Notices by rootfake (rootfake@mastodon.social)

@v_claire @tofugolem it's amazing, destroying Elon Musk's testicles with a spinning kick is a wholesome and endearing traditional activity across so many cultures. Truly the unity we all need in these trying times

@roadriverrail @Garwboy
the only "men are from mars, women are from Venus" that I'll accept is "if women are from Venus and men are from mars, that implies at least 6 other local genders and a likely infinite number of exogenders"

@GavinChait @dalias @marshray @cwebber maybe ritualistic or magical thinking? Superstitious programming might be a good term. I generally use "treating $thing like it's a magic spell" to describe this kind of mentality. If they do the right motions and say the right words, surely they'll get the result they want, even if they don't understand why it worked.

@dalias @KydiaMusic @RickiTarr it also doesn't help that their money is half-ass fake anyway. Like, if your money is all in stocks that you can't sell cause it would tank your company, it only exists as long as you never use it. So not only are these the type of horrible monsters who would become billionaires in the first place, they also "only" have the obscene amount of money they can get safely or through loans, the rest is just scorekeeping for the worst people imaginable.

@hey @Janne_O @mekkaokereke yeah, about 30% of America believes that any sort of federal ID is the mark of the beast and will sell their soul to Satan. A very significant portion of the US believes in a literal spooky devil that goes around and does shit.

@Rasp absolutely, one of the ways you know you've gotten decent at cooking is being able to go "whoops guess I'm out of that, oh well, this'll work" and having it still taste good. I tend to only adhere strictly to the recipe the first time I make something new, just to get a feel for what whatever I'm making is "supposed" to taste like, after that I'm probably not even close to the original recipe.

@aulia @thomasfuchs The trick is, votes D or leans D is most of America. The 50/50 both sides shit is an artifact of our broken electoral system, and the whole "land matters more than people, you get less say the more neighbors you have" thing, than it is a political reality. Like the D's are kinda everyone left of hunting the homeless for sport at this point. Biden's biggest problem was he had no draw other than not being Trump, someone with actual excitement behind them is far better off.

@mos_8502 I'm not sure what gender "turned into a mare to give birth to their father's steed" is, but I am damn sure it ain't cishet.

@annecavicchi @saddestrobots lots of them, you have to remember that cops don't just make whatever their listed salary is, they also make overtime and detail rate. Every cop you see directing traffic for road work or events is not an underpaid civil servant, but someone making ~$50 an hour extra on top of their base pay, and lots of those details are just sitting in a car at a certain place all day.