[-] erin 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It did. OP's client doesn't display it. It's pure miscommunication.

[-] erin 52 points 1 month ago

Isn't this satire?

[-] erin 36 points 1 month ago

The Jungle was a book exposing the nightmares of the industrial revolution, especially in the meat packing industry.

[-] erin 53 points 1 month ago

Atlas Shrugged is the conservative wet dream of "what if the rich people that totally do all the work and hold everything together got tired of the poors being so whiny and ungrateful and stopped." It's an-cap fan fiction.

[-] erin 24 points 3 months ago

That's not what the definition has changed to. Women can be women without identifying with that traditional role. A woman is someone who identifies as a woman. I am a woman, and I certainly don't identify with the role of a traditional woman.

[-] erin 22 points 3 months ago

Okay but I enjoy realistic milsim games. You don't have to play them. Weird take.

[-] erin 18 points 4 months ago

Yes. "Cis" is just a description, like "straight" or "white." Calling someone "cis" is not an insult, but some conservatives take it as such. The common phrase they echo is "I'm not cis, I'm normal." They're trying to denormalize trans people by making an inoffensive and common descriptor an insult. The same people sometimes have a problem with being called straight by queer people because they see themselves not as straight, but normal, and anything different is abnormal. In reality, "gay," "straight," "trans," and "cis" are no more abnormal descriptors than calling someone "black," "white," "American," or "tall." It's all just "othering" those they perceive as political opponents.

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submitted 5 months ago by erin to c/cosmere@sffa.community

The calligrapher's guild pages were very informative. My name is Erin (pictured top), and my fiancée will remain anonymous.

[-] erin 27 points 5 months ago

It really fucked me up when I realized that "picture this" wasn't an entirely figurative saying, and everyone else does actually see stuff in their "mind's eye."

[-] erin 21 points 6 months ago

Authoritarian doesn't mean exercising authority. Banning slavery did exercise authority, of the law, over slave owners, but it was anti-authoritarian. It took power, and authority, condensed wrongly in the hands of a few and, in theory, distributed it to the many, however effective it actually was.

[-] erin 31 points 7 months ago

Isn't this obvious satire? This isn't a right wing meme, it's making fun of right wing memes.

[-] erin 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You could make an argument that infinite $100 bills are more valuable for their ease of use or convenience, but infinite $100 bills and infinite $1 bills are equivalent amounts of money. Don't think of infinity as a number, it isn't one, it's infinity. You can map 1000 one dollar bills to every single 100 dollar bill and never run out, even in the limit, and therefore conclude (equally incorrectly) that the infinite $1 bills are worth more, because infinity isn't a number. Uncountable infinities are bigger than countable ones, but every countable infinity is the same.

Another thing that seems unintuitive but might make the concept in general make more sense is that you cannot add or do any other arithmetic on infinity. Infinity + infinity =/= 2(infinity). It's just infinity. 10 stacks of infinite bills are equivalent to one stack of infinite bills. You could add them all together; you don't have any more than the original stack. You could divide each stack by any number, and you still have infinity in each divided stack. Infinity is not a number, you cannot do arithmetic on it.

100 stacks of infinite $1 bills are not more than one stack of infinite $1 bills, so neither is infinite $100 bills.

[-] erin 22 points 1 year ago

You can't run for president if you're not a natural-born US citizen. His name doesn't mean he was born elsewhere. If the idea is that he's a second or more generation immigrant, so is everyone that isn't a First Nations citizen.

But yeah, anyone part of a group the Republican party hates (POC, LGBTQ+, working class, etc) that supports the party has some bizarre cognitive dissonance going on.

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