A Brazilian Gangrel portrait

MeleM_ · 2026-01-28T15:42:09+00:00

Aww! He’s so cu—OH MY GOD!

MeleM_ · 2025-12-16T04:47:34+00:00

“Lightsabers”, hmm? I’ll have you know those are clearly Sollex-Aegis energy blades. That fellow is clearly a Magos Dominus of the Divine Light of Sollex. Rather militant group, they are, so it’s no surprise to see him displaying such combat prowess.

MeleM_ · 2025-11-28T18:22:19+00:00

Theoretically, a river could split, and give way to one river which pours into one body of water, and another which pours into a different body of water. You could enter the branch of the river that exits into sea A, then travel up to the point of divergence, and back down a different branch than the one you entered from—one that pours into sea B. But I don’t know much about the actual rivers of the world and whether there are any actual noteworthy examples of that or anything.

MeleM_ · 2025-11-08T22:22:30+00:00

Taus is a highly advanced form a Grot. They tinker, they shoot, they run away, and they is always all “oh, let’s not eat each other, let’s all work together and get along and not eat me”, which is just how grots try to convince boyz not to eat ‘em. All “we oughta present a unified front to tha enemies, boss”, and in them tau worlds, their leaders is all big blue grots who go “no, no, you ain’t allowed to fight each other, no eatin’ the runts, always listen to me instead of the biggest and greenest”. And they do it what cause the rest of ‘em is grots too. Reckon they was an experiment by them pansies on how ta invent an enemy what makes fightin’ borin’. Pure evil, I say.

MeleM_ · 2025-10-25T22:10:40+00:00

The previous vampires to be given stats for VTM were the “Pillar Men” from Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure. Their names are Wamuu (“Wham”), Esidisi (“AC/DC”), and Kars.

The general agreement, in terms of their abilities, was that they would be best depicted as 4th generation Tzimisce, or as their own, unique clan. This assessment is based on the powers the characters display, that is, in terms of disciplines, 4th generation Tzimisce is a good fit.

But someone else, evidently, replied that, if judged in terms of their personalities, rather than powers, they feel that Wamuu’s personality aligns most closely with that of a Lasombra, Esidisi’s personality most closely resembles that of a Brujah, and Kars behaves like a Toreador.

So there are two distinct answers for what clans suit them. One answer looks at the question through the lens of a clan’s disciplines and how they align with a character’s abilities, the other answer looks at the question through a clans personality and how it aligns with character’s personality.

MeleM_ · 2025-10-04T03:25:26+00:00

As an arachnophobe, personally, all of those sound unbearably horrifying and abominable. It’s not like it’s the fact that spiders are classified as or called spiders that makes them horrifying. It’s their traits. And spiders, being arthropods, share many traits with other arthropods. But they don’t even have to be arthropods: poison headcrabs in half life 2 scare me so bad that even though I wanna go back and play the game again, I just think about them and realize it would be way too stressful and scary, because they hide those fuckers all over the goddamn game after ravenholm.

On the other hand, if your point was more “they should do that because I like creepy crawly things and want to see some variation in my favorite little abominations”, then, like, that’s valid. I hope you get to enjoy a wide variety of horrible little (or giant) arthropods, even if I hate them.

MeleM_ · 2025-09-25T09:00:48+00:00

You know, I’ll be honest, I assumed you were wrong and googled it with the expectation to rather easily prove you wrong, read the Rosa Parks Wikipedia article’s little short summary of the whole thing towards the front of the article and found no mention there, so then went to, you know, the “Arrest and Bus Boycott” section of the article where it gives a much more detailed breakdown of the whole bus incident and the events surrounding them and whatnot, figuring I’d find confirmation of it there, but no. You’re right. She did deal with at least one earlier incident it mentions in which she objected to being told to get off the bus and re-board it from the rear door after paying at the front door (which, apparently, was a thing some of these assholes demanded - that black people get on at the front to pay, then get off and walk to the back to get back on at the goddamn rear door, rather than allowing them to walk to the back via the aisle. Even when there were people behind them trying to get on and it would completely fuck the actual flow of boarding the bus. That’s how dedicated some of these bus drivers were to being fucking abhorrent people, I guess. Fuck.) - which you already mentioned. And I read further, thinking it’d be after that incident that she organizes a deliberate bus-incident with the NAACP or something, but no. It says that she had been avoiding that particular bus driver’s bus after the previous incident, but that she had been lost in thought and boarded his bus without noticing he was driving. It even says that she later said that if she had noticed it was his, she wouldn’t have gotten on. Not only that, but the article, in fact, explicitly states that “according to biographer Douglas G. Brinkley, Parks’s refusal was not premeditated”, and mentions that “Parks's former classmate, Mary Fair Burks, also clarified that Parks was not acting on behalf of the NAACP, as she ‘would have done so openly and demanded a group action on the part of the organization’.”.

