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Cake day: August 2nd, 2023

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  • I've yet to get medicated. Last time I tried I had the wrong diagnosis and ended up in grippy socks, and I'm currently living by myself, so starting new meds is kinda frightening tbh.

    I did drink/smoke way too much as a coping mechanism, because yakno meds that help someone be able to function like a normal person are EVIL, but letting ur kid go undiagnosed and untreated is so fucking healthy for their long-term mental health.

    My parents also managed to fuck up my math track to put me a year behind, and when I found their error and tried to catch up, they didn't support at all.

    Homeschool parents are [very often] imbeciles.






  • I'll be honest I haven't been on reddit much aside from a couple communities since the whole shutdown, but it's not that surprising tbh. Reddit is a huge target for astroturfing, they don't have good protections against it, and Israel invests A LOT into stuff like that.

    I also feel like anecdotally I've always felt like reddit was very pro-israel. I've been educated about many things because of reddit, but Palestine wasn't one of them. (when I say educated about I don't just mean reading comments, I actually do go to effort to read books etc., but often Reddit was a source of prompting for me to realize I needed to educate myself on something)

    But yeah, it's so refreshing using Lemmy. Really reminds me of when I started using Reddit, but more mature.






  • An admission that this isn't about the environment or about truth, and that you are 100% onboard with lying to get what you want.

    Sorry, where did I say any of that? I responded to someone making a sarcastic comment about the study only covering 5% of farms and it reminded me of a relevant statistic, so I shared.

    Then you made a comment about how we should fight to fix farming so that smaller farms still have a chance, to which I replied that I don't care about helping to save any farms that exploit animals.

    Where, in any of that did I say that I do not care about the truth or that the environment isn't a part of the reason I think that's immoral to eat animals?

    You're far more honest than most militant vegans I meet.

    Well, for one I'm not a militant vegan, I'm just a fuckin vegan person. For two, I don't believe you meet that many militant vegans unless you're intentionally seeking out interactions with vegans, in which case the fact that you characterize them as militant says less to me about them and more about how you probably made comments similar to the very antagonistic, mischaracterizing, lying comment you just made, attempting to misconstrue arguments because you have some sort of agenda against people who just wanna see less suffering in the world.

    But hey, I know that for people like you, you just need reasons to hate vegans, so if pretending that I don't care about truth or the environment helps you paint vegans as annoying bad people in your mind instead of actually considering the moral/ethical implications of your food, I'm happy to help.









  • I think it’s a bit of a stretch to say that any hair that is ‘relatively long’, ‘not geometrical’, or ‘unnatural color or variation’ is “clearly part of black culture.”

    Good thing that's not what I said. The policy doesn't exclude all black hairstyles, but many of the hairstyles that would be excluded are sources of cultural/personal identity for black Americans.

    it doesn’t seem to be written to target any particular culture

    Literally what I spent my first comment explaining - it doesn't have to be written to target a specific culture to be a racist policy. Oppression is not determined by the intent of the oppressor, but by the lived experiences of the oppressed.