Joyful
11mo ago
Thanks for explaining the full thought process behind the moderation. I was confused by his comment that his comments were in moderator jail.
Joyful
2yr ago
No, 40 CFR 120.2 defines "waters of the United States" to include wetlands, and "wetlands" to mean "those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or ground water at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions." And according to the Court's decision, that definition dates to the early 1980s.
That helps clarify part of what I saw about the case (the Reason video from six months ago) where the EPA also demanded they plant wetland plants on the land where none such plants grew. Ridiculous.
Joyful
8mo ago
Did you pick Liberia for a specific reason? They have their own history that is unique in Africa, namely having been colonized by richer blacks from America which held onto power for generations of corruption.
Joyful
1yr ago
I read glassnosers comment as meaning "the drop didn't happen before the debate" not the difference between during/after.
Joyful
1yr ago
After you have had one c-section you basically have to go that route for future pregnancies (otherwise you risk rupture of the scar tissue during labor). She's also probably a geriatric pregnancy at this point, which has its own issues.
Joyful
1yr ago
nd 2+ years studying to get the highest possible score on an exam they get to take one time so you had to be sure. Now they just try to pass. Now a lot of that exam was stuff that "doesn't really matter" (ex: biochem pathways) but the incentive shift was absolutely massive.
The article mentions that they also changed the curriculum from two years of coursework to one.
Joyful
1yr ago
Everything else aside, it boggles the mind that it is considered appropriate for a non-verbal student to be mainstreamed.
Joyful
1yr ago
Survival of the Prettiest, the Science of Beauty (book) talks about the different features we find attractive (primarily in women). The reasons we like paleness, certain body ratios, symmetry, etc. Mostly it boils down to neoteny, health, and sexual dimorphism.
It also talks about how you can exaggerate those features and end up with Jessica Rabbit, who technically looks ridiculous, but she still seems sexy. I guess all of anime bears out those tendencies as well.
Joyful
2yr ago
I really wish Lindsay Ellis had quit twitter rather than youtube over that idiocy.
Joyful
2yr ago
Can someone link the actual tiktok videos? Searching without an account doesn't give you videos but channels.
Joyful
2yr ago
Yep. One of my friends was a standard fat gamer programming nerd until the pandemic. Funny, if a bit incel-y in personality (he made some occasional sexist comments that were annoying but not fatal to our friendship). During the pandemic he finally lost the weight and I was thinking "Hey, maybe we can finally get this guy a date. Funny, decent job, tall enough, starting to look like a viking" I wouldn't date him myself for a couple of reasons, but get some good pictures for an online dating profile and we can improve his quality of life a lot (he's prone to depressive episodes and loneliness).
I brought up the topic and he said "actually, I'm not thinking about dating at all right now because I've been seeing a gender therapist for a year." We've hung out five or six times since then (over two years), with each hang out getting more uncomfortable and creepy, and now I'm dodging his calls (I'm not misgendering btw, he's never formally asked me to change names or pronouns). Somehow "man wearing a dress" freaks me out less than "man wearing a dress and boobs." It's much more 'it rubs the lotion on its skin'. He did finally (briefly) date someone (an older woman) during this process, but broke up with her because she obviously saw him as a man.
So yes. We're not close enough for me to suck it up and lie and not distant enough for me to just be polite. Hence the avoiding.
Joyful
2yr ago
Greys Anatomy had a really interesting Christian doctor for years and it led to really interesting story lines regarding sex, marriage, crises of faith and ultimately abortion. Pity she was removed to free up her love interest for an unpopular character that the writers wanted to center.
Joyful
2yr ago
I question whether obscure Canadian sitcom counts as mainstream (although I enjoy it).
Joyful
2yr ago
Much more true of mtf than ftm. Gc feminists are very supportive of detransitioning women.
Joyful
2yr ago
Just wanted to say that I'm doing the potassium trial (conceived on the idea that potassium is why the potato diet works) and am around day 10. The first week was consistent losses (and I'm not a person who usually has a lot of spare glycogen) but I've now leveled out for three days and my appetite actually came back yesterday. My hangover from a non-enormous amount of wine was also brutal. I'm still stepping up the amount of potassium so hopefully I'll see a new low number in the next couple of days but I spent last week wondering if I'd finally found "that one weird trick" the internet is always promising us.
Joyful
1mo ago
They made us add the feminine version to every job description,
If anything "they" have been trying to strip out the gender entirely from job descriptions. Postal worker instead of mailman, calling all actresses actors, stewardess to flight attendant. Etc.
Joyful
1mo ago
Looking at the people on the conservative side, the loudest champions of a traditional moral order seem to be grifters, or at least hypocrites where they say one thing, and do another in their personal lives.
This is boo outgroup.
I'd say the loudest social media voices right now are Matt Walsh and Ben Shapiro. Who specifically do you mean are hypocrites and grifters?
Hypocrisy has always been a lazy accusation. Better to be a person who believes there should be a standard and personally fails to meet it than someone who rejects all standards.
Joyful
1mo ago
Furries annoying everyone as usual: https://www.loweringthebar.net/2025/04/dragon-lawyer-files-complaint-with-cartoon-dragon.html
Joyful
9mo ago
Also, would any drug addict voluntarily undergo treatment that would leave them as addicted as before but without any ability to get a fix? How is it supposed to work to solve the problem?
There is a medication that works this way for alcohol and some alcoholics do willingly take it.
A pill means you only need self control 2 minutes a day rather than 24 hours a day.
Joyful
10mo ago
Because a man punching a woman shouldn't be an Olympic sport. Its much more visceral than the three XY males that took the medals in one event during the 2016 olympics.
Images like this are powerful.
https://twitter.com/HazelAppleyard_/status/1820091385199865963
The fact that he groped his first opponent after the match was terrible too.
Too many people didn't care about "just" the women losing out on scholarships, victories, and fame. Too many people don't seem to care about the injuries suffered by teenaged girls playing soccer, rugby or volleyball with much stronger males. But here we have a dude punching a woman in the face so finally more people are saying "you know what, maybe thats not fair".
Joyful
1yr ago
and result in more deaths
?? The estimates I've seen were something like an extra 1600 homicides per year across certain cities. You think that is more deaths than we are going to see out of this war?
Joyful
2yr ago
Not a lot outside of reality tv which is about their weight but This is Us comes to mind (just to give an example because you didn't, not disagreeing).
Trans identified males (non-intersex) taking over female sports has been happening at all levels of competition (including international) for several years now.
https://www.shewon.org/
Documents the phenomenon closely, with citations.
Number of Female Athletes 717 Number of Medals* 1055 Number of Competitions 522 Number of Sports 37
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