They have poor media literacy and reasoning skills. If they were smart and empathetic, they probably wouldn’t be hateful.

I really would like people to think more about that.

If you produce more valuable stuff and get paid the same, you’re getting a bad deal. It’s delusional to think the owners are going to pass those profits on to the workers in any meaningful way.

I don’t disagree with you but it’s comforting to me to hold onto the fantasy that the something else would be better, like exchanging a quality good for money in a one time deal.

But yes, capitalism is a common source of many problems. (Though I guess a worker owned collective could produce loot boxes, too. )

Sometimes I get really depressed when I think about problems that could be solved if people would just behave slightly differently.

If people would just stop buying lootbox slop, it wouldn’t be a problem. it’s not asking a lot. It’s not asking you to change your diet, or ride a bike twenty miles in the snow. Just stop buying that shit. I just want to smack impulse buyers on the nose with a newspaper, or squirt them with a spray bottle. Stop it!

But that’s not how people work. We barely function at all.

“steal higher” took me a couple reads. Steal doesn’t sound like “still” in whatever accent I speak.

I’ve seen a lot of Nirvana tshirts lately. Did they do a sale at … Wherever teenagers get clothing now?

You probably need to also measure what you’re getting for those taxes for this to be meaningful. I’d happily pay a lot of taxes for health care, education, mass transit, etc.

You’re doing more harm to the environment and shared spaces than the person riding the bus.

I remember okcupid had a question (back when their system was based on answering questions) that asked “is it possible for a partner to be too ambitious?”

I was like “clearly some of you assholes never read Macbeth”.

Also, the CEO of my old job was on the dating apps at the same time as me. Despite us being about the same age, I’m confident very few people would match with both of us. “Never worked, just grad school and CEO founder” seekers don’t also seek me.

Hanna’s autobiography “Rebel Girl” was a good read, though parts of it are harrowing.

Royal Assassin was like my favorite card back in the day, playing in school when 4th edition was new. I had a couple of them and animate dead. Good times.

Without doing any research, I feel like I hear about fewer hate crimes targeting trans men than trans women? I’d guess because our society is obsessive with policing women’s bodies. A guy with no beard is whatever, but a woman with some fuzz or stubble is a crime.

(Not to say that trans men don’t have their own struggles)