The hope is that eventually they’ll say “ok, THIS is not acceptable” but they just keep accepting it. It’s probably futile, but the options are keep trying, or become a fascist, so I’m going to keep trying.

I don’t have any reason to think they were.

From what I’ve read so far, I really don’t think Tyler was political at all. Everyone’s trying to say he belongs to the other team, but I think he made friends with a trans person and didn’t like what Kirk was saying about them.

#1 mobile data only. No wifi.

It blows my mind that anyone would connect a personal device to their employer’s Wifi.

Keep an unfinished task on hand that you can pick up at a seconds notice.

Wait. Are you telling me that it’s not normal to constantly have 5 unfinished tasks at any given time?

Make yourself irreplaceable. That’s what I did.

I’m working on that now. When I started, they made me one of five admins on their scheduling software. The other four have since left the organization, and I’m not going out of my way to teach the users any more than they absolutely need. 😂

I’ve only bought cheap TVs, because that’s what was available to me.

A year or so ago I got a big Samsung at an estate auction. It’s older than all my other TVs, but much better than all of them.

There may be higher quality or better value brands, but I can confirm that Samsung makes a nice TV.

It might be because it wasn’t linked to an email.

I haven’t really used mine in years, but it still signs me in when I need to pop in there to look something up.

I was thinking of network television.

I do love those paid promotion tags. Lets me know to just keep scrolling.

Is possible that they do, but it’s so subtle that you don’t notice.

We’ve learned to identify and resist ads, so at this point, the most effective ads are the ones we don’t recognize.

I might be wrong, but I was under the assumption that Lemmy doesn’t stop them from replying. There was a recent conversation complaining because blocking people didn’t silence them.

If you want to test it, feel free to reply and block me, I’ll see if I can keep the conversation going. Unblock later tonight to see if it worked.

I guess Reddit does it that way, but I try not to think about that place anymore.

I don’t know about this “winning” theory.

Generally, people feel like they’ve won when they get the last word in. If you block someone, you don’t see their replies and assuming they do reply to your last comment, they would get the last word.

Personally, I block people when I realize there’s no point in continuing the conversation. I’m not trying to win an argument, I’m just over it and don’t want to interact with their toxicity.

I see what you did there.

Probably not “used” as in victimized. I think they were giving you a chance.

Sounds like she liked you, and wanted to see if being in a relationship would cause her to develop romantic feelings.

It didn’t, so, there was no point in pretending.

Sounds like you two weren’t really compatible, and you both learned a little from the experience. I say, no harm, no foul.

Thanks for the assist!

Your honesty is respectable.

Nah, you don’t want to freeze it. Just get some airtight containers.

The used condom is an object, you could burn it and it wouldn’t harm the guy in any way.

I did not claim that the condom was the victim in any way. I also have no problem with burning used condoms. Kinda weird, but I’m not here to kink shame.

And, having sex without a condom COULD harm the guy. He could pick up an STD in addition to being responsible for an unintended pregnancy.

When someone says yes to protected sex, that means that they have said NO to unprotected sex, until they explicitly say otherwise. Sex without consent is rape.

Calling any bad behavior related to sex “rape” is doing a disservice to people who were actually raped.

And I would argue that you are doing THESE people who WERE actually raped a larger disservice by saying they weren’t raped enough to deserve the right to say that they were raped.

Do we really need people gatekeeping rape?

Yeah, I get how it’s related, but what you said doesn’t answer the question, and at any given time on any given topic, half the Internet is just stupid and wrong, so, that doesn’t actually mean anything at all.

Wait till you hear about how doctors hate this local grandma for one surprising reason!

Maybe? I don’t know about that. Not sure how it’s relevant here.

It’s just another liberal hoax.