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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many people regardless of whether their reasonings are justified or not pinpoint South Park for ruining a generation of millenials?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You are just fucking wrong. You can make a South Park trans episode where you make fun of trans people without disparaging the fact they are the gender they identify as. These episodes do not promote a “both sides” approach to transness. They state, fairly unequivocally, that trans people do not exist. There is no other side to that narrative. The trans dolphin episode (and several Ms. Garrison episodes) makes it pretty clear they think that surgical reassignment is grotesque. The trans athlete episode is wrong on multiple different levels.

  The trans athlete episode could even fucking exist with that same plotline if they showed that that rhetoric was harmful to both women and trans people and, you know, not a real thing that has ever happened. They could even try to play up that they’re trying to be too inclusive or some shit. But because they do not show a real trans athlete in that episode, there is no other side. It is purely a dunk on transwomen in women’s sports which is transphobic.

  Again, there are episodes where they do their research. But most of the time, they don’t, including this. This just happens to be a topic I fully fucking understand.

  Like, holy shit, this is easy shit to make fun of. Trans people are so easy to throw jokes at that don’t question their gender identity. Fucking just talk to a trans person. You can do the same level of jokes aimed at black people that they do to Token! They are racist jokes, but they don’t treat Token like black people are disgusting or awful or other disparaging stereotypes, even if he does fall into several stereotypes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many people regardless of whether their reasonings are justified or not pinpoint South Park for ruining a generation of millenials?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They have had multiple episodes on trans people that have basically insinuated that they are not meant to be treated seriously.

  Ms. Garrison being treated as disgusting not for their horrible attitude, but for their transitioning, attempting to bodyhorror with the dolphin transitioning of Kyle’s father, and, just, the entire trans athlete episode. Also, Cartman’s mom could fall into this category if you don’t treat that as more of a one-off joke.

  Essentially, they do occasionally do a lot of research on certain select topics like Tourette’s, but then they pull this shit out and you basically can see they unapologetically do not care.

  Basically, they, at best, do not give a shit about trans people, and at worst, actively hate them. The trans athlete episode is, to me, especially egregious because you could ACTUALLY DO a trans athlete episode real fucking easily that gets the basic facts right and still even put their normal libertarian spin on it, and it would have been enjoyable to everyone without implying that trans people are faking it to win sports (and exclusively women’s sports at that, a thing they have previously implied in prior episodes no one gives a shit about anyway.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Context is for people that read US news⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem with your logic is that you are saying knowingly gets a Nazi tattoo, but you’re against anyone having a Nazi tattoo, knowingly or not. So, let me take a slight detour before I get to the point.

  The problem I have with an absolutist statement like that is that there are plenty of reasons someone might have a Nazi tattoo, even knowingly, that wouldn’t make me immediately not support them. Now, given that statement, the circumstances are probably gonna be pretty stringent, but I don’t think it’s necessarily unforgivable or even disqualifying… BUT I think it mostly is, especially because you’re right that you can probably find someone that is just as good as whoever I could find that fits the bill, but does not and has not ever had a Nazi tattoo. So, like… I guess the point is simple.

  You’re right. And I am wrong.

  I think it’s worth noting that many of the people who supported him did not do so out of idiocy. They were taken advantage of, their willingness to forgive exploited. They knew all of these things and were wary of them, but chose to ignore them because they were lied to about the kind of person he was. They trusted him. And they were scammed.

  It is easy to say in hindsight that this was easy to see. I was willing to forgive the tattoo at first and the military service at first (though, not the mercenary work, nor the reddit comments, and definitely not the fucking rape) because, well, in some ways I am kinda gullible, and in other ways, I kinda give a lot of leeway to certain privileged people (mostly rich white men) who make mistakes that ruin lives because they never considered the consequences of their actions because society allows them to do so with little to no repercussions, and that subconsciously affects my opinions.

  For the record, I wasn’t a Platner supporter before this, but I understand how many of them got there. He said a lot of things that people desperately wanted to hear, and that is how people get scammed. They aren’t dumb, even if they did act like morons. They’re desperate. They’re hopeful for anything that can make their lives better. They’re even gullible to believe a man with a Nazi tattoo who was a Blackwater mercenary that assaulted many women was a good candidate, and responsible for perpetuated a culture that allows these horrible decisions to continue not being as bad as they should rightfully be. But, even though I understand why you think so, I still don’t think they’re stupid. And maybe that’s another thing on me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Right. But it never stops at free data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It probably starts free. You create a market and then start selling it as rental equipment, or you market to cities. They are making money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨try out my AI agent bro, it'll change your life bro, I swear...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The people that push AI are the mine owners.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Number 1 🏥⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lmao, EMTs make like $20 an hour, it’s straight fucked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon introduces himself⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, kids at your school were fucking stupid. That kid had shittons of rabbits that needed petting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do I have to choose though⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you mean Focus Band Endeavour Attack Rattata.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If no one cares, why didn’t they disclose they used AI?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gotta poop⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  NSFW. This links to the meme page with a citation to the original comic, but this page contains a description. The meme page is SFW, but the citation is NOT.

  knowyourmeme.com/memes/im-hungry-i-gotta-poop#fn1

  Don’t look at it, it’s exactly what you think it is, but y’all wanna not listen, then go ahead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did somebody get theiw feewings huwt?

  Fuck Nazis, I hope they all get the Nazi punched out of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parenting advice⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Clearly, you don’t have the maternal instincts either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paul Krugman. Former Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean… I doubt the veracity of these claims.

