captainlezbian

It probably should be. There's a point of power where you stop fearing anyone can stop you, but at that point you're not invincible, it's just that masses and subordinates are the ones who will do it. Putin is one pissed off nihilist away from Russian history repeating itself

Ah I wasn't aware your conservation efforts had yet borne fruit.

Yeah its gonna be stressful and I can't tell you it will go well, but it might. Adventures like this are good for people your age as well. Having a plan for if it goes poorly is a good idea. Video calling beforehand is generally wise because it can guarantee you aren't being catfished and that you vibe in real time.

Go in expecting a good time and prepared to show a good time. And while it sucks if irl you don't get along it's ok. There's a saying in America that bad times make for good stories. Your teenage and young adult years are for adventures and building experience. It's scary and exciting and no matter how it goes you'll probably be glad you did it when you're older.

My story isn't even the only great time I've had with internet friends. If I'm near anyone I know these days I'll at least try to swing by for a meal.

So what's most likely to happen? Probably a generally good time. Nothing life changing in any direction though your age is one in which life is quite malleable and it's downright common to have life-changing experiences at that age. But it should be fun, and you'll likely stay friends. It's quite likely the friendship will be different afterwards but not worse, just closer and informed by how it felt to be in the same space. Inside jokes are likely to happen also.

Thanks, I'm sad it's needed but also excited and I choose to maintain hope that good will win both here and abroad.

Best of luck, have fun on your trip

Oh it's absolutely not a joke. It reads like severe mental illness. It's very much an uneducated white southern man lost his fucking marbles. He's so antisemitic he hates Christianity.

Like you read it and at parts you're laughing and screenshotting and at other parts you're agahst. Like this is a perfect line

But he's also saying things about black people that make my assessment of mentally ill southerner make sense. I went in for cheap yuks at something I was shown as a teenager because it was funny and left too uncomfortable to recommend it to anyone.

Feral pigs are an invasive species that wreak havoc here

The time cube is simultaneously really funny and possibly the most bigoted thing I've ever read. Like holy hell this guy is more antisemitic than some neonazis and his hate for queer people is intense. Shockingly not misogynistic though, credit where credit is due.

Yeah after spending my adulthood on reddit and lemmy markdown is second nature and I don't like it not being maintained in notesnook thr way it is in Obsidian. I'd prefer a foss solution though and notesnook looks like otherwise it's better

Yeah Europe forgets it killed it's scary megafauna. America has grizzlies and wolves and the boars are invasive with no natural predators

But even if they don't, the counterculture was a push for freedom and the left may sometimes be incendiary and contains its issues with how we interact with hisrorically prioritized groups, ultimately we're not saying that people shouldn't be allowed to be straight or white or Christian. What we're saying is that straightness, whiteness, and Christianity shouldn't be prioritized over others. Christians are the harder group to reconcile with as many see the right to oppress as fundamental to their religion, but outside of that nobody minds that Joe believes in Jesus if he's not making it our problem

They keep saying that and yet they refuse to build systems of gutter trash mutual aid, which any punk knows is the foundation of every punk scene. It's a bunch of 20 something alcoholics crashing on each other's couches, running books to prisoners programs, and taking on so much antifascist labor they crack under the pressure.

Kids need trust. They don't mature without room to fuck up or succeed

Counterexample. Over the pandemic I met some people as a d&d group. Two years later we all met up for a vacation together and had a blast (ok one woman didn't vibe great but the rest did). This past year at one's wedding we met each others' partners and everyone had an amazing time. In fact we had such a good time that when my wife and I were deciding what blue city to flee our red state to we picked the home city of one of those friends, and we're going to crash with her for a little while while we look for an apartment. In addition to being closer to her, the whole friend group will be on the west coast making trips together easier, which we're all excited for