No, their reply made perfect sense. We could just use repub official emails for EVERYBODY, not just immigrants, in order to mess up the system scraping this information for everybody and not just immigrants.

Okay but that’s literally not what multitasking means. She would have to be reading one course in a book and an entirely different subject on her phone at the same time, with zero loss of retention or speed. There are ways the military trains people to do actual multitasking specifically, but for the vast majority of us we only have single-threaded thought processes that switch between lanes ALMOST but not quite instantly, so you’re just introducing stops and starts. It’s like how talking to someone while you’re driving WILL distract you, and the line on what kind of distracted driving is banned or not is based more on what kinds of things are enforceable (physical presence of a phone at x minute and location or some such).

Yeah but you’d be automatically excluded from jury duty if you admitted that. It’s like nullification.

/tg/ ! I remember before and after they made the quests board, the one that’s basically the same as our new ‘everypostisanrpg’ comm. And the Esh-Esh raffles, she was cool. Still operating her plushies and leatherwork Etsy as far as I know.

I mean it sounds more like a discussion I’ve seen before: being trans does not automatically equate to suffering. Dysphoria is not a requirement. You can be trans because you seek gender euphoria, or you can see unique positives or at least perspectives in the process of transition, and even when medical care is readily available a lot of trans people don’t ever want to physically transition. Saying no one would undergo surgery is probably an exaggeration or naive take on other people’s circumstances, but it’s true that in a lot of cases, social transition being readily accepted has been enough, and I’m pretty sure I remember that the majority of trans people stop at HRT in the long term even when surgery is an option. At the end of the day, we can’t know if she’s wrong or not yet because we can’t just will that hypothetical society into being, unfortunately.

Also most people in communities like autism and lgbtq+ would tell you that it’s way too dangerous to start genetic testing for this stuff in our current global climate, and that the perceived possibility of good may never be worth that risk, or be such a huge help in the first place. At the end of the day, the genetic component (if it even exists and doesn’t end in more truscum nonsense like the artist suggesting people could be called fake trans for not having the marker) really hasn’t been seen as that helpful in any group studied like this I’ve seen so far, and it IS a blatantly helpful line of research for eugenics, so really that panel doesn’t read as ‘extreme’ at all aside from the frontloaded buzzwords. Genetic testing and cure research is INCREDIBLY unpopular for a LOT of neurodivergency, and obviously for the LGBTQ too.

And besides, when you look into how long ago transness has existed, and all the ways it worked out when it wasn’t pathologized, there can be some merit to not trying to pick apart and justify every part of the trans and genderqueer life. Justifying just leads to more truscum (people who say you’re not really trans unless you get your genitals changed) moving the goalposts on who’s really trans, which is probably what she was defensive about on the genetics point.

Agreed, but seems like then you should do it for yourself (physical and mental health, stimulation from learning skills, broadening horizons) and if you make friends in the process that’s cool.

Dunno about desktop but for instance on boost it’s the third button above my keyboard

I’d definitely at least suggest chugging water and getting crunchy water like apples and cucumbers in you. Also if you drink caffeine less than two hours after you wake up, your body hasn’t flushed out the sleep receptors from last night yet and you’ve gotten them shored up to hit you again later in the afternoon. Caffeine literally has zero energy in it. Speaking as someone who still drinks it but is trying to be VERY careful with the timing (never later than 6hrs before bed time, that’s the half life of Caffeine), it doesn’t give you energy. It just shuts off sleepiness temporarily, but if you were already sleepy when you drank it you’re gonna be sleepy again later. Maybe supplement with those Caffeine-free energy drinks like the gamersupps options for the placebo effect?

(As for the beer, is a little weed an option in your area or is that just trading bad for bad? I had a can of thc plus the other thing drink once and holy damn that was the best sleep I EVER had. Finally shut the brain up.)

It’s also an option with some of the Canadian companies so I have to make sure the two year term is to-own whenever I get a new phone.

