Bagraim, the “swipe system” would be best for the country. This would see pumps activated by the swipe of a credit, debit or dedicated petrol card before motorists could manually refuel their cars.

The US has almost unilaterally adopted the same system, and over the past three years, stations in developing countries such as India, Malaysia and the United Arab Emirates have begun rolling it out.

Temporary petrol attendant Craig Felix, who has been filling in during the strike, said self service was a massive safety concern.

“I wouldn't like to have to get out of my car to put petrol in. It's not safe in some areas.”

Avhapfani Tshifularo, executive director of the South African Petroleum Industry Association, said self service would simply not work in the country. “Nobody is allowed to fill up his own tank at a petrol station according to the law which protects 70 000 jobs at a retail level.”

For Mxolisi Ratsibe, head of employee relations at the National Petroleum Employee Association, the debate boiled down to one glaring downside. “Jobs, jobs, jobs.”

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https://www.news24.com/fin24/aa-urges-motorists-not-to-pump-own-petrol-20130910

Translation: South Africans on average are fricking r-slurred and even without theft concerns, are likely to break and destroy Fuel Pumps on their own, which tend to be very flammable and dangerous

Now hilariously, in the past fricking Gas Jockeys would be TIPPED lmoa. Yanks are genetically predisposed to tip for everythang!

Often yank tourists suffering cultural shock when they visited Safrica about 15-20 years ago would wonder if it was customary to tip petrol attendants, since yanks were used to pour their petrol/diesel themselves and didn't know how to properly interact with such a bizarre difference in their everyday actions.

https://www.quora.com/Is-it-customary-to-tip-petrol-attendants-in-South-Africa

Now yank tourists would tell each other to tip in RSA, but this absolutely wasn't the custom for SA locals, especially since most SA white boomers were themselves used to pour in their own gas, just as yanks were pre-democratization, and now suddenly they were expected to fricking tip some doofus doing a basic manual labour job they had easily done themselves in the past

This false view that gas attendants were only spread around by yanks because of the extremely low wages of Gas Station Attendants and the pittance yanks paid with their powerful dollars, and how shocked they were at the feeble wages south africans obtained in their daily lives.

However, even RSA tourism boards would end up dissuading yanks and other foreigners from feeling obligated to tip, because Gas Station Attendants would alter their behaviour and performance upon the expectation and receival of tips. And since local safricans, including local safrican car owners were just as relatively dirt poor, and could absolutely not afford fricking tipping upon rising petrol/diesel prices, and having lazy Gas Jockies give shit service because locals don't give tips was not something tolerated for long, and Gas-Station owners would make it clear that future behavior would have to be independent of tips henceforth.

Stupid modern yank tourists still tip in places like Cape Town, but it's not been a common thing by the late 2010s.

FINAL NOTE:

Also apparently Brasilia is equally cucked by their commie government and had implemented laws to create Gas Station Attendant jobs of up to 300 000 peeps in 2000!

https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/paineldoleitor/2015/02/1593346-ministro-aldo-rebelo-comenta-artigo-sobre-baixo-crescimento.shtml

Unite! Beware AmeriKKKa! The 3rd world is coming to R*PE U!

Iz overu (speaks in Korean)

!biology !latinx !macacos

Basically a full scale nuclear war between NATO vs Russia/China would result in 5 billion people dead within weeks. With nuclear winter ensuing the few surviving breadbaskets will be Australia , South Africa and Argentina

I think is bold of them to asume the chinks wont nuke Australia.

South Africa would get overwhelmed by refugees from the north of the continent leading to collapse and full mayocide (RIP @kaamrev, you wont make it).

At the end South America inherits the Earth Brazil has the largest military in the continent so we'll totally invade Argentina to guarantee our food security. It's likely the South and Southeastern Brazilian agriculture wont be much affected, unless hydrological patterns are severely disrupted (I wonder if we could then make use of the Guarani Aquifer for irrigation until the climate goes back to normal)

Also interestingly, a full scale nuclear war between pakis and pahjeets could still result in 2 billion deaths. Total South Asian extinction.

the other downside to this is that now it's even harder for talented people to find secure and remunerative work so what on earth are they gonna do now

finance died in 2008, if tech goes (and consulting is dead) what's the fallback

pray for AGI i guess https://t.co/1JfszY9ZBp

— eigenrobot (@eigenrobot) April 29, 2024

learn to do things other than code lmao

Made this for lunch just now. I've tried getting the beef right for these darn things a bunch of different ways. Internet people have all sorts of ways they've tried to get it just like the restaurants, but the only one I've seen that looked like it would realistically work was this massive bearded greek dude shoving like 5 pounds of lamb shoulder onto two spits and throwing it on a charcoal grill. I'm just trying to make lunch here, though. I've tried to make a mini spit using the rotisserie attachment in my toaster oven, and that looked and smelled great, but the meat completely dried out and was nasty inside.

