ITS REAL?!

I think it must be played up for the weirdness/grossness effect. I can’t think of any scenario where it would make sense.

Agreed. While I don’t think tech is horrible in every way, I do believe people are over reliant on their phones when they really shouldn’t be. This is coming from someone who hides their screen time report to avoid shame, so I’m not guiltless in this either.

Agreed. Also, I think it was quite the power move to have a character so evil that they cut out their own heart, then made the actual villain a tiny British man who embodies capitalism.

Fetish? I thought it was just tech people wearing socks and showing off their computer setups.

I have never had a sentence cause as much of a mixed reaction of laughter and disgust as this one.

I like Vivaldi a lot more than any other browser, but I just can’t justify using a chromium based browser at this point.

These beef stroganoff memes have been great, and I’m very excited to see lemmy forming its own identity as a platform.

I’m not sure what kind of trans people your interacting with, but your negative reaction may have soured your belief of the entire community. The vast, vast majority of trans people just want to live their life without having to feel like worthless outsiders from both their own bodies and fellow people. There is no push to make other people trans. If your not trans your not trans, and that isn’t a bad thing. Being cisgender or transgender doesn’t make someone any more or less valuable as a person, and it certainly doesn’t effect the validity of their opinion.

The “exactly” face is marvelous, and an expression I find myself making far too often while explaining things.

Nobody is trying to push you towards transitioning. Protesting for trans rights is simply about protecting trans people from discrimination. What your saying is the equivalent of “I don’t support gay rights because I feel like their existence pushes me to be gay.”

Don’t protest? How do you expect any change to happen without action from the people. Do you believe movements like Civil Rights would have succeeded without protest?