had no problem with this then i saw the treadmill screening is only open to influencers and now i think that if they fall behind they should be shot for real
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had no problem with this then i saw the treadmill screening is only open to influencers and now i think that if they fall behind they should be shot for real
nvm i just remembered the dozens of times i've changed my gender bc it was funny in the moment. incredibly ez to do actually
i mean think about it. to change your sex you just gotta take some pills. to change your gender you gotta like, think really hard for a really long time. get traumatized or maybe even achieve nirvana. very few people change their gender even once
my hot take is that sex is infinitely more mutable than gender
also why would someone who doesn't normally jog go out of their way to attend a gimmick screening about jogging
5 miles is a pretty modest walk. who said anything about 5mph, the pace is 3
maintaining a given speed on a treadmill is generally easier than actually going that fast outside. 5 miles is pretty modest if you're at all active so straight up not believing someone is pretty weird. and it's a single gimmick screening so it's fine that not everyone would be able to participate
and like i don't even say this from some sort of sex-positive kinkster point of view, i think this is broadly true even from the perspective of like, a hank hill level normie conservative
not everyone who had a couple playboys hidden under their mattress as a teenager grew up to have a normal healthy relationship with sex but basically everyone who has a normal healthy relationship to sex had playboys under their mattress
they're "exempt" because we're talking about unavoidable hospital closures, not fantasizing about hypothetical raptures. like the goal here isn't "maximize the total # of dead trump voters regardless of who else dies," or at least it shouldn't be
genuinely get the impression that one side of this conversation realizes we're talking about real physical events taking place and what to do about them and the other side thinks we're talking about hypothetical rapture fantasies
like i still firmly disagree but if someone says "unfortunately these policies only work in an enclosed society" i am willing to have that argument but they want the enclosed society and NONE of the policies that supposedly require one
same for their zoning laws, vehicle registration and storage laws, labour laws, rent control. can't even commit to pretending they're xenophobic for pragmatic reasons they just want a society that's identical to the one they have now but racister
centrist dems trying to do sister souljah when in the mind of every conservative THEY'RE sister souljah. a bunch of dumbasses essentially throwing themselves under the bus and telling the public "actually republicans are right, we ARE all a bunch of annoying out of touch lunatics"
anyway what this means is that attempting to distance themselves from "woke" vocab and aesthetics just has the opposite effect - it's just doing propaganda for republicans and telling people that dems in general are annoying far-left scolds
partly because a lot of the most widely hated "woke" vocabulary and aesthetics are specifically centrist watering-downs of lefty ideas, but also i think partly because there's no recognizable figures on the left to point to and say "no it's THEM you hate not US"
centrist dems don't seem to realize this but to most conservatives (and even to many OTHER centrist dems in a kind of bus-throwing ouroboros) THEY are the obnoxious screeching woke mobs, not the actual left
like did i go into a coma and miss the primary and also the multiple intervening years what the fuck is this
trump has been in office for 6 months and every centrist online is talking like it's september 2028 and gavin newsom is the nominee what the fuck is going on
i wish they'd at least be honest about the source of the discomfort. it's nothing to do with whether or not "men" should be in the women's clothing section, you just find transsexuals in particular icky and think society should ensure you never have to look at one
the first time i bought women's underwear for myself was 2013 and the teller assumed it was a gift for a girlfriend. now that time they got it wrong but it's like yeah men turn up all sorts of places
the craziest thing about the M&S story to me from the jump was that even if trans women were men that'd be completely ordinary interaction to have with a man "an employee i perceive as male approached me in the women's section!" yeah dog all sorts of people are allowed all over the store
i'm sayin all the time that a lot of gamers seem to think that if you die in a videogame it hurts you in real life somehow but this has gotta be the most extreme example yet
