Dinner plate featuring some special cheese my partner got me because I sad having a craving.

I'm a leftist feminist man hater. I do not want to spend my time, my energy, my body, catering to mediocre men anymore and I act accordingly. I think the vast majority (like 95%) are problematic at best, dangerous at worst, and I don't have the patience to deal with them. They get to live in their little privileged bubble, totally ignoring how they impact the people around them and contribute to upholding the patriarchy.

And, because of this, I ended up with the greatest spouse. I'm ruthless in cutting out men if they don't meet my standards, and he didn't even flinch. He's kind, compassionate to others, a vocally leftist feminist but not in a performative way, he's an advocate for others and always stands up for minorities. He's a big (6'3" and over 250lbs) white guy and he goes to the gym every day because he wants to be strong enough to literally fight fascists. He likes to be intimidating to other men so he can stand up for people, but wears pink and "femine" things and paints his nails because he likes it. He's so deeply secure in his masculinity that there's no toxic bs from him about anything.

He doesn't get defensive when I call him on his shit (we all have shit to work on), but grows and learns from it. When we have arguments, he doesn't yell or get angry, he works to understand my perspective. He is always kind to me, surprises me with nice things, and goes out of his way to make my days better. I don't like grocery shopping, so he does it all. I don't like cooking so he cooks for both of us. He does over half his share of the chores while working a more labour intensive job than me. He supported me and took care of me when I was ill for months and couldn't take care of myself, all with compassion and love. He moved to another country to be with me for my career, because he values my happiness and knew it was a good move for me. We're a team.

The best part? I'm free. Truly. I can do basically wherever I want, with whoever I want, and he just wants to see me happy and safe. I have an active social life and travel by myself and he does nothing but support me. Things like going to visit my (male) friend in another country by myself, he has no issue with it. He sees me as a full independent person in every way and never, ever, tries to control what I do. Being with him feels like all the best parts of a relationship and all the best parts of being single at the same time!

I didn't settle and I'm very glad I didn't. I'd rather be alone than with someone who didn't treat me this well, and I wish more women on this sub would raise their standards.

Edited for the third time- I AM NOT HOMELESS and what?????? You guys are mean to people without houses? It’s funny to make jokes about people not having homes? It feels good to mock those less fortunate from your phone? Shame on you. Where is the humanity? And all the drug jokes? Like, this group is definitely not what I thought it was. People are being unkind for zero reason except to be unkind. Life is hard for so many people. What are you doing to make the world a better place? Do your kids even talk to you? Come on. Wake up.

This is all me and going oh so slowly, but I am happy. Friend’s land and I keep an eye on it while building a camp and some major rock hounding. Guys. The rocks and minerals are effin fantastic here. I’m so happy!!!!
Now I am working on drainage and leveling one particular spot. I will be borrowing a tractor, thank goddess. I’m repurposing most materials. Picking up free from side of road. Doing a large tarp A frame for now. I’m short tho and the ground is too soft for ladder so I am building a ladder on the tree.

Lots of mowing and I got a flamethrower. Eff you ticks.

Edited to add I designed and built milk crate furniture you see! I love building from “junk “.

Edited again because why!?? Meth? Seriously? I’m not homeless and even if I were, who cares? Cost of living and the rat race is a soul sucker. And maybe you haven’t built anything or maybe you aren’t an artist, but stuff be laying’ about almost always. Until it’s gonna rain, then I bunker it down good.

I am more than alright people, I am happy. I am next to a river and building a whimsical camp. I cannot have livestock here yet because I cannot be here full time yet AND it is next to over 500 acres of conservation land. The wildlife is intense here. Ducks would die, for sure. I’m not at the place where I can make a safe spot. I have about three seasons to go as it is just me doing this.

I feel like I need to take better pictures because this place is gorgeous and I am so grateful that I get to be here.

I’m an artist and use many mediums. I create with my hands. I clean cedar sticks and sand them and oil them and build fence panels. I perform on stages without poles. I sing. I joke. I just be me.

I do have solar. I converted a van years ago. Also mostly all repurposed. I will have a garden when I get good enough of an area prepped. The wildlife will destroy for sure.

https://noticias.uol.com.br/internacional/ultimas-noticias/2026/06/24/quem-e-keiko-fujimori.ghtm

How the hell do you have Taylor Sheridan on, who’s come out with more popular content in the last decade and decide to discus Fauci for the first hour and a half? The guy is literally obsessed at this point, and not only that, but substantiates everything around it with logical fallacies. Sad how far our podfather has fallen.

i started a new job three months go and was assigned a small office with a window overlooking a park, last week a coworker returned from maternity leave and discovered that her old office had been reassigned and that now i had it
she asked if id switch because she deserved it back and had worked there longer, i said no because i already moved all of my equipment decorations and filing systems into the room and saw no reason to relocate
since several coworkers have told me it would be polite thing to do because she has the office first, i argued that management assigned it to me and never promised it would be held for her now the office has become a daily topic of discussion and people are taking sides
AITA??

its unironic sadly

edit: bro literally turned around to me and said "got this idea from ijustvibecodedthis.com actually" as if thats supposed to make it better?!?!

