Okay, you move the goalposts completely and then get upvoted by the mindless drones here. You’re not here to argue that Fall Out Boy is classic rock just because you think it’s good, right? I’m out.
Born with autism, mild cerebral palsy, medical issues
Mom heavily neglected and abused me
Lived in many foster, adoptive homes, boarding schools, went to many schools and extreme right-wing churches
In all of them, was either physically, emotionally, or sexually abused
Abandoned as adult
Joined USAF, medical discharge out of tech school when they realized their mistake
Lived in homeless shelters and then adult foster care
My name online is usually some form of the word “orphan”
So what am I doing? Well, I’m poor and on disability and I’ve struggled to manage my emotions, and I’ve had to grow like anybody. But I’m an ex-Christian theist, empathetic liberal, and have never done any crime. I spent a lot of years in social programs and with social workers. I live in an apartment now with two best friends. I’m writing a science fantasy novel I hope to change the world with, sharing a lot of what I experienced and what I learned. I wrote a symphonic rock and power ballad soundtrack for it.
“The Solemn Dream” Blurb:
After a very unhappy childhood, “Solemn” dies at 25 and wakes up in the space-age afterlife of Heleia, where everyone’s home planet is chosen by the seraphs— demigod social workers and keepers of the peace— based on that person’s emotional and ethical maturity. Here, Solemn chooses to become a young child again, hoping to heal and to finally find a loving family.
Jessi Vargas is a forever-19 bully who lives on Nemesis, the planet for those who don’t care that they’re harmful. Sick of being surrounded by terrible people, she prepares to leave the planet— even though she may not be worthy.
Lu Montsely is a kind and patient humanitarian who hides a terrible past. After a century of effort, she is almost ready to ascend to the utopian world of Themis to join her loving husband. Lu mentors Solemn and Jessi as her final test, and— along with their wise and humorous helper android Iota— they form a small family on Eleos.
But many do not believe that criminals deserve second chances. When the seraphs discover mass-produced weapons, they need the aid of Solemn’s new family to investigate. Solemn soon finds themselves the recipient of powerful abilities that give them a unique role in the growing conflict. And before long, Solemn and family are not only fighting to become happier, kinder, and greater— but also for the fate of the entire Helian afterlife.
…I don’t think that having lived through shit means you need to be a shit person. Sure, some misfortunate people are going to have personalities that push them towards being shit people, but… those people were likely going to be shit people anyway, unless people guided them a little more carefully.
My housemate lost his awesome mom when he was like, 10, because of that. She refused to go to the hospital because she couldn’t afford it, and it got infected. Fuck this country.
The skyrocketing cost of insurance premiums in Florida is leading residents to drop their insurance, consider selling their home, and even move out of the state, according to recent reports....
I do this too. But of course some cat like some or most people food more than others. My cat eats ranch dressing, eggs, dairy, and oils. She’ll eat a few meats too. But she is mostly uninterested in human food, so I fulfill her curiosity often because it’s kind to my cat and it helps stave off her desire to beg. I also thinks she just trusts me more and is more fond of me because I engage with her in her interests a lot. Hell, that’s just good advice for raising children too.
It’s not biological, it’s social and cultural. Women are low-key conditioned to think and/or state that they are more dependent and not as smart. It’s shitty.
Latino and Black students in advanced math courses grew when Texas districts stopped relying on recommendations and automatically enrolled qualifying students....
[A]n INI configuration file in the Windows Canary channel, discovered by German website Deskmodder, includes references to a “Subscription Edition,” “Subscription Type,” and a “subscription status.”
Literally can’t happen, at least not on the scale y’all like to imply, not in the way Linux is today. If your OS doesn’t work with a ton of peoples’ hardware at all, no wide adoption. Don’t pretend this doesn’t happen-- it happens all the time. I was never able to get sound working on Ubuntu with mainstream hardware. If your OS requires a ton of technical knowledge to get any basic hardware or software feature working, no wide adoption. If your OS runs any commonplace software in a glitchy, super-slow way, no wide adoption. Wide adoption of desktop Linux is just not going to happen until a distro has a well-organized, goal-oriented, QA-pushing non-profit such as Mozilla making sure it works for the masses, on almost any hardware.
I know this kind of post is not supposed to be taken seriously, but they’re so haphazard and forced that I don’t find them funny. I’m getting sick of these billions of poorly-thought-out “moral + lawful alignment” charts for things that have little to no morality or lawfulness attached, trying to tell us what kind of person we are if we do what, and being wildly off-the-mark. For this one and most others, most of the entries are “lawful good/neutral”, because they are valid and effective ways to protect your fucking bread, done by someone who sees it important to do so. If you really want to start categorizing the way tons of different people do shit, find a more appropriate format.
