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meep_launcher ,

I grew up in a household that kept with a healthy Mediterranean diet, no sugar, drinking whatever milk my mom decided was healthiest at the time, salads and kale chips, where cutting the bottom of a broccoli stock would be considered a cookie-

And then I moved to the Midwest. My god the orgasmic feeling of digging into chicken wings for the first time or a corn pudding. I had no clue that everyone here puts marshmallows on sweet potatoes or in a sandwich with peanut butter, like what?

And pizza- PIZZA. Look, I've had plenty of pizza before, vegan, peach slices on arugula with a light sauce. But Chicago deep dish? Pizza or not it's a monument to man's gluttony. Double dough? My god that thicc slice is choice.

The chef's here are essentially participating in assisted suicide, and it's the best thing ever. When I go out now, I'm going to Dr. Kavorkian's 24 hour diner, extra gravy please.

meep_launcher ,

Yup, avoidant attachment style.

I'm generally seen as pretty emotionally open, but it's always a front, like a negotiation to give the appearance of warmth but I'm terrified to open any deeper. I feel like what people think is the core us just the rind.

Babies will actually show this behavior as well- so this trauma goes DEEP. It might even be more genetic than behavioral. They've shown when a parent leaves a baby for a bit, the baby begins to cry, but when the parent returns, there are three responses (I'll pretend a baby can speak, but this is what they say with body language):

  1. Ah! You were gone but now you're back! I missed you and I'm happy you are here let's play with my rattle (stable)
  2. OH MY GOD YOU ARE BACK I MISSED YOU PLEASE DON'T LEAVE EVER AGAIN I'M HOLDING ON TO YOU HARDER (Anxious)
  3. Oh, you're back? That's fine, I'm not gonna look at you. If I stop caring you can't hurt me again. (Avoidant)

I know I'd keep a pretty clean & minimalist room as a kids- I remember straight up saying "I want to be able to pack up my life and leave at a moments notice and no one will ever know I ever existed" when I was 10. It's still hard to believe people care about me in any meaningful way.

Weird thing- I had a very supportive childhood. Having a sister with intense ADHD was tough though since she took up 90% of my parents time, so I think that's where it comes from.

meep_launcher ,

When I had a housewarming party, I put a bunch of googly eyes in a bowl and instructed everyone to become googly eye terrorists in my new house.

It was really fun, and a great surprise to find all my eggs googly-eyed with pieces of paper with pleas for help written on them.

Still finding them to this day.

meep_launcher ,

I'm 90% sure that's an asbestos ceiling.

This cat is protecting us from more than you know

meep_launcher ,

If you're wanting a good faith explanation:

The folks who own guns are almost all conservative and live in red states where there is positive sentiment towards ice. The people who are protesting are all left wing and very likely don't own a gun, and bringing a gun to a protest is easily how you make what could be a day of bruises and cuts into a day of bloodshed. I've been to several protests, and the big message is "don't give them any reason to mow down the crowd".

Let's also consider why we don't organize like they do in Paris. You get arrested? Fired from your job. You get fired from your job? There goes your healthcare. There goes your housing. Our resistance is slow, not because we aren't passionate or are too complacent and dumb, it's because the sad fact that sick, starving, and homeless people make for poor resistance, and I doubt anyone wants that fate.

The system we have is against us in ways far more sophisticated than what you deal with in other countries. We are surveilled by are government, controlled by our cops, and sold by our corporations. But we aren't dumb. We aren't weak. We see the hellfire and somehow still go out to do what we can, it's just we are up against the most powerful domestic military force in the world.

Anyway, I gotta go teach children who didn't ask for any of this. I don't know how to keep it together, but somehow they do. If you're in Chicago, I'll see you in the streets. ✊

meep_launcher ,

Having been homeless for a hot second, I did have a life I valued to lose.

meep_launcher ,

Almost like it's propaganda.

meep_launcher ,

I'm in this photo and I don't like it :(

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meep_launcher ,

Frankly that party needs to go. We'd be better off if there was another dramatic party shift- send the Dems to the way of the Whigs.

meep_launcher ,

I was wondering if someone was going to point this out. So many memes either overtly or discretely have a "dumb woman doesn't know computer". I don't wanna seem nitpicky but it's hard not to see it.

meep_launcher ,

Look, Noam isn't wearing his glasses, he might think he's talking to Anthony Bourdain

meep_launcher ,

Oh absolutely. I'm a full time musician and the only way I've been able to do that is play 23 different instruments. Being good enough to play in a group is all you need- you get good really quick when money is on the line.

meep_launcher ,

The time was yesterday last year last decade but I guess we can do it now of everyone is up for it.

meep_launcher ,

I mean you can tell if it's ripe or not by pressing against the part where the stem used to be- if there's a little give, you should be good.

