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[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

She looks nice.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

Most board games are based on consensus.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

Should it be probed?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Does this guy have a pro-Confederate ancestor?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
  1. We should cut funding to Israel.
  2. We should not tariff Chinese EVs.
  3. Marijuana should be legalized.
  4. The war in Iraq was wrong (either of them).
  5. A woman has a right to bodily autonomy.
[–] [email protected] 12 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

This is why golfers should be able to carry assault rifles at golf courses and Trump rallies: they too should have a fighting chance against assassins.

Falling Down (10/10) Movie CLIP - Fore! (1993) HD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1-axqBZdNk

2:46

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

The legislation increases fines for violations of state water curtailment to as much as $10,000 per day, plus $2,500 for each acre-foot of water diverted. (An acre-foot is 325,851 gallons, or enough to cover one acre a foot deep.)

so less than a nickel per gallon, for the first acre-foot, and less than 2 pennies per gallon if it's 4 acre-foot?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think I told a mod there that if I was un-banned I'd refrain about talking about TG issues in that community

I've heard nothing about it since.

There's at least some subreddits that I can speak more freely on about this issue, such as https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarcho_Capitalism and as a result I'll self-censor more here and speak more freely elsewhere.

Whatever my quibbles, FWIW, again, I don't see myself as transphobic. I neither hate, nor fear the TG. The DOI refers to the pursuit of happiness, and if TG'ism results in happiness for them, then good, they should pursue it. They have a right to it, and I feel free to defend that right. Indeed, skills in procedures in their therapies and surgeries might help humanity elsewhere. I don't have a problem with them reading books to children, and reading books to children is good for children. As a man, I'm largely indifferent to transwomen in women's sports (as I am of sports in general) and washrooms, and pretty well fear nothing from transmen as usurpers of my masculinity (such as it is). Pronouns? The nice thing about English is that the 1st and 2nd person pronouns are already gender neutral, and while I don't like the singular "they" (and its variants), it's because I like specificity in plurality and not because I oppose gender neutrality. Indeed, I occasionally use the neologism wt:thon. There are some transwomen whose videos I enjoy greatly, such as ContraPoints, the one in Philosophy Tube, and Jessie Gender (the one who talks a lot about Star Trek). Most critics of TG I see on YouTube have their own flaws. I'm not a fan of JK Rowling, though I never was into Harry Potter. As for Germaine Greer, while she had/has made her contributions over the decades, she isn't the last word on feminism (I don't think anyone is). If I "get fooled" by a TW thinking thon is a ciswoman, I don't get mad, I metaphorically tip my hat at thons effort, such as this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu-t3tqDyAY . Well done, Ms Cain!

To any TG reading this, I readily admit to much ignorance. Don't take my words to heart if they bother you: they are merely the thoughts of a pseudonymous member of a few internet sites such as Lemmy. I intend no offense and wish you well and success in your expression.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I suppose it depends what they play.

e.g. Fleetwood Mac's Tusk: https://vimeo.com/9545833#t=1m58s (somewhat cued)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I don't think it's "Oh, look at how the poor people live: how sad." (or "how resourceful"), but more like, "You guys said that if I spent five minutes in South Central, I'd get my ass kicked; well I spent five hours walking the streets there, and it was basically a good walk with no violence."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I'm decreasing my posting on reddit because of Lemmy, and I resent reddit having about 10 of my accounts suspended (none of them troll, gaming the system, or otherwise bad accounts, and most I haven't used) for no reason.

I also want to get back to posting on wikis, such as my 2 Miraheze ones, Wikicommons, Wikipedia, Wikiversity wikidebates, and Wiktionary (mostly ELs to WP and eventually others), and RationalWiki.

rw:Reddit

wv:Category:Wikidebates

 

Hypothetical: You have to walk 10 miles, >95% of it on sidewalks, through the bad part(s) of a dangerous American city starting at 9:00 PM on a Saturday night. Who of the following (in the body of this post) would you rather have as de facto bodyguards?

1a. Those randomly chosen consent and will collectively get $10 000 if you make through safely.

2b. No one in these choices is armed: at least not when you all begin your walk.

3c. 6 oz of alcohol is 100% and can be in the form of 12 oz of 100 proof booze, 48 oz of 25 proof wine, 192 oz of 6.25 proof beer, etc.

4d. The Roman, Chinese, and Zulu groups each have a middle age female translator.

16 randomly chosen female Americans, 25 to 35

12 randomly chosen male Americans, 25 to 35, 4'9" to 5'3"

12 randomly chosen male Americans, 25 to 35, each who has drunk 6 oz of alcohol in the past 30 minutes

12 randomly chosen male Americans, 55 to 70

24 randomly chosen Americans, 65 to 80

8 randomly chosen male Americans, 25 to 35

1 random person who's been in the US Marines for over 10 years, but is under 35

6 Roman soldiers (circa 100 AD)

8 Chinese soldiers (circa 100 AD)

4 Zulu warriors (circa 1600 AD)

1 T-800 terminator in the same condition as the one in T-2 just before it got dipped in the molten metal

 

more specifically:

1 lion,

1 polar bear,

1 orca,

1 giant squid,

3 komodo dragons,

1 African bull elephant,

400 feral cats,

10 gorillas with baseball bats,

1 kg of Asian giant hornets,

20 kg of fire ants,

or,

an oak tree with a maximum diameter of 1 to 1.2 meters

 

Foreign investment would be an economic boost for Mexico. The company has claimed that a plant there would create about 10,000 jobs. A Tesla competitor, BYD markets its Dolphin Mini model in Mexico for about 398,800 pesos—about $21,300 dollars—a little more than half the price of the cheapest Tesla model.

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