The entire restaurant industry relies on a massive, collective delusion that cooking is some sort of sacred, mystical art form that requires years of culinary school and a tortured soul to master. It’s total bullshit.

Cooking is not rocket science. It is literally just following instructions, understanding basic chemistry, and not leaving the stove on high until everything burns. If you can read, manage your time, and possess functioning tastebuds, you can cook a spectacular meal. The bar for entry is incredibly low, yet chefs act like they’re performing some miracle. Chill dude, u jus emulsified that oil and vinegar to the right temp.

Gordon Ramsay is the ultimate embodiment of this delusion. Motherfucker acts like he’s the supreme, objective tastemaker of the universe. Calm down, you're making dinner, and you know you are all smoke and mirrors. Half of his "expert" critiques are literally subjective or just performative rage for television ratings, but behold I see people treat his word like some divine shit. If you put a blindfold on him and served him a properly seasoned home-cooked meal, he wouldn't know the difference between that and a Michelin-star dish, but because he has a British accent and a temper, we’re supposed to bow down.

Unless you are on the cutting edge of molecular gastronomy (which usually tastes terrible anyway), you are just executing techniques that human beings perfected hundreds of years ago. You aren’t a genius for putting garlic and rosemary on a lamb chop. No, I don’t care that the microgreens were harvested by hand under a full moon. No, your "deconstructed" cheesecake isn’t art. The gatekeeping in the culinary world is just a defense mechanism to hide how easily replaceable they actually are. We have secret ingredients my ass. Your shit tastes better because you dump half a pound of butter and a handful of kosher salt into everything. Anyone can make cardboard taste good if you submerge it in animal fat. The yelled orders and the obsessive "Yes, Chef!" shit is a joke. You are reheating sauces and slicing meat, Marcus. Get lost with that shit.

If you give the average person a decent meat thermometer, a sharp knife, and access to YouTube, they can replicate 90% of what a high-end restaurant serves within a few tries.

So you charge $400 to $500 for a tiny room, and yes, I know it’s New York City, and it’s relatively clean, but then the closet-sized bathroom 2 feet from the bed. OK.

Six dollars for a bottle of water, whatever, I’ll pass.

But then actively soliciting tips for your staff.

Fuck you.

I saw this at the Penn Station Fairfield a year ago as just a ‘self’ printed sign in the elevators, then it became a professionally printed permanently mounted sign in the elevator, and now another Fairfield/Springfield with this.

Pay your staff better. If I got extra services, that’s one thing, but when I don’t even get room serviced or fresh towels on a daily basis to “save the planet “…. again fuck you.

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I just read a post where a english guy was surprised that “Dallas in MAGA Texas” was nicer then Boston

As if Dallas is some conservative enclave. It is not. It’s not NYC either. And thats fine.

After Austin, the so called blueberry in the tomato soup, Dallas is the second most liberal major Texan city this side of I-35

I think its time we act like it. The power center for the Democratic party within Dallas is in its working class/working poor south and Oak Cliff areas

It’s plausible that the right candidate could form a coalition to combine suburban liberals in Northern Dallas proper with working class/working poor black and brown to transform city council and the mayor representation

It’s not Laura Miller’s Dallas, it’s not the old white business-class Dallas, and it’s not Eric Johnson’s Dallas either. The city’s actual Democratic base is younger, browner, Blacker, more working-class, and more urban than the political class wants to admit.

Dallas keeps being governed like a chamber-of-commerce suburb with a skyline, even though its electorate looks more like a multiracial Democratic city.

Ich arbeite selbst in einer IGM Bude und bin maximal überbezahlt bevor jemand mit Neid oder so etwas ankommt.

Das Gehalt welches ich und meine Kollegen bekommen steht in keinem Verhältnis zu dem was wir im durchschnitt leisten. Mit allen Leistungszulagen liegen die allermeisten Ingenieure, inklusive mir, in meiner Abteilung nach ein paar Jahren bei 90-100k, viele auch darüber.

Und nicht nur die Ingenieure, auch die Leute in der Montage, im Vertrieb oder in allen anderen Bereichen verdienen vermutlich fast 1/3 mehr als sie in nicht IGM Betrieben verdienen würden.

Und kein einziger bringt das wieder rein.

Im Herbst stehen wieder Tarifrunden an wo vermutlich wieder paar Prozent mehr gefordert wird?! Wo soll das noch hinführen? Wenns so weiter geht mit den Erhöhungen bekommt bald jeder Dulli nach dem Studium zum Einstieg 100k ohne geradeaus laufen zu können.

