Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

@coriander my hot take for gamers is that if you don’t find the characters in the sex game hot you should just not play the sex game

@coriander honestly offensive that spicy chicken sandwich and hash brown are on different menus because those sound like they would go great together

@coriander hmmMMM

@coriander are they doing 24 hour hash browns

@coriander so people in the U·S hear “heavy metal is my religion” and assume there is a belief system at play, or some kind of ideology, when actually what is important about heavy metal is “issues of family, cultural integrity, the transmission of tradition, sacrificial offerings, concerns of purity, ethical system, and the enforcement thereof” (to quote Wikipedia)

but the important thing is that the latter can also be the basis of religion; belief systems are optional (just not in Protestant Christianity)

@coriander one thing which might help shed some light on this is that sports and heavy metal are orthopraxy religions, not orthodoxy religions (and protestants consider the former to be pagan nonsense, so we don’t have many good examples of them in the U·S)

@coriander i’m 95% confident that religious studies doctorates would be entirely on board with you saying heavy metal is your religion

@coriander i never want to recall anything i do on a computer

@aescling @coriander tl;dr capitalism doesn’t optimize for unemployment, it optimizes for employing the most people in the least fulfilling way possible

@aescling @coriander (the companies who build AI might be fine with you typing “make money” and getting money so long as they get a cut, but it’s important to recognize that even in this case “typing ‘make money’” is just the menial task you are being employed to do)