he could somehow win 100% of the vote and they'd just say "what works in NYC will fall flat in swing states though"
if ps3 can be retro then Thriller is classical them's the rules
like can you imagine if "classical music"(emerged as a term in the early 1800s to refer to several styles from the mid-to-late 1700s, still refers to specifically those styles today) was just "any music that's more than 40 years old"
the primary isn't until 2028 man you have 3 entire years to find a candidate who can actually win instead of telling people to vote for a guy who sucks
i mean look at this. what the fuck is a river lion. terrible, fantastic
saw that my town has a CEBL basketball team with a dumb name and an insane logo and decided to become a minor league sports guy
i wish the frasier manga was real
easy to imagine feeling like they're being pressed unfairly about something they think should be obvious and sarcastically going "yeah we're fucking homophobic alright? we're a bunch of big fuckin homophobes now fuck off"
even if nothing else good comes of all this, stripe call center employees getting so sick of dealing with this shit they're just like "yeah we're fuckin homophobic now happy?" and then stripe's executives being like "no! no!!" is very funny
though i suppose to stretch the metaphor even further, give me a world where technically i don't /have/ to use the shitty old bridge but the only other option is a toll road operated by peter thiel and i might develop a weird sort of "aww you old deathtrap you" affection for the shitty bridge
if the only way i could get to work was over a rickety old piece of shit bridge that would be a major access problem but it wouldn't make the bridge good or hating it unreasonable yknow? being forced to use a thing that sucks and which ideally wouldn't even exist doesn't make it not suck
just learned peter thiel is gay and, damn man the current nazis even have an ernst rohm? why's EVERYTHING gotta rhyme like that
like he gets that even if every single suburban fuck in staten island voted for him that's still only like 8% of the city right? does he just figure he never stood a chance anyway and the whole thing is a publicity stunt?
cuomo seems to be running a campaign mainly designed to appeal to people in other states who hate NYC and new yorkers generally. and ideologically i get why but i'm not really sure how one intends to win an NYC mayoral race with such a campaign
i mean it was obvious decades ago that a huge portion of american GDP was rent-seeking and money laundering and that in real terms americans are not wealthier than other first worlders but this isn't even money laundering it's just some idiots screwing around
we're approaching the "two billionaires on a desert island trade a rock back and forth, achieving record high gdp-per-capita" hypothetical just being the actual US economy
maybe i'm being unfair or bitter here but it often felt like an example of people with mild-to-moderate depression but absolutely 0 psychotic or paranoid symptoms appointing themselves the arbiters of All Mental Illness
the discourse around both games when they came out frustrated me a lot because it was something that i felt reflected how i felt during the most unstable times in my life extremely well but i kept seeing people w/o similar issues being like "seems ableist to make a game like this"
i have to talk to one of the apparent 4% of americans who are heliocentric flat earthers
9 times out of 10 "clique" is another way of saying "people i wanted to be friends with but was too nervous to talk to and eventually that nervousness turned to resentment"
honestly it's usually not even an actual jock, they're bitter about being bullied by an imaginary jock that was put in their heads by 80s movies
hey man no denying it, i got spanked as a kid too and now i'm not only a stupid asshole, i'm an unemployed highschool dropout with a fucked up spine and a mood disorder. and a transsexual communist to boot. don't want your kids to end up like me? don't hit em
and like from your own words it sounds like your parents completely failed to instill any values or virtues in you and basically just succeeded in making it so that dealing with you wasn't their problem as much as possible
alright dog jokes aside you gotta realise the point of raising a kid is to RAISE them, to instill lessons in them and get them to adulthood, not just to get control of them in the very very short term
all of my grunglers have become trans women. please message me if you are a grungler or have one i can borrow, i need a new one
ultimately it's the same argument as the husband who hits their wife but "just can't control themself" - if you really can't control yourself why are you only hitting people for whom it carries no significant negative personal consequences?
