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- Comment on Beer is for GIRLS 3 days ago:
You can keep your bread-flavored soda. My water is flavored with ROCKS (minerals added for taste).
- Comment on I’m not saying that I agree with right- or center-wing views, and I do condemn transphobia. However, do you think there should be a distinction between critiquing beliefs held by transgender people, and engaging in transphobia? 3 days ago:
That would be great, but it still doesn’t address dysphoria, which is actually about sex, not gender, despite the name. We use “gender” to refer both to the societal roles that you (and I) want to abolish and to the sex characteristics that a person wants their body to have.
- Comment on Facts to share at dinner #1: Shagreen 4 days ago:
The guy whose source was “I once sanded an entire dining set with a shark” was really cooking there.
- Comment on The Wall People 5 days ago:
He’s been pretty quiet lately, though. I wonder what he’s up to? It isn’t like I gave his finger back or anything.
- Comment on History of Biodynamics 1 week ago:
I get that it’s woo (e.g. burying quartz crystals stuffed inside a cow horn), but I don’t see any racism. Care to elaborate?
- Comment on How often do you change your towels? 1 week ago:
Gotta rotate between two in case you want to swap them and not do laundry just yet.
- Comment on How do you "feel" gender? 2 weeks ago:
One more instance where our language around sex and gender really muddies things.
- Comment on How do you "feel" gender? 2 weeks ago:
I simply accepted my AGAB
you are cisgender.
Huh? Plenty of trans people accept their AGAB for some amount of time before realizing that it isn’t correct.
i want to ask if you are certain of this, because simply not possessing any feelings positive or negative about your gender doesn’t mean you’d be fine if you woke up as the opposite or something in-between… you would also be forced to see your body and yourself differently because others would treat you as the new gender you are now presenting as. still don’t care?
In my case, still no. I mean, it would be inconvenient to explain to everyone I know why I suddenly look completely different, but beyond that, I don’t think I’d care. Obviously, I can’t know for certain unless it happens, and any experiment that attempted to find out would be absurdly unethical, but I’m as certain as I reasonably can be.
- Comment on Solidarity 2 weeks ago:
Does the RoK not have selective enforcement laws? In the US, I think the 39 colleagues’ testimony would get him off without anything else.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I remember when that was all anyone did with Facebook.
- Comment on Is there an actual picture of Mohamed or painting that we can view? Without pissing off all of Islam? 5 weeks ago:
There are no surviving depictions of Muhammad made during his lifetime. Although there are surviving descriptions of Muhammad’s appearance, these are not detailed enough to create a perfectly accurate image of him. Because of this, no image of Muhammad can be perfectly accurate, meaning that any image that purports to represent him is, in some way or another, deceptive.
That’s quite a contrast with White Jesus.
- Comment on No one else in the world matters but me 5 weeks ago:
That’s a much more rational mentality. Driving is absurdly dangerous. If you’re killed by a human, it’s overwhelmingly likely that it will be because they hit you with a car.
- Comment on Unethical Life Protip 5 weeks ago:
As long as it’s right next to the real posters, I can’t imagine that it would actually hamper the pet’s return.
- Comment on No one else in the world matters but me 5 weeks ago:
I think the people with this mentality are probably the same people who refuse to ride buses under any circumstances.
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 1 month ago:
If you don’t make a moral distinction between humans and other animals, it seems difficult to justify scavenging with any logic that couldn’t also be used to justify grave robbing or even necrophilia.
- Comment on challenge 1 month ago:
Wood glue won’t hurt (though you do have to wait for it to dry), but friction alone is often enough to do a decent job.
- Comment on challenge 1 month ago:
Otherwise known as a drywall anchor or wall plug. My parents also call them mollies, but those are different (though also often used for screwing things into drywall).
- Comment on Anon has a bully 1 month ago:
Yeah, alcohol burns very quickly and not really that hot (as far as fire is concerned). While it definitely can burn you, it actually won’t necessarily do so.
- Comment on The moment we've all been waiting for: you now can have targeted ads on your 2k smartfridge 1 month ago:
I’d be worried about either compromising the insulation or having to charge my fridge camera. Remember, this is me going to great lengths to be lazy.
- Comment on The moment we've all been waiting for: you now can have targeted ads on your 2k smartfridge 1 month ago:
I’m all in favor of smart appliances… as long as they don’t connect to the Internet. Give me a local HomeAssistant integration. That way, I can check what’s in my refrigerator from my bed without worrying about it showing me ads.
- Comment on Do you have a flagship phone or a car that's 2021/newer but are struggling financially? 1 month ago:
They just added ads :(
- Comment on Do you have a flagship phone or a car that's 2021/newer but are struggling financially? 1 month ago:
For now. I’m just hoping that the Pixel lasts until Fairphone brings back the headphone jack and the car lasts until I can move somewhere where I don’t need one.
- Comment on Do you have a flagship phone or a car that's 2021/newer but are struggling financially? 1 month ago:
As of a couple of months ago, sort of. I have a Google Pixel 8 and only recently got a reasonably well-compensated job. I got the phone in 2023, shortly before I was laid off, and it was on a fire sale in anticipation of the Pixel 9 released, so I’m only paying $4/month for it, $100 total plus the $70 up front.
My car is a 2007 model year that I could only afford because it was in an accident previously, though.
- Comment on 2³² will get interesting... 1 month ago:
Not quite. Round 33 will have 2^32 people, or a bit over half the population of Earth. Remember, round 1 has one person, 2^(0), not 2^(1).
- Comment on 2³² will get interesting... 1 month ago:
But once you get to round 33, everyone on earth is tied to the track, so there’s no one to pull the lever. That means that the trolley safely passes by, giving everyone ample time to free themselves. Eventually, the trolley stops due to friction with the track and air, plus brakes if it’s using them, and then we all stop getting tied to tracks.
- Comment on Are you friends with any AI bots? 1 month ago:
Not a modern program, but I don’t see anything that makes me think that programs will never be capable of metacognition. LLMs won’t, but they aren’t the be-all end-all.
- Comment on We always hear/read about Goverments cencoring the internet. What is something that the US is not knowing is being censored? 2 months ago:
You know what? I’m kind of OK with bringing anti-Catholic conspiracy theories back for a bit. Takes some heat off the Jews and Muslims, and the tradcath movement produced such wonderful people as Brett Kavanaugh. Plus, they never really answered for the whole systemic child molestation thing.
- Comment on sushi delivery 2 months ago:
If Japan is going to catch strays, invading people is a pretty good reason.
- Comment on The wonder of the sea 2 months ago:
But hey, at least it gives you a new hat.
- Comment on Would one run faster without arms? 2 months ago:
You do have more momentum to counteract the drag, though. I wonder if the decreased mass would be offset by the decreased surface area.