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brynden_rivers_esq

@ brynden_rivers_esq @lemmy.ca

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  • On Authority is a pointed response to the thought-terminating pejorative of “authoritarian.” If you haven’t read it, you should! It’s short and important =)

    You want a change in society? You don’t care that fascists don’t want that change? Then you’re an authoritarian. Everything after that is a matter of degree.

  • Is considering sex work generally non-consensual a SWERF thing? I’d guess most people who think that don’t at all want to exclude sex workers…it’s not a criticism of sex workers. I also don’t think it precludes that some people might not have a coercive experience with sex work. Im sure there are plenty of people selling feet pics on instagram and feeling great about it, and maybe that's fine...but I don't think that's the norm!

    Maybe I’m wrong though; I don’t intend to be a swerf, but I do think sex work is generally non-consensual. Most paid work is probably non-consensual on some level but I think sex kind of has a special place in non-consensual activity.

    Sex work is obviously something many people feel forced into. 73% of sex workers have at least one disability; maybe they feel they have other options, but it looks like that's not most people's experience: https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/nearly-3-in-4-sex-workers-live-with-a-disability-rare-bc-report-finds/

  • You know, you think that the first time, but if you go for it (and have the storage) you’ll be surprised at how glad you are to have them!

  • Or we can be part of making that a condition of the democrats doing well. Not supporting a genocide isn’t something we can or should “strip out” of our expectations of politicians. If you’re right, then burning the system down is the only feasible thing. Nothing else is feasible.

    It’s infeasible to expect decent people to rally around genocidiers.

    Don’t let the people with power tell you what is or isn’t feasible. Not supporting a genocide is easy for them. They may lie to themselves about it, but it’s obvious.

  • I just kinda gently jostle her a little until she stops. Its usually about the angle of the head in my experience (at least for my wife!)

  • yeah i thought about going that route, but I was able to get a used gas mower for dirt cheap from a guy that repairs them as a hobby/side project. If not for that I think i might have gone for one that uses the same battery platform as my power tools just for the joy of having as much as possible run off the same batteries lol

  • Never heard of one of these, but seems like a good thing to have lying around!

  • Literally, my brain is flooded with Dr. Evil upon seeing lasers and sharks in the same sentence. I can't think about anything else until i look away.

  • Oh nice; that's good to know! Someone here was kind enough to point out that it was probably a clogged gas line with my fiddling accidentally unclogged.

  • That sounds like an awesome class. I think point 2 may have been my issue; it sat with fuel in it for a good 8 months or so.

  • That's some good advice! I'll have to figure how to empty the tank at the end of the summer.

  • I was 100% certain I was in this position when I removed basically all the screws I could see, and was like "well...i don't know what I expected, but I have no idea what I'm looking at" lol

  • Dull Men's Club @lemmy.world

    Took apart my lawn mower

  • Put Linux on your existing computer and shift some stuff you don’t need as frequently to an external hard drive! You’re not gonna get the experience you want from a $150 computer

  • I agree it's scummy to wish death upon a stranger you know nothing about. In this case, the guy thinks he knows the stranger is a fascist. I think that's jumping to a conclusion, plenty of non-fascists do really dumb stuff with regard to health. This particular dumb thing with regard to health was popular among fascists, so it's not totally nuts to think he might be.

    Anyway, wishing death upon a fascist (stranger or no) is not scummy. Only a bootlicker would think it is! That said, I also don't think you have to be a bootlicker to think we shouldn't assume someone's a fascist because they want ivermectin.

  • This is lovely :)

    I love the patient fella at the end.

  • Incorrect, see above. The role of a king in a civilized society is to be guillotined! Anything less is barbarism.

  • Dead kings are themselves a good outcome! I'm interested to hear the results of your experiments though!

  • well here's my theory: if the reason it didn't work is because you have a new king...well...what's the new king's role in civilized society?

  • Kings have one appropriate role in civilized society and it is to be guillotined.

  • Canada @lemmy.ca

    Epstein Memorial War on Iran: withdraw Canadian soldiers!

    actionnetwork.org /letters/withdraw-canadian-soldiers-assisting-us-aggression-on-iran
  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world

    390TB video game archive being taken offline due to skyrocketing RAM, SSD, and hard drive prices — AI-driven supply squeeze results in closure of one of the largest online video game archives

    www.tomshardware.com /video-games/390tb-video-game-archive-being-taken-offline-due-to-skyrocketing-ram-ssd-and-hard-drive-prices-ai-driven-supply-squeeze-results-in-closure-of-one-of-the-largest-online-video-game-archives
  • RPG @lemmy.ml

    Trying to get into MUDs - any suggestions?

  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world

    Trying to get into MUDs - any suggestions?

  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world

    Vancouver safe street advocate hit by car on way home from advocacy meeting

    www.nationalobserver.com /2026/02/23/news/vancouver-safe-street-advocate-accident