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im at 15hours and starting to get a smidge of racing thoughts and excesss sweeting

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by hungrybread@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
 
 

Anyone familiar with the Cincinatti Metro area? I have an opportunity to potentially move there and would really appreciate any tips y'all might have.

Things I'm trying to keep in mind:

  • relatively close to some type of left organizing (<30 min drive). There might be a local DSA or PSL chapter, not sure how active though
  • diversity
  • dog friendly
  • walkable/bike able for errands / parks / poi
  • public transportation
  • safe to have gender bending presentation in the neighborhood

I've heard good things about:

  • Oakley
  • Covington
  • Bellevue
  • Hyde Park
  • Newport
  • Silverton
  • a few others whose names aren't coming to mind

The KY side seems more outwardly conservative (some pockets of pride flags tho) but is also significantly less expensive

Any areas that yall would recommend looking at?

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I might just be dumb, but I always forget what I sent to other users and it makes me anxious. Is this just a normal part of lemmy or am I just dumb?

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You know the one gamer-gulag

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Do police ever justify why when they're in a standoff with a person who doesn't have a hostage and can't hurt anyone else why they must breech and clear and murder them other than their bloodlust? We have gasses that can knock people out or maybe put some tranquilizer on those drones and robots they love to bomb people with. Hell even starving/thirsting them out is an option. A lot of the time these are mentally unwell people who just need help. Just something I was wondering because I never see it brought up when it happens.

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I actually like a lot of classic rock (yes even Hotel California, that solo kicks ass) but there is a lot of bad classic rock too. What do you think the worst classic rock song is? What is the most overrated band or artist? I think Supertramp is mid at best, but Bob Seeger is truly dreadful.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Flyberius@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
 
 

I apparently have £400 of Google ad credits. What would be a fun advert to run?

Edit: beanis?

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since it's a freeze-gamer thing my partner and i don't trust random youtube channels not to be just some "anti-woke" shit

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For those of you that have seen the Val Kilmer/Marlon Brando movie The Island of Dr. Moreau, you may remember the part near the end where the question is asked "you are a god, and he is a god, and he is also a god, but which of you is god... number... one?" and it caused a collapse of what little cohesion the god-killing group had.

I predict something similar on Monday because I highly doubt two notoriously Main Character brained billionaires will, or even can, share the spotlight without feeling threatened by their counterpart.

billionaire-tears explosion trump-anguish

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So, I'm currently dating someone, and it's my first time dating. I was a kissless virgin before this but I’m not kissless anymore ^^. Anyway, we get along really well, sharing a lot of interests and similar views. They're a "newer" lefty, but they have a good head on their shoulders and are open to learning. We’re really excited about each other. We've talked a lot over voice chat, had three dates so far, and exchange a bit of daily texting. At this point, I'm pretty sure we're going to become a couple, maybe even for a longer time.

Today is our 4th date, but I do not intend to tell them I love them because I'm not really sure how love feels. I definitely feel attraction, and it seems very mutual. I guess my question is: When do I tell someone I love them, and how do I know when I truly love them?

Im asking because this is literally my 1st time dating and I have never been involved in anything romantic.

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I keep hearing from people in my life that spirituality is an essential part of living a meaningful existence. I hear the phrase "let go and let God" and "everything happens for a reason" used a lot as advice and comfort. However, I'm an atheist and a materialist. I don't know how I could even be spiritual with those beliefs. At the same time, my life is not fulfilling despite the fact that I am not struggling financially. Moreover, I feel paralyzed when I try to get off my privileged ass and do even the bare minimum for socialist organizing because I realize that it goes directly against my labor aristocratic class interests. I feel like knowing that sticking my neck out and contributing to the real movement to change the present state of things is the morally correct thing to do isn't enough to drive me.

In short, what is spirituality? Is it compatible with materialism? If so, how? And if spirituality is the wrong tree to bark up, how can I drive myself to do what is to be done?

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Let's be real, people. I'm the best politician this countries got. I raised the GDP when I was president and I wept the debt out. It's true! But the crooked democrats are trying to take your jobs away! The jobs I worked so hard to give you! What do I have to do to get you to like me?

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Kind of what the title says—I want to learn more about the Byzantine Empire. It doesn't need to be an academic book in fact, I would prefer something fun to read and not too dry. I'm mostly interested in the later years, around 800-1400. If anyone has a recommendation, hit me up! I´d settle for historical fiction as well.

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I grew up with culture and assumed everyone else had culture. Then I came across a white person who fetishized black and Asian people.

She grew up in America completely without contact with their ancestral tree for generations. I'd sit down, and they'd tell me their DNA is part Asian around 20x before I got up from my seat. She and her entire family looked completely white. That's how far back she was digging.

She's not black by any stretch, but she claimed she couldn't understand white slang because she only speaks black slang... even though she grew up with my also white boyfriend in the same white suburb neighborhood. My boyfriend simply talks like a white person.

She wore cultures as costumes. Like not growing up wearing durags then wearing one at 25 and dressing up in gang colors and lying about being in a gang, growing up in a ultra-rich suburban neighborhood and explaining to my boyfriend what is like to grow up in the hood(you grew up in the same ultra rich suburb shut up!), Buddhist beads(in her chosen gang color) with long "Buddhist nails" when they were cruel and dehumanizing at every chance, and nothing else about them was Buddhist. She is also immunocompromised, but started the pandemic insisting she wear a paisley bandana(also in the gang color) instead of medical masks I gave her a full pack of.

She claims it's distasteful to talk about feeling animosity towards the 1%, but she loves watching videos of black gangs getting shot.

They were constantly trying to look like "an exotic white person." They never realized they are just white and can only be shown around other people's cultures as a guest, but can never become "one of them." Always just as an outsider.

They taught me part of what whiteness was. Because of them I know about people who are white and nothing else.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Cowbee@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
 
 

My body wants to upgrade my shitposting ability, but technology holds me back 🫠

Using Jerboa, which is great, but emotes are my white whale

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Because it's chefs-kiss

It makes me dare to dream. bloomer

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I like the smell of dragons blood incense but I don't want to buy it if it's from an endangered species.

In before someone makes a joke about it being from real mythical dragons

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how many of yall are fans?

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What animal makes you hehehe or hihi every time you look at it. Goofy looking or acting either or. No blobfish out of water photo if you suggest that I'll ppb you.

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