captainlezbian

@captainlezbian@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it feel like most art museums are for adults and most science museums are for kids?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Gravity was Newton’s creative whim, but Einstein looked at it and did a wild remix that more or less replaced it in the minds of scientists from then on

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it feel like most art museums are for adults and most science museums are for kids?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Meanwhile in history museums everyone regardless of age can join together in agreement that ancient Egypt was cool as fuck

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gurll⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I would prefer my partner be taller than me bit I’m a lesbian and taller than most men. So yeah I tower over my partners historically, especially when I wear heels

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cultural impact⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I think movies could really be used to great effect in sci fi and fantasy where setting is a major character, but it’s rarely done. I understand why, it’s a more artsy thing to do, but one that demands large budgets. However I do think it’s something Avatar should have leaned more into and it’s something I really liked in the Dune movies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's actually that simple.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I’ve been sexually violated in ways like posts like this are usually about (coerced and pressured past my "no"s into situations I didn’t want) and while I respect the effort, I feel like they’re often in a weird position of overzealous and only really applicable in hookup type situations, they also often ignore more manipulative styles of pressuring a yes.

  Hesitation is fine, but it may be good practice to double check if the following yes isn’t enthusiastic. The yes is often less important than the enthusiasm in early stages. I’ve had wonderful nights of tongue wrestling where we never asked, we flirted until it was clearly mutual, and in one case we were hesitating at first because we were both not super comfortable with the age gap (we talked about it after). And we were both drunk, because there’s a difference between consensual actions while in an altered state and taking advantage of a drunk person, and that difference largely comes down to enthusiasm and being in a similar state. If I’m one beer in and generally feeling fine I ought to turn down a shitfaced woman who’s hitting on me hard, but if I’m right there with her that’s fine.

  And in long term relationship6s I think the need for enthusiasm reduces. Sometimes you put out when you aren’t really in tar5he mood because you love your partner and value the intimacy. That’s not being sexually violated unless you were pressured or coerced.

  Consent is a discussion that requires genuine nuance, and checklists will always come off as far more clunky than most people’s lived experiences with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What the fuck‽ Until '78‽

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time for a bit of medical education⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Trans people want to steal your dewormer!!! They want all the appley goodness to themselves!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time for a bit of medical education⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And I can’t get surgery without having to stop them from prescribing me something I already told them I’m allergic to

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time for a bit of medical education⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Stop when you feel better

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time for a bit of medical education⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless you’re allergic, in which case remind them.

  I’ve been prescribed meds I’m allergic to way too often.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My university had extremely biased teachings. Never once did they present me with alternative physics. And in the humanities they made me stay on topic and provide well reasoned evidence for whatever position I took.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Break the conditioning, maximize your horsepower.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A glass of water and some fries

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Break the conditioning, maximize your horsepower.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait is cobalt a nutrient?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Break the conditioning, maximize your horsepower.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like the bone weakness comes from the calcium being pulled from the bones into the bloodstream. I would suspect that ODing on Ca wouldn’t cause that symptom

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lotta you lot in here 👀⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s an old timey word, not brain rot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just an idea⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but Phonecians and Egyptians were in a shared trade sphere with Canaan. Phonecians were some of the primary traders of the Mediterranean and their city of Tyre is now in Lebanon. Ramesses II like many Pharoahs went on campaign in Canaan.

  Canaan was a borderland between the spheres of influence of Mesopotamia and Egypt. It was a nice spot on the Mediterranean that never got powerful enough to challenge either for more than independence or mild incursion, and was far enough from each that it was hard to hold and different enough to contain exotic goods.

  Abraham being from Ur makes sense. There’s a lot of Mesopotamian influence in Judaism. Sure it’s far, but the Hebrews saw themselves as people who left civilization after it became too corrupt to go be shepherds in the desert. All of that maps to things we know happened in various Mesopotamian cities at various times (and is common in all ancient cities). From there we have schismogenetic counterpoints with Mesopotamia, especially in the form of sexual mores (they aren’t calling Babylon a whore because they think it’s cool that Mesopotamians had sacred prostitution).