I feel like people who hate Honeydew are like people who hate bananas but only have eaten fully green bananas. Like yea, if you don't let it ripen it's gonna suck.

meep_launcher ,

You're worse than Ted Bundy.

meep_launcher OP ,

I'm sorry, it's a RESTroom not a PEEroom. I came here to rest and God damnit I'll exercise that right. /S

meep_launcher OP ,

Look, I think having people pissing and shitting in a room designated for rest is anti-homeless architecture so sue me

meep_launcher ,

Exactly- California has to negotiate with every landowner, government agency, business, etc. to build a railroad. China doesn't have to deal with that. If they want to tear down a building, they just do it without caring much about the person they are taking it from. Authoritarianism is really good at doing big things really fast.

meep_launcher ,

No no, didn't you hear? His relationship with Epstein was purely business. That's why there are Trump branded condoms in the photo dump, it was purely a business thing.

meep_launcher ,

"Under pressure, you don't rise to the occasion, you sink to the level of your training"
-Bruce Lee or some Greek nerd or some shit

meep_launcher ,

That poor cat is gonna have to hitchhike so far just to get to your front door now!

meep_launcher ,

I don't know how to explain it, but 5 is loud

meep_launcher ,

The fermata means you need to give head for a longer time than normal.

meep_launcher ,

I'd say they're fine, but if you have some yellow dye it could give a more orange color that I associate with cigs.

Unless you expect yellow lighting then you are genius.

meep_launcher ,

I would also consider the evolutionary advantage of having pets. Dogs help hunt and herd and cats help with farm pests that could spread disease. It just makes sense that societies that accepted that help and encouraged the symbiotic relationship would fare better than those that didn't.

Also I hope the news is right: racoons are next on the list. We need to pet the racoons. It's a matter of national security.

meep_launcher ,

Sometimes it's hard to see what is a distraction for what. Venezuela distracts from Epstein, Epstein distracts from secret police kidnapping people, Kidnapping people distracts from tarrifs, Tarrifs distract from Venuzela...

meep_launcher ,

Selective breeding? Are you a 19th century monk?

Where were going, we don't need no Punnett squares. We got CRISPR now.

meep_launcher ,

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meep_launcher ,

Yep. History curves to justice my ass.

We didn't start the fire, we didn't light it but we tried to fight it. And fucking failed the open book test each time.

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meep_launcher ,

Don't forget to write in "Guillotine" in 2026!

meep_launcher ,

I mean the millionaire class is a grey area between those who are so rich they are completely out of touch with working class realities, and those who were working class who got a break and played a good hand right.

Personally I don't really have a problem with millionaires, that's an amount you can make playing by the rules and not bending them to your own will.

meep_launcher ,

"I will have you know I am a self made man! Just like my father and his father before him!"

meep_launcher OP ,

Awwww man you're 2 weeks too late 😥

meep_launcher ,

No, I think that decision should be left up to users, we can block an instance if we don't like it.

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meep_launcher ,

Idk I do like it when the people in government are aware of how the systems work and how to balance getting things done with keeping to core values as best you can. Inexperienced politicians tend to be loud but get nothing done, and eventually either get voted out or figure it out.

If you look at AOCs transformation over the years, you'll she's become much more pragmatic. Personally I see this as a good thing because I'm about to vote for 26 year old Kat Abughazaleh, and when she gets to Congress she's going to need someone who came from a similar position to help guide her, and AOC is exactly that person.

meep_launcher ,

Personally I think that we deserve the respect to make our own decisions on this issue. Defederation should be reserved for situations where actual laws are broken that would jeopardize the existence of this instance or even Lemmy as a whole.

As a former mod on a larger subreddit and then a mod on a decent lemmy community, and now a sad mod trying to pick up the pieces (RIP lemm.ee), I've seen how hate can be pervasive in most every sphere. If we start locking things down because we want a hate free Internet, well... We won't have much of an Internet anymore.

My modding style was always the "let 'em cook" method. Unless doxxing, impersonation of a mod, spam, bots, and the like are happening, the community would dogpile the user, and frankly as a bystander seeing coherent arguments against hate was more convincing than just censoring it all together.

meep_launcher ,

Yea, that is true. I mean having more robust regional routes covering smaller sections would be cool but don't expect an extensive web of trains going around the Rockies or Wyoming.

I'd love to see something reasonable to cover the empire builder line- I just want to get home to Seattle from Chicago for the holidays in under $100 round trip :/ otherwise it's Alaska Airlines for me.

meep_launcher ,

Serial killers just murder hobbyists so ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

meep_launcher ,

No I'm the normal one helping my ND friends out and I don't need any help at all unless it's keeping structure and organization in life and that one time I did Adderall I was finally able to do my chores but no I'm fine.

meep_launcher ,

Nah your first instinct is correct, my comment was being silly.

meep_launcher ,

Just a shot in the dark, but something tells me Spotify being an EU company made OP think they were better simply because they weren't based in the US. Yea, US sucks, but don't let that rage blind us to other monsters who might get off easy being from one of the "good" countries.

Especially now, 5 months later, Spotify is advertising ICE recruitment videos in Chicago. IMO Spotify is the worst of the bunch.