Gotta go with what works for you. But as a fellow cishet middle-aged white engineer, you could not pay me enough money for me to want to move to Texas. Or Florida. Or most of the middle of the country. If I were in your shoes, I'd be out as soon as I had the means to leave.
bucho
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You know, it's often hard to tell with guys like you whether you're trolling, or actually genuinely stupid. Of course I took the boosters. I'm not a moron.
So, out of curiosity, do you ever look at the reactions of normal people to your idiocy and think: "Gee... maybe I'm wrong about this thing that I'm completely fucking devoted to?"
Yes it absolutely does. No amount of calling it a straw man will change this.
Ok, so delusional enough to believe your own hyperbole, then. Got it. Straight up crazy with a persecution complex.
No one is “assigned” a sex at birth, it’s observed.
Yes. Biological sex is observed, and then written on the birth certificate. Or in other words, "assigned". Also, there are occasions when someone is born intersex, and the doctor chooses. Well documented cases of this happening.
Try throwing gaslighting out there next too, that usually goes hand in hand with straw man.
Well, sorry if my using the terms accurately offends you, snowflake. But if you're gonna say crazy, irrelevant shit, and then pretend that it's neither crazy nor irrelevant, you kind of have to live with the consequences of people calling you a gaslighter. Comes with the territory.
And how did you come to that conclusion?
These days saying “biological sex exists” gets you banned on Reddit
No it doesn't. That is another absurd reduction. Are you intentionally lying, or do you actually believe your own hyperbole?
Nobody, and I do mean nobody, would dispute that "biological sex exists". That is a ridiculous straw man. What all of the people who are educated on the topic will say is that biological sex and gender are two different things. What bigots and morons hear is "Hurr durr biological sex doesn't exist".
Hey - I believe that extraordinary talent should be recognized. And you, my friend, have an extraordinary talent for stupidity.
I don't know, bigots?
Damn. Dude creates an account, and doesn't post or comment with it for 2 months. Then, he breaks that streak by posting possibly one of the dumbest things I've ever seen. What a fuckin' legend.
Yes, I got diagnosed with ADHD as a child, but I don’t get why you would think that’s necessary to comment on.
I wasn't commenting on your ADHD. I was commenting on the fact that you said "Try sitting still and reading a book for more than 10 minutes, and you will find that it can be exhausting to do.", and pointing out that being exhausted after reading for 10 minutes is not normal. If you meant to imply that activities that are purely mentally focused can be draining, well, I agree. But you didn't do a very good job of conveying that with the sentence you chose, so your meaning wasn't clear to me.
I don’t think it’s fair to compare states in 50 years like this without mentioning the time lost from school and research + the better overall life quality that comes with more money.
Why not? All work is trading parts of yourself in exchange for money. Sometimes, that part of yourself is your mental focus, sometimes your physical health. I am well aware that people in STEM-type jobs have an increased incidence of depression and burnout. Hell, I stopped working for 5 years because I was depressed and burnt out.
But you know what? I was able to stop working for that long because I made a really good salary before leaving the workforce. And what I did was in no way more difficult than someone loading boxes into trucks in a hot warehouse, or remaining focused on traffic conditions for several hours per day then interspersing that with delivering those same packages to people's homes and offices.
So, my job wasn't harder, but it paid better. My back isn't sore, but my mental health took a toll. The reality is, everybody suffers. And even if the UPS delivery guy got paid twice what I made, I still wouldn't pick that job because my chosen field is easier and still pays pretty well.
So I'm not stressed in the slightest that they potentially got a bump (it still has to pass a vote). Good for them. They deserve it.
Bro. I'm an engineer. Have been for more than 20 years. This guy, talking about how his job is harder than someone who delivers packages for 10 hours a day is fucking lying. Either that, or he's completely divorced from reality.
Yes, you need more schooling, and yes, solving puzzles all day is mentally draining. But you know what? I'll take being mentally drained over having my body completely fall apart by 50 because of the toll my job took on it. Being an engineer is in no way harder than any blue collar job I've ever seen.
Edit: And also, if you're mentally exhausted after reading for 10 minutes... that's not normal. Have you been tested for things like dyslexia? Could be that you have some kind of processing disorder that makes it difficult to read.
But I’m still curious if anyone can rationally explain why saying “I don’t like gay people” is worthy of a ban?
Because that is an absurd reduction, and not based in reality. In reality, nobody got banned for saying: "I don't like gay people". What people were saying was so much worse. Hell, even describing the issue as homophobia is absurdly reductive. While I'm in no way saying homophobia isn't a thing anymore, it's much less of a hot-button issue among deplorables than it was 10 years ago. These days, they mostly focus on whether or not trans people exist, and how bad they're allowed to make trans people's lives before it constitutes "hate speech".
Make no mistake, this change in site terms will absolutely mean a rise in bigoted shit being posted there. That's the MO of bigots: they say and do awful things, then try to gaslight you into thinking that really, what they said and / or did was not that bad, and besides, it's free speech, innit? Managing an internet community is a never-ending fight against hordes of awful people who constantly try to turn that space into the next version of 8chan. You give Nazis an inch, next thing you know, they're taking Poland.
I mean, I'm a fuckin' weirdo who loves both heat and humidity. So I'm not really the target audience for that particular argument. But I get that I'm a weirdo, and most people don't like living in the desert or a swamp. Personally, I'm much more turned off by their politics than I am their weather.