I wish I knew how to program so I could make a browser extension like ublock that blocks Trump content. I’m fucking tired of seeing his face everywhere and hearing all the dumb shit pouring out of his mouth and contaminating everything.

I know all I need to know about him and who I support politically. I’m so done with him trying to monopolize everyones minds and time. Get out of my life you fucking lich.

The optimist in me wants to think that maybe one of those viruses can be used to cure some other diseases via genetic modification.

The pessimistic part of me wonders if this will be the start of a pandemic cycle that never ends until most people are dead.

I want it to be the first one please.

This is why I’ll probably never travel unless I can take a boat or something. Crying babies aggravate my misophonia to such a severe degree that I will do everything in my power to not be trapped in a small space with even one(no i dont have children.)

So airplanes are a no go. Basically anywhere else I can remove myself. But in a plane you’re stuck. I know babies can’t help crying, and I can’t help my reaction, but I can also choose to not get on a plane. Babies go where their adult takes them.

If I can logically parse out that airplanes aren’t a mode of transit I can tolerate maybe others should do the same. Then maybe kids won’t get locked in freaking bathrooms over this shit.

We use this terminology in the warehouse I worked at to describe smaller orders that were part of a larger order. So you build all the child orders first, then assemble them into the larger parent order.

I wondered if it was ever used in other contexts.

Ark survival evolved is something my husband and I enjoy playing together that’s quite fun. The base building and dino taming together is very enjoyable if you’re on a private server.

If you give this one a try, make sure whoever is hosting sets their server to private and invites the other person via steam. Otherwise you might get randos.

JK Rowling is two K’s short of a klan.

I’d love to see these laws work against her and her followers. Terfs are just as misogynistic as Tater Tot, it just looks different.

“Oh no, we might be mistaken for trans, ban all trans women.” - Terfs.

It’s no different than homophonic men being afraid of being mistaken as gay. It’s immature and pathetic.

I guess it’s a matter of who is interpreting and applying the law though. Which sucks.

I wrote this on another post about this topic, but i think it’s worth repeating.

The women of India formed the Gulabi Gang because this problem has gotten that bad.

If you read interviews with their founder it’s really upsetting just how common rape and domestic violence are in India and how little law enforcement cares.

I think it’s more helpful to listen to women who live in India who have experienced this sort of violence. I think it’s better to be informed on their reality rather than speculating on the situation as foreigners.

You could look up the gulabi gang. It’s a group of women who fight to protect other women from violence.

Edit - I think it’s best if we listen to Indian women speak on the problem. The first time I heard about the gulabi gang and why they exist I was horrified.

There’s also the fact that there are hormone variations across cisgender people.

Wasn’t there some sort of controversy a few years ago where a cis woman participant(cant remember if it was the olympics or not)tested high in her natural testosterone levels and was prevented from competing because it gave her an advantage or something?

So it’s possible for some cis women to have naturally higher testosterone levels than some trans women.

Hormones are a lot more complex than we think and I feel like all these keyboard endocrinologists are overconfident in their understanding of hormones and how they effect the body.

Experts are still studying this stuff, and if they say there’s no significant advantage I’m inclined to believe them. Besides, most anti trans people didn’t give a fuck about women’s sports until it gave them an opportunity to be hateful.

It’s a phenomenon that’s been observed across multiple sports, not just between men and women chess players. It’s particularly poignant in men vs women’s chess… because of people repeatedly telling women they are inherently worse than men. Like you are doing right now.

There’s been multiple studies on this. So yes, I side with the data that stereotype threat phenomenon has a significant impact on women’s performance in chess against men.

The chess one isnt quite right. There’s been experiments where if a woman player didn’t know her opponent was a man she would perform better. It’s called stereotype threat phenomenon.

It also happens when a male player knowingly goes up against someone higher in the league than himself and he performs below his own standard average.

Basically people in general psyche themselves out of their best performance when going against someone they perceive to be better than them whether that’s factual or not. Confidence and undermining confidence can change a whole lot about how a person does in any given game or task.

The Castrati League has entered the stadium!

I know… i know…castrato were young boys castrated to keep their singing voices high… . but words can be updated and language fluid… right?

I think the last white domestic terrorists to be called terrorists were the unibomber and Timothy McVeigh.

Both were in the 80s - 90s iirc. For some reason since 9/11 the word terrorist has been reserved for brown people who may or may not be Muslim and it’s really fucking us over.

At the same time people have been burning down and bombing abortion clinics since the late 70’s and that has never been called out as terrorism, or more accurately christian terrorism either.

I guess my point is that the US government sucks at indentifying/dealing with domestic terrorists and openly turn a blind eye to privileged groups committing atrocities domestically.