Doesn’t disagree enough to refuse money, apparently.

What you just experienced is cultural sexism. It’s extremely common in many cultures around the world.

Holy shit so much this. It’s fucking bullshit and batshit insane in modern times.

My brother-in-law’s mother is one of these kinds of people, and very much treats her two grandsons like they’re divinity, and 6 granddaughters like they’re his slaves.

My wife and I live next to them and since I don’t like interacting with their family, it took me awhile to notice.

Oldest son gets preferential treatment on everything, gets expensive shit for every present giving holiday, and even the way she talks to him is like she’s afraid she will upset him and is afraid he’s not being treated the way she thinks he deserves.

Youngest son gets next preference, but is mentally around 2 or 3 so she doesn’t do much besides treat him like a royal baby. Like 0-6month old baby.

All the daughters get cheap dolls or makeup for holidays. They are expected to be seen and not heard when she’s there. Anything that needs done they are expected to do even if it’s something the adult watching them should be handling.

A couple weeks ago I was talking to the oldest daughter about her art class when the oldest son started yelling about how he was thirsty.

Grandma comes over and starts interrupting the conversation asking why she’s not going to get him some water.

I just interrupted her with a “we are in the middle of a conversation. Just be cause YOUR idea of respect is extremely warped doesn’t mean the rest of us have to tolerate it. He’s 12, he can get his own damn glass of water. If you don’t like that, get it yourself, but you WILL NOT interrupt us again unless you want to find out just how disrespectful my wife and I can be.”

I don’t know what she said in response because I was making an effort to ignore her and say something about the art class.

I did end up sending a message to their parents about the encounter with an" if that’s a problem for you guys then we can work out another deal for childcare." vague threat about us no longer providing childcare multiple times a week.

Am I disrespectful? Maybe. Probably. But I’ll be dead and buried before I let someone tell a young girl she’s supposed to drop everything because a MAN is there.

I’m also not welcome at my wife’s grandparents house because when her grandfather straight up said “be quiet, the men are talking.” when she said something during a holiday visit, I told him “what makes you think you can talk to my wife like that?” “well my religion says…” “FUCK your religion, you don’t speak to anyone like that.”

My wife says I shouldn’t have said anything because now she feels like it’s her fault her family doesn’t like me. No amount of reassurance that it’s their own fault helps. I stand by it.

Um… Sorry for rambling, this kind of thing makes me angry and I have to deal with it all the time, and I can’t even imagine what it would feel like for all the women who have to deal with it.

This man will not have a car within 6 months, he will have a flaming pile of scrap, or a canvas upon which scratches paint a vile picture.

And also will be receiving an invoice for my time.

Considering the channel owner is heavily left leaning, I don’t think it was them but they may be getting extra cautious about what speech they allow, given the current regime.

From my understanding, he has solar/wind powered well pumps, and a septic system he can “shovel out” himself. He had a covered box for deliveries next to his mailbox, and anything that needs to be dropped close to the house can drive straight in, I assume he plans those out ahead of time.

I just checked street view maps and since the last time I was over there he actually has a driveway now! With a gate across it.

Last time I spoke to him regularly enough that house questions wouldnt be weird, he was already working on solar power and already had a “battery wall” from 18650 cells cobbled together from surplus and garage sale battery packs. Had a whole table set up with testing and monitoring stuff for it. Apparently when the power went out, he could keep his fridge and freezer going for “almost a week”

I’m sure by now he’s gotten some of the trees cleared so he can have a garden, as that was also on the list of things he wanted to do to the place.

So he’s probably living as off grid as possible by now, while still using satellite or cellular internet.

It would be weird for me to just out of the blue start talking to him to ask more about it, we were never really “friends” friends, more “he’s friends with my friend so by extension we hang out” which makes it weirder. Not sure why, we just didn’t seem to interact outside of hangouts and group chats. Although if I’m being honest it’s probably because his family is rich so any time he went on about the stuff he’s “built” and “earned” it just rubbed me the wrong way.

But It’s a nice setup for sure.

Wow, I sure am glad I know where to avoid dirty mods for skyrim now.

I can bookmark it so I know not to go there!

I’ll be honest, they fucked this game over hard in my opinion.

It really does feel like they separated everyone into teams, and none of the teams spoke to each other once. They all just delivered their chunk of the game without connecting pieces together.

