if your partner doesn't want you to take hormones or get surgery, you should break up with them or divorce them. your body is yours alone.
absolutely that too. as a mobility aid using trans person myself; do not let a partner hold you back from doing what you require to be able to be stable and healthy within your body and how you interact with the outside world. i promise you they are not worth it.
i'm not anymore, but as a kid, i was a big fan of newspaper comics. Calvin & Hobbes, Peanuts, etc. among all of those, Dilbert was always "one of the other ones". i was too young to really get the office humor of it, but it was something i knew about and i knew that people liked it
so a few times, when i was bored, had nothing else to do, and had access to a library, i would check out the non-comic books that Scott Adams wrote. there was one in particular i remember that was like, his predictions for the 21st century (written in the 90s). and at the time i thought it was parody, since it was all about how women would take over the world and it would be the end of humanity and men would become second-class citizens. i found it more funny than his comics, because obviously no one could actually think this
and then 15 years later i learn that, no, actually, he actually just thought that. it wasn't a joke. he was being serious
Ragebaiting my fat dog? More like master baiting my fat hog!!!!!!!!
The kingly pig looks taken aback by this statement. "You claim to be 'baiting' our kind?.. A master of it, no less - after all the trust we hsve placed in you?"
- Your relationship with the Hog Society 🐖 is now Unfavourable.
This is in response to me saying that advertising as an industry should not exist at all, and like. Why do people do this strange thing where they will start going to bat for something like advertising? I mean I know it's their reactionary aversion to anything AI related, but like. do you hear yourselves? We used to hate advertising and now people are talking about "the art of lying" and ohhhh my goddd.
It is funny and also dismaying seeing someone backfill their reactionary position IN REAL TIME.
It’s especially funny to claim someone wants people to starve due to losing their job about somebody with “communist” in their username. Like, one of the basic features of leftist policy—not even as far as communist—is providing people with basic necessities even if they’ve lost their jobs.
Does anyone else wonder why dragons in Mystic Force went extinct? Like what led to their demise? Does this imply that dragons throughout the Power Ranger universe are also scarce or just only in the Magical Dimension?
I mean, you don’t really see any dragons in Power Rangers aside from Zords. If anything the Magical Dimension probably has a greater than average amount of dragons.
Never forget and never forgive the people who did this to us. When this is all over, when he is dead and gone, we must hold every one of these terrorist thugs accountable.
Also, this image isn’t even real.
It’s literally the same street, down to the lines and the lamppost.
Question for someone who literally grew up on the old internet: how were you supposed to find websites before the general search engine?
(With reference to this post here.)
In the very early days, the public-facing Internet was small enough that you could just, like, remember where everything was. Contrary to the modern Internet's rapid content churn and walled-garden siloing, early websites tended to have deep, statically preserved content archives and dense cross-site linking, so it wasn't uncommon to set about finding previously visited sites simply by retracing one's path from memory. Even simple bookmarking was sometimes derided as a crutch for people who were too lazy to learn how to navigate the Internet "properly"; indeed, once web browsers added built-in support for bookmark lists, some people refused to use them as a matter of principle!
Once the Internet grew to the point where this approach was no longer feasible, there was a period of a few years where various parties tried to construct human-curated, hierarchical directories of the entire Internet. This was, of course, doomed to fail, as the Internet was growing faster than it could be manually catalogued, but they gave it the old college try. Some popular search engines such as Yahoo actually started out as directories of this type, and only later added search functionality. Meanwhile, communities of interest adopted a more targeted approach, with dedicated "links" pages containing curated recommendations for other, similar sites becoming ubiquitous on personal websites, while users who lacked the time or expertise to offer curated links could participate in webrings and other volunteer-operated directory services.
(The idea of cataloguing the whole Internet according to a topical hierarchy led to some fascinating taxonomic decisions. At one point, Yahoo's directory had a subcategory specifically for sexually explicit Dungeons & Dragons resources, or "netbooks", as they were called at the time.)
Somnium Files is so absolutely laden with wordplay. it centers around eyes, and AI, which sounds kind of like "a eye." "ai" is also the Japanese word for love, which is also mentioned. like you noticed, "AI-Ball" sounds like "eyeball." incidentally, the AI's name is Aiba, which also sounds like "eyeball." one of the main character's names is Iris, as in, part of an eye. her name is also connected to the winter iris flower, as well as the Egyptian god Osiris. there are a lot of references to Egypt, actually. the AI system is called Wadjet, which is the left eye of the god Horus, and instead of the messaging app LINE, they use NILE. some of the puns are more subtle, such as how Mizuki Okiura's family name is based vaguely on how a Japanese person would say "ocular." it goes deep.
I forgot about the triple pun of "psyncing." You use the psynch machine to
somebody stop Uchikoshi
So I’m watching Plur1bus, and I’ve been getting this feeling about the main character and how she relates to society in general (pre hive mind), and it struck me very heavily in episode 3 when she wants to go shopping instead of relying on the hivemind to, like, deliver food for her. She arrives and the store is empty because now that everyone is literally of the same mind they just consolidated all the essentials for equitable distribution.
The part that’s standing out to me right now is how she insists that she is an independent woman and fends for herself, so she wants her grocery story back. And, of course, the hivemind responds by sending a fleet of trucks and a ton of bodies to her to stock the store. But that’s the thing. She just has the illusion that she’s gathering everything herself. All that food still had to be delivered (and grown, hunted, prepared, etc.) and stocked by a bunch of other people for her to walk around grabbing what she wants.
And that applied even before the “joining.” She relied on a massive number of people in society to prepare things for her, but now it’s made very apparent how much since they have to use all those resources just for her as one single individual. She was never really independent as much as she tried to insist that she was. An interesting way to present that idea.