like it's indicative of the extent to which small children are the most socially acceptable - encouraged, even! - people to assault because you'd never say this about hitting anyone else. people at the end of their rope manage to not hit their bosses all the fucking time
it's crazy that whenever hitting kids comes up a few people will be like "obviously it's bad and making a habit of it is unacceptable but parenting is hard and nobody's perfect and sometimes people at the end of their rope do regrettable things"
no offense but it sounds like your parents raised a stupid asshole
good luck getting down to 145
like shit man a trans woman comes 7th place out of 20 in some random z-tier regional and it makes national headlines already, if nothing else it'd be less annoying if there was an actual fucking story there
i care more about women's sports than any fucking transphobe and honestly i'd love to see exactly one trans woman dominate one sport. i'd love to have a trans woman to root for while watching women's mma or basketball
probably the strongest example out there and not even in the top 1000 college women's swimmers of the past 40 years. she dominated briefly against weak local competition, a thing people who don't even end up good enough for the bottom-tier professional leagues experience all the time
everyone who actually gives even the slightest shit about women's sports knows this but we constantly have to put up with transphobic tourists who look up fallon fox's W/L record on wikipedia but couldn't actually name any of her opponents or which league those fights happened in
now, as a trans woman who is also a sports fan, it doesn't feel GOOD to say "actually we're a bunch of wash outs! objectively the least athletic people around! even our best ever are patently unimpressive!" but it is the truth
that *some* trans women occasionally beat *some* cis women is expected, inevitable, but overall when allowed to compete with other women trans women have actually been well bellow average overall, and none have ever cracked the top levels of women's sports
(top 1000 women to be clear) if we take the assumption that differing athletic outcomes are biological rather than social, we must conclude that trans women are, with regard to sports, biologically female
a few have sparked up controversy by having a couple wins at very low levels, but when allowed to compete with other women trans women have historically done pretty poorly. the most athletic trans women on record have never broken the top 1,000 within any field
there's a nature vs nurture argument someone could make i suppose but while yes, it is the case that women are empirically much worse at sports, all observable evidence to date would suggest that trans women on 2+ years of hormones are empirically even worse
typical incel is someone who has not placed themselves around other people since high school and has not said hello to a women ever. how involuntary even is it at that point
that said lean meat tends to be nutrient rich and 0 carb so that side of things isn't as restrictive as it sounds either way. and "8 grams of carbs" is almost certainly in part coming from, yknow, how small children are
pretty sure you got it backwards and that the atkins stuff you're used to seeing is a simplification meant to sell shit because the actual "don't even be in the same room as a zucchini" shit isn't something anyone is doing without a doctor ordering them to
love that atkins-rebranded-as-keto looms so large in cultural consciousness that when you talk about actual keto you get replies like "that doesn't seem right i've never seen anyone say to be THAT strict" or thinking "carbs" = pasta and white bread and not like, every vegetable
funniest thing as a canadian living near the border is both the canadian flags i typically see on my walk to the library were put up by tenants who moved from the US. old habits die hard i guess
covid sucks for many reasons and one is that 5 years on i still find it much harder to simply enjoy public transit than i used to
This may have made some sense to say in like, january 2024 but come on man by now regardless of blame there's no way in hell there's any living hostages to release or anyone in a position to release them
"slightly sped up" would suggest no
Moralizing about the behaviour aside, if someone is calling a customers a rapist or a pervert they are already out of a job by days end, doing this is just making it more of a problem for management
people (including on the left) keep calling him a socialist but like, he's just a normal socdem! in most countries this would be normie center-left-party politics, like "totally average NDP member" stuff
my guess is he's conflating indexing with the page being up at all and is assuming that bc the last comment was 8 days ago it must've been indexed at least that recently. easily contradicted by the fact that either of us could go find the page and leave a comment right this second
like come on man i'm long past saying "actually a democratic socialist could make major headway in the rust belt and the southwest, both important swing areas" by now it's "please find a nominee who is at least as good at public speaking as an autistic highschooler so that republicans stop winning"