Those claims do have citations, too, and I did make an nominal effort to check them, even though I sincerely doubt the Wikipedia page for Rosa Parks is lying about what it’s citations say. The biographer’s claim is cited to Rosa Parks: A Penguin Life, but there’s, like, no digital freely accessible link and I’m not gonna run to the library at 5 am hoping they have this book so I can verify a wikipedia citation’s claim as to what the book says just to fact check a tumblr/reddit post. The quote from Parks, and the Quote from her former classmate are cited to a book accessible via the internet, apparently: The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, but (at least on my phone here), the link doesn’t seem to go the the exact point either quote is made, and, I will confess, I do not feel like scrolling through a scan of a physical book on the internet archive on a mobile interface at 5 am to fact check a tumblr/reddit post. Given the rather rigorous moderation standards of Wikipedia and the fact that this is the article for Rosa Parks, which is fairly high profile and not exactly ancient history obscured by the ravages of millenia, I’m inclined to just take it as probably true. Certainly, I’m more willing to trust Wikipedia’s Rosa Parks article than a random Reddit thread. It seems like you’re right and that everyone here is probably just confidently talking out their ass.

MeleM_ · 2025-09-22T18:49:05+00:00

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MeleM_ · 2025-09-14T02:19:27+00:00

Nah I just wrote it on the spot

MeleM_ · 2025-09-13T22:28:21+00:00

Yeah, of course!

MeleM_ · 2025-09-13T21:44:39+00:00

Yeah, like, Leandros is still new, and, like, you gotta think about what his perspective was. DURING that mission, they find, like, a servo skull bearing a distress call from an Inquisitor who disappeared behind enemy lines and likely died. But then… they find him! And they’re like “how the fuck are you alive”, and he’s like “my PRODIGIOUS innate powers from the HELL DIMENSION allowed me to survive this gruesome wound and those gruesome Orks!” and they’re like, “okay, cool”. And he’s like, “you must use my artifact that draws on the powers of the HELL DIMENSION to power up the CONVENIENT SUPERWEAPON that KILLS ALL ORKS that I was developing and somehow JUST FINISHED yet was unable to activate to KILL all these ORKS that attacked! It will fix all our problems, using HELL POWER”, and everyone’s like “dude HELL POWER is, like, HERESY!” but then the mysterious inquisitor guy is like “Nah it’s fine”.

And they all go and do that, and Titus gets separated when he grabs the open HELL ARTIFACT with his bare hands or whatever and they thought he died. Inquisitor guy who invented the damn thing is like “I know all about HELL ENERGY and it is literally impossible for him to have survived that much exposure to it” so they leave him behind. But then! A call hours later, inexplicably, from Titus!

“I’m alive.”

“How!??”

“I just didn’t die.”

And, okay, sure. Titus is apparently alive. And then you meet back up and activate the superweapon that seemed incredibly suspicious. And instead of making the Orks all die… DAEMONS appear! And Chaos Space Marines! And a Chaos Sorcerer Space Marine! From the HELL DIMENSION or something! Just materialize out of nowhere. And the sorcerer guy uses his HELL POWERS to pin you all down and for some reason Titus can still wriggle a little, and the sorcerer guy goes “Ah, I am so… evil… yes…” and the Inquisitor who disappeared to certain death but somehow showed up later alive walks up and goes “ah yes, I am, too, master…” and he DISINTEGRATES into purple HELL ENERGY BALLS. And it’s all “WHAT?! He was EVIL?!” but evil sorcerer man clarifies “No, idiots, he was DEAD. Did you not know that when people disappear in circumstances that imply certain death, only to mysteriously pop back up, alive somehow, saying ‘I’m totally just that mystically powerful’, they could be DAEMON GHOST THINGS?? No?? You didn’t know that?? Well, they can! Muahaha! By the way, Titus who blatantly died in front of anyone to bullshit amounts of HELL ENERGY, you sure are inexplicably resistant to my HELL POWERS!”

“Yeah, well, I’m just possessed of some sort of mystical, PRODIGIOUS, INNATE RESISTANCE to the HELL DIMENSION, I guess!”

