I feel like a lot of people might think miniature building/painting could be easy - or at least quick.

It isn't.

Well you are blaming them for child abuse/assault.

I'd be pissed if I was him too.

Bro, I got in an argument with a guy on Lemmy here - he said that my sexual harassment and assault enabled by my parents was God testing me to see if I could handle it.

If thats what his God does to test people - his God is the bad guy of the story.

But this isn't about services like Game Pass - these were bought games.

States Rights had always been a smoke screen.

Even during the Civil War Southern States were trying to implement laws that gave them power over other states to give slaves.

States Rights had always been right wing propaganda designed to hide their true motive. Same a "protect the children." Same as a racist hiding behind "free speech."

My family became very Anti-Vax during that time. My wife and I had just had a newborn about a year in to the pandemic and demanded everyone get their vaccines before they got to be around the baby.

My parents didn't get any and didn't see the baby for a while.

Then when we did start seeing them, they had completely lost their minds. Blatantly racist, blatantly homophobic. Even when it wasn't things political, it felt like they had forgotten how to properly talk to people in an appropriate way. My mother made comments about my DAD having relations with my wife and that the baby wasn't mine.

I know they watch Fox, I know my mother watches a bunch of far right-wing YouTubers. All of it has led to them barely being functioning adults.

When I was a teen I worked as a waiter at a dirty smokehouse/bbq place.

One of the kitchen staff there would make sexual comments about me. Say things like "You're lucky you look good because you're so stupid." And would ask what kind of underwear I was wearing.

I told my parents about it, and the advice they gave me was "Deal with it. You need a job."

Within a month that kitchen staff member had started to grab me and sexually assaulted me.

I don't talk to my parents anymore.

Yeah, she leads them off the island and they become voyagers again. Her placing the shell from the sea was to imply they have returned to the sea.

It's because it's summer and students aren't using it to cheat on their assignments anymore.

Yeah. All the Reddit news is new news. So of course it's going to be trending - it's happening right now and people are talking about it.

I feel like I've seen a lot more posts in just the past few days since I've started coming here.

I had an 8 year old account with a few hundred thousand karma, deleted it on July 1st once BaconReader went down.

Switching to Lemmy makes me want to participate even more and hopefully foster more people to join.