I’m going to do my sanity a favor and not read those. My imagination can fill in the outline and it already makes me sick.

Let’s just say I wouldn’t cry if these scum fell throat-first onto a harpoon coated in tarantula venom.

The butt peach! 🍑

It’s actually peach season in that area right now, and if you hit a good farmstand you can get a bunch, ridiculously fresh and quite cheap compared to grocery prices. Highly recommend

This it?

Corporate country music. Bo Burnham specifically wrote a song about it (lyrics link, since the song is technically a podcast episode w/ no accessibility).

Americana/folk, like Dolly Parton and Woody Guthrie are a far cry from the fox-news-to-a-melody garbage that gets put on country stations.

It’s the musical equivalent of John Wayne vs John Brown.

PS: Fun fact - Woody Guthrie wrote a scathing song about Fred Trump, so the war between the working class and that cursed name goes back at least a century.

My personal favorite is the lake from Wii Sports Resort. I used to spend hours just boating/flying around that area.

There’s also an island/oasis level in the PS1 game “Monsters Inc. Scream Team” that I quite enjoyed.

That’s fair.

Dream world would have Ghibli pick it up, or the team(s) behind Secret Level.

But we’re already in motion on this plan so just gotta cross our fingers and hope for the best.

I’d be partly sad since one of my bio parents is pretty awesome, but most of my chosen family isn’t related to me anyhow so I guess it’s not too bad.

Echoing other commenters on the medical history thing for sure.

In comparison to the animated Mario movie, most likely.

Live action doesn’t usually translate as well from animated/rendered media.

You’re back! Love seeing Miss Ruby 🖤 thanks for the ping 😄

Star Wars: Fighting space Nazis

Superman: protecting people from Lex Luthor; evil billionaire

Star Trek: Post scarcity society where all humans are treated as equals and nobody “gets” to be a billionaire (Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism)

Doctor Who: had a woman Doctor once

Marvel: “Evil is bad, how about let’s not genocide” (ignoring the billionaire worship w/ Iron Man)

X-Men: always been an allegory for LGBTQ+ and disabled folks

RATM: I mean, it’s in the name.

Starting to see a theme here hmm

Probably related to education and being broke, yeh?

Working a shit job and having to tolerate roommates doesn’t exactly equate to having time, money, or ability to eat regular meals with friends and family.

He looks like a constipated toad banded bullfrog in that second picture

Edit: frogs are awesome, this dude is not.

Naïve teenager or bad relationship dynamic?

The world may never know

Restricting free speech and lining their pockets, while taking away from our children, veterans, and retirees has been their game since time immemorial.

The Fox “News” pipeline seems to make people forget that Grandma can’t get her medications anymore and Uncle Billy who served in Iraq is denied his education because of these pricks.

Careful, South Dakota can put you in prison for that now.

Ars Technica comment sections do not disappoint

Are you okay, friend?

The thing about Lemmy is there are different instances/(websites), each with different rules. I think there’s an ask community on .world as well if you’re not comfortable with this one.

All websites open to the clearnet are potentially vulnerable to DDoS and other attacks, that’s just part of being on the network and cybersecurity is a thing for a reason. Likewise you can get a sunburn or rained on when you go outside, which is why we have sunscreen and umbrellas.

I’ve been dealing with stress from living in this seemingly uncaring, all-seeing world too, if it helps you feel less alone. Best we can do is be there for each other as humans when we can in the meantime.

TL:DR; do what works for you and don’t judge others for their connection choices, either.

For about the last ~6mos Lemmy has been my only social media, and for about 2 years before that it was Reddit. I didn’t get off Facebook and Instagram to feel superior, I did it because my mental health was spiraling downward like a bent Slinky on old stairs. I was chronically online since my early teens, so it wasn’t an easy pull either.

I don’t judge my loved ones for still being on those sites because it works for them, and I get my pop culture from them so it’s a win-win for us.

I’m still an online weirdo since I’m here on Lemmy, and I still fill the rest of my screen time with tech projects and video games. I’m no better than my peers, just different hobbies on occasion.

Finding your balance takes time, and it won’t always look the same depending on where you are in life. That’s okay! We’re messy, complicated things and trying to be “perfect” only adds stress.

Don’t be afraid to experiment in the meantime to find what feels “right” for you in your gut and mental well-being. You got this 🌼

Come back at it in a different mood, time, setting, etc. and run it against multiple people who you know won’t just coddle you about it if you’re really concerned.

Part of human psychology is coping with the world around us, not just learning about it. Our individual natures, moods and pasts will always color our experiences and that’s not necessarily a bad thing; the sooner you accept it’s okay to be human, the more authentically you can work with the quirks that come with it.

I do know personally I can be prone to overthinking and getting fuzzier in my logic when I’m tired, hungry, or overwhelmed. I also know it’s fixable.

On the flip side, I also have a history of trusting/getting anxious about bigger picture things based on precedent rather than imagined ideas (new things don’t bother me, but having to face certain known patterns stresses me to a very bad point).

I factor both of these things in when I get to an almost-crisis point. But at the end of the day, the human perspective is like a prism in water: multifaceted, fluid, and dependent on environment but also sometimes beautiful. :)

I would have been a lawyer if I hated myself more lmao

Edit: also engineers/IT workers