AlyxMS [he/him]

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Cake day: December 8th, 2020

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  • Right. Maybe it’s because my entire interaction with this slogan is on Youtube videos for a brief 1-2 years. I was able “get over it” because my discomfort with it was very tiny to begin with, that being seeing internet people in a video saying “kill all men”.

    I never had conversations with bioessentialists or TERFs(beyond “ewww TERF goodbye”), never faced any direct attacks, never got involved in an argument over it. I can see it would be much more traumatic for someone with your experience. Thanks for sharing this perspective.



  • I mean, you did try to figure things out and attempted the fix yourself, I’d call that being handy. Next time you won’t make the same mistake again.

    I had a cousin that had their tire run flat. And their first instinct was to give me a call. I explained you can quite easily replace it with your spare, both the spare and every single tool you need is located under the trunk mat. I then sent over a step by step guide, reference images for their specific car model, and a youtube video, also offered to guide them through the process via a video call.

    A few hours later they told me they got their insurrance to send over a guy to change the tire, had to wait almost an hour, because “it’s just not something I do”.



  • This visa things has been going on for a few years now.

    Used to familiar with a biotech company in china, they were working with an american firm to do testing and needed to send about 30 employees over. Despite having invitations from the american company and all documents in order, around half of them got rejected with no stated reason. (Apparently the policy is that they do not need to give a reason to reject visa) Almost like they needed to hit a certain rejection quota.

    I’ve visited a handful of countries myself. US, by a long shot, is the hardest to get a visa from. Even with a visa, they had the most strict customs to pass through, treating everyone as a possible threat/illegal migration risk. And I’ve been led to a separate room and been told to wait more than once.(I’m probably on a list or something) Love the place but I’m not planning on visiting any time soon.


  • Checked out that page and it looks pretty alright.

    Had stuff like Holodomor listed but at the very least it did note whether it’s intentional or not is disputed. And if it’s unintentional, it doesn’t constitute as a genocide.

    Didn’t see any bullcrap like Uyghur genocide on there. I guess it would be really embarrassing to write “0” in “Estimated Killings” and have it placed next to events where millions died.

    (Nevermind, went to the Talk page for fun and libs were mad Tibetan and Uyghur “genocide” was removed. Some guy reminded them literally everything else had death tolls listed but these don’t. At least seeing the Hasbara bots using the usual arguments “They are not trying to destroy Gaza, they are trying to destroy Hamas, which are terrorists!” getting shut down was fun)