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- Comment on Need a tiebreaker 1 hour ago:
Is this like a northern state thing?
The only places I know that don’t do bags are Sprouts (charges 0.10) and Natural Grocers (they give you leftover boxes if you ask.)
I’ve got a bunch, but can’t share - hoping to process them into yarn.
- Comment on Transitioning in STEM 10 hours ago:
I think people get defense around the idea of “male privilege” because they think it’s getting them something extra. It’s more all of the shit you don’t have to deal with.
- Comment on Transitioning in STEM 10 hours ago:
Unironically yes. As a male STEM student, I had a much easier time finding a study group, I didn’t feel singled out and isolated in my classes, and people took the things I said seriously.
It’s like magic when I go to the doctor - the second they find out a uterus, it’s like their whole body language changes.
- Comment on Transitioning in STEM 16 hours ago:
A couple other stories:
When I was in high school, I was in Botball for a while. I was the only girl in the coding team - there was another girl on the construction team that was mostly tagging along with her boyfriend (I’m not saying this to demean her, she was a friend.)
The guy who was teaching us to code refused to teach me enums. He was talking about structs, my eyes looked glazed over because I didn’t get to eat lunch at school lol - he made some joke about losing me and said it was too advanced for me.
I also was getting really into Linux at the time - playing with things like Compiz Fusion on a shitty laptop during lunch (again, I didn’t get to eat lol). I wanted to make a cell phone game - I think I had a Nokia at the time. So I downloaded some sample project and opened it in Netbeans or whatever. It showed up as covered with red squigglies, because I didn’t have the libraries, but the group of coders walked passed, saw the squiggles and started joking about how shit at coding I was and how stupid.
- Comment on Transitioning in STEM 17 hours ago:
Earlier you said:
Most of them were top of the class, which to me always suggested that while many men signed up and then “see how it goes”, only women who knew exactly what they wanted signed up.
Can you draw connections between what I linked/emphasized and this statement?
- Comment on Transitioning in STEM 19 hours ago:
Dunja Mijatovic, commissioner for human rights at the Council of Europe, faulted Italy across multiple areas, lamenting that Italian courts and police sometimes revictimize the victims of gender-based violence and that women have increasingly less access to abortion services. She also noted Italy’s last-place in the EU ranking for gender equality in the workplace.
- Comment on Transitioning in STEM 1 day ago:
Not when it was a number used once to arrange a group project meeting and that we had not connected otherwise? Two years later - I had dropped out?
One thing I noticed as in my progress through as STEM major was the decline in number of female classmates. Calc 3 might have a reasonable number, but the drop off was exponential. The college run that got me through was done as a man, so I didn’t experience the later stuff but I heard rumors. Worse than rumors from post docs in the lab I worked in.
- Comment on Ben Shapiro's sister 1 day ago:
He’s a failed theatre kid. He probably got rejected for a pre-blocking handy.
- Comment on Ben Shapiro's sister 1 day ago:
Yeah - just like how Stellar Blade (vidya game) was the great end to wokeness because it had a (not underage!) girl that sounded like a child but was dressed like a stripper.
- Comment on Ben Shapiro's sister 1 day ago:
“Yes, getting wet is a symptom of BV, it’s very normal the four times that we had sex that you felt like you were sticking your dick in sandpaper.”
Wonder if Abby has an easier time getting some WAP from his wife…
- Comment on Transitioning in STEM 1 day ago:
When I was a freshman before transition, I had a guy save my number and call me like 2 years after we had an intro engineering class (we spoke maybe once?) to ask me out on a date.
- Comment on Think they talked about this in the group chat? 2 days ago:
Haven’t confirmed anything, but saw this too.
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- Comment on I'm so vegan I could eat a burger and still be a vegan 4 days ago:
There’s an argument that it’s “vegan” to eat lionfish if one lives in say, Florida, because they’re an invasive species extremely disruptive to the environment. Killing them is a good thing and the fact that most things on US coasts won’t eat them is part of why we have the problem anyway.
Even if you go full negative utilitarian to the point where you are concerned with wild animal suffering, killing lionfish is good.
- Comment on I'm so vegan I could eat a burger and still be a vegan 4 days ago:
When I was vegan, a lot of people seemed personally offended by my choices. I know there are preachy vegans, but if you really want to be preached at, you’ll get it by being vegan at any kind of food gathering.
- Comment on Bobby won’t live long. 6 days ago:
Some others from the esoterica.
It’s really tragic how much conspiracy spaces have been overtaken by scary alt right ideologies. I think there was some purposeful targeting of seriously mentally ill and vulnerable people with some of those conspiracies.
I want a return to like Whitney Strieber’s Communion. I would shit myself with delight given the opportunity to attend a conference where people talk about the wars between the Dracos, and whether or not the Greys are on our side, but part of the Dracos plan is making us gay or something. There’s always been the antisemitism on the periphery, but David Icke started making that impossible to ignore.
Spirit Science guy I think still steers that line (Jews are space aliens, just good ones).
Roswell, New Mexico is amazing - the town eats that shit up, the museum is awesome, the McDonald’s is done up like a UFO.
I once went to a lecture on Bigfoot in a used bookstore in a small town, where a man described an encounter where he was terrified by a family of Bigfoot into staying in his RV to a captivated audience of 8 people, including myself, my ex husband (who was not eager in his attendance), the book store owner, and few elderly couples. It was great.
- Comment on Bobby won’t live long. 6 days ago:
I have taken some classes in religious studies, although I don’t know if I can say I formally “study” it. But it has been a lifelong “special interest.”
I just grabbed Hymnody from the thrift store so haven’t read it yet. But yeah, I read most of them.
