Sorry for the super sporadic posting. Still in the process of moving and everything. I am giving updates on my Mastodon and !stamets@lemmy.world if anyone is interested but there’s really no reason to be.

Hope everyone has a fantastic Friday. Live long and prosper, you glorious bastards.

  • EdibleFriend@lemmy.world
    92·
    9 months ago

    It’s not that its far fetched its just…the way its written. I mean I have literally been in this situation as a straight dude so yes, this happens lol.

    But this post just sounds like tumblr crap.

    A compliment is a compliment no matter who it comes from.

    This just feels like ‘and here is the moral of the story dear reader’

        • Rampsquatch@sh.itjust.works
          65·
          9 months ago

          It’s needless negativity. It feels like an attempt to smother any possibility that there might be happiness elsewhere in the world. In short: it sucks keep it to yourself.

          • EdibleFriend@lemmy.world
            71·
            9 months ago

            That’s what it is to you. Thats a very strange over the top reaction as well. All people are saying, at least me, can’t speak for the other guy is…while yes…things like this do happen (and have happened to me) this particular post is pretty poorly written and feels like typical tumblr reblog bait. Good things happen. That doesn’t mean we cant look at a very poorly written ‘good thing’ story and say ‘yeah that probably didn’t happen’.

            It feels like an attempt to smother any possibility that there might be happiness elsewhere in the world

            I’m sorry, but do you always go through life assuming the worst of people like this? This is the single most negative thing I have seen in this thread so far.

            • Rampsquatch@sh.itjust.works
              31·
              9 months ago

              You’re right, that was over the top. It was an exaggeration as a poor attempt to make my point, and I did that because I felt you were deliberately avoiding answering my initial question. I apologize for my ineptness in making my point.

              (The point was it doesn’t matter if this story is fake even if someone made it to farm internet clout.)

              • EdibleFriend@lemmy.world
                24·
                9 months ago

                So all fake stories should just be treated as real no matter how obviously fake? But only if they are wholesome?

                For example if I posted this would you be defending it with this much hostility? It’s very wholesome after all.

                • Rampsquatch@sh.itjust.works
                  2·
                  9 months ago

                  Please don’t put words in my mouth. And I’m sorry you mistook my snark for hostility, I didn’t intend for my comments to be hostile although I see how you came to that conclusion.

                  • EdibleFriend@lemmy.world
                    22·
                    9 months ago

                    I am not sure how I am putting words in your mouth. You say don’t call out fake stories. Simple as that. So i am questioning how far we should go with that. Do you defend the picture I posted as well as something we must not question?

                    It feels like an attempt to smother any possibility that there might be happiness elsewhere in the world.

                    And I am sorry but nobody on earth could possibly interpret this as anything other then pure toxicity. You have apologized for your behavior and that’s great, but don’t backtrack and pretend it wasn’t anything but pure negativity now.