charisma is no substitute for good policy, so to an extent i do get being suspicious of charisma, but so many elected dems lack both style AND substance and many who vote in dem primaries seem to view both as not only suspicious but uncouth
That only follows if you see it as a "hurt one or the other" situation. It's not. The situation was "hurt one or hurt both." More triage than trolley-problem
if it was "some people hurt a lot vs everyone hurt a little" i'd agree with you but it's "some people hurt a lot vs they still get hurt the same amount and also so do additional people"
The people you're calling sacrifices would've been equally fucked either way. If it's impossible to save everyone, saving as many as you can doesn't mean you're sacrificing the rest, and they didn't have any choice about who to save either
this looks like you had a normal 1960s town car and then it got stung by 12 million bees. baffling combination of recognizable surface details with seemingly 0 effort to retain the actual vibe or core appeal
"demanding your best general commit seppuku because he lost a battle that nobody on earth would have stood a chance of winning" ass behavior still happening
apparently before this week people were going around thinking about itch the way 4 year olds think about their parents and are now feeling inconsolably betrayed by the fact that sometimes dads can in fact get beaten up
I've seen "i'm not saying they had a choice but i don't think i'll be able to trust them to protect us anymore" and it's like, why would you ever think it's necessary or possible to trust someone to always be able to protect you no matter what?
my own experiences (which obviously don't amount to jack shit in terms of evidence) suggest that it's a pretty even split but also that a lot of the former group want to present themselves as the latter
whether or not you think it's fair to describe this impulse as "hating their kids" may vary. personally i think that framing might be imprecise but warranted
this may not be anywhere near a majority but i am supremely confident that in at least some cases the primary motive is exercising control over the child's body. i also see this as the driving principle between a majority of homophobic and transphobic abuse
i can't say for sure if this describes the "typical" antivaxxer but there's a huge overlap between the anti-vax movement and other cultural and political movements that view children as property (that is, as opposed to people who exist within broader society)
in fact i am personally not even convinced that most vaccine-hesitant parents DO hate their children, but logically there's no contradiction between doing something bc you hate your kid but championing arguments that the thing in question is good for them
i am not saying denying vaccination alone inherently demonstrates hate but many doing so DO resent their children and are acting on such feelings, but prefer to imagine or claim that they have different motives
...but if a bullshit study came out saying "beating your kid is good for them actually. builds character" the reaction wouldn't be "guess i better stop then because i am evil and only want bad things to happen" they'd say "damn right"
people doing obviously bad things for bad reasons still prefer to believe they are in the right. if someone viciously beat their child every single day we might reasonably conclude that they are not especially fond of said kid...
honestly i don't know how to cook without making it like a big production. either i microwave something or i'm making yams no in-between
you're gonna get a lot of people who are extremely financially secure but who feel poor because they can't have every treat they desire the moment they desire it telling you you're making unfair assumptions about them
and as for warning people - this sort of thing is, as you yourself point out, always happening. itch just saying "hey just a reminder that our business model is really rather risky here" every other week probably wouldn't have helped much
i'm not sure there is any specific real-world contingency plan that would have made this even 1% better. like you're making demands in the abstract that i'm not sure are like, plainly possible in the specific
the fact that this was a known possibility basically the entire time isn't really an argument in your favour? like what's actionable about that? at this point it sounds like you're angry they didn't comply in advance
oh my god i said this before getting to the part where it switches to third-person narration
the fact that online RP sessions are the main training data these things fall back on when actually put in charge of any sort of decision-making is kind of hilarious but probably not good
something i noticed reading this, the way it talks when sending emails while "stressed".. it's RPing. this is the way they talk when people RP with them. to the extent that it "thinks" anything it thinks it is RPing as a hypothetical guy running a vending machine business
i'm canadian and can't vote in your elections either way but i just want american liberals to understand that you will never moralise your way to 100% turnout. you NEED to nominate someone that people will want to vote for. it's just how the world works, like it or not