I didn’t make an argument at all, I simply described my experience of reality in an effort to help you understand why people here are disagreeing with you. Don’t worry, I won’t try to help you again.

I’m sure there are places on the Internet where you could sell that “ghost” story, but Lemmy during the runup to the election was like 45%+ people arguing for protest votes and vote abstaining as a means of “punishing” Democrats for a millenia-old religious feud on the other side of the world. Obviously this isn’t physical, definitive proof that protest voters and abstainers actually moved the electoral needle for Trump, I’m just letting you know why no one’s really buying it here.

I just hate their app and refuse to use it

Ok, if you won’t do it, I will: The US has 1,889,780 researchers, with old data and rough math, we’ll just round that to 2M. We’ll rough-in 30 for “a few dozen”, giving us a ratio of 3/200,000 or 0.000015 or 0.0015%. I’ll be generous and round up to 0.002%. Far less than one one-hundredth of a percent of researchers is worth establishing an official, named, racist government program? And what did we gain? The knowledge that poor Chinese people will stay poor and undoubtedly get poorer? The ire and distrust of an entire demigraphic of citizens and residents in our own country? More opportunities for white men? A few extra pennies in the pockets of billionaires? Yay, yippee, woohoo, another wonderfully beneficial use of taxpayer dollars from the party of small government. 🙄🙄🙄

And given what we’re seeing with the current federal haterace-based law enforcement programs, we have absolutely no reason to believe those few dozen convicted researchers were actually even guilty of anything. I honestly wouldn’t even be surprised if they’re not all Chinese. But I’m sure the bigots met their quota, so that’s really all that matters. 🙏

Now do number convicted vs total number of researchers in the country and we can decide if that “non-small percentage” was worth officially, systematically disenfranchising and vilifying an entire culture and driving this woman to suicide.

Leave Hamilton Leithauser alone!

For someone who’s so “societally aware”, you’re really a sack of shit. But I guess that might be the point…

Some monkey

I metaphorically devour the memory for power. I’m still alive and it’s highly likely that I’m the only person on the entire planet thinking about it. Obviously these memories are extremely powerful, but it’s not doing me any good if I just feel embarrassed again every time I think about them. Harness that crazy shame energy and try to put it to actual productive use somehow. Just knowing that I can be that embarrassed and be absolutely fine actually gives me more confidence. Simply wallowing in the embarrassment only takes confidence away.

Edit: Sorry I didn’t see you described the whole situation, I was writing very generally. Overall, it still applies. Except that maybe the moment is also replaying in your gf’s head for her own embarrassment at unintentionally embarrassing you. It’s honestly probably worse for her, at least you’re safe in the knowledge that you were misrepresented due to shrinkage lol

Depends how much melanin is involved

Won’t that just drive business to the city-owned stores? Sounds like he’s trying to help!

Yeah, you prefer the greater evil, we get it

“What is your favorite color?” is the best I can do.

Life causes cancer, plaque build-up causes heart disease. Nothing was meant to do or eat or kill anything, that’s just how life evolved. Again, I’m not arguing over moral stances, I think it’s very admirable. But I mean, even just as mammals we’ve been consuming other animals for more than 200,000,000 years! The reptiles those first mammals evolved from probably ate animals, as the fish those reptiles evolved from probably did as well. Cooked meat is very likely the evolutionary edge that lead to what what we can sentience, it obviously “works” on a biological level. To argue otherwise is delusion.

If that were true, we wouldn’t be able to digest them. Ever tried eating a tree? Or a boulder? Those aren’t food for humans. I’m not gonna argue against moral motivations for veganism, but I will argue against factually incorrect ones.

That “G” is so fucked

He must have paid with his own skin-color saturation…

I thought it was Mississippi and Arkansas at the bottom. Although not for everything, growing up my home state of SD was consistently 51st in the nation for teacher pay (after Puerto Rico). Also one county over had the highest suicide rate in the world 🙃

Remember that Million Little Pieces debacle? I think she’s just easy to fool.

I’m sick of the lump on top of his neck