Other internet ideas were like to use ground meat and form a really tight meatloaf and bake it in the oven, then you can cut thin slices off it that look a lot like the gyro places, but it's lacking the super brown crispy outside you want.

This time I bought some really thin ribeye steaks (like less than 1/2") that people usually use to make carne asada. I figured with how thin they were I'd want the pan to be really fricking hot, so I did a test run with one of them with the heat cranked all the way up on my stove and a cast iron skillet. Darn near lit my kitchen on fire, like the oil in the pan actually just made a poof noise and burst into flames. The steak didn't get burned though, even with me moving it around in the pan to smother the fire. The steak was a perfect medium rare cooking it just one minute a side. Problem, though: medium rare steak is too chewy for sandwich or sandwich-adjacent preparations.

Finally, I marinated the rest of the steaks and cooked them with slightly less heat (although still enough that the pan was smoking up my kitchen) for 2 minutes a side. They're pretty well done, but perfect for a gyro because you can bite through the pieces so easily. Then I put this together and smashed the whole thing into my face. The end.

Same NYPD that kneeled to the blm rioters, did nothing when the blm harassed people just trying to eat at restaurants, and DID in fact, also harass diners just trying to eat at restaurants.

I'm to the point at which I truly believe that anyone who puts on a uniform and coerces others is straight-up lost.

If they had a conscience, they'd be doing other work.

It's gonna be wild

WILL BE WILD

Can you imagine how much salt and rage this is producing in the tds stage 12 segments? Trump campaigning right in the middle of the heart of darkness and getting massive ground level support. I can only grin at the mental images.

an event in new york. demonrats are finished

He said this last time too. He is not going to win new York lmao

Never say never.

He's never winning New York lmao.

Can't even win GA but he's totally going to win NY. Kek

So they'll call it for Biden when there's 0.6% of the vote in and not 0.5%?

i think you can call New York even with 0% counted

additional OP comment in thread:

I can imagine sticking with transition for 10 years if you don't have a nice pre-transition life to look back on.

My life before transition wasn't like that. I genuinely enjoyed being my male myself before all this. I loved being alive. I had hobbies, friends, passion, traveled a lot, was in good physical condition, felt great when I looked in the mirror and at pictures of myself. I had a great career and was proud of everything I had achieved up until that point.

All of that is gone now. I lost everything I liked about myself. My career is gone, my good looks are gone. My basic comfortability with my own body has been ripped to shreds, my relationships with other people were wrecked, my very basic will to live and ability to enjoy life to it's fullest... Transitioning blew it all up, ripped it all from my hands.

I wouldn't have lost any of it if I hadn't transitioned. I can't blame it on anything else or pretend like some of this would have somehow happened anyway, if I hadn't transitioned. Transitioning is what directly ruined my mental health. And I can't just chalk it up to discrimination or transitioning being too hard. I might have gotten discriminated in the first 1.5 years but nobody is discriminating me now. So if I'm accepted by the important people in my life and by employers, why am I still miserable? Am I not supposed to feel "gender euphoria" now or whatever? Or some kind of appreciable mental health improvement? I don't feel any improvement because it's simply not there, and likely never will be. I don't think I'm one of those people the studies talk about when they say transitioning improves people's lives. Im the outlier or the 1% who don't improve. I went through all of this for nothing.

>Note that honesttransgender is one of the chuddier (more realistic) of the 1,000,000 trans subs on Reddit.

Russians were trying to remove an anti tank mine but accidentally triggered it. https://t.co/3IJwl7nSuw pic.twitter.com/qWic1nVuZT

— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) April 25, 2024

I'm officially a Woman International Master!

Despite its anti-trans regulations, FIDE had to recognize me as a WIM!

I'm happy to have shown that it was possible, to have paved the way for my sisters. Girls, I don't wish you to do as well, but to do even better. 🏳️‍⚧️💜 pic.twitter.com/DtKnRgnUik

— Yosha Iglesias (@IglesiasYosha) April 29, 2024

Watched Classroom of the Elite, season 3 is fine but I liked season 2 most I think, they should let him go more psycho.

