As a Vermonter, I also get offended when people think I'm from America.
They are correct and I'm not happy about that fact.

I sort by active because the slower flow of content helps me avoid a social media addiction. I just check the few posts that hit the top of my feed every day, then exit Lemmy for the day.

Perhaps this will enlighten you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZVwFa-Fz5Q

And in case you don't feel like watching that: It's a meme harkening back to the stupidity displayed on a well known tumblr post, one of the many displays of which was somebody insisting 2 was odd.

Also see this Ace Attorney version, which is hilarious and the first place I'd heard of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFcyYnUHVBA

It thoroughly confuses me that many people have come to the conclusion that people saying "closeted trans people do X thing quite often" actually mean "all people doing X thing are trans." I don't know how half the replies here have come to that conclusion.

This meme is reductive, only talking about it like it'll be either a trans person or toxic cis dude, but it's a joke. Jokes need to be some level of reductive to work. Otherwise you're just describing a funny situation in real life. (Also, reread the meme. They never say those are the only two options, they just say those are two possibilities. That's not the same thing.)

But yeah, offering to help somebody who you think may be trans acquire resources isn't a bad thing just because the majority of people won't end up needing it. Just politely decline it if you don't. Nobody's trying to force you to be trans. They're just trying to help the people that are.

I had a teacher tell me to drop out then be forced to write an apology letter for it.

She wrote "I'm sorry you thought I told you to drop out."

So I'm gonna say "I'm sorry you thought" is high up there. Straight up gaslighting.

Fixed typo resulting in ticks giving lyme disease instead of limes diseases. Ticks now properly feed on fruit juices instead of blood.

As somebody who was once part of a cult, it's just the same circus but worse.

It's still a gradual buildup for me, and there are little pauses every time it starts over, but if I don't have those little pauses, I get overstimulated too much and the nerves just kinda shut off for a couple minutes. There's always an intense shock of pleasure too when it starts over, that fades away really fast, but every time it starts over again the shock is more intense than the previous time, until eventually, one of those shocks is an orgasm. I can technically have one on the lowest settings of sustained vibration too, but it's not intense enough to give me a satisfying orgasm. The settings that just pulse regularly also sometimes work, but I prefer to have at least a second or two with the thing going full blast just because it feels good, so that's why I use the "Morse code" setting instead. That way I get the full intensity, along with the little interruptions that prevent me from getting overstimulated.

There are people who don't like that? Huh. That's the only setting that works for me. Every other setting is too regular so I go numb and just stop feeling it after like 5 seconds.

Most conservatives, however deeply red, are not intentionally hateful and are usually open to rational discussion. People just don't know how to have rational discussions nowadays and the few times they do, they don't know how to think like somebody else and put things in a way they can understand.

People nowadays think because a point convinced them, it should convince everybody else and anybody who's not convinced by it is just being willfully ignorant. The truth is we all process things differently and some people need to hear totally different arguments to understand, often put in ways that wouldn't convince you if you heard it.

It's hard to understand other people and I feel like the majority of people have given up trying in favor of assuming everybody who disagrees with you knows their wrong and refuses to admit it.

Maybe I don't understand the definition of straw man properly, but I don't think this is one. It's a response to a metaphor some conservatives have used against trans people that the look of a pizza hut is so iconic, that it'd be rediculous to call it anything else, because it's obviously a pizza hut, no matter what you put inside it. This is a response to that, showing that insisting it's still a pizza hut just because it looks like one to you is absurd. I agree it's a little bit cringy. There's been better rebuttals to it, but I think this still makes the point.

I don't think this was ever a popular conservative argument though. I've only seen it in screenshots of a single highly retweeted tweet with various rebuttals attached. I guess it seems more like just a random dumb argument people decided was fun to make fun of.

I don't have any job, since I'm disabled and just live off government disability benefits. For hobbies though, I still don't get much into anything tech related. I do cooking and sometimes attempt writing. Unless tinkering with Linux a tiny bit sometimes counts as tech.