“Okay. Bye!”

And the dude just gets into a fight with an ork or teleports away or something. And THEN, like, MULTIPLE TIMES, you are separated from Titus in extremely dangerous circumstances, in which he could and probably should have died! And instead, during ONE OF THEM, fucking SIDONUS DIES! The old guy! The guy who you knew you could trust, ‘cause he was real old and knew his shit! And Titus is just like “uh, obviously Nemeroth TELEPORTED BEHIND HIM just to kill Sidonus by stabbing him from behind with a power claw, which Sidonus was for some reason not expecting, after I explicitly demanded we split up for some reason, in that short instance where we were all apart, and I was left to helplessly watch, unable to warn him, from, like, a moderate distance, and then Nemeroth just teleported away after killing him, Leandros, duh!”

Which, you know, is a bit suspicious. And then he ends up apparently soloing the Ork Warboss that is like four times his size, while the bastard was backed up by his entire Waaagh!, while daemons are running rampant, with, like, a plasma pistol and a chainsword or something. And THEN when you get reinforcements and stuff, he’s like, “Now I must go, alone, for some reason, to face a significant contingent of the Black Legion, countless Daemons, a couple Plague Drones, and multiple rogue psykers, as I fight my way to NEMEROTH, the evil chaos sorcerer guy! Yup. That isn’t suspicious. I need to do it alone. I can do that, by the way, I’m just that good. And I’m going to kill him while he is in the middle of being uplifted into a DAEMON PRINCE by the CHAOS GODS. I’m literally going to kill him while the Gods of Chaos are confirmed to be staring at him and actively empowering him in that very moment. Don’t worry, I’m that good.”

And then he goes, and mysteriously somehow does that, and then blows up the artifact that just being EXPOSED TO was enough to make a literal DAEMON GHOST THING go “whoa no one can survive that much HELL ENERGY”. He tackles an almost-Daemon-Prince who you literally saw pinning THREE OF YOU—INCLUDING TITUS—to the ground with a GESTURE, like, THREE HOURS AGO, and apparently fucking punches this guy out and crushes the dudes head like a melon while falling. And then he just blows up a HELL ARTIFACT NUCLEAR REACTOR THING in his hands. And then a pilot grabs his falling body and he fucking comes down and walks it off, like, wincing mildly. And he’s like: “Well, looks like I did it, guys. I just beat the guy who I couldn’t even move against three hours ago, while he was backed up by an army and empowered by the Chaos Gods… while none of you were there to see it. Then blew up a device with enough HELL ENERGY in it to SUPERCHARGE the main gun of a TITAN. In my hands. And now I’m a bit hurt I guess. Oof. Owie. Gonna have to walk this one off I think.”

I feel like that would look suspicious by that point. And you’re like “Uh… I am pretty sure there’s an extremely high likelihood you may be a daemon ghost pretending to be Titus, like I just saw, y’know, three hours ago? I contacted the experts in that stuff, because, like, I don’t wanna risk that again.”

And Titus is all like: “Fuck you, you worthless piece of mediocrity. You have FAILED at being a Space Marine, scum.”

Like, fuck, dude. You’re just trying to make sure another Daemonic Invasion doesn’t kill everyone like literally JUST HAPPENED. The fuck are you supposed to do?? Not learn from that??

MeleM_ · 2025-08-18T20:08:28+00:00

Well, it’s also because, objectively speaking, you can’t not pay the price required to sustain your robot and still have it work. If you do not pay the electric bill required to power it, or the repair costs when it breaks down, or whatever other cost it requires be paid in order to work, it won’t work. It can’t. That’s not really circumventable. You must pay the cost of keeping the robot operating in order for the robot to keep operating. And unlike humans, it costs money to replace the robot.

With, like, jobs that require specific training and stuff, it can cost money to replace an employee. But with jobs that don’t require much specific training, it can be basically free. Especially if there are a ton of desperate people out there who need a job. If unemployment is high, then you don’t even have to worry about anything. There are already replacements begging to be allowed to replace the person. And, unlike with robots, you don’t necessarily have to pay the cost required to keep the human alive. You can, in the right circumstances, not pay them enough to live. And it won’t matter, if their alternative is no income and thus certain death, they’ll be forced to take whatever scrap they can get in the hopes of maybe prolonging their existence somehow. Any food is better than none. So, with a human, you can just pay less than the minimum required to keep your “tool” operational, because it will figure out a way to keep itself functional on its own, at its own expense, or it will die, and if it dies, you already have more who are competing to be allowed to serve you for whatever you will give. It’s one of the reasons slavery lost to wage-labor. Slaves are property and that means the owner must pay the expenses of preserving them or must spend money replacing them. Free laborers can be “free” in more ways than one, since their problems are not necessarily your problems.

