apotheotic(she/they)

Homeless folks aren’t implicitly dangerous or alcoholics or drug addicts (and for the latter two, that’s not reeeaaally your business). Many will turn to substances to ease the suffering in their lives, which is their business and their business alone.

Your 5 bucks isn’t going to turn their life around or ruin it, even if they use it in the absolute best or absolute worst way. But it can ease their suffering, however they choose to use it.

That said, if you don’t have the money to keep yourself and your loved ones at some minimum threshold of “life” then please, don’t feel guilty for not being able to give monetarily. You can acknowledge that guilt, feel it, and let it pass by. Ultimately the system is the thing that is failing them, not you.

If you find yourself without monetary means of supporting the homeless or impoverished, but you want to contribute to the lessening of their suffering, see if there’s any volunteering you can do in your local area that seeks for the betterment of their circumstances. Often your time and your energy are worth far, far more than any extra money you might be able to donate.

Unfortunately not a more universal experience :( here in the UK teachers are treated like crap

Teachers for sure. Highly educated people providing a service that’s absolutely crucial for everybody and they’re paid like shit even before you consider the number of out-of-work hours they end up working.

If you believe that any human being deserves lesser treatment or fewer rights than their peers, you’re a horrible person. But you aren’t irredeemable and you can become a not horrible person.

Flat chested autistic girl here. Can confirm I’m in 3 harems with brave travellers from another world.

Lmao nice

(Rosin, if you’re serious)

The nes super Mario bros overworld theme comes to mind. People who have never played a Mario game in their lives know that tune.

Mafaldine because I look cute with little ruffles and there’s nothing remotely straight about me

😂

Fair enough, embrace cringe

…are we about to kiss?

As @Zagorath mentioned, its a pokemon thing. Those happened to be the current gen game when I was of the age of interest in them.

That’s splendid, though I’ll continue to use the web interface of beehaw honestly.

I am overjoyed to hear that we’ll be staying in the fediverse and I can stay with beehaw.

Generation 4, Diamond was my first and my best friend had Pearl

Serious answer, I’m on the border between millennial and gen z

Not a bad idea if you have the space tbh

To be clear we aren’t complaining about the existence of the gendered language. We are complaining that the maintainer has repeatedly rejected friendly contributions which would fix the gendered language, under the premise that it is ToO pOLItIcAl, instead of just merging the very obvious improvement and moving on with life.

CONSTANT slights or worse endured every day for most of their lives for some perspective.

This is part of those constant slights. How can you simultaneously gesture toward the issue at hand and say that its not worth working on?

I haven’t yet seen dark souls beaten purely by cosmic ray bitflips but I’m sure someone is busy with that

Its also, apparently, a viable method of beating dark souls

These guys (derogatory)