500$ per person is a lot. Like, I don’t consider myself to be living the life of an involuntary ascetic anymore, but it’s over triple what I spend for myself. And I legit waste some food.

In my defense, it’s so fucking easy to buy a bunch of bananas and say “I’ll have a few tomorrow”, but tomorrow you have one, and the day after that you don’t feel in the mood for bananas, and before you know it the bastards have gone mushy

Seperate from groceries, ordering out has gotten crazy fucking expensive. Literally doubling in cost in just the past 5 years or so. Insane shit. I haven’t bought even fast food for myself in probably 2 years at this point.

My monthly food bill is around 150$ since I’ve gotten slightly more financially stable - no more surviving on ramen and cereal! I can buy good bread, fruit, corn, frozen chicken, and cheese. Life is good.

Soda was always a non-negotiable purchase, since I’m an addict, but buying on sale helps. It’s not like it goes bad quickly, after all.

I mean, that’s three people though, not 500$ PER person.

Man, I buy soda and brand name cereal (store brand tastes like sadness 9/10 times) and still don’t hit anywhere close to that.

Yeah, but most Americans aren’t eating healthy either. So it’s more of a worst of both worlds situation.

Insane estimates. Just bizarre. Yet supposedly backed by the data.

Sometimes when I hear how much money people spend on groceries, I’m in awe. Who the fuck is spending 500$ on groceries per person per month? HOW the fuck are they doing it?

If they don’t want to have to deal with rules preventing them from abusing their fellow users

That’s… not at all what I said.

I’m also going to be completely blunt, I don’t believe you that having to respect the choice of pronouns of transgender users isn’t the issue. I think you’re lying to cover for them.

I’m lying to cover for the trans folk on the mod team saying that they will continue to respect neopronouns and enforce rules against misgendering on the .world comm.

Uh.

Okay.

As I understand it, it wasn’t a singular disagreement, but a number of incidents in which, as I said, the 196 mods didn’t want to have their own moderation decisions reversed or second-guessed if 196’s ruleset was in compliance with the requirements of the instance.

What the fuck do you think “the recent position of the admins” refers to

Keep insisting that transphobia is when someone thinks dragons aren’t real.

“I acknowledge that the recent position of the admins means I am no longer welcome here, and will thus be leaving. I wish them all the best.”

“How DARE you say that out loud? Removed”

The locked post isn’t even on Blahaj. The removed comment, that I was leaving because of disagreements with the admins but acknowledged their right to make such decisions, was hilariously petty in the vein of Ada removing posts (and handing out bans) for people saying things like “Dragons aren’t real”. Nor am I at any point defended by the 196 mods.

Right, but, uh, weren’t you specifically one of the people who Ada banned even though the 196 mods didn’t want you banned, because you said on 196 that a nonbinary gender identity wasn’t valid?

No, but nice try. Very typical of your brand of trolling.

The spat is unrelated to pronouns or neopronouns, according to the 196 mods. It has to do with the Blahaj admins and the 196 mods disagreeing on moderation behavior for the community, and the 196 mods not wanting to have their own moderation decisions reversed or second-guessed by admins if there wasn’t a rule violation in how the 196 mods handled moderation.

It’s a broader disagreement that’s been simmering for a while. The 196 mods say that the Drag controversy is unrelated, as Dragonfucker had been banned from 196 long before for unrelated reasons.