  Like, you could pay with cash and get the same level of benefit. While the serial numbers are tracked, movement of money is pretty random once it hits a customer’s hands, and that level of randomness might as well make anonymous.

  Additionally, good luck getting crypto through anything that isn’t centralized, which removes the supposed benefit of the technology. If you want to get crypto anonymously, you’ll have to buy it from people instead of exchanges.

  Plus, crypto comes with the inherent downside of premiums to exchange currency. You might as well just tax yourself 5% extra, but that’s probably generous considering how awfully volatile crypto can be.

  And the fact that this uses fucking VISA should be a huge red flag for privacy, lmao. Congrats on not amalgamating your customer profile by purchasing our VISA^TM^ brand prepaid credit cards. They still made money off you.

  Overall, you’d be better off asking someone a city over to buy what you want off the internet and paying them cash.

  Crypto is, at best, a stupid hobby that got out of control, and, at worst, a huge scam people are desperate to find a legitimate use for and still can’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Right. And that problem compounds itself, as well. The more AI generated information that exists and inevitably is fed back into the algorithm, the worse the outcomes will get because algorithms will essentially inbreed themselves off the data they generate.

  But these companies are desperate to hook other companies on AI. If they can generate income off of AI by renting other companies AI workers, they’ve made you a perpetual customer. The boss is asking workers to use these AI to feed more specific data into the algorithm to better mimic the workers because the more workers that use these, the more “good” data they can feed into them, to ultimately replicate your job functions.

  It’s just… Bad from pretty much every angle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well defended. Truly, brevity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What a dumb take.

  People don’t use AI for a lot of reasons, but it’s not because their company said they couldn’t. Every programmer I know is being asked to use AI, and most of them find AI to be significantly shitty to use on top of how horrible it is to use it from an environmental, occupational, moral, and psychological view.

  Like, skip past the parts where AI has killed people. Skip past the insane water usage. Skip past the emissions. Skip past the cognitive reduction in reasoning.

  This thing was trained on whatever data they could get a hold of: the internet, discredited information, and biased data notwithstanding. When you’re lucky, it is basically a coin flip on whether it works or not. So, if you have no foundation about the question you ask it, you have no clue if that is a hallucination or a bad data point or a correct answer. And if you do, you have to double check the answer anyway.

  AI, as it is now, is a glorified search engine doubling as a sycophant. The main purpose of the businesses that own and run AI is to keep you using it, forever. Whether it is good or bad at anything else is unintentional.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gallium⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no technicality about it. The people that get married are the ones who determine the exclusivity of the marriage.

  Like, it’s even dumber than that because if you didn’t have marriage, you’d still have people in exclusive relationships, so wtf are you complaining about?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Outer Worlds 2 - Official Story Trailer | Xbox Games Showcase 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I always get extra disappointed by the Outer Worlds, because I always confuse it with the Outer Wilds and would rather play that game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pope Joan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  An intersex person is typically assigned a gender at birth, but so is everyone else. Being intersex just means you aren’t biologically male or female (though I think this might also include people who have sex chromosomes that develop as though they were the other binary sex, but I’m not an expert). Most intersex people don’t typically know they are intersex, and thus they would count as cisgender so long as they identify as the gender they were assigned at birth and transgender if they do not. Thus, if someone had, say XY chromosomes, but was assigned female at birth, they would probably be cis if they identified as female.

  However, trans can be a bit of a self-identifying label, and thus someone in that situation might just as well consider themselves trans. There’s a lot of different definitions for trans. Many non-binary people would consider themselves trans since they don’t identify as their assigned gender at birth.

  Long story short, gender is complicated. Sex doesn’t change (put a couple asterisks here), but gender is super flexible (also asterisks here.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨High-risk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Should’ve cut to an insurance agent denying coverage based on the actuarial table.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨frenly warnin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It sucks way worse for all those people born in 1488.

  Because they’re dead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨flouride⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s too much like the real anti-fluoride arguments, man. I can’t recognize it, man.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨flouride⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is, and I don’t say this lightly, one of the dumbest conclusions I’ve ever seen someone jump to.

  Might as well say that fluoride in the water caused software developers, lmao.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She-Ra Lives!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll bet she could carry more meat than you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blessica Blimpson⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  By that logic, forcing any name on a child is selfish, so they should pick their own name, since they are the ones that would have it. Although, in that case, temporary names would probably be a thing, so I don’t really see the issue (or you could use other cultural naming conventions like that, but that is one that exists.)

  Unless your argument is nonconformity is selfish? I personally think some people will find a reason to make fun of another person, but nominative determination does have its appeal if you don’t believe that.

  All names were unique at some point, but that’s a moot point. Eventually they will either become more popular or less popular.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blessica Blimpson⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  How is it a stupid name? Are rarer names stupid? It’s just a name, if a very uncommon one, and it’s not even particularly hard to spell or pronounce, nor is it without thought. Combination names can sometimes produce odd results, so this one feels fairly mild.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blessica Blimpson⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you arguing that variants of names meaning blessing shouldn’t exist, or are you just against a new name? Because every name was new at one point, and lots of new names are variants of older ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blessica Blimpson⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, the kid could have worse, and it seems pretty fitting for the name’s origins.

  If you think of children as blessings, and want to change an existing name a little – in this case, Jessica – it makes sense. The first recorded instance of Jessica is from Shakespeare, who could’ve changed the biblical Iesca (Jeska) to Jessica by mixing Jesse into it (or making Jesse into a woman’s name… or other potential origins like the word jess being turned into a name.) And you consider Bless to be a name (though rather unpopular), so it wouldn’t even be particularly odd for the name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon finally touches grass⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That doesn’t answer the question.