are you the yerba mate drinker from the meme?

You’re welcome!

Also gotta say your performance in this thread was like watching a 13 year old squirm getting caught lying about their report card.

Oh my goodness, you are one tracking on elections so hard. You ignore everything I say and circle right back around to voting. Alright I’ll humor you.

Our plan for 2026 election:

-Vote in primary if applicable

-Vote in general

Great, super easy to get all of our planning done. It took all of five seconds and when it comes time to actually vote it will take less than an hour. I don’t understand why we need to plan something this simple so far in advance but now we’ve got a plan.

Now that thats out of the way we can focus on more important things like finding ways to build more robust communities and serve our neighbors in need. The Democrats aren’t coming to save anyone for literally years, there are hungry, unhoused, and unemployed people that need help now.

Do you even have a plan for what you will do if the Democrats don’t win the election? What about if the Democrats win the election but still screw the working class? Are you going to wait 50 years to see if voting Democrat works or not before you try anything else? Given the Democrats performance over the past 50 years I’d say starting and stopping your political engagement at voting and electoralism is magical thinking, a hail Mary, all eggs in one basket, a recipe for disaster.

Say it with me, voting and mutual aid are not mutually exclusive. You can do both at the same time. Mutual aid/community organizing takes hard work on a regular basis while voting is a passive affair that takes a couple of hours a year at most. Of the two spending more of your focus and energy on the lower effort, passive option is a recipe for failure.

You can start working on mutual aid today. it’s not a wish list, it’s something you can actually incorporate into your life. At a bare minimum treat it like church and participate for at least a couple of hours a week.

Ive been involved with a group making free food for the community for eight years. This is going to be a generational struggle. You already think that it would take 50 years of Democratic super majorities to accomplish anything, what’s a decade or two of working to build robust community organizations that would facilitate a general strike?

And the icing on the cake is you can still vote for your democratic super majority; mutual aid/community organizing and voting are not mutually exclusive although I have to say voting is a very passive activity you might do a couple times a year a most. Building community organizations and mutual aid networks is much more involved and takes diligence and continual effort.

There’s no reason you can’t do both. If you are serious about fixing this country we are going to need to do everything we possibly can and then sustain that effort until the job is done.

All of my mice that have failed have failed abruptly and totally. There’s no warning or buttons failing, one day you plug it in and the computer doesn’t recognize it anymore

Sounds like it’s not trivially easy to understand OR common sense.

It sounds more like your beliefs prevent you from engaging in good faith.

Bespoke

I think you might wanna get ready for more disappointment, say maybe two or three years from now

If it’s common sense and trivially easy to understand why can’t you just explain it to us?

I said it in my own top level comment too but I’ll post it again here sibce you’re asking. I’d highly recommend ketamine as an alt drug. At low doses like a bump or three it’s a perfectly functional alcohol substitute except there’s no hangover or feeling sick after.

It makes me wanna dance and does a better job of mitigating social anxiety. If I’m in a crowd it literally makes the people appear as if they are further apart than they were before I took a couple bumps.

Loading it in a metal bullet I can discreetly use it in just about any setting. You just gotta make sure you go slow and small so you don’t get k holed in public lol

I was a horrible smoke all day stoner for years while I was dealing with health problems. Now that I’m healthier I’ve been doing something I call the One Dab A Day Challenge.

I smoke one time a day, at the end of the day. Tolerance is resetting to a point where I don’t crave the high all day and most days the one smoke gets me higher than the previous day, very slow

Also I’d highly recommend ketamine as an alt drug. At low doses like a bump or three it’s a perfectly functional alcohol substitute except there’s no hangover or feeling sick after. It makes me wanna dance and does a better job of mitigating social anxiety. If I’m in a crowd it literally makes the people appear as if they are further apart than they were before I took a couple bumps. Loading it in a metal bullet I can discreetly use it in just about any setting

Yes and it cuts both ways. Prior to transition when I was driving an Infiniti I got female attention but driving beat up Hyundais and Fords the only attention I got was from the police, like driving around with a sign that says, “pull me over”.

Post transition my life circumstances are much better but the cars affect my dating prospects totally differently. Driving a brand new performance model EV in 2022 I had at least two dates where the guy would lose all interest in me once they saw I was driving a car that costed several times their annual income.

You could literally see all interest melt off their face, “my car is the white sedan, can you drop me off there?”

Immediate flip from being warm and engaged to this cold, “gtfo out of my Nissan” vibe

You can’t have a shitty car as a man and you can’t have a nicer car as a trans woman

Your childish understanding of politics is perfectly congruent with the immaturity evident in your behavior

Guy who thinks Trump is a communist also acts like an insufferable child, go figure

Been in and out of Linux since 2006.

Linux Mint with Cinnamon DE is the only distro I’ve ever used that worked flawlessly for everything without needing to use the terminal at all. It worked so well it was boring. It’s the only distro I would recommend to a lay person

A lot of my worse injuries involve poison or toxicity. The brown recluse would have taken me down if everything was going wrong in my blood at the same time and I couldn’t walk

There’s already people pointing smart cameras and mics hooked up to Meta that point at me everytime I go in public. That’s life in a major city where half the people have Facebook on their phone. The TVs have mics, there’s wifi security cameras everywhere with all kinds of terrible privacy policies. The smart glasses are tanking your anger right now but even if there were no glasses you are already surrounded

So no, you impotent nerds aren’t going to punch your way out of this predicament. I bet most of you couldn’t punch your way out of any predicament

;p

tl;dr: At the start of middle school it was terrible, bullying and sadness but by the end I had lots of friends, self confidence, I was getting attention from girls, just a complete 180.

6th grade, awful. Bullied, insecure egg. Very depressed

7th grade I realized I was taller and bigger than most of the other kids. Parents made me play rec league basketball and I would foul out every game swinging on jocks I didn’t like. I also got into guns, airsoft, paintball, hunting, and knives that year. People pretty much completely stopped messing with me and I made friends. Still a depressed egg but it was much more bearable only feeling bad because of what’s in my head vs how other people treated me

8th grade I started dressing better. People sometimes would ask if I was emo if I wore all black but not in a bullying way. I had long hair and I started straightening it. I’d tell people I was metrosexual and somehow never got made fun to my face for it. I was still repping guns was identity and knocking people over, smacking kids playing basketball. Still a depressed egg tho

I’m paying 3x my states monthly minimum wage for hourly workers to own in a fairly modest 1100 sqft house in a semi walkable area in a major city.

Before here I used to pay my states monthly minimum wage for hourly workers to live in a fucking slum just outside the city. House was by an interstate so I got soot on anything I left outside, all the houses in the neighborhood were water damaged and molded to hell, the roads were so cracked it was fucking up cars, and everyone who lived there seemed miserable.

It’s grind or die, I got so fucking sick living in alleged affordable housing. Nerve damage and all kinds of weird chronic health problems from living in such a toxic death trap for years. They don’t call it the Dirty South for nothing, this place is completely fucked.

I use a Logitech MX Master 2S and 3S on my Fedora 43 machines using Solaar! Works better than on my legacy Mac OS builds that use legacy version of Logi Options+

DMT