Thank you. I think you’re right. It must be so nice to be able to have a family one can love.

This was a good read, thanks. I’ve known so many people who have separated from their parents, and every single one of them has a good reason. I’ve often wondered how the parents tell it from their side. I’m sure every single one of them was “loving” and “nurturing” by their own account, even the dad who couldn’t accept that his son was gay, or the parents who perpetually and deliberately misgendered their daughter. I’ve known so many such cases, and sadly some have ended in tragedy.

Me, I’ve had good parents, but I have a brother who’s an abusive asshole who I want nothing to do with, and occassionally I get the “he’s your brother, you’ve got to love him” schtick from third parties. No. I really don’t.

No one is obligated to stay connected with family who are hurtful, especially when it’s the parents who were the ones who chose to bring you into this world. It’s massively unfair for people to expect that we just tolerate, even love, abusive family.

Yeah, I was on that sub as well, occasionally. I respect Bardfinn, the lead mod of AHS, but they used to tell me that accounts were restored on appeal if moderators retaliated by reporting users for “abusing the report button,” but my appeal was never accepted, and it was a clear instance of mod retaliation. I finally shared that experience when I was on my way out of the site for good.

Oh yeah I got IP banned for “abusing the report button” by reporting a literal call for violence against trans people. I had to use a VPN to browse that shitty site. In retrospect, I don’t know why I bothered.

Mildly hilarious

“See you next week,” one user smugly commented to me on my way out.

I haven’t been back, and I haven’t missed it.

It still is. I use a custom collection, and adding extensions is a huge pita because you practically have to use Jedi mind tricks to get Mozilla to show all the extensions on Android.

That said, Libredirect works just fine on Fennec once it’s installed.

I don’t even know where they find this stuff. I’ve been broke as a mf joke and had to buy toilet paper from the dollar Tree, which was luxurious quality compared to this.

Scientist with clipboard browsing Lemmy

“Sir, he’s found it!”

Nah, I think I’ll just move back to the reservation instead

Why trade one genocidal state for another?

I think you’re responding to a troll (see comment history, they’re stalking this meme and JAQing off)

More like totalitarian toilet paper

Real stateless, classless societies could probably come up with something less barbaric than smearing your asshole with earth-destroying lumber

My sibling in arse paper!

I know exactly what you’re talking about because we had that too. It was like waxed paper, and it dispensed by the square

I can’t connect a garden hose without water leaking out the connections, so I’m not sure how well I’d fare with indoor plumbing

This doesn’t sound too bad.

I’ll look into it, thanks! I’ve always wished I had one

Aha mission accomplished ;)

It is so thin that it crumbles upon the slightest pull

It was a monumental task getting enough to come out for the picture

Doesn’t it involve plumbing? I’m not good with plumbing. I’m picturing water everywhere, like the time I fixed my sink.