As far as criteria, it’s complicated. I get a lot of books by thrifting - there’s usually a lot of bulk generic Protestant stuff, which I don’t usually pick up because one probably could fill an apartment with just shit associated with the Left Behind series or the Purpose Driven Life. (Or I Kissed Dating Goodbye in that above picture, that just got pruned into an art project because I could get another one for $1 pretty easily).
I’m usually seeking ideas that I haven’t encountered yet or things that are so ridiculous and kitsch that they amuse me. (Which goes for my book collection as a whole.)
Ie, the value in that SDA textbook Light Bearers to the Remnant is comparing what SDAs claim about Ellen White and the Kelloggs to mainstream history, and it would be fascinating to write an article on. Or I grabbed a copy of modern reprint book from the 1800s that argued that the wine in the New Testament wasn’t alcoholic, and watching someone contort themselves in knots claiming that Jesus turned water into grape juice is amusing.
The really kitsch stuff I enjoy stoned. I’ll watch videos warning Muslim women of the evils of painting their nails (you can’t clean your hands properly for prayer apparently, because water can’t get to the nail) or Bibleman or those classic Mormon cartoons.
As far as personal beliefs, I’m something like a Discordian ultimately. I don’t really “believe” in her, but I have rituals I do to worship Eris. (She wants me to get stoned, pretend to be Jackson Pollock and commune with her by typing random letters in the YouTube search bar - which is what I want to do anyway. She’s an awesome Goddess like that.)
- Comment on Bobby won’t live long. 1 week ago:
The most immediately accessible gems of the collection.
- Comment on Bobby won’t live long. 1 week ago:
Oh yeah, if you have old BoM before some of the fun changes. Watchtowers would be fun too, only have got read through PDFs.
(I have training manuals for Mormon missionaries, the textbook on Seventh Day Adventist history as used in Seventh Day Adventist colleges, and watch the Left Behind with Kirk Cameron at least once a year or so.)
- Comment on Bobby won’t live long. 1 week ago:
No!!! They are so much fun to collect! Keep them and send them to me!!!
- Comment on Bobby won’t live long. 1 week ago:
Yes, this is a Chick tract, which are real comics you are supposed to give to people to convince them to become (Jack Chick’s specific variety of) Christian.
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- Comment on Bobby won’t live long. 1 week ago:
Lisa. (Which I wonder if it inspired the video game Lisa at all - similar themes). It’s horrifically fucked up, but of note is that the doctor doesn’t report the dad for letting his friend fuck his daughter (giving her herpes), because the dad finds Jesus and promises never to do it again. (This is how it often happens to this day in parts of the Southern US - like they pulled it because of bad PR, not because they didn’t stand behind the message: it’s not “wow this was fucked up and we’re sorry to have ever thought this was a good idea” but just “we no longer stock Lisa”
It looks like the internet archive took down their copy, which is concerning. It’s been out of print for decades.
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- Comment on i can’t tell if this is edginess or mental illness? i hope she’s doing okay 1 week ago:
Can’t diagnose borderline in teenagers. Personality is not set, hormones are wild, personality disorders aren’t really appropriate models. Hearing voices could be borderline, early schizophrenia (not common in teens, but drug use might play into this), lies for attention… We don’t have enough to suggest that with more evidence.
It tends to be thrown around too freely (like how everyone has NPD now) and misdiagnosed in women too imho. I suspect it’s often actually PTSD (sexual trauma) or ASD.
I’m not a psych, but I’ll happily be called out by one.
- Comment on How long does it take for someone to reach a high level of drawing? 1 week ago:
I think the key is not to think of drawing as a like a skill you can cap out. It’s more that it’s an art form which if it’s really for you, you’ll spend time interrogating and exploring it and finding your own “level.”
Like, if it’s just because you want a medium for story telling because of the comic - if it’s a barrier - a lot of really good webcomics shine because they use other techniques. Or sometimes writers and artists work together.
Something that helped me go from stick figures to things recognizable as animals and my environment was a drawing course from the Smithsonian (online during Covid - I think they still have regular courses though). That kind of formal instruction helps you focus on what is is essential and gives you opportunities for specific feedback. Being encouraged to invest in things like charcoal, pencils, the right kind of paper - these things are necessary but then sometimes part of learning to enjoy a hobby is spending $5 on a pencil.
- Comment on What's with "*checks notes*" everywhere? 1 week ago:
We all got our verbal tics. Also an attempt to add some more complexity to our communication, since we’re missing things like facial expressions or body language or environmental cues.
- Comment on Cox charges you $25 if your credit card is declined 1 week ago:
I’m not even getting the 500 I’m paying for already!
- Comment on Cox charges you $25 if your credit card is declined 1 week ago:
Yep! I actually closed my account pretty much immediately afterwards, and went with a local credit union which has been consistently great! They gave me a really good rate when I needed a car loan, haves floated me if I was a little short before my direct deposit came in…
- Comment on Cox charges you $25 if your credit card is declined 1 week ago:
Wells Fargo made a lot of money on ‘Sort Order Optimization’
Say you have $100 in your bank account. You buy a candy bar for $2 from a vending machine, a coke for another $2, fill up $20 worth of gas, and then spend $100 on groceries. You’d think one overdraft charge, for the groceries, right?
Nope. The groceries will be taken out first, then the gas, then the candy bar and coke. Three overdraft charges.
It’s expensive being poor - and they knew that:
“Given our dependence on a small set of OD consumers (4% generate 40% of total OD/NSF revenue),” Zimmerman wrote, “a small change in behavior within this group can cause a large change in revenue.”
