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Cake day: July 26th, 2023

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  • Thanks to you I finally decided to watch the video of him donut shopping and it didn’t seem that bad. Just some out of touch rich guy struggling to make small talk.

    But nowhere near the level of couch-fucking weird everyone’s been claiming.

    So yeah I guess it would be better if he were a total sociopath and could more convincingly fake excitement during small talk?

    The part that made the video bad wasn’t his behavior, it was how clearly the staff knew it was a meaningless publicity stunt. The staff has enough braincells to know that this guy’s policies, if elected, would do nothing to make their lives better, and that they are just pawns to make him look like he appeals to common folk. This is not something specific to this candidate, but his entire party.

    They should’ve just declined him as a customer, or insisted that no recording at all could be done on their property. That would have sent a clearer message to him, unless you think the existence of this video helps the Kamala campaign because they will overreact to it and add it to the “he’s weird” pile. I agree he’s probably that bad kind of weird (I believe all Republicans are either so rich and selfish it is indistinguishable from being straight up evil, are racist, or being blackmailed) , but I don’t see that being demonstrated in the video.










  • Oh yeah I’m with you there. I click the box for total price and skim the rules. All I had to do at this place was put dirty towels on the floor and run the dishwasher (never used dishes so didn’t have to). But all those places with chores? Lol get fucked, I’m with you completely. Hotel all the way. They can’t bill me for cleaning and also make me do chores. I don’t do my own chores.


  • Airbnb competes with itself, due to the individual hosts putting up their own listings. Or are you accusing them of being a cartel?

    Airbnbs are not actually bnbs. They don’t have free breakfast. They are just a room.

    Businesses fail all the time. As long as they continue to have what I want at a price I want with the convenience I want, I’ll keep using it. Just like ubers and DoorDash.

    Who cares if VCs waste their money on an unprofitable business as long as the hosts don’t create a cartel?





  • I stayed at an Airbnb last weekend. Instead of paying over five hundred a night for a tiny non luxurious hotel room, I paid 300 a night (total, after splitting was 150) a night for a massive two bedroom apartment two blocks from the hotel room. Parking, everything included.

    It was cheaper and better than a hotel. Are you somehow gonna make the hotel lower their price? For that to happen, they would need competition.


  • I think their point is that once biology is involved it’s no longer a social construct.

    I also think that people conflate sex and gender and it makes things unnecessarily confusing.

    For sake of argument let’s stick with binary for now.

    There are words that describe sex. There are words that describe gender. And there are words that can be used as a shortcut for a combination of both.

    For example (and if you don’t like my example substitute your own words): a masculine female is often called a tomboy or described as butch.

    TERFs probably feel that the term woman is a shortcut for feminine females, and that those who aren’t female but are feminine are not Champagne, they are sparkling wine. And it’s easy to see why someone would be insulted by that opinion. Strictly speaking, being told “you’re not a woman” isn’t necessarily an attack, or stating that you shouldn’t exist. But yes (obviously!) people with extreme views jump onto that bandwagon and are willing to kill/oppress to make everyone the same cuz they can’t handle weird people.

    Yes, trans people are weird (queer means weird!). But weird isn’t bad, and people who think weird is bad are not people I would want to hang out with, even if they also happen to be trans. Pride is about pride: own your weirdness.