  The bit I’m far more doubtful of is the long term enslavement in Egypt. Especially the stories of Joseph and Moses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man hit by van in Birmingham after residents take down union flags put up by anti-migrant group⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Put up weird unrecognized micronation flags like sealand and the conch republic.

  Or the earthican flag

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sick of this shit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that’s why I work out after work

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When traffic comes to a standstill, drivers instantly shift left and right to create a Rettungsgasse, an emergency corridor right down the middle, so ambulances⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Here in America you’d get people peeling through the middle

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iHave a Lovesick Teacher⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Comparatively though…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That kid was the WORST⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think 14 year old me would be most disappointed that I’m no longer catholic. She’d probably be a mix of angry and excited that I’m trans. Shocked and confused when I explain to her that her parents’ marriage is really really bad and she’s going to need therapy for the way her dad treats her. Then she’s going to be kinda pissed when I tell her that her dad is right about her needing to do better in school, it’s just that he shouldn’t be yelling at her until she self harms about it. She’ll be proud I’m still friends with her friends and that I got out of Ohio to somewhere cool.

  Oh then she’s going to be incredibly disappointed I married someone with tattoos, especially since I’ll call her a classist little shit about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That kid was the WORST⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah a lot of bi people feel that way. I lose all horniness when I smell “man smell”. And I can say it’s absolutely about that because the incident was with someone who had just stopped testosterone and after a few weeks we were sleeping together a few times a week for months.

  Personality is nice for me, but it’s body shape and feel and smell that do it for me, and it all points to women for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon carpools⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is asking for money for coffee in your home not considered assholish prima fascia in the Netherlands?

  Here in the US within the bounds of the home food and drink that is offered is expected to be a gift, and if you charge for anything it’s admission to a party or you pass a hat around for people to pay what they can. Typically though it’s either basic hospitality for small things or you should give in kind (bring a dish or some alcohol to share) for parties.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iHave a Lovesick Teacher⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah it’s public opinion. People don’t want to change. The costs are annoying, but we can budget for them. We tried to metricate at the same time as Canada. They had less money per person than us but succeeded because they didnt flip back and forth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, the “acid and meditation will fix all my problems” instead of “acid and meditation will sit me down and force me to confront some of my problems”. Such a simple mistake but so many make it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Full agreement. I think another reason the debate bro caught on was that it makes for better content, even before the modern content economy.

  Back in the day when the archetypal internet debates were atheists and science educators vs creationists, you could see it just as effectively. Nobody wanted to watch someone on their side go in with an open mind, open to being convinced and for both sides to come to a position entirely based on the evidence. Hell, I still don’t like that because one side has reproducible evidence and the other failed to indoctrinate me as a teenager.

  A lot of modern bad faith debate tactics come back to creationists, with the infamous Gish gallop named after a creationist. And from there the opposition had to learn to play the game. Debate, not as a neutral shared pursuit of truth, the clash of thesis, antithesis, and evidence to distill an agreeable and defensible synthesis, but rather as a verbal gladiatorial contest.

  The pro evolution side split with the death of new atheism, they’re on all sides now. A lot of the more committed debaters went right for varied reasons, and we wound up in a position where we needed stuff like the alt right playbook to teach how to argue against the dishonest.

  And on the other side of the equation you have the internet rationalist movement, who are infamously bad at the “this sounds like bullshit” test among other flaws. They strive to accept any debate with an open mind, and find themselves a good example of why you need to keep some biases that while you’re open to changing, you’re gonna need strong evidence for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iHave a Lovesick Teacher⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah tbh I think that’s a good next step for metrication. Currently it’s all in US customary until college with a brief lesson on metric every few years. With some high school teachers doing a bit more in metric. If you swap it these people will just instinctively use and understand metric.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lesbian sheep⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep! It’s very similar because I didn’t really understand the difference between my anxiety and executive dysfunction when I was a teenager figuring out how to cope with them both.

  Good luck!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Woman of my dreams⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh well then, please feel free to take some stuff before burning it as compensation for your troubles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DNAddy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Chimerism is weird and it can do really weird shit to your body