Joyful
21d ago
Yes. Girls that are raped because of their small vulnerable female bodies often try to opt out of being female. (the other common occurence is lesbians who think that they won't be bad and gay and god hating them if they are a man). This shouldn't surprise anyone. It also doesn't work. If put into male prisons or psych wards they get... raped. Generally immediately.
Joyful
21d ago
what gender roles they try to match in society, they are.
No. They try to match their idea of the sexual gender roles. Being a woman is, shockingly, not largely based on sex. This is why its offensive blackface. Imane Khalif does not at all live like a woman, no woman in a muslim country would be hoisted up on the shoulders of their coach. Imane Khalif is a cheating man. Trans athletes aren't rare. Khalif was only one of two male gold medalists in the womens boxing last time, and the entire 800 meter podium at rio was also men.
Assuming you are arguing in good faith here are hundreds of examples of this thing you think doesn't happen: https://hecheated.org/
Joyful
25d ago
Botox doesn't result in any of the dramatic features so I doubt anyone includes it. It just makes your face smoother for a while until it doesn't.
Joyful
25d ago
Not a single female trump voter I know hasn't had a major cosmetic procedure; the type where you are laid up for at least a week, and a majority of the normie democrats are right there with them.
Major cosmetic surgery? I don't know any young republican women who have had major surgery. Botox maybe. (I personally haven't done that either, but i'm also a senior millenial so edged out of your bracket). I think the effect you are seeing is that for the last 15 years people were told that filler was temporary and it dissolved and goes away so they got it done over and over. It turns out that actually it migrates and doubles in size. Over time this makes faces puffier and puffier. So you are seeing early Kardashian hangover that was supposed to be subtle. Not major surgery. The majority of conservative and rich women don't try to look like trophy wives and arent' trophy wives, so using Mar A Logo as your basis for what women look like is weird. Where do you live?
Joyful
26d ago
No idea. But consider Dewey instead. Your collection is probably closer to a public lending library than a university library.
Or you can go the way of many great librarians before you and make your own system and try to impose your will upon the world.
Joyful
26d ago
A lot of the "covid vaccines might be bad, actually" data comes from the military. Infertility claims doubled in the year after vaccination. Women with completely steady cycles (in my entire life I'd never had a late period. as a teen it was every four weeks during chemistry on thursday, that predictable) had their cycles thrown off for months. Young men (again, the military data) had a ridiculous amount of heart complications. The MRNA processes hadn't been tested enough, and MRNA trials since covid have been pulled for having too many side effects. Never taking another MRNA shot again personally.
Joyful
26d ago
Yes its not the being right that makes me angry. Its the continued lying. Nature still won't publish the lab leak evidence. Apparently (according to Matt Ridley) they went from "not enough evidence" to "everybody already knows this no point in publishing it." I'm angry because my government paid to make the common cold MORE contagious, released it on the world, lied about it, made a vaccine that didn't work and was worse than the cold, and lied some more. And told anyone that objected toany of this that they were outre and people should exclude them.
Joyful
1mo ago
No you simply need the BC and proof of the name change. Like any married woman has to get. Married women do not generally change their birth certificate to pretend they were born married to their husbands. Changing birth certs is desecration of a historical record and makes no sense. I don't even like it for adopted kids.
Joyful
3mo ago
Thanks for this. I get a lot more of my comedy from twitter these days as well. Right now I'm enjoying twitter in-jokes that are only funny after you've seen them more than ten times. Favorites are Rubio having to do all the jobs and fake BBC Drag Queen headlines (although I haven't seen this one lately).
Joyful
3mo ago
If you are looking for a meaningful way to engage with your nostalgia, I'll recommend Natalie Goldbergs book "An Old Friend from Far Away". You will remember more than realize. Its not a book for writing a memoir as a "here is my memoir please buy it". Definitely non-performative. But a way to spend up to dozens of hours digging into details about your life in a profoundly pleasurable and creatively meaningful way.
Joyful
4mo ago
Remove a handful of dangerous cities and the US doesn't have high violent crime rates. Half our murders are in two counties.
Joyful
4mo ago
That's because kids that read books go to college and expect to study the wonders of civilization and literature but get bogged down in taking 10 whiny marxist oppressor/oppressee classes from idiots.
Joyful
5mo ago
I just finished Beyond Cynical and I'm not sure why this isn't a bigger book. It's a great explanation of why we have negativity bias, and seeing it around us, and working against it to be happier. I also just finished Witch King (I love Murderbot and this is her other major series) and I liked it but it lacked the humor of Murderbot.
In lazy comfort food rereading I read Thief of Time (Terry Pratchett) for the first time in years, and it was great, and I'm rereading Scruples and Scruples 2. (70s/80s wealth porn, think Crazy Rich Asians but more episodic and fantasy fulfillment. The book equivalent of a bubble bath in a sunlit bathroom.)
Joyful
5mo ago
Did you see the study that said that devs using AI thought they were 20% faster but they were actually 20% slower? Cal Newport discussed it on his podcast.
Personally I love the help troubleshooting but the code I generate myself.
Joyful
8mo ago
I've been journaling off and on since childhood and digital journaling consistently since 2013.
TLDR: Obsidian. I use a template some of the time, and a journal review process I'll describe below.
I started in a program called Liquid Story Binder X, a locally installed program for writing, where you could attach entries to a calendar and it was very rewarding to look at the calendar and see all the dates lit up for the dates you had done them. This was abandonware, however, and did not autosave (at least by default) so I eventually moved to Evernote Remember before one note or google keep or anything when Evernote was a sexy startup unicorn that you could access all of your personal files? And then there were some unpopular changes, they stopped doing their own storage (hence no advantage in avoiding google/amazon) and pared down the capabilities of free accounts so that you could no longer install it on all of your devices for free. I had a paid account some of the time but I just wasn't getting enough usage out of it. So since my journal was on google servers anyway I jumped to Google Docs I brought over all of my files and linked them in a spreadsheet. I also set up my template so that I was creating the journal entry in a google form, when I wanted to. This was when I started doing journal reviews some days. If I feel like doing it, I reread journal entries from the same day. As I stated before I started journaling in 2012, so I have between 4 and 12 entries for any given day. Sometimes I review all of the entries, sometimes only the even or odd years. On review I occasionally delete old entries (if they were sparse) or add a + to the end of the name if I know it is a good one. I became really disillusioned and untrusting of Google, I think it was when they started scanning your personal files for copyrighted material circa 2020 so I jumped to Obsidian I have a dataview table that shows me all of the entries for today (so I can do the review process above) and I store new entries in one big folder in the format 22JUL2025. I have a template with a few brain-dumpy questions (what would make today great? dreams?--logging your dreams helps you remember them) and some memory focused ones(Did anyone say anything funny? What was the best thing about yesterday? Who did you talk to? What are you reading/watching?).
Joyful
8mo ago
I'd rather have a system that occasionally unjustly deports a tiny number of people to one which deports almost nobody.
Especially when it is a system that deals with hundreds of thousands of people, most of which have an incentive and thus proclivity to lie.
Joyful
10mo ago
What incremental games do you like? I've invested many hours in kitten game, cividle, idle wizard, magic research 2, as well as of course the classics clicker heroes and cookie clicker long ago.
I've tried probably two dozen others (I put a ton of time into cell to singularity last year but don't really recommend it). Military Incremental Complex is the one I played more recently, its fine but nothing to get devoted to. Execute didn't really hook me, same problem with astro prospector, farmer vs potatoes, zombidle, click mage.
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