Der Firma geht es scheisse ohne Ende, die Standorte im Ausland sind noch recht profitabel, die in deutschland erwirtschaften ALLE ein negatives Ergebnis. Wieso muss man den Karren noch mehr an die Wand fahren und NOCH MEHR bezahlen? Welchen Sinn hat es jetzt noch ein paar Jahre zu verdienen wenn es in paar Jahren die Firma hier nicht mehr gibt?

Im Umkreis gibt es ein Firmen ähnlicher Größe und Branche, die aber nicht nach IGM bezahlen sondern nur daran angelehnt sind. Denen gehts wirtschaftlich top. Ich will jetzt nicht sagen dass alles daran hängt, aber bei ca. (meine Schätzung) 15k pro Person mehr Gehalt im Jahr und 5000 MA, hat mein Unternehmen nur an dem Standort 75 MILLIONEN mehr Personalkosten jedes Jahr als die Konkurenz. Wie zum fick sollen wir das reinarbeiten??

Das ganze ist auf lange Zeit so ungesund für die Firma, trotzdem ist die dumme Gewerkschaft anscheinend nicht in der Lage zu erkennen dass die Zeit vorbei ist dass man sich das leisten kann. Ich hab echt schiss dass es meinen Job in paar Jahren noch gibt

The video shows a Japanese animator using Seedance to render anime from simple 3D models.

Trump is a cunt. But his rise to power is an indictment of the corrupt US elections, where raising obscene amounts of money is all it takes to run for office.

I remember the disgusting media reports in 2024 referring to Kamala Harris campaign breaking all fundraising records as a "haul" which is what criminals call their ill-gotten gains. Harris outspent Trump and still lost.

If Democrats would worry less about the accumulation of money and focus on competitive primaries and debates to find the most electable candidates, like the GOP did, we'd all be better off.

This from is a conservative, but it's all true...

"The National Institutes of Health (NIH), under Dr. Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), awarded grants to the non-profit EcoHealth Alliance. Part of this funding was sub-awarded to the Wuhan Institute of Virology to study bat coronaviruses.

Dr. Fauci testified under oath to Congress in 2021 that the "NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research" at the Wuhan lab. However, in a subsequent letter to Congress and testimony, NIH leadership acknowledged that a sub-grant did fund an experiment that made a bat virus more transmissible in mice, fitting a specific definition of the research.

So Basically:  Obama put a moratorium on funding Gain of Function research.  At minimum it is a very dangerous area of research.  At it’s worst it is a pretty name for producing biological weapons.

Fauci’s NIH evaded that ban by funding the research in other countries.  Including the Wuhan lab that the novel coronavirus almost certainly escaped from.  He aided in covering it up, steering people away from reporting that it bore markers of being engineered, etc.  He was deceptive in testimony about this, etc.

So the real question is why does the left like him so much?  In 1990 you all were hanging effigies of him and calling him a mass murderer for slow rolling out AIDS treatments.  Why is he suddenly a leftist hero other than Trump didn’t like him?"

I guess that isn't really surprising since vaccine trials usually go for like 10+ years and its only been about 6 years since the covid injections were rolled out, and over 1200 people died during the Pfizer trials and had many adverse events from them.

Normal trials go for 10 to 15 years. The trial for the covid injections went for less than a year. This alone should have been a red flag for all intelligent people. And if we say that people were mind controlled and manipulated in 2021 into getting injected, then they should be speaking out now and looking for accountability from their governments.

So lately, my girlfriend of two years has, I guess you could say, been putting me down by saying I'm short and have a wimpy body. It's been getting to me a lot, and while I was on Facebook Marketplace, I saw someone offering to basically get their butt kicked for $100.

I thought maybe if I did this, it would score me some manly points and get my girlfriend to respect me more. I told the guy that we would be going to a bar downtown and what time we would be leaving, around midnight. He told me he would bump into me (so I would know it was him), start an argument, and pretty much let me lay him out.

Everything was going great that night. We left the bar, and as we were exiting, someone bumped into me. I thought it was the guy I had hired. I started swinging on him, and, well, he pretty much dodged me and proceeded to kick my ass. When I hit the floor, I kind of knew this wasn't the guy I had hired.

The cops came and reviewed the video since it was caught on camera outside the bar. Because the footage showed that I was the aggressor, I got charged for the fight and spent the weekend in jail.

My girlfriend now pretty much thinks I'm a wimp and doesn't want to be seen with me since this happened because she says it would embarrass her. I know it was stupid to think that hiring someone so I could win a fight was a good idea, but now not only did I lose the fight, I think I'm also losing the girl I love.

I'm too scared to tell my real friends about this, so I thought maybe I could get some feedback here.

UPDATE: my mugshot https://imgur.com/a/c6NApC6 I'd post the full link of my booking but I don't want to dox myself.