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- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 1 day ago:
It wouldn’t be the first time we’ve bombed Americans in the US.
- Comment on PSA 2 days ago:
I’m probably an egg (by which I mean I’m pretty sure I’m trans and would love to take a pill right now to make it so that I had always been a dude, but I don’t know that I’d take one that turned me into a man now, because I don’t know if it’s worth it to explain it to everyone. I also don’t think I’m actually experiencing dysphoria, just aware that I’m probably a man. I think that counts as an egg for some people, trans and closeted for others, and probably cis [lol] for transmedicalists).
If I ever do come out, it’s probably going to seem sudden as fuck to a bunch of people, because I’ve already thought about it for years, so I’ll have everything planned out as efficiently as possible and ready to go the second I decide to transition. I’ll come out to people after I’ve started hormones and right before it becomes noticeable, which I’ll time to coincide with a top surgery (my mother died young of breast cancer that was diagnosed when she was within a few years of my age, and I’m medically eligible for a full mastectomy). That might be wishful thinking, but at least from here, I think I can be patient about it.
- Comment on Anon meets the headmaster 2 days ago:
Yes, this is the joke
- Comment on Anon meets the headmaster 2 days ago:
You gotta mean it and Dumbledore was clearly too calm for that
- Comment on Cronch 1 week ago:
Well…….not safely and legally, at least.
- Comment on in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention 1 week ago:
That’s what I thought until I started working at a German bakery. Now I’m converted (as someone who isn’t from here and grew up with fresh home baked sourdough every day). You should try more of it.
- Comment on in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention 1 week ago:
Yeah, but Italian bread and German bread…
Germans make pasta too, but I’m not talking about maultaschen here
- Comment on in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention 1 week ago:
I guess you’re not into bread, because Germans have incredible bread
- Comment on Have anyone here actually published a memoir or know of someone IRL (as in, you've met them face to face) that published a memoir? Do people actually read these? 1 week ago:
They began requiring it after and in response to that- that’s the James Frey scandal I mentioned.
- Comment on Have anyone here actually published a memoir or know of someone IRL (as in, you've met them face to face) that published a memoir? Do people actually read these? 1 week ago:
Required to be published as a memoir.
Corroboration from others, photographs, medical/police reports, receipts, travel documents, the normal ways.
No, you have to bring receipts.
Medical records, photographs of bruises/marks, checking with friends or teachers you might have told about the abuse at the time.
- Comment on Have anyone here actually published a memoir or know of someone IRL (as in, you've met them face to face) that published a memoir? Do people actually read these? 1 week ago:
My sister wrote one and had a publishing deal for one (as a prize for winning an essay contest), but she couldn’t prove everything. The memoir was about her dealing with some deaths and getting sober, so the unverifiable bits were most of the story. This was right after the James Frey scandal, so the publishing company bought her out instead of trying to pare it down or chase down a bunch of non-recovering addicts to confirm years old details.
- Comment on Indiana Judge and His Wife Are Shot at Their Suburban Home 1 week ago:
Totally unrelated, but this case was mentioned in the article:
In July, for example, he sentenced a father to 24 years in prison for leaving a gun unattended in his apartment; his 5-year-old son had found the gun and fatally shot his 1-year-old brother.
I understand the outrage, but I don’t think I understand the point in this punishment.
The father won’t do it again, and no other parents want to do it, so it’s not deterrence. Plus, I’d prefer 24 years in prison to the death of my child, even without going into the damage this will cause his other child, so he’s already faced worse consequences.
Now there’s a five year old who will grow up without his brother or his father, and will probably think it’s his fault. I really hope his mother’s around, but what a punishment for her as well (although I can definitely imagine her wanting a divorce a not necessarily wanting him to have unsupervised access to/shared custody of the child(ren). In that case it would definitely be an emotional reaction, but that’s how people operate in our personal lives most of the time- I expect an agent of the government to be more impartial).
The father was negligent, reckless, and should never have been allowed to be responsible for firearms, but his remaining family is harmed by his imprisonment.
Can anyone think of a tangible (non-punitive) benefit that arises from this?
- Comment on science rules! 2 weeks ago:
I would have taken it like that from anyone else, but it’s so OOC that I checked the spelling to see if it was a novelty account
- Comment on [10] Guy 2 weeks ago:
You joke, but my mom used to say she was 5’12”, because she was uncomfortable being in the six foot range.
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 2 weeks ago:
There was a time, in December of 2016, where I really thought that trump might come out as a democrat after taking office. I think I’d still prefer Gore had been inaugurated, if we’re changing the presidencies of this century, but trump coming out swinging for progressive causes (or at least socially progressive causes, because he’s been too rich for any actually leftist fiscal policies) would have been nice
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 3 weeks ago:
I never took it in school, and I don’t have much contact with it now either. I’m picking up some Arabic now though.
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 3 weeks ago:
I took Spanish from age 12-22 and German from 18-23 and 29-31.
I speak both those languages, though my Spanish is rusty, because I moved to Germany and don’t have much contact with Spanish speakers.
- Comment on Greedy bastards 3 weeks ago:
You could always sabotage it
- Comment on Anon thinks about wheat 3 weeks ago:
Corn is the fanciest grass
- Comment on shoutout to finland 3 weeks ago:
I know several, but they were mostly born in Germany or immigrated young.
- Comment on Cube me 4 weeks ago:
That’s not exactly how I would have imagined a kibblesmith smiths kibble, but as long as the pets get the cubes afterwards, I’m happy
- Comment on Cube me 4 weeks ago:
“Grate” joke? Or did I get double whooshed?
- Comment on The Wagon 4 weeks ago:
Maybe she doesn’t know if she’s joking or not either. Only one way to find out!
- Comment on Noses run, feet smell 4 weeks ago:
Because you’re upside down
- Comment on ungulate deez 4 weeks ago:
Because zero is an even number or because they have an even nonzero number of carpals?
Looking it up, the latter (or I guess both)
- Comment on History of Biodynamics 5 weeks ago:
During the years when Steiner was best known as a literary critic, he published a series of articles attacking various manifestations of antisemitism and criticizing some of the most prominent anti-Semites of the time as “barbaric” and “enemies of culture”.[329][330] In contrast, however, Steiner also promoted full assimilation of the Jewish people into the nations in which they lived, suggesting that Jewish cultural and social life had lost its contemporary relevance[331] and “that Judaism still exists is an error of history”.
This bit feels very reminiscent of the “kill the Indian to save the man” type of racism that led to residential schools. Sure, he may not have thought there was an immutable negative quality associated with race, but he seems to have been a cultural supremacist.
Given that we now know that race isn’t real, I struggle to see the actual difference.
- Comment on Why aren't tall people also wider? 5 weeks ago:
My sister and I are both tall and skinny, but also broader than shorter women. Like, my sisters ribs are all visible from every side and she wears a size 6 pants. I know short women who aren’t nearly as skinny for whom size six pants are too big.
- Comment on Delicious rocks 5 weeks ago:
If you’re an adult in no danger of pregnancy and not breastfeeding, licking the solder wire once won’t hurt you noticeably.
But if you’re worried that you’ll like the taste and might seek it out again, that’s a possibility.
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 1 month ago:
Do they still feel slimy if they’re finely diced? I love the taste but hate the texture of mushrooms, and mincing them to incorporate into a dish is the best of both worlds for me.
- Comment on It's the truth! 1 month ago:
You mean like how chamomile isn’t tea? Because I probably call chamomile broth “tea” 100% of the time. Tea for me is anything steeped in muslin in boiling or near boiling water that you might sweeten