The next commenter stated: “The ruling class don’t waste their time distancing themselves from qanon, they focus on furthering their class interests and emiserating the poor.” Distancing themselves includes calling them out. So it sounds to me like they’re saying we need to be pragmatic like the ruling class and not distance ourselves from tankies, which is absolutely not something I’m ever going to do for those slimeballs. Actively doing it like some sort of performance apropos of nothing? Sure, maybe not. But if a tankie ever tries to associate with us, they need to be given the boot over their disgusting ideals.

Chicken and fish might be an exception (although in the case of the latter, you’re destroying the world’s oceans via depletion and plastic pollution, and in the case of the former, you’re helping incubate what’s probably going to become another worldwide pandemic).

I’m not taking cues from the far-right in not denouncing our worst aspects when I see them and letting them take up shop in our spaces. I don’t see the need to whataboutism to them either and will call that out, but I don’t want them in spaces I’m in either.

You had me until “tankies”. Tankies are scum and don’t need defending.

Someone somewhere would because UBI is the capitalist techbro idea of a social safety net; it’s a band-aid that doesn’t address the underlying problems in a similar way to how the ACA helps but in reality is a very center-right idea that doesn’t address the underlying hypercapitalist healthcare system.

If you’re eating beef, you’re doing much more damage to the trees than reading books can ever realistically do.

Teletubbies is an eldritch horror story for 3-year-olds; CMV.

Repost from Instagram, cool.

In a time of crisis where 75% of US adults are overweight or obese, it actually is a good thing that we talk to people in our lives about things we’re doing to lose weight, as long as that’s being used as a positive example and not a way to act superior. (Also, if eating salads makes you sad, you’re doing salad wrong; iceberg lettuce with a few croutons and dressing is a salad in the same way that unseasoned broth with noodles and nothing else is soup.)

And more expensive while you’re at it, thanks.

Nah, monopolies like Luxottica can suck shit (although there are plenty of brands not owned by them that you can just as easily buy). Doesn’t change that 3D-printed anything is made of cheap, relatively brittle material compared to easily affordable monel, titanium, and other metal frames. I can’t speak to the durability of plastics manufacturers use versus what you would use DIY, but the metals have to be much more durable, and they consistently look much nicer than the 3D-printed ones I’m seeing online. Also, unless OP’s are somehow way above the ones I’m seeing online in terms of quality, they’re probably more comfortable as well; you can cope all you want that you painstakingly designed it to the contours of your face as much as I can cope that the t-shirt I weaved out of corn husks is better than that mass-produced crap because I tailored it to the contours of my torso.

It’s cool, don’t get me wrong, but this seems like one of the last ways I would try to cut corners financially.

Republican politicians, judges, and voters are fascist ghouls.

You and OP should keep in mind for all of our sakes that France is a nuclear-armed state.

Also, given I wear these almost every waking hour of my life and I’ll be shit-out-of-luck if these break while I’m out and about, they’re one of the last things I’d want to cheap out this badly on. Assuming you aren’t getting high-end designer frames, you’ve saved $40–$60 at the cost of spending the next two years wearing a dinky piece of brittle, probably uncomfortable plastic on your face. Yay…?

Luigi did the unambiguously correct thing.

I genuinely never noticed until now how much Juliette Danielle is trying not to laugh in this scene, and in fact right after this her body starts jolting in a way that you can tell she’s laughing inaudibly.

Lmfao, no clue why you’re being downvoted so much. It’s absolutely true that the camel-case here looks like a clusterfuck, even when it’s easily explained.

You recognize that Mastodon, the software, is developed by a non-profit called Mastodon gGmbH?

“Apple’s new estate planning app” was one of the ones I had planned for this awful contingency.