Orthodox Christian. America is a confusing place for me too.

I’m pondering some sort of soup, but I’m not sure. Black bean seems sweet.

For me it’s the constant suggestions of other communities and posts on my feed of joined subs.

Next thing I knew my feed was slowly filling up with rage bait, which I never had a problem with a third party app, and I’d close the app angrier and outraged than when I started.

It’s nicer here, lol.

Eh, fuck ‘em. I’ve been riding my Fedora install for nearly 3 years. Never distro hopped. Never found an issue with it.

Nicely done — I voted today too.

Holy god. I’m not letting go of my '09 carolla and ebike. What the fuck.

And for the falsely imprisoned? Kinda a shit way to go.

What provides me trepidation is the economic system means slack jawed corpos with MBAs will be working tirelessly to skirt safety.

Now if the government was to run … Wait, that is communism and is therefore the bad thing to do /s

As a Floridian homie: good. There’s so much to experience in the world. I put the US in the “overhyped tier”

What?! They have been taking marketshare since the M1 series.

Heck, even iPadOS is gimped so the Mac doesn’t get stepped on. Which is a shame because the M1 Air has pretty darn close to the same silicon.

That was the stat that stood out to me, and made me wonder if there’s something within the “MAGA” mind that explained it.

In response to the edit: I notice you pivoted from it being a function of “maturity” and placement relative to puberty, to now wrapping it in concern of the gov’t - some how - surpressing “lgbtq rights” by teaching about their existence, which is a contradictory stance, but w.e.

Look, my sister’s trans, my mothers are gay, and I’m the straight dood in my family. I’m not in a hivemind, and my experience watching them wade through life informs my thoughts. Your appeal that people who disagree with you are in one is troubling, to say the least.

Heck, you didn’t even address a few anecdotes of people being precisely in the age range you had issue with, and instead chose to take a different tact – instead doubling down you are correct.

My sister “knew” she was trans when she was around 8. Granted, we didn’t have the terminology back then so…

That being said, how is it a “mature” topic? We teach children the concept of “this boy” and “this girl” much earlier than that. And I’m confused how the concept has anything to do with puberty either.

New fear unlocked.

I’m just going to sit on the ironing board, cauterize myself, and call it a day.

I’m just curious of what the “template” for it will be.

“Finally some good fucking food” will be in my group chats

Millennial here, no hate towards poly-folk. Seems exhausting, but do you boo.

I expect it will be something AI related, like wanting them to have rights or whatever as they approach mimicking human behavior and appearing being alive (see, did it there). Likely because of a decade or so of us being economically threatened, and not viewing them as things that can think/'feel/not-want-to-die or whatever.

Damn, that’s wild. They’ll change out ports, open up the App Store, but this is the hill they die on. Interesting.

The main draw for me about iMessage, being able to answer my texts on any of my devices, can be done just with Messages by Google on my Pixel, making a Webapp Shortcut of messages.google.com on my iPad, and the same for my Linux machine. (I imagine the privacy of all that ain’t great)

If someone wants to FaceTime me they can text me a link to the call and I open it on the iPad.

Like, all the features that make iMessage/Facetime unique can be replicated if you don’t care about tap backs, bubble color, and memoji . Save the encryption, but I imagine most people back that up on iCloud so they can be searched.