flabaduba
8mo ago
Amazing how a simple series of semaglutide injections boosts one's willpower into the stratosphere.
flabaduba
8mo ago
Where do you think the desire to eat comes from? The aether? It comes from your experience of the discomfort of hunger, and the feeling of reward from eating, created in the brain, exactly the same as intellect, neuroticism, conscientiousness, violence, etc.
flabaduba
1yr ago
That picture is slightly misleading, since the left two MTFs are wearing high heels (you'd think you'd not to want to make yourself look huger when you're already well above the average height of the sex you're trying to impersonate, but I digress) while Buck isn't. According to google Laverne Cox (the black MTF on the left side of the pictures) is 5'11" while Buck Angel is 5'9" (which is the average bio-male height in the US). Assuming Buck is only doing the standard male one or two inches of lying, that's still not enough to put her firmly in the manlet realm. I wager if Buck walked past the average person who knew nothing about her and didn't say anything, nobody would pick her out as female.
flabaduba
6mo ago
I remember reading that paper and thinking that 1) it made the IDF sound far too cool 2) you could almost feel the seething of dead left-wing intellectuals' theories being used to conduct urban warfare in the West Bank
flabaduba
1yr ago
It's entirely possibly he was bullshitting. I also couldn't load the article, so I just ctrl+c ctrl+v'd it into notepad and scrolled down to the text.
flabaduba
1yr ago
The conspiracy theory I'm seeing is that it's Putin's way of not giving anyone who seeks to replace him a way out. If the pipelines are destroyed and Europe becomes energy-independentish then there's no way for a successor to make a rapprochement take things back to normal. Ship goes down with the captain.
flabaduba
1yr ago
This is the very last place I thought I'd hear about Jake Alley aka SecretGamerGrrl after the death of Kiwifarms. My condolences. I would link to KF to explain for those not in the know, but there's really not that much. Jake has the distinction of being one of the few non-retarded cows with fewer skills and accomplishments than Chris-chan, the high point of his life being involved with gamergate's CON. He is now blocked by most of his former associates in anti-gamergate/trans twitter, but that hasn't stopped him from vaguetweeting about them for years after the fact. He maintains that he is both undoxed (not true) and that he has had to move due to threats of neonazi violence at his home multiple times (impossible unless the first claim is false).
flabaduba
9mo ago
There's a difference between writing struggle and tragedy, and what reads as gleeful ragebaiting, which Spiderman seems disproportionately affected by (though of course it touches every superhero eventually).
flabaduba
9mo ago
I can't see it. Increases in average lifespan haven't translated into increases in maximum lifespan (Aeschylus lived to 92 in ~400 B.C., that's still longer than most American men today). It seems to be no low hanging fruit. Diseases that were easily treatable are becoming more and more resistant to antibiotics, and development of new ones has slowed down. Maybe that will pick up again, maybe it won't. More than immortality, dying of a hyper-MRSA infection after a difficult surgery in late middle age seems a likely outcome to me. Of course, I'm not a doctor or a biologist.
flabaduba
10mo ago
I had one. It's hard to say how much I believed in it. Do four year olds really believe in anything other than the omnipotence and omniscience of their parents, and their own worthiness of infinite candy? I suspect it was just a form of pretend, much like the time I spent insisting I was a dinosaur. I don't know when it stopped, but I would bet starting school was near the tail end of it.
flabaduba
10mo ago
The concept was culturally salient enough for Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends to be a cartoon people could understand the premise of (an orphanage for imaginary friends once children stop believing in them). I had one, but I've never mentioned it to anyone I know, because who the hell cares about a non-existent character I talked to from ages 3-6(?)
flabaduba
1yr ago
I was going to accuse the New Zealanders of being more woke, on the basis of some of them refusing to use the European name for the island, but I realized Canada is already derived from a native language.
flabaduba
5mo ago
This rests on the assumption that the women are young and attractive. Not even MtFs bother trying to muscle in on middle aged women's book clubs and knitting circles.
flabaduba
5mo ago
For one thing, epilepsy is NOT a psychiatric disorder, and surgery is not the first line of treatment for it. Considering seizures in themselves cause brain damage, and in the most extreme cases can be deadly, that is an extreme far cry from shoving a metal spike into your daughter's eye so you can make her tractable and retarded.
flabaduba
10mo ago
I acknowledge that it is theoretically possible, but it's also been "30 years away" for much longer than that. I don't think anyone on this forum will be living past 2150. And yes, being able to accept the truth with equanimity would be better than self-delusion, but our powers of self-delusion are very strong, so we may as well get some use out of them.
flabaduba
1yr ago
People don't want random people knowing they have AIDS, or dick fungus, or chronically shit their pants as a kid, or what have you. All kinds of reasons.
flabaduba
5mo ago
In pretty much every region and religion, more women identify as religious than men (https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2016/03/22/the-gender-gap-in-religion-around-the-world/). In the U.S. that's something like 60% to 47% for women and men respectively, according to Pew. More women believe in things like healing crystals, astrology, soulmates, etc. Even ignoring things like specific personality traits, I'd expect women to be more common in cults than men.
flabaduba
1yr ago
Is that head:body ratio extreme or is the clothing/camera angle/body position causing an optical illusion?
flabaduba
1yr ago
Given that it was a Florida sheriff that was to be minecrafted, I could imagine the man himself getting the ball rolling to do so.
flabaduba
1yr ago
Since the original topic was fantasy authors, I can't help but bring up the inimitable Muhammad Abd-al-Rahman Barker (born Phillip Barker), recently posthumously cancelled for having written a pro-nazi alternate history novel (published by the same company as The Turner Diaries) and serving on the editorial board of the Journal of Historical Review. He was also a recognized scholar of Urdu and other languages. Truly an interesting guy.
flabaduba
1yr ago
I remember reading this and bookmarking it a while ago, no idea how accurate it is (original author got banned from medium): http://web.archive.org/web/20210904210829/https://medium.com/nerd-for-tech/greatest-scam-in-history-by-tether-76ac059b9550
tldr: He indeed thinks that there's far less backing tether than they claim, based on not performing an independent audit, and its primary use is gassing up the price of bitcoin.
flabaduba
1yr ago
On the other hand, it opened up new and exciting possibilities if you were into shoplifting. Scanning premium grapes as regular grapes is its own reward.
Whole word seems like throwing in the towel in recognition of the reality that English spelling is massively divorced from English pronunciation. The phonic "rules" work for the simplest vocbulary (sometimes) but by the time you hit the numbered grades you will encounter word after word where they simply do not apply. Exceptions to the rules are more common than the rules themselves, and at some point attempting to teach a systemic set of exceptions to the exceptions to the exceptions becomes impossible. As time goes on the separation will only get worse, and teaching phonics will become fully impossible, with english words becoming impenetrable hanzi-like clumps of meaning divorced from their constituent parts. You can teach phonics and be limited to learning 3 letter words (except pho) without a mountain of non-phonetic exceptions, or you can do whole word and admit defeat.
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