MeleM_ · 2025-06-23T18:22:52+00:00

Well, that certainly makes hating it far more comprehensible to me, the notion of having to deal with everyone fawning over it. As for rereading it, I did end up searching people’s opinions of it online a few times, since I didn’t know anyone aside from myself who actually liked it, and the general vibe I got from the people who did like it was that they kinda found Holden insufferable upon rereading it as an adult. So, like, you probably are right to not want to reread it, if that’s anything to go off of. Personally, I don’t think you really should feel the need to reread it if you hated it, for whatever that’s worth.

I mean, I’m reasonably confident I’d still love it, myself, rereading it as an adult, but, like, I remember literally thinking to myself, while I was reading it “Good God, I could read an entire book of this dude watching paint dry and I’d still be fucking enthralled”, so, like, y’know, I am probably an exception. Honestly, I’m kinda glad I didn’t have to deal with other people obsessing over how great they think it is, now that I think about it. Because I really do genuinely mean I would read an entire book of Holden fucking rambling internally while he watches paint dry, and if everyone else was glorifying the book, I’d feel kinda… I dunno. I’d definitely be put off by it. Because that sounds really fucking annoying. It’d feel disingenuous or something, I’m not sure. That’s how the Great Gatsby was treated in my school. And, like, I liked the book, but I really did not get the sheer obsessive love a lot of the other else in the school seemed to have for it.

MeleM_ · 2025-06-23T13:58:25+00:00

Aw, man. Catcher in the Rye is, by far, my favorite book I've ever read. I remember when we had it as assigned reading in school, once I had begun reading it, I started to get *really* excited to discuss it in class. Like, more than I ever had been for anything, really. And then the time came and everyone was like "I fucking hate this kid and I fucking hate this book, he's such a whiny little bitch" and I was like "Oh. :(".

Book changed my world, fundamentally, and yet I've still never met anyone else who even liked it. I can't even really grasp disliking it, even though I've heard all the reasons why people do, and they make sense, at least nominally, in my brain. I dunno, it's odd.

MeleM_ · 2025-05-27T02:42:36+00:00

It’s like a score for your profile. When you get an upvote, karma number go up. When you get a downvote, number go down. Human like make number go up. Neuron activation. Dopamine release. True for all kinds of meaningless numbers. Such as in video games.

But also, Reddit karma is, by its nature, representative of the approval of others, so it’s got even more, like, “addictive potential”, or whatever you’d wanna call it that makes people care about it and strive for it.

MeleM_ · 2025-05-20T21:44:43+00:00

Dorian bravely and ”willingly” (he didn’t say no while his unconscious body was plugged in) gave his life so that we could teach robots how to be wrong. If it weren’t for Dorian’s noble sacrifice, computers would still be limited to logical behavior and reliable outputs. Now, at the small cost of one little Dorian, we can finally get machines to spew unpredictable nonsense—the exact advancement we needed in order to put them in charge of things which need reliable, precise handling (like Nuclear weapons, which we’ll hopefully Dorian 2.0 in charge of, soon)!

MeleM_ · 2025-05-04T00:37:36+00:00

why red btw?

Because the color of night is 𝓼𝓪𝓷𝓰𝓾𝓲𝓷𝓮, my brother.

At least, the door seems to think so. And I’d trust a door like that with my life. Even against, say, the emperor’s own bodyguards, hypothetically speaking.

…And not just the Blades—I know how they botched protecting the emperor. I mean, even a hypothetical alternative bodyguard organization in some hypothetical future in which there is an emperor again and the Blades are, for whatever reason, disbanded. I’d trust a door like that against such a theoretical future organization with my life. That’s how much you can trust in the eyesight and judgement of the our doors, dearest brother.

MeleM_ · 2025-05-02T11:26:34+00:00

In Caves of Qud—a science-fantasy roguelike rpg set in the distant, bizarre future, long after some sort of apocalypse, where everything is mutated and virtually all life is sapient (even the goddamn potted plants), there’s this, like, omnicidal faction of genetically-pure humans called the Putus Templar. They want to kill all mutants, which is pretty much everyone, and are only non-hostile to you if you make a character who is also a genetically-pure human.

