[-] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 39 points 7 months ago

Fucking ghoulish.

[-] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 51 points 8 months ago

I'm not concerned with the people who keep their blinds closed. I'm concerned with the people who want to peek in windows.

[-] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 62 points 10 months ago

I feel like I should point out, this woman did not lie on the resume. She teaches yoga to kids and does events for schools, she would absolutely have been qualified had this event not been the shitshow it was.

[-] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 38 points 10 months ago

Most of us don't anymore. People have stopped having kids and stopped investing in their communities because work makes it impossible. I look to the future and see forty more years of hell, assuming climate disaster, preventable disease, or an impending WWIII don't kill me first.

[-] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 49 points 11 months ago

No matter what you post, someone on the internet will find a way to be angry about it.

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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?

[-] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 40 points 1 year ago

I am so fucking tired of living in this shithole country.

[-] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 37 points 1 year ago

Because the U.S. has been letting its mental health issues fester under a veneer of American Exceptionalism for the better part of a century in order to squeeze every last drop of labor surplus out of its citizens.

[-] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 40 points 1 year ago

I mean, it's bad, but it's not nearly the worst of the firearms industry's sins. Look up the Bushmaster 'Man Card' ads - Really outlines how the confluence of toxic masculinity and gun culture is a key factor in the prevalence of school shootings in the states.

[-] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 71 points 1 year ago

There are nine reviews on metacritic from various outlets that score the game 100/100. I would love for every single one of those reviewers to look me in the eye and with a straight face, repeat the claim that Starfield is perfect and there is absolutely nothing in the game that could possibly be improved on. If you want to know who's not conversing honestly, that'd be a good kicking-off point.

[-] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 38 points 1 year ago

Man, I'm really enjoying watching the 'find out' phase of the insurrection. Keep 'em coming.

[-] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 38 points 1 year ago

Careful the devil doesn't trip over that bar.

[-] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 179 points 1 year ago

Look, I can't say that I don't understand the sentiment, but people calling YouTubers out on their bullshit is strictly better than 'Nobody ever cares about anything outside of their 60 hour a week jobs that they work to pay for an overinflated cost of living in this hypercapitalist dystopia hellscape that they don't have the emotional capacity to care about because of said 60 hour a week jobs.'

I want to hear about this because it means somebody still cares, somebody is still paying attention to the injustice, however trivial or removed from daily life it is.

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