It’s seventeen minutes after you replied to me and I can not only see your reply, I’ve upvoted it and made this reply.

I’m pretty sure blocking goes one way. You can’t see their posts but they can see and reply to yours.

Someone who has actually had an American experience. Someone who’s been homeless, who’s worked more than one job just to barely make rent. Someone who’s viewed home ownership as a pipe dream. Someone who’s waited tables. Someone that’s done drugs just for an escape. Someone who’s lost friends and family to those same drugs. Someone who’s had a total stranger express hate for them just for being outside the in-power group.

No more of these disconnected rich pricks who don’t really know how the average person lives.

A great and timely reminder for all that canned pumpkin is literally just as good as fresh.

I’ve personally tested it in 3 dishes, pie, cheesecake and soup, and my friends and family couldn’t tell the difference between canned and fresh.

Go to a farm. Take a hay ride. Wander through the pumpkin patch with your friends and loved ones. Ponder what you’ll carve as you pick the perfect shape to match. Laugh at the oddly shaped gourds. Take some freshly pressed cider home with you and enjoy it cold, mulled with spices, spiked or any combination of those as you carve the pumpkin.

These events mark the time of year and form memories with those you share them with. This is culture.

It isn’t bro’s fault that capitalism ruined the joy of the fall harvest activities. The store feels bereft of life and joy because it is. The pumpkin patch has been commodified because the farmers need to get every dollar they can to compete against the capital of larger farms.

Bro just wanted to partake in his local community and enjoy the changing seasons. Even if it’s not as good, you’ll make memories at the pumpkin patch.

The store is just a store.

Let’s say then, obviously, yes, a lot of the people who people who exclusively date particular ethnicities are doing so for bigoted reasons, demonstrating poor introspection, having their preferences dictated by bigotry and propaganda.

Doesn’t it stand to reason that a similar thing could be occurring with cis people who refuse to date trans people? That many of them are simply bigoted and influenced by propaganda, not having thoroughly examined their thought processes around this concept and instead allowed others to dictate their preferences?

Those many people might benefit from the reframing of that concept to one othering cis people. That is who this post is about.

No, actually, I find that’s often not true.

I’ve found that people who are willing to date some ethnicities but not others often exhibit some level of unexamined bigotry, even if they are not abhorrent racists. But I’ve also seen that if they do have romantic experiences with people of that race, this can change, showing that the attraction wasn’t immutable, but rather based on something unexamined in their heads.

I think it’s good and healthy to examine what we find attractive and why.

Someone who says they want children so they don’t want to date people who don’t want children is someone I feel has done at least a bare minimum of introspection about their desires, goals and interests.

Someone who says they only date blondes is not someone who I think has done any introspection about their interests.

Asking people to examine the way they think and why isn’t related to becoming an incel whatsoever. In fact, in my experience, incels are often people who have not really done a lot of introspection into what they find attractive and why, but rather have become obsessed with the idea that they should be having sex and aren’t.

Would you think someone who says they only date white people is exhibiting this “attraction preference” or are they exhibiting bigotry?

Certainly, but being trans isn’t a different sexuality.

Plenty of cis people put trans people into the “not interested” category without thinking. Or they assume they are cis and lose attraction the moment they find out they are trans, some even acting like this is a deception or betrayal. So obviously they have something in their head about transness that they have actively decided is unattractive.

There’s the rub.

And thinking on that, wondering why that is, asking if that is something they truly feel or something someone told them to feel, examining the way our own brains work, is often a useful practice to being kinder and more understanding to and of ourselves and to and of others.

This is a good way to reframe all too common discussions. Hopefully it triggers some introspection in folks.

I think were I a man of stronger convictions, I’d rip off and smash any pair of camera equipped glasses I’d encounter.

My roommate commenting on how I run a Rimworld colony.

I dunno I think some crimes are pretty, pretty coooool 😎

The tajin and lime sound banging, miss me with the clam juice tho lmao

Is it just mixed with, like, V8? I tried that and didn’t care for it. It seemed like it muted the flavor of both the tomato juice and the beer. Should I be using pure tomato juice and not a blend like V8?

This post got me thinking, tho, how bout a boiler maker with applejack or apple brandy? I could see that working

I’ve never heard of mixing beer and apple juice. Beer and lemonade for a Shandy or radler, sure, but apple juice??

I know in Asia mixing beer with tomato juice is somewhat common, but apple? I dunno…

Personally? I’m against the use of nuclear weapons in this way.

I’m pretty sure there’s a vast market for human made art and literature. Personally, I would never pay for AI generated slop.

Yeah, you’re gonna lose in some markets like advertising copy and ad artwork. But who cares?

Especially in literature, AI slop is really disliked and honestly it’s quite shit.

Are there gonna be AI slop books in Amazon bookstores? Yeah. Will some people buy it? Yeah, unfortunately, but it’s not gonna take over the market.

Just keep at your passions, yo. AI gen shit like that is largely a fad propped up by LLM companies saying their models can do everything when they’re really actually not very capable or interesting.