LoamImprovement

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[–] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

He's gonna fucking croak this term, why are they trying to make a dead guy president forever?

[–] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah no shit not everyone's onboard. How the fuck does this help anyone except the apple C-suites?

[–] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 31 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Like, okay - I don't think anyone's saying returning the cart to the corral automatically makes you a good person, it's just a green flag, right? Are you willing to do something that has no reward for compliance and no punishment for abandonment, simply because it's the thing you're expected to do in order to keep a system functioning?

If someone doesn't return the cart regularly, it seems more likely that they're inconsiderate. If they do, it seems more likely that they're decent. But it's one thing out of many that just happens to be publicly visible, so it becomes sort of a benchmark.

[–] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 4 points 6 days ago

ALABASTER JONES REAL?!?!

[–] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Man, there are a lot of articles this week that feel like they should be next to an onion symbol and they aren't. Getting real fuckin' tired of this shit.

[–] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I've been at some real low points and the fear of being charged several grand for a mandatory grippy sock vacation has kept me from reaching out for help or even talking about it.

[–] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I tried the stupid drug

[–] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

For anyone wondering how to do this - on the first setup screen asking you to pick a language after you turn the laptop on, hit Shift + F10, which will bring up the console. Click on it and type:

oobe/bypassnro

This will restart the computer, and setup will appear unchanged. When you get to the step asking you to connect to a network, select "I don't have Internet." This will prompt the creation of a local account. Enjoy your Microsoft account free computer!

If you've already connected to the Internet but haven't created the account, open the console and type:

ipconfig /release

Which will force the computer to disconnect from the internet. From there you can use the oobe command from before to reset and set up without a Microsoft account.

[–] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah. Like this is not news to people who have been paying attention, America has never not been the bad guy.

[–] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 8 points 2 weeks ago

I don't actually know that I am yet, but I've spent the last decade or so sort of dissociating. I never really liked looking in the mirror, I just see a ghost staring back at me, and I think I would like to look less manly, even if that doesn't necessarily mean like a woman. I joined an LGBTQ+ community and started trying some different gender expressions recently. I bought a skirt and some long socks, I started shaving all my body hair, I've thought about different names. Not a lot of it's stuck, but I do like the way my skin feels shaven. I just still feel like a kind of dumpy mid-30s balding white guy though. I don't even think I look particularly bad objectively, but I do know I personally don't like the way I look now. A friend of mine started drawing a mid-30s tech worker bunny boy who turned himself into a long-haired raver with a fat ass after I started talking about it and now I'm trying minoxidil and I'm hoping to get on Finasteride and maybe E soon, I'm hoping it'll give me nicer hips and a butt, and if I happen to grow (bigger) breasts, well, it wouldn't be the end of the world. Maybe I'll like them, and worst case I can always bind or get a mastectomy.

The more I talk about it, the more I realize the things I say are very eggy, but I don't know if that's actually what it is. Like, I just want to have hair again and feel cute and, for lack of a better term, fuckable, instead of constantly comparing myself to the guy with no life from South Park. I guess we'll see where this goes.

[–] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 8 points 2 weeks ago

Shockingly it's still alive, and even moreso there's still porn, albeit softcore and/or censored with links pointing to Bluesky and/or patreon. There are also pornbots that pop up and follow me every now and again.

 

I was talking with a friend today about Hallmark movies because we all seem to have at least one grandma who loves them around this time of year, and we're hashing out the tropes they all share because they're so formulaic that you could probably boil it down to a mad libs prompt, and something dawned on me because of one particular similarity, not in every film, but a lot of them - the Heroine quitting her high-stress executive job to move to a quaint little town and settle down with Mr. Right. It struck me as deeply misogynistic that the movies imply she can't have both and that her career goals aren't worth it compared to getting some dick.

The other side of that coin is, in almost every single one of these movies, the guy is a Prince who needs to marry, or secretly loaded, or otherwise financially stable unless the plot revolves around his family whatever on the brink of closure that the Heroine steps in to help save the day, and he's shown to be a good-if-distant dad to his kids, if he has any, but needs help raising them because work keeps him busy, or his nanny's retiring. It's never implied that he should be the one giving up his lifestyle to be a better partner for her; The only thing Mr. Right is ever doing wrong in these movies, if anything, is just not already being with her, and I get that these films are basically wish fulfillment fics, but she is always the one who has to make a change for him, to basically be a stay at home mom, or step closer to it than she was at the beginning of the film. Does anybody else see that? Am I wrong in thinking that's absolutely fucking greasy?

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