omg, your fabled return!

I guess that makes sense. I guess implicitly knowing that the brainwashing wouldn’t fully last helped me get through it.

o7

I mean, thousands of those very same people were killed by their government which sold those blueprints to Russia. Those corrupt fucks were on the decline thanks to their own incompetence creating serious problems. This war really has few winners.

I’d be genuinely impressed by this. Such a power move!

Thank you, but I do wish I wasn’t so important. I wish more people posted so I was only one of many rather than half the posts here.

Ikr? It’s so hard only hearing about people who wanted it when they were a kid. No shade to those people, but only hearing their stories made it so much harder to accept myself. I never consciously thought that I’d want to be a woman, with only indirect signs that I never considered might be related to gender.

I didn’t realize that I obsessed over my classmates crossdressing because I was jealous. I thought I didn’t want to be topless because I hated being overweight. I thought I hated male locker rooms because my body was ugly, not because my body was masc and I was stuck in a room with men and boys. I couldn’t understand the way dudes socialized and never got why they were unwilling to talk through their feelings and interpersonal drama. I never considered that the real reason I played male characters in games was because I had internalized that being male was the only option that I had.

In hindsight all these things seem more obvious, but I can only recognize their significance in hindsight, long after I had cracked. If I didn’t learn the importance of valuing current euphoria over investigating my past, I never could’ve accepted myself. I will keep talking about my experience whenever possible, because I know that other people like me need to hear it.

no, I’m sorry 😔

edit: i think it’s a sticker of some sort

I genuinely wonder how people’s answers would correlate with their gender. Would agender and nonbinary people choose “neither agree nor disagree” more often? Would strongly disagree be more fem coded or masc coded? It’d probably just be a total wash realistically, but it’d be fun to consider

Not my thing, but at least they’re proud of who they are

I still find baby trans memes fun because seeing people discover themselves in that comments is so cute!

You’re right, that would work!

I mean, Mai saved her from falling off a building by jumping herself, so there was always some silly stuff in it. Besides, Renako’s self hatred is unhealthy, so getting some positive affirmation was probably good, even if it was brainwashing.

The infamous API changes that first caused Lemmy to explode in popularity.

The API changes basically killed the third party moderation tools that the mods relied on, and they had no interest in continuing to moderate without them. Whenever I peak back on Reddit, it seems like more bullshit slips through the cracks than before and even the culture of the platform in the better subreddits seems to have regressed compared to the past. On top of that, users being able to hide their profiles causes mods to waste time finding workarounds just to see if someone is a troll or not. It seems like so many users don’t notice it because they’ve gotten used to the crap and every other corpo platform is somehow even worse.

I know. I want to edit this meme to say something about the bullshit, but I decided to stop studying math years ago and am woefully unprepared to make a competent math joke. My guess would be something involving Kesler syndrome and exponentially cascading space debris, but I don’t know what would describe that mathematically. Some sort of Markov chain to describe a cascading chain reaction?

It’s ok. It just means you are not ready to handle the truth. There is no shame in having space to grow.

were they at least somewhat tasty?

Ahhhh! I might be confusing it with some other comm 😖

show the cookies now! 😤