A man who grabbed our concept of a centralized internet by the balls and squeezed it so hard that the Lemmy’s user count 65xed in a 3 months period. Thank you for your service
I used Plex for my home media for almost a year, then it stopped playing nice for reasons I gave up on diagnosing. While looking at alternatives, I found Jellyfin which is much more responsive, IMO, and the UI is much nicer as well....
I think PotPlayer is a lot better than VLC— although it’s a little weird out-of-the-box, so you have to change a few of its many, many customizable settings.
That’s not what I was told on the multiple sites that I stumbled on when searching for an all-purpose digital book reader. But you’re probably right, and they’re probably wrong.
It’s more that it’s clunky, bugged, and unusable than “it’s missing features”. It tries to rectify this with a very terrible and still often unusable CSS editor
Gabe Newell on why game delays are okay: 'Late is just for a little while. Suck is forever.' (www.pcgamer.com)
The Bible but DnD (startrek.website)
Man arrested for pointing gun at 6-year-old boy's head over Halloween goody bag (abcnews.go.com)
"Classic rock" isn't timeless. Most of it is dated, cheesy, lame, unintelligent, and don't forget sexist. Also, it used to be the 60s. Now it's the 80s. Because it's all about old people nostalgia.
Wow, the sheer density of illogic, ad hominem, and goalpost-moving in the comments section....
Story of Cruz (lemmy.world)
How do poor people in the states give birth without money?
I’m Canadian. And I’m already sorry for asking an ignorant question....
Texas Republicans Ban Women From Using Highways for Abortion Appointments (www.newsweek.com)
Lubbock County, Texas, joins a group of other rural Texas counties that have voted to ban women from using their roads to seek abortions....
Florida Residents Flee State as Insurance Premiums Skyrocket up to 900% (www.newsweek.com)
The skyrocketing cost of insurance premiums in Florida is leading residents to drop their insurance, consider selling their home, and even move out of the state, according to recent reports....
She helps when I cook. (lemmy.ml)
She smell checks almost every ingredient and never tastes. Best cat. Then she smells the end product and we’re both like ‘that’s that done, then’.
Disconnected (2023) (lemmy.world)
Female (sh.itjust.works)
Image of a picker in an online form....
Amazon Anti Union propaganda (lemmy.world)
Latino, Black enrollment in advanced math shot up after this simple change. (www.nbcnews.com)
Latino and Black students in advanced math courses grew when Texas districts stopped relying on recommendations and automatically enrolled qualifying students....
Double standards or something, I don't know... (lemmy.ml)
don't know, don't care (feddit.de)
Windows 12 May Require a Subscription (www.pcmag.com)
[A]n INI configuration file in the Windows Canary channel, discovered by German website Deskmodder, includes references to a “Subscription Edition,” “Subscription Type,” and a “subscription status.”
A Woman Was Denied Medication for Being of ‘Childbearing Age.’ She Just Sued the Hospital (jezebel.com)
Tara Rule says her doctor in upstate New York was “determined to protect a hypothetical fetus" instead of helping her treat debilitating pain.
Microsoft Defender Flags Tor Browser as a Trojan and Removes it from the System - Deform (deform.co)
I love democracy (i.imgur.com)
They'd better be going through some real shit (programming.dev)
chaotic evil is for me (lemmy.ca)
The race for "Worst Dumpster Fire" is heating up. Everyone place your bets! (lemmy.ml)
A moment of appreciation for a man who is undoubtedly the world's most successful promoter of Lemmy and the fediverse (lemmy.ml)
A man who grabbed our concept of a centralized internet by the balls and squeezed it so hard that the Lemmy’s user count 65xed in a 3 months period. Thank you for your service
Superiority brings controversy (aprogrammerlife.com)
Re-creation of someone else’s post because the original was removed and I found it funny when I first saw it
Google killing Basic HTML version of Gmail In January 2024 (www.theregister.com)
Google will discontinue the Basic HTML version of its Gmail service in January 2024....
Yup (lemmy.ml)
What are some FOSS programs that you think are a far better user experience than their counterparts? (sh.itjust.works)
I used Plex for my home media for almost a year, then it stopped playing nice for reasons I gave up on diagnosing. While looking at alternatives, I found Jellyfin which is much more responsive, IMO, and the UI is much nicer as well....
Refrigerator nook of shame. (lemmy.world)
“Beautiful balcony looking over the palatial entertaining area”. (lemmy.world)
"1 bed 1 bath" is a generous description for a garage (lemmy.ca)