cowloom

cowloom wrote

Reply to Do people generally understand that the transgender military ban in the US is a very bad thing? by twovests

A deal with the devil might present certain "opportunities for advancement" for the individual involved, but that doesn't change the fact of it being a deal with the devil. I met a trans woman IRL who told me about how she fled a small christofash town after receiving death threats by joining the military, and the thought of "how many poor people of color suffered, directly or indirectly, as a result of her participation in the military?" crossed my mind. If it were me, I would try to find literally any other way to survive - even turning to sex work if I had to - besides joining the US military. If that were the only option, I'd have to think long and hard about whether joining to save my own life would cause more harm to others than good to me in the long run.

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cowloom wrote

Reply to Picmixen by voxpoplar

whoa, what a nostalgia blast. I remember these types of gifs being everywhere on DeviantArt back in the day. now I know what tool they used to make them!

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cowloom wrote

Reply to Black Bean Tacos by Ruby

beans make for a good breakfast food, and I will die on this hill

currently also eating what would've been bean tacos, but my cat got to the tortillas first, so now it's a bean/corn/onion/bell pepper bowl

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cowloom wrote

Reply to Why Did Everyone Suddenly Start Saying "Welcome In"? by neku

Can't say I've heard this one, but the one grammatically incorrect phrase I hear all the time is people asking questions like "How to ___?" instead of "How do you ___?" I can only assume it started with people typing "How to ___" into search engines, since the titles of whatever article they're looking for would start that way, but somewhere along the way people started phrasing their questions on forums or occasionally IRL that way. It's not a huge deal, but it makes my eyebrow twitch whenever I see it.

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