This gives me gender ew-phoria
I use it to distinguish sex and gender. Only some females have to deal with periods and pregnancy, but all women have to deal with social mysogeny. In this context I would use women because it's a gender issue not a sex issue.
Birth control, education and empowerment of women, and secularization. Not genocide. We either do that or we continue on thoughtlessly growing our population until we exceed what the earth can support at our given technological level. Then people will starve, thus decreasing the population with maximum suffering.
The response from the states should be: Don't want to provide service? Fine, we will fill in the gaps with county-owned internet service.
I always have to talk my folks down from shit they heard on Fox and Newsmax. They have called me frantically panicking that:
-There is a new gender neutral bathroom in addition to the M and F rooms at their gym!
"So you haven't been inconvenienced in any way?"
" They are going to take the women's room away! I don't want to change next to a MAN!"
"... Are they taking the women's room away and forcing you into the gender neutral one?"
" well no..."
"So you haven't been inconvenienced in any way. This sounds fine. Why are you calling me again?"
-The government is going to force them to switch to electric cars and they don't have a convenient outdoor outlet to charge a car!
"Did you get a letter that they are going to seize your car?"
"No not yet but they are going to do it soon!"
"Okay, well that sounds like it probably isn't imminent, why dont we wait to see of you get a letter and then we can react then; worst case we take it to court. Also, someday you will have to replace your old car and an electric one might be a good option for you guys. Dad is getting too old to get under the car to change oil and you know he's too stubborn to take it to a shop. You don't need a lot of range, you only go to church, the grocery store, and your craft club. There are incentives to put in a charger anyway."
My dad has a heart condition and these fuckers are driving both of them to an early grave for cheap political points. Fuck these fear profiteers.
Have you ever been to a movie so terrible that you saw people leaving the theater? Which one was it?
Directing students to go out into society and experiment on nonconsenting strangers is so gross. It's very mild in the grand scheme of unethical shit that some scientists have done over the years (ex:Tuskegee Syphilis Study) but still, it is a lazy and thoughtless way to gather data.
Have you ever been to a movie so terrible that you saw people leaving the theater? Which one was it?
Society wasn't ready for Brokeback Mountain. It was important because of that though.
Have you ever been to a movie so terrible that you saw people leaving the theater? Which one was it?
Slackercore at its peak. It is not high cinema, and barely even passable comedy. However, when it came out it was the continuation of the conversation started by Up In Smoke and continued by Beerfest and Knocked Up (all of which are terrible of course). Artisticly, I think the genre and general vibe of these movies is an important counterbalance to the achievements focused infinite-growth buy-new-shiny undercurrents of our culture. The drunk/high/broke/dumb loser protagonists and the shitty low-brow humour are in some ways a refreshing rejection of obligatory grind capitalist culture. They offer an alternative way of existing: a dropout from trying to be the best, a logically hedonistic response to a cold uncaring meaningless universe, a trauma response to an exploitive society that chews people up and spits them out regardless of how hard they toil.
I'm probably over-analyzing these and they were likely just junk that studios pumpednout to make a cheap buck, but regardless of the intent of their inception I think the "art" is worthy of discussing on its own merits, or rather importantly, lack thereof.
Logging in on the weekend reinforces this norm. If people see you are online, it lessens any cognitive dissonance they have with the voice in the back of their head saying "this is some bullshit, this is my day off."
Punching down on trans people rather than punch down inflation at the gas pump and grocery store.
Then we agree that children shouldn't have to fight these battles. Unfortunately, the "adults" in Oklahoma and many other states are either failing them or actively participating in their persecution.
I assume you're a grown-ass person like me. It is my job and your job to make this a safer world for people like Nex. Until then, they are indeed fending for themselves. I vote for the least-bad candidates, contact my representatives frequently, and give to charities who help queer people; admittedly I need to do more. The relevant question isn't what Nex should have done; they died for being. The question is what can you do such that people like Nex don't have to fight hate groups alone?
Anise
joined 9 months ago
At worst it is about a wash. Combined cycle power plants are very efficient, much more efficient than even the best ICE engines. You pay for that efficiency with space and equipment weight which is why you don't see that in vehicles. Even with transmission losses and power train losses in EVs your miles per unit of burnt fuel is about as good or better. Mix some green energy in there and you are coming out positive.