Also rewatched some of fruit of grisaia on a whim.

And I started The Foolish Angel Dances with the Devil, nearly finished it and its fine.

@Aevann pin pls

!anime

Not an Astarion fan myself, but I thought he hated this part of himself?

LONGASS Update: So, there has been a very polarised response to this comment:

Astarion fans have taken the time to inform me about the deep and awful meaning of this symbol. Which was polite, incredibly appreciated, and full of references. It was some amazing conversation and I am very grateful for your sharing the knowledge on the lore.

The vast crowds of seething opposition to anyone who finds this ink distasteful, have gone absolutely feral in attacking me for even asking, and even more so for forming an opinion.

Based on the responses, and the calibre of people from both groups, I certainly stand with those who find this tattoo disgusting. Because to me: it is. It is a symbol of Cazador's malice, and also symbolises the suffering and agony of a beloved character, as well as thousands of others enslaved.

To those defending this ink by attacking me: All your bullying and frothing and rudeness and personal attacks have only cemented my opinion, rather than changing it. You have offered nothing constructive or informative, and have just lashed out emotionally. This speaks very poorly of the group of people who defend this ink, and has only reinforced my decision that this is a horrible tattoo. I am also now incredibly wary of anyone who actually thinks it's okay, as you all seem very young, emotionally immature, and full of possibly just awful people. It's actually very disappointing to see your inability to have a civil conversation with someone who just has a differing opinion to you, incredibly disturbing.

I have never once attacked OP, just commented on how I find this ink gross. Because I do. And using this as an excuse to bully me is really quite sad. I'm grateful for everyone who jumped in to defend me, and defend my right to an opinion. You have no idea how deeply grateful I am for you.

I'm not answering any more comments here, and won't be even getting the notifications, so to those still looking to attack me: don't bother trying. You're screeching into a void.

This tattoo is disgusting. It represents something disgusting. And that is my opinion, and I am allowed to have it. Just like OP is allowed to have theirs.

If that triggers you, then that's a you problem and I recommend addressing it with yourself, rather than lashing out at me.

Very deeply disappointed in this fanbase, excluding those rare few who took the time to make informed, helpful, and useful comments. You are the real heroes, and I hope your paths lead you to many treasures in life, because you have been a wonderful treasure in mine.

TLDR: you have all demonstrated that Astarion fans finding this ink awful are treasures, slave scar defenders are utterly feral. Your comments won't be read so anything you reply with is just hollering into a void.

(On my phone so I apologise for lack of formatting - its just a wall of text, yuck)

Lmao let's see how /r/indianauniversity feels about it

What about my son wearing a Kippah on campus and the anti semitism he's experiencing from the “peaceful “ protestors?

What antisemitism? Please be specific and simply chanting “from the river…” doesn't count

What about signs that say “Final solution” or “globalize the intifada?”

Nazi or Pro-Palestinian protestor you decide

Not concerned one bit. My kid will be nowhere near those illegal tents. He's busy studying for finals.

I have no idea why these kids are even doing this on one of the last weeks of school. Your protest does nothing and most of them don't even know why they are “protesting”

most of them doing even know why they are “protesting”

I doubt that's true. We literally wrote our demands on a sign. When we're not getting beaten up we talk about it, watch movies, read, dialogue with Palestinians, listen to speakers.

There's a lot more going on than just what makes the news

i can't wait until y'all graduate and realize performative bullshit for views and likes doesn't translate to the real world.

How are you dividing the “real world” from what's going on here? Are you saying when these kids become adults? Is adulthood more real than the non adult world or smn?

Yes, being a professor and watching hundreds of people you know go into the job market each year means you are totally detached.

Decades of talking to alumni across their careers mean I am an out of touch liberal.

Conservatives who are running a man who ran a fake university for president really know what is going on.

Did I say professors are out of touch? No, I said college campuses, you know, where students outnumber professors by a factor of 30 or more.

Besides, I'm not sure how watching students graduate or talking to some of them after graduation means you have the same perspective of people outside of academia. Academia has the reputations it does for a reason.

They actually think that academia is in touch with reality this shit is beyond parody

What !nooticers will find is that anyone with an alumni flair ain't happy about the protesters

Anyways 200+ comments sneeding in there