I meant more that chat implies it could be literally anyone because it’s anonymous. Like when the game’s developer or some guy with 100k followers suddenly drops in to a little guy’s stream. You wouldn’t know unless they announced themselves lol

Yeah she was working on AI auto-transcription for audio thinking ‘this will help people sort audio! Yay’ and found out it’s ‘it’ll help them sort audio of Palestinian phone calls so we can forward locations to the Israelis for bombings! No!’ Like how dynamite was supposed to be for construction and then it got turned into bombs.

How would you even screen tech work to make sure you’re not contributing to genocides by applying? Only apply to companies that explicitly say ‘Free Palestine’ on their profiles? Do they even exist in the USA? Not to mention she familiarized herself with the policy supporting human rights concerns before sending that message. The one that in a sane world would have prevented any of this from even happening (Microsoft’s involvement anyway).

It’s also the most unbiased word for referring to a group in a gender neutral way I’ve seen lol most others have implications of status (gentlepersons, folks), are still technically gendered (guys, not to mention this implies relatively young people too), or overbroad (everybody is well, everybody. Chat implies you’re addressing your community or a small group since they’re the ones who would be talking to you).

I mean that’s what hormone blockers are for, anyway, though since a lot of places put medical rights at 14 you could start there. Precocious puberty is overrated.

I’m pretty sure the body IS property of the person who has it, at least once they’re old enough to make medical decisions. That’s why you can donate it to science in your living will. In the ‘relatives should be able to do what they want with it’ case, cutting it up would damage its integrity, and if the will doesn’t specify who owns what then it could be a dispute that requires arbitration, much like when people have to agree to sell a house together in an estate, and then you’d need to i guess freeze it or something while they legally hash that out. Of course religious-born laws on mutilation of bodies means that you can’t actually put that in your will, even tho if you go the science option the government will totally do that. It’s hypocritical, I agree.

unfortunately the page for registering interest in a switch 2 preorder says it’s may 8 for both canadians and americans :( might be a problem with manufacturing location. https://www.nintendo.com/en-ca/gaming-systems/switch-2/how-to-buy/

being unsure or uncaring is supposed to be agnosticism, though. atheism is an outright rejection of the possibility. (this is NOT a commentary on if one is more correct than the other.)

except quebec! Maybe canada but I never hear about this outside of here. salmon (usually canned) and potatoes with a cream sauce full of sliced hard boiled eggs. https://www.food.com/recipe/salmon-pie-with-egg-sauce-340901#recipe also I saw a russian salmon and rice pie recipe pop up when I was searching this up

On the one hand, DNS was being needlessly accusatory and the logic of ‘you don’t understand how predators work so you must be one’ is silly. On the other hand, I get why they’re being so caustic because YES CP is ABSOLUTELY used exactly how they describe. The idea is that by getting the child used to sexual activity, they’ll get used to thinking about sexual activity and won’t be as freaked by inappropriate propositions, perhaps even believing they’re the initiator instead of being manipulated and taken advantage of, and then they won’t report the predator to authorities. Not to mention some of the predators who actually feel child attraction (as opposed to the more than 50% who are just rapists of opportunity) use that manufactured consent to self-delude themselves into thinking ‘well they’re enjoying it and they said yes so I’m not REALLY doing anything wrong’.

Part 4 on this article interviewing someone who was trying to research pedos on the dark web, for one example: “In other words, there are child molestation crusaders out there, and Pam ran into a lot of this on the Deep Web. Below is one response to a 7axxn post from a guy, bemoaning his inability to be anything but a “leech” (a person who consumes the content but never submits any) because his family situation made it impossible to actively share child pornography. The other members suggested he could aid “the cause” by helping to “enlighten & educate” the children in his life on the “true philosophies of love”” https://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1760-5-things-i-learned-infiltrating-deep-web-child-molesters.html

tbf if the hens aren’t producing for commercial purposes, they could be vaccinated, like they’re thinking of doing in america.

Shout-out to Gamers Nexus for making a written site for all their content https://gamersnexus.net/ tho i recognize that’s not very helpful for avoiding American lol