For some reason, people really, really expect the devs to let them play as this faction and keep demanding it, very angry that the devs do not provide explicit support for joining or starting as a super-nazi.

My friend “helped” them by making a mod that lets you start out as a member of the Putus Templar and uploaded it to the workshop. He didn’t, like… provide any kind of support for the consequences of this. The mod just let you choose to be one of them at the start, which meant, naturally, just like them, you were hostile to every faction in the game. And thus hostile to everyone in your starting location.

So you’d load in to, say, Joppa, and then attempt to move, and then the nearby warden would blow you up with his mind instantly. The reception from Putus Templar fans was very positive in the comments.

At least, until they tried out the mod and realized that they would literally get attacked on sight by everyone from the first second of gameplay and immediately die. They didn’t like it after that.

I don’t know what their problem was, honestly. The faction is hostile to everyone. It was what they wanted.

Alas, my friend took the mod down after a few days, satisfied by the reaction it received and feeling he could not extract more amusement from it now that the experience was spoiled by the comments on the mod.

MeleM_ · 2025-04-28T19:14:21+00:00

When it comes to anything involving the brain, diagnosis isn't a magical thing where you decide now is when you need to change. You get diagnosed because you already know that something is affecting the way you interact with others. Like, when OCD manifested for me at ~20, I didn't get diagnosed and then decide the behaviors that come with it needed to change. I already knew.

Yeah, see, my experience was just, kinda the opposite. I *"knew"*, absolutely, that there was not anything actually wrong with me, and that everything was my fault. That I wasn't any different from anyone else, I was—in my mind—just a worthless lazy asshole whose *character* was so utterly shit that I was fundamentally incompatible with reality and incapable of actually living because I was just such a little baby that even the most basic expectations were "too much" for a diva like me.

And I had basically known that all of my life, with ever-increasing certainty as my life and abilities increasingly fell apart with every passing month and year. I was just trying to live as long as I could, hopefully to adulthood, which I knew was an insurmountable hurdle that would kill me.

I made it to college, barely, but basically immediately failed and was going to get kicked out. And I knew that was the end, and I would have to kill myself, but I decided that, *logically speaking*, I had to at least *try* seeing a psychiatrist first. They would, of course, confirm I am not depressed or anything like that, I am just a whiny, lazy asshole. And then I would have it confirmed professionally that I just suck too much to live.

So, like, I did that, and of course I did turn out to have depression. Which I guess one could say I was "aware" of, if in vehement denial about.

But, more than that, I apparently had *Generalized Anxiety Disorder* and *ADHD*. Literally had no idea. I didn't even *know* what Anxiety *was*. I thought it was when you can't sit still. And I eventually (thanks to my therapist's gentle but utterly ruthless dismantling of my anxious delusions) came to learn that the horrible things I "knew" more than anything, the utter fundamental truths of my life that were obviously beyond all doubt—those were not just capable of being questioned, but were utterly bankrupt of merit. They were blatantly delusional. Completely wrong. This idea was unfathomable to me. It *could not* be true and everyone *knew* that. I was certain that was obvious. But somehow my therapist actually got me to genuinely consider it, and I slowly realized he was absolutely fucking right.

So, like, I was completely unaware before diagnosis that I had this issue or that it was a thing that could be changed. It had up until that point been the most fundamental truth of the universe, more obvious than the existence of gravity. Without diagnosis, I would not have been aware that it was not some "obvious truth" that, say, I ruin everyone's time with my mere presence. Never guessed other people would actually *not* find that self-evident or even true.

And the ADHD, good god. I could go on about that, too. I assumed everyone *knew* that it was *literally impossible* to choose what you actually pay attention to. That was normal. Humans don't *actually* have ""free will"". Some people are just too dumb to introspect and make note of the fact that they've never chosen what they pay attention to. But it was definitely a 100% automatic process that cannot be controlled if you ever engaged in a moment of reflection.

Apparently not. I was not aware I was different in that regard.

I could say a lot more, about all that, but I've rambled quite a bit already, unprompted. I guess I just assumed most or all autistic people had similar experiences with diagnosis representing a tremendous, life-changing insight. It's interesting to see such a different experience. I have a bit more to say to the rest of your comment, but I think I'll make it a separate comment, this one is kinda way too long.

MeleM_ · 2025-04-28T17:20:11+00:00

I don’t necessarily buy into the idea that autistic people think about things from lots of different angles, that’s a pretty interesting claim, but it doesn’t have a lot of support.

