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Cake day: November 15th, 2024

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  • He said it was exhausting always feeling like he was going to be outed.

    This is definitely something that feels all too common with queer people. I know it’s certainly how I felt before coming out as trans, to where I’d want to share memes with my friend group but constantly policed myself worrying that somehow it would “tip them off” somehow. I was in a weird place of being extremely invested in trans issues while also being pretty transphobic at times, basically so no one would think I was so interested because I was trans or anything.

    It definitely all led to a lot of tension and anger and a very poor state of mental health overall, and just fucking sucked having to put on such a shitty persona all the time to try and hide my true self.


  • Yeah, and I regularly do. I have a friend who I’d say has a similar income disparity, and unfortunately has had issues with being unhoused in the past.

    Someone you can’t do anything with that requires spending money in any way

    You can still do stuff, you just pay for the friend if you’re inviting them out. I understand if you’re also broke, but that’s not what we’re talking about.

    OP makes it pretty clear that they could afford to pay for them but choose not to. If you say “Well maybe they’re not actually that wealthy” then fine, they should pick somewhere less expensive that they can cover.









  • They’re super special electrostatic headphones, so they have to be run with a special type of amplifier, and the one they come with come is absolutely insane, and is a huge part of the cost. Honestly, I bet you could cost cut the whole thing down to under $20k, but you’re paying a LOT of money for stuff like the fact that the amplifier case is made of marble and has one of the coolest boot sequences imaginable, where all the tubes and knobs rise out of it and retract back in so the whole thing is seamless. It’s very much one of those things that get built when engineers are handed a blank check and told “We don’t care what it costs, have fun”








  • I’m so, so fucking sick and tired of all the doomer shut-in fuckwits who think that we’re going to fix this by doing a Jan 6 style raid on the White House. That’s not how any of this works. I went to a No Kings protest. You want to know what happened before/after the “parade”? Thousands of people signed up to move our state towards ranked choice voting, information was given out on protecting your community from ICE, and people are getting resources to be more politically active. Literally every political advocacy org in my area has absolutely exploded and we’re at a point where we’re having to pause memberships because there are so many people trying to join.

    Real change takes a bit of fucking time and I’m so, so, so sick and tired of all the people who act like no one is doing anything, while they themselves do fuck-all but doom scroll on Lemmy and post about how it’s all over.

    It’s a boss battle, and bitching about how people are just dodge rolling and parrying and have barely chipped away at the health bar is absolutely asinine.