This is how I got mine. I had just my one cat for a couple years then one day a new momma shows up on my front steps and informs me that I have a new owner.

Eventually ended up with her and two of her second litter and they’re all lazily asleep on my couch while my first girl is on my her bed and will give me stink eye if I go in before my approved bedtime.

Cringe all the way down

I think the joke is that a vocal chunk of the user base here also uses Linux

Pronouns are rip/tear

I know you’re mostly joking but from what I understand it’s this:

True crime: tries to answer the “why” and there’s the invisible carrot of “justice” that you hope to get in the end. Unsolved mysteries leave you with a crack itch of thinking you can “figure it out,” like a puzzle.

Gore horror: no “why,” no “justice,” no puzzle, just a brutal description of human suffering. There’s no closure.

That’s just my hypothesis though ¯\(ツ)/¯

Everything, including:

• giving a shit about the customer and having them permanently own their own games, even DRM-free like GOG?

• Not forcing online connectivity to access the library?

• Not shoving ads and spyware into the rest of the Amazon platform?

• Appealing ethically by paying all employees a living wage?

• Prioritizing innovation in expanding native Linux compatibility?

🤔

Also driving a T*sla is a choice.

You aren’t born with your hands stuck to the wheel of one and you can sell/get rid of it at any point ¯_(ツ)_/¯

“Do what you can. And what you can do is enough,” she said. …Ocasio-Cortez reminded her followers several times that no deed of resistance is too small.

Honestly, continuing to exist/taking a moment to be nice to yourself in an administration that hates you counts. Keep existing.

A lot of these click-baity titles and over-simplified summaries seem to be adding to this very problem of guilting people for being overwhelmed.

Unfortunately that’s the system but please don’t feel guilty for being human. Kindness and compassion is resistance, and starting with yourself is a valid step.

Fuck the forces who are selling a solution to a problem they created but are trying to say is your fault. /endrant

It’s been said better by other people but the general understanding of the right’s use of “DEI” is as a convenient blanket slur.

It’s typically used against Black and Hispanic people the most, followed by trans people, but any/all women are convenient extra padding under the bus tires of their bigotry and insecurity.

Remember that their fascism is based in feelings of superiority in addition to fear. Use that against the cowardly bastards. They can’t stand to see someone “undeserving” do as well as or better than them, so they try to mow it down.

Fuck ‘em.

EDIT: It seems like Rose Ferreira is of Hispanic descent, hailing initially from the Dominican Republic then moved to NY and eventually secured an internship at NASA, and is now an astronomer and aerospace engineer. It seems like her NASA page got reinstated, maybe after backlash. She’s awesome. Hell yeah for the Streisand effect.