The best defense against sealioning is to give people more credit than they want and to believe they are smarter than they let on. “Nobody could be this dumb and if they are, it’s fruitless to attempt dialogue” should always be on ones mind.
Yes.
Like any interest, people get so far removed from the original point, it becomes about something new.
Like cast iron. People go from not really knowing about it to learning how to cook with it, to learning how to do basic maintenance. About 20% of people go completely off the rails, and they start buffing and polishing them like they are fabergé eggs, and joining cast iron groups.
Privacy is the same. Learn the basics, follow the basics, relax and get over yourself.
Guys you lost.
Oh yeah, he was totally in rascally play mode. I love rascally play mode, but not when it’s bring out a ladder and go through the motions of rescue play mode LOL
I had never seen a cat’s ass just wiggle itself backwards down a tree before, always more of a “suicide dive” while kind of running down the trunk, and then sprint to safety when they land
I guess Parker could sense when I started to turn my back on him that I was not having any of it that day lol
My cat Parker ran up the tree out front. I just looked at him and said “ok fuckface, see you when you decide to come down”.
He could sense my tone of voice, and just shimmied his ass back down. It was hilarious.
Oh there’s lots I have to set the record straight about and there’s lots I could talk about, but without being asked a specific question that would just leave me to write an open-ended essay and I’m not up for it right now
Certainly, I’m always happy to share with inquisitive minds.
Is there any particular question you’d like me to address?
I spent 20 years as a producer, developer, and project manager in the lottery and games industry.
Trying to explain how lottery and games work to people and have them hear me makes me want to cry.
720 streams run from strange websites in timbucktoo have higher fidelity than the 4K stream I paid good money for.
Here’s a great price and you can share it with your friends. Wait not those friends. Wait your phone isn’t authorized anymore. Okay you authorized your phone but you need to authorize it again. Okay we just doubled the price and cut the quality again. Now you can’t watch the movies that you downloaded for offline viewing without an internet connection. Now your ad-free service has ads.
Netflix can take a long hard suck on my pudding factory, they’re never going to see another penny of my money again, and this is from somebody that goes back to the DVD days of Netflix.
I asked her how she felt about nitrogen on her lawn
She exploded. I WON’T ALLOW IT!
I said what do you think most of the breathable atmosphere is made of and what do you think comes down with rain that makes your grass grow?
You know how well that went.
Idiots like my sister.
She once sternly advised me “I won’t have any chemicals in my home”
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I find that sarcastically interesting.
I initially signed up for Netflix all those many years ago because it was finally a solution that was easier than piracy.
Didn’t take long for them to completely fuck me and the service over, and I left to go back to piracy and I’ll never look at Netflix again.
Try growing up in the late '70s early '80s, when adult behavior at social gatherings was almost a contest to see who could get the most obliterated-drunk, both men and women, and “one for the road” wasn’t just an expression.
I’m of the children of that generation, and when we were young we modeled our socializing after that, going out for the night involved getting hammered, didn’t matter who you were.
I’ve become quite relieved to see that in a last decade or so, the drinking culture of social gatherings is largely gone Even in people of my age range.
Of course, there’s always one or two out of 20 people that are 9 drinks deep within a couple hours and not realizing that nobody else is consuming.
The plan is in place not for toxic drinking culture, but to deal with those people. Once the precise amount budgeted for the first few quality drinks is gone, that’s when you bring out the low-bottom budget cans of expired beer, still on the plastic ring but with 2 missing and they are only basement cold.
Alcohol that you are supplying at an event. You should always have a good case of beer or wine, or spirits, or the appropriate refreshment for your honored guests, but anything beyond 1st/2nd round should be the cheapest hooch on the planet and it should run out fast. Every social gathering seems to attract booze hounds that will suck you dry, no need to pay premium dollar for their habit.
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That’s an excellent point and it’s one of these elephants in the room that people can’t see.
Does anybody wonder why there’s virtually no male kindergarten teachers? Convicted before the crime as if women have never acted inappropriately towards children?! I mean for fuck sakes my own mother sexually abused me.
If you’ve ever known any male nurses, they will tell you the stories of being outnumbered 30 to 1 at minimum, and then facing constant sexual harassment, abuse, and career suppression because of their gender.
And my own story, I work in a system of power, the healing sector, which is dominated by women. And as the one guy they’re trying to do the right thing and serve men, we face nothing but abuse. It is driving me out.
It’s insane, I even made a complaint to the director who of course is a woman, and she effectively denied that it was happening or could happen.
I told her I don’t even want people not to think these things, everybody who is in their own place of trauma has to get their shit off their chest.
All I wanted was a place where men didn’t have to hear this crap.
And that’s being incredibly neutral in my opinion because there are a lot of opportunities for men to talk about just how insane and shitty women can be. But I don’t want to talk about those things, I just want them to stop shit talking men especially their own clientele.
I wouldn’t say nobody, but I would say the people that dominate the area I’m trying to volunteer and work in.
I work in a healing center where there are 29 women on staff and 1 man.
I cannot get these people to understand that as much as they want to push forward social movements, which I very much agree with, this must not come at the expense of men who are trying to heal.
I will literally have counselors co-facilitating with me, who want to make every point about how women are oppressed, pushed down in the workforce, face issues.
I’m not in denial of those, but no man coming into a healing environment to work on themselves, be vulnerable, and explore their own journey, needs to hear how much men are shitty.
I’ll save everybody a click because it’s what we all want to know. “Dog Facts Unlimited” extension is on the list.