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The choice is:

  • Support candidate that is tacitly okay with genocide
  • Support candidate that is enthusiastic about genocide and stripping away LGBTQ rights
  • Say nothing and let the second candidate operate unimpeded by your opposition in key states

I mean… come on, let’s be reasonable.

Ibaudia,
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If he’s okay with genocide over there then he’s okay with it here

That is a gigantic jump but go off

Ibaudia,
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It’s more like

Republicans are willing to bend the rules and cheat to get what they want

Democrats are cucks to the system that they think is perfect

Honestly, fuck both of them. There are no good candidates this election.

Ibaudia,
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This only makes sense if the people who think like you reach a critical mass, which they have not and very likely never will.

Ibaudia,
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Protesting police brutality respectfully and nonverbally

Telling young women that they will only be truly happy if they are homemakers during their commencement ceremony and that anything else is “diabolical lies” meant to have you stray from god’s path

How are these in any way equivalent

Ibaudia, (edited )
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It also encompasses any support from medical professionals to do extremely simple shit like wear different clothes or change your hair. Also accessing gender-affirming support groups, therapy, changing your name and pronouns, or non-permanent hormone treatments.

This new law doesn’t ban all of those things, but it does go pretty far to limit what can be done and has a chilling effect on other forms of trans-related healthcare.

For instance, even if a kid wants to use a nickname that doesn’t match their sex assigned at birth, it has to be reported to their parents. Stuff like that is clearly just designed to make sure kids aren’t allowed to express that they’re trans if their parents don’t approve.

Ibaudia,
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Isn’t there evidence that as artificial CSAM is made more available, the actual amount of abuse is reduced? I would research this but I’m at work.

Ibaudia,
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For me it’s:

  • Strategy games are extremely meta-focused
  • You always feel like you’re playing sub-optimally if you don’t know the exact right move
  • They typically require a lot of time and energy that I just don’t have
  • They require long, focused sessions that could be better spent doing anything else
  • No one I know is playing them so it sucks as a social activity
  • They have less “high moments” compared to other games

Could never get into strategy games except for mobile ones that I would play on long road trips or something.

Ibaudia,
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drop less bombs on us

Wow, the word “us” is doing a hell of a lot of work there!!!

rimu, to random
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Content Warnings Do Not Reduce Distress, Study Shows

Advocates for the use of trigger warnings suggest that they can help people avoid or emotionally prepare for encountering content related to a past trauma. But trigger warnings may not fulfill either of these functions, according to an analysis published in Clinical Psychological Science.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/21677026231186625

Ibaudia,
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Yeah I mean… why would they?

Ibaudia,
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Well they certainly have compassion, cooperation, a sense of fairness, social norms, etc. Whether that makes ethics is a matter of semantics, I think.

Ibaudia,
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Except you do actually wash your cast iron, just not with lye-based soap or abrasive materials.

You could just not wash it, and you’d probably be fine, but I wouldn’t recommend lol.

Ibaudia,
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According to the OP that Trump’s media guy reposted, the “unified reich” text was just a part of the stock template he used.

Extremely funny if true.

Fallout Series (Why don’t I like it?)

I think my first Bethesda game was Skyrim and I love Skyrim. I’ve played through Skyrim when it first came out I played through it again in the DLC came out. I played through it again on the switch I have since played through it again on PC. I love Skyrim. I played it so many times and I know it’s a meme to keep re-releasing...

Ibaudia,
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I’ve only really played New Vegas extensively, but I think the biggest thing to remember is that when you’re familiar with these western-style RPGs, they seem like they have a bottomless well of content because you know how and where to find quests and such. When these games are new, you have to find content for the first time, and if you’re not sure where to look then it becomes frustrating and boring.

New Vegas is better at this than most fallout games because once you have a quest it often leads to a sequence of other quests. in FO3, half the game is just finding stuff to do. Never played 4 or 76. No one plays FO1 or FO2 anymore but they sometimes suffer from similar issues, especially FO1.

Build variety in these games comes more from the perks, skill pts, and SPECIAL stats you choose. They’re not quite as visual as the different classes in Skyrim, but they certainly do much different things.

Ibaudia,
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Honestly if the abstract can’t deliver a succinct and accurate summary of the findings and their limitations, then it’s probably a bad paper that you wouldn’t want to cite.

Ibaudia,
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Almost 40% of South Dakotans have not critically evaluated Noem

FTFY. I refuse to believe that 40% of anyone would see what she did as justified. The only reason you would is if you want to kill dogs yourself, you don’t know what really happened, or you don’t understand why it’s bad and are giving her the benefit of the doubt.

Ibaudia,
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That just tells me that she is a psychopath who is only held back from killing humans by the fact that God might punish her for it. As an atheist, I don’t kill humans because I don’t want to. It would be extremely emotionally scarring for me. Apparently for her, it’s just a matter of “God would hurt me if I did”.

Ibaudia,
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+1 for Annie’s being the best. Just objectively true. Their white cheddar is my favorite.

Ibaudia,
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I made this once. Had everyone in my house try it. Multiple people gagged.

Ibaudia,
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Just start yelling at me and I’ll probably shut down and cry.

Ibaudia,
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Similar thing here. I once went to a Minecraft mod dev’s discord to ask if there was a way to center the health bars that come with his mod. He basically said “you’re the only person who has ever asked for this, everyone else just puts it in a corner of their screen”. I feel centering is a basic feature of any adjustable UI element!

Ibaudia,
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“Please, I can’t afford food or housing”

Media outlets:

Economy doing great!!! Inflation down and stocks up!!!

“Okay, I guess I’ll just fucking die then”

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