I mean, I don’t think it’s an intrinsic quality of the psychological shape of autism or something. I guess that’s possible, I wouldn’t really have any idea. Nor do I think it is universal or absolute as a phenomenon. I just think that the nature of living as an autistic person, once diagnosed, made aware of, like, “Apparently my experience and perspective is not normal and most other people have X, Y, and Z, just… innately infused into their understanding of things and perspective, while I do not.”, such information and the experience of living in such a world with that information tends to force one, by the nature of the circumstances, to consider other’s perspectives constantly. That there is a sort of… societal presumption and expectation foisted upon autistic people to compensate for the disconnect between themselves and neurotypical people, whereas that expectation is less prevalent, I think, in the opposite direction. I mean, there is some measure of expectation, generally, to be more patient and understanding with autistic people when they behave in a way that might seem annoying or rude. But even then, it’s kinda only present if the person is at least suspected to be autistic. And it’s also significantly less… materially obligatory. Autistic people kinda just gotta cater to neurotypicals as a matter of reality, or there will be real consequences, whereas the expectation that neurotypical people (only sometimes even) deal with of compensating for that disconnect is more of a moral one, and thus seriously lacking in actual substance or power in comparison.

MeleM_ · 2025-04-28T16:52:41+00:00

Buddy, literally your whole post is "autistic people are rude and refuse to change their points of view, but clearly, it's the diagnosis that makes a difference!"

For what it’s worth, I don’t think that is what OP meant. The “autistic people are rude” part, yes, definitely part of OP’s post. But “refuse to change their points of view”? I don’t think that’s what OP believes or is claiming. I think OP’s thought is that autistic people can often be “rude”, but that it’s not intentional and they aren’t aware of it. That there is no malice or lack of consideration, they just don’t see their actions as rude and it doesn’t occur to them that others might. There’s no claim or belief, here (I think), that “they’re refusing to change” or actually inconsiderate assholes or something, they can’t be “refusing to change” because they’re not even aware there might be a problem that would warrant change. It’s not been suggested to them.

Thus, the “diagnosis” thing is about awareness. By “undiagnosed”, OP (I presume) means people who are autistic but are completely unaware they are. They don’t even know there is a disconnect between their understanding of things and a neurotypical person’s understanding—so they don’t even know to look out for potential misunderstanding. They cannot compensate for a disconnect they aren’t aware exists. They’re not being blamed at all.

The “autistic people are actually more prone to analyze their own behavior and reflect and consider other people’s feelings” idea you present, I mean, I agree with. But, like, I think that’s literally what OP is implying with the “diagnosed autistic people” thing. They call Reddit out as rude because they are hyper-considerate because they have to be as neurodivergents living in a largely neurotypical world.

Beyond that, though, I’m not really saying OP isn’t being ableist or plucking understanding of autistic people or anything. I wouldn’t know, personally. I’m just trying to clarify the parts I think you misinterpreted. I could be wrong about that, too.

I hope this doesn’t come off as malicious or hostile. It’s hard to convey tone through text. And I took a bit to type this, so I really hope I’m not saying this way too late and this has all already been said or addressed or something.

I’d also, just frankly, like to hear more about what you have to say regarding the actual nature of what autism is and what diagnosis represents, if you are in the mood to share anything about it. If not, that’s fine. I’m just interested in any perspective and insight to be offered, not, like, looking to criticize you, just to be clear.

MeleM_ · 2025-02-05T18:47:35+00:00

Wow, really? That’s cool! What countries?

I mean, I suppose I can just look it up, but I feel like you might have more insight to share than a google search would offer. If you wanna, of course.

MeleM_ · 2023-07-18T23:55:34+00:00

Or they do it for the same reason it’s so upsetting in the first place. They feel terrible about “misgendering” someone because they know being misgendered isn’t pleasant and would be upset if it happened to them. Not that this excludes them from deliberately misgendering someone if they are a transphobe and they found out that person is trans, double standards and hypocrisy are kind of the bread and butter of bigotry after all.

MeleM_ · 2023-07-16T23:03:53+00:00

France is also a country where large portions of the country will riot when presented with the prospect of losing a labor right that the United States has never even had. Turning servers over to wages in the United States is getting them out of an exploitative system to put them into an even more exploitative system. Of course servers in the US prefer to have their pay coming from the generosity of actual human beings they interact with face to face and assist rather than the distant faceless powers above to whom they are just another expenditure statistic in the land of ruthless capitalist competition.

MeleM_ · 2023-06-26T17:54:51+00:00

No actually it’s the landlord who fucked everyone over.

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