Base building was a nightmare, and that’s the primary reason I downloaded it in the first place.

Then I finished the main quest and spoilers ahead for anyone who cares

Kind of killed literally every desire I had to play the game. Especially when they patched the easily accessed chests that at least gave me a shortcut to some things.

I made some comments on YouTube over the last week about LAPD and Israel, and all of them have been deleted without notice. Not even a warning of “hey you aren’t allowed to talk about that” or “you violated a mysterious rule sometime”

Lemmy can succeed while breaking arbitrary server CoMmUnItY rules, and if you don’t think this discussion has merit then you only want Lemmy to succeed in your narrow view of what “success” is, I guess.

Newsome has the authority to have state police and the CBI to arrest guard members who don’t follow the order to stand down.

He won’t, and I don’t know if I believe the state police would side with a Democrat, but the possibility is there.

Of course, there are MANY things that politicians have had the authority to do to stop things since January, yet they haven’t.

All radicals who are willing to spill blood are on Trump’s side.

I’m not so sure on this one.

I’d like to think I’m willing to use the tools at my fingertips to sling hot lead in defense of minorities and prevent a total takeover, however, I recognize that doing so myself is a death sentence.

Taking a stand just makes you a target in a very wide open field. You need more people to take a stand with you to be effective. How many people feel the same as I do? Willing to stand as a group, but not solo?

Organization is important. Organize or be sent to a concentration camp “prison”. Organize or be arrested for protesting the regime. Organize or die.

Organized resistance is much harder to take down. With enough people, you wouldn’t even need to fight. But you should absolutely be prepared to.

then that kind of autonomy is a fictional concept that is out of reach for any modern nation.

True autonomy and isolation IS impossible for modern countries. There isn’t a single country that has access to every single resource needed for modern society, some things will always have to be imported.

A 1700s era society, however, is totally within the realm of possibility. Not much use for neodynium or lithium in the 18th century.

wtf are even 20 armed civilians supposed to do against trained military combat units?

Ask Vietnam.

Yeah I love how other countries like to mock the US for Vietnam, yet for some reason seem to forget about it when it comes to “us military would dominate their population”

I’m sorry but some random Douchebag from Omaha or some small town in Texas doesn’t know jack OR shit about the countryside around the Sierra or Appalachian mountains, and all the fancy tools at their disposal didn’t help them much when they had to search through desert for 20 years chasing down “terrorists”

Sure, the US couldn’t beat vietman because they didn’t know the terrain and would never be able to convince the people they’re shooting at its for their own good.

But that totally doesn’t apply when it’s the US fighting against itself, somehow.

The enemy is both weak and strong, I guess.

But is it interactive?

Also I’m sure part of it for some people is the corruption of something that wasn’t originally smut.

Wow, that’s terrible! What mod is this? So I can avoid it? What a weird thing! That I’m definitely going to avoid and not go check out.

But I am a tad mystified. I do wonder what kind of lifestyle it is that leads a person to turn a videogame main menu into hardcore pornography.

It must be the author’s first day on the internet.

If the internet were banned globally, porn mags would immediately disappear from shelves, and anything up to and including national geographic where they show cultures where clothing is sparse would all be hard to find, as the porn starved masses come out of their jizz encrusted caves to find something to give them that little hit of dopamine and oxytocin.

I will preface this by saying I don’t believe for a second the US was ignorant of the intent to attack.

In fairness, if one of your allies that you’ve been giving tons of weapons to suddenly decides to attack its neighbor one day, especially when both countries have nuclear capabilities, you can bet your ass the people in charge of militaries all over the world will be watching just in case shit hits the fan.

For instance if France went insane and attacked England, you can be assured all of the EU defense departments (let’s pretend their defensive treaties aren’t in place) will be watching it like a hawk the moment it starts.

Again, I believe the US government had full foreknowledge and would have given its blessing for the attack if Israel cared to wait for it. They definitely shared Intel that made it happen.

Yeah I am super confused, I just dumped my trash in one of these about an hour ago, and my family had one provided to us by the city in the early 2000s. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen these in TV shows from the 80s as well.

I don’t understand this mentality from people who already have their name out there. You’re supposedly famous and you’re getting mad about being even more famous and recognizable.