No, their reply made perfect sense. We could just use repub official emails for EVERYBODY, not just immigrants, in order to mess up the system scraping this information for everybody and not just immigrants.

Yeah but you’d be automatically excluded from jury duty if you admitted that. It’s like nullification.

/tg/ ! I remember before and after they made the quests board, the one that’s basically the same as our new ‘everypostisanrpg’ comm. And the Esh-Esh raffles, she was cool. Still operating her plushies and leatherwork Etsy as far as I know.

I mean it sounds more like a discussion I’ve seen before: being trans does not automatically equate to suffering. Dysphoria is not a requirement. You can be trans because you seek gender euphoria, or you can see unique positives or at least perspectives in the process of transition, and even when medical care is readily available a lot of trans people don’t ever want to physically transition. Saying no one would undergo surgery is probably an exaggeration or naive take on other people’s circumstances, but it’s true that in a lot of cases, social transition being readily accepted has been enough, and I’m pretty sure I remember that the majority of trans people stop at HRT in the long term even when surgery is an option. At the end of the day, we can’t know if she’s wrong or not yet because we can’t just will that hypothetical society into being, unfortunately.

Also most people in communities like autism and lgbtq+ would tell you that it’s way too dangerous to start genetic testing for this stuff in our current global climate, and that the perceived possibility of good may never be worth that risk, or be such a huge help in the first place. At the end of the day, the genetic component (if it even exists and doesn’t end in more truscum nonsense like the artist suggesting people could be called fake trans for not having the marker) really hasn’t been seen as that helpful in any group studied like this I’ve seen so far, and it IS a blatantly helpful line of research for eugenics, so really that panel doesn’t read as ‘extreme’ at all aside from the frontloaded buzzwords. Genetic testing and cure research is INCREDIBLY unpopular for a LOT of neurodivergency, and obviously for the LGBTQ too.

And besides, when you look into how long ago transness has existed, and all the ways it worked out when it wasn’t pathologized, there can be some merit to not trying to pick apart and justify every part of the trans and genderqueer life. Justifying just leads to more truscum (people who say you’re not really trans unless you get your genitals changed) moving the goalposts on who’s really trans, which is probably what she was defensive about on the genetics point.

Dunno about desktop but for instance on boost it’s the third button above my keyboard

I’d definitely at least suggest chugging water and getting crunchy water like apples and cucumbers in you. Also if you drink caffeine less than two hours after you wake up, your body hasn’t flushed out the sleep receptors from last night yet and you’ve gotten them shored up to hit you again later in the afternoon. Caffeine literally has zero energy in it. Speaking as someone who still drinks it but is trying to be VERY careful with the timing (never later than 6hrs before bed time, that’s the half life of Caffeine), it doesn’t give you energy. It just shuts off sleepiness temporarily, but if you were already sleepy when you drank it you’re gonna be sleepy again later. Maybe supplement with those Caffeine-free energy drinks like the gamersupps options for the placebo effect?

(As for the beer, is a little weed an option in your area or is that just trading bad for bad? I had a can of thc plus the other thing drink once and holy damn that was the best sleep I EVER had. Finally shut the brain up.)

It’s also an option with some of the Canadian companies so I have to make sure the two year term is to-own whenever I get a new phone.

You’re going to want to run a LOT of math before you finish ordering the gas lol. I’m thinking a bird would be optimal for the hollow bones, but it also wouldn’t be confusing, just ominous. Mouse?

fun bonus points for “Anatomy of Trudeau’s fall” on top-left lol

Because brains literally need exercise, and conversations with other real humans are the best kind it can get, so you’re literally speedrunning an increased potential of dementia and alzheimers with every fake email.

Brought to you by chrome being the biggest browser and it willfully enshittifying adblockers, which incidentally made searching way more tedious and funneled people to LLMs.

Cus you don’t need to try something to have done some research on why you wouldn’t. A basic, cursory search of ‘what is chat gpt’ would get you LLM, and a basic cursory search of LLM gets you ‘machine designed to make shit up whenever it doesn’t know the answer, meaning you can’t trust it’. Not to mention they’ve probably seen at least one screenshot of it failing miserably at counting letters in a word. Or they’ve seen the ai answers Google shoves down their throat and learned from basic word of mouth that GPT is More of That. The only thing they said they don’t know is WHERE GPT is, or how it’s accessed.

Yeah she was working on AI auto-transcription for audio thinking ‘this will help people sort audio! Yay’ and found out it’s ‘it’ll help them sort audio of Palestinian phone calls so we can forward locations to the Israelis for bombings! No!’ Like how dynamite was supposed to be for construction and then it got turned into bombs.

How would you even screen tech work to make sure you’re not contributing to genocides by applying? Only apply to companies that explicitly say ‘Free Palestine’ on their profiles? Do they even exist in the USA? Not to mention she familiarized herself with the policy supporting human rights concerns before sending that message. The one that in a sane world would have prevented any of this from even happening (Microsoft’s involvement anyway).

being unsure or uncaring is supposed to be agnosticism, though. atheism is an outright rejection of the possibility. (this is NOT a commentary on if one is more correct than the other.)

On the one hand, DNS was being needlessly accusatory and the logic of ‘you don’t understand how predators work so you must be one’ is silly. On the other hand, I get why they’re being so caustic because YES CP is ABSOLUTELY used exactly how they describe. The idea is that by getting the child used to sexual activity, they’ll get used to thinking about sexual activity and won’t be as freaked by inappropriate propositions, perhaps even believing they’re the initiator instead of being manipulated and taken advantage of, and then they won’t report the predator to authorities. Not to mention some of the predators who actually feel child attraction (as opposed to the more than 50% who are just rapists of opportunity) use that manufactured consent to self-delude themselves into thinking ‘well they’re enjoying it and they said yes so I’m not REALLY doing anything wrong’.

Part 4 on this article interviewing someone who was trying to research pedos on the dark web, for one example: “In other words, there are child molestation crusaders out there, and Pam ran into a lot of this on the Deep Web. Below is one response to a 7axxn post from a guy, bemoaning his inability to be anything but a “leech” (a person who consumes the content but never submits any) because his family situation made it impossible to actively share child pornography. The other members suggested he could aid “the cause” by helping to “enlighten & educate” the children in his life on the “true philosophies of love”” https://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1760-5-things-i-learned-infiltrating-deep-web-child-molesters.html

tbf if the hens aren’t producing for commercial purposes, they could be vaccinated, like they’re thinking of doing in america.

Shout-out to Gamers Nexus for making a written site for all their content https://gamersnexus.net/ tho i recognize that’s not very helpful for avoiding American lol

Yeah they pulled out of QC so if I wasn’t so close to Ontario they’d be completely useless for me in canada too. Not that I haven’t avoided them for big purchases like computer stuff already, gonna have to look what general marketplaces we have otherwise lol

Which is a thing that’s happened on Steam twice this month thanks to update loopholes and some outbound link fuckery. Also anti-cheat is kernel level, which is why you can’t play a lot of multiplayer games on Linux, but you don’t see a lot of PC games forgoing it because the alternative is being unplayable. Turns out some idiot Sony music exec (which is literally a separate company from Sony interactive) was ahead of the curve on the new normal, much as I also hate it lol

For you guys. Amazon canada will still be infested with them, for instance. Also that’s assuming the dropshippers don’t just reroute their stuff to whoever has the lowest tariffs before delivering it here, like how lindt is moving all it’s delivery back into Europe so that they can go around the US to deliver to places like Canada.