how can I get a place to live without a job, and how do I get a job without a place to live?" situation.

as someone who went through this exact situation, I decided to just say “fuck it” and kinda threw myself out into the universe, with the understanding that if I failed the landing I was probably just going to die. I was homeless for a little bit, and the first job I had was a lot shittier than anything I’d worked before, but it is possible. The biggest issue I’d say is the lack of education; however, my partner at the time only had a high school diploma and was able to leverage his service industry experience to quickly find work.

honestly, are you surprised?

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Tbh, even if you have a gun, your odds are not 100%. You’re firing at essentially a biological tank, small caliber fire might cause pain and eventually kill a polar bear with non-vital shots, but it’s not going to stop one barreling down on you.

Realistically, you need to be a decent enough marksmen to aim for a vital point, all while making your will saves because a giant monster is charging you. I’m pretty sure most humans are still fucked.

Yeah I know about the centipedes, I’ve had roommates that used some in the past.

The big issue is that I have really bad arachnophobia, so the bug I care the most about getting rid of is spiders. just seeing one causes me to freeze and start panicking. The spiders here are harmless, but try telling that to my dumb brain. It’s not even like I see them that frequently, but seeing just one ruins my week because I get paranoid that there are more I’m not seeing.

hah, imagine owning a home

Serious question: as someone who really, really hates bugs, are there any lizards I can just let roam my apartment? I feel like it’d be really chill to have a big scaly friend who could snack on the occasional spider or fly in my apt between meals.

I mean, horseshoe theory can be useful, if you look at it more as “status quo adherence vs dislike of the status quo.” Whether you’re on the left or the right, you agree that things right now are fucked and need to be fixed. From that stance, it’s not surprising that you can break a Trumper’s conditioning by turning their ire from the culture war to the oligarchs that puppeted them, but it’s also not surprising that someone who was already against the status quo could fall for fascist propoganda.

comfy actually summs up a lot of my critcisms of the instance perfectly. In a word, it really is like everything I hated about reddit.

Block early and block often. Probably the best decision I ever made was blocking lemmy.world from my feed.

I went to a public school and got 2/3rds of what you did, so I’m not really sure the issue is public vs private and more an issue of education in general in the U.S.

Really fucking stressed and hoping I can escape the country before I get killed.

Just an effeminate man. I don’t know if sexuality has much to do with it, but I’d say the majority of femboys are gay/bi with a minority being strictly heterosexual. To be real blunt, imagine the exact inverse of a tomboy, and you’re probably pretty close to a femboy. I like some p girly things, I like to wear skirts and dresses, but I also have a masculine side to me.

correct.

It seems like you’re really close to figuring out why a massive portion of the United States is willing to vote for anything as long as it’s not the status quo.

I don’t think it’s widespread or mainstream, but speaking as a femboy, we are fetishized a lot in general. Even normal people often just assume I’m hyperhorny, like the only reason I’m femmodeing is because I want cock. The creepy part about the right-wingers is they see us as “failed males” and specifically get off on the idea of asserting their dominance over us. There’s also a lot of dehumanizing and degradation that I see those types engaging in, beyond the typical “slut” that normal people do. They want to sexually abuse and violate femboys to feel better about their own fragile masculinity.

I’m very glad I live in a solid blue state and can go out safely, I think if I lived in a right-wing state I wouldn’t feel safe going femmode outside.

Trump’s opinions are always based on who he last talked to.

Yeah, and I feel like we don’t abuse this fact enough for good. Sure, if he talks to Putin today he’ll flipflop, but right now it seems like Putin is foolishly scorning Trump. If members of the EU can just constantly talk with him, maybe they can try and stay the most recent person he’s talked with.

Really blows my mind that there hasn’t been any push from the left to just manipulate this idiot. Literally the most easily manipulatable president in U.S. history, but for some reason we’ve allowed right-wing grifters a monopoly on his dementia-addled rotten brain.

Considering a lot of us were projecting that the U.S. would begin arming Russia and the war would end quite dramatically in Russia’s favor? Yeah no change is a massive silver lining.

Not entirely sure what the term would be, but feminine men exist who are still men and are not trans. There are also trans women.

as one, I’m cool with the term femboy. I think there’s still a few people who’d have an issue with the term, but we kinda have our own subculture established and everything at this point, so feels like a strong contender for the label.

As I was sitting at my desk with some tea and a stroopwaffel, one of my coworkers commented that I “really knew how to live.”

One of the wild hypocrisies of living in Capitalism is simultaneously hoping that an entire economic industry collapses, because it clearly deserves to do so and is not at all sustainable in it’s current nonsensical state, while also not wanting any of the innocent workers like Heather to get impacted in the process.

It sucks that it’s going to take even more suffering and people losing their jobs, but AAA Western gaming has gone full enshittify and needs to be weeded out by the roots. We basically need another crash on the level of the 90s before the C-suites at these shitty companies finally realize they have no goddamn idea what they’re doing and they need to listen to their developer teams again.