I get told all the time by my family to quiet down so yeah I think it's an autism thing

I assume (safe) microscopic animals not filtered for would be perfectly vegan anyway considering you couldn't just not drink water or not breath air.

The way I view it is that many of those traditional excuses used would be acceptable excuses normally, if not for the very clear and often very poorly hidden real reasons behind them being based in transphobic beliefs.

A person who claims to care about having kids is a reasonable excuse, but then they will go and hook up with people and use condoms and other forms of protection outside of that. Clearly then this excuse isn't actually truthful.

If they actually showed honesty and practiced their claims, there should be no issue had with them then.

Edit: Also another point, I think that's a pretty major difference in mindset between "I haven't been attracted to X yet" and the "I will never be" mindset. This also happens with race discussions. While the first can still have issues with bigotry, it certainly at least is not as heavily based into it as the second one is. Anyone who can claim that they never will be is a person who is not open to it primarily for reasons outside of actual attraction, else they will be willing to concede the possibility that if they did find someone attractive it would be okay.

An underrated problem of capitalism is quality decline for sure. Find a good product be it a tool or food or anything, wait 3-4 years for it to get popular, and then watch everything good about it crumble into cheap low quality BS riding solely off that initial wave of popularity.

While I do 100% believe at least for myself that many parts of dysphoria (including even social) would be the same no matter what, I do agree that the argument in general is rather flawed. At the end of the day it shouldn't matter why, a free world is one where people can express themselves and the reason doesn't matter.

It's the same way I feel with that whole "gay gene" discussion in the early 2000's, it just wouldn't matter anyway. Nobody needs to explain why they're gay/bi/pan/ace/trans/nb/whatever.

Note: this just goes to your signed in reddit account, the joke is that if you have a reddit account you're a lib

I think this is part of where the whole "you get more conservative as you grow older" idea comes from the older assholes. They had some level of leftistish ideas as youth around "free love" and "let's do drugs" and "end war" but then later adapted themselves into the libertarian small business tyrants and other shitheads that they are today. Because the hippie movement was more about rebellion and personal satisfaction than communal benefits.

What especially gets me about the capitalist system is that they are so unable to prevent capitalist evil, that even in the world where they try to make shit up they still can't stop their own capitalists from betraying them.

Remember that thing about tragedy versus statistic? Certainly some of the deaths that occurred like the man who was denied care for heart problems shouldn't have happened, but the idea that isn't any way close to the amount of deaths that covid would cause is absolutely fucking insane.

Best tweet of 2021 change my mind

The trick to eggs (at least chicken eggs) is to shock them with cold water right after they're done cooking. Have a bowl of ice water ready and transfer them right after you drain the hot water out and let them sit.

Supposedly it makes the membrane less sticky to the shell or something, idk what but it works.

Use a spoon and gently put them in the boiling water

Undertale (highly recommend this one very creative game overall), Nier/Nier Automata, Bioshock, Portal, Final Fantasy X, Shadow of the Colossus, All the MGS games, Tales of Symphonia and tales of vesperia, Nine Hours Nine Persons Nine Doors, Xenoblade Chronicles 1 and 2, Prey 2017

Remember when the US had a strategic grain stockpile

Pretty sure they still do.

Because people still have a right to privacy??? Even if you make a state with literally not a single bad actor whatsoever no matter how small of a position (lol good luck) other people being noisy assholes isn't going to go away, protecting your accounts for basic privacy seems like a good thing on its own.

I've always wondered how much bias there is towards bad passwords because many of the sites that are leaked can often also be sites that nobody really cares too much about their security for too much anyway. I certainly know there's a few things I signed up for that the password is simplistic on because I don't give a single fuck about the account. A one/two time thing that won't have any personal information on it gets the quickest thing I can type.

I thought most of the civilians were unaware of the alien attacking in XCOM? Like all of that was covered up by the world governments or something.

More and more I become convinced that the human brain just isn't set up to handle the internet properly. There is just no room within many people to stop giving a shit about the masses or individualizing everything.

People talk about mobbing as its called but what do you expect of the average person? Should we never voice criticism lest it be taken in an upsetting manner simply because someone else with no connection to us is being rude?

It's not like these are connected groups or something, I have just as much control over @TrollThreatSender1999 as anyone else does, which is nothing. It's on the platforms to handle.

You kind of see this in almost everything in online discussions in a sense. I've seen no shortage of "You people believe in X" in political arguments for example, often with little actual attempt to confirm that the person they're speaking with does actually believe that. But so many people just lump them all together anyway because it makes things easier to process and handle.

And no offense but when you really look at these sorts of things the amount of active and direct harassment tends to be relatively minimal (at least compared to the number of people engaged in online discourse). It just feels overwhelming because you see so much criticism pouring in alongside the harassment that is actually happening and it melts our brain and we compartmentalize it all together as being harmful.

This actually happens a lot in China, Xi Jinping himself lead like five or six (somewhere around there, not like Im commiting this to memory) provinces before he was allowed to start working more in the higher ups of the party.

I agree that there might be some room for concern about representation not existing at that very top level but in theory at least local representatives would be working with these more experienced heads directly and help guide them into individualized policies.

This seems really cool but it's gonna be Gacha Game isn't it? Disappointed if it is.