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Silentiea, to memes in Lifehack
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Yeah, it’s not the very idea of Santa I’m railing against here, it’s using him as a bogeyman to control behaviour.

Silentiea, to memes in Lifehack
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In their house, my sister is already using the threat of Christmas big brother against any minor hijinks that their kid gets up to.

Oof, that seems a bit much to me. Does she tell stories about the bogeymen or Baba Yaga, too? I’d rather my child be concerned with the actual consequences for their actions rather than the imagined ones

Silentiea, to news in The richest Dutch pay 28% tax while the rest pay 40% or more
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Capital gains taxes are only levied against the profit earned from investment, not the gross value returned to the stakeholder.

If someone buys a stock for $100, then later sells it for $150, only $50 is taxed. So the money that was “already taxed” by income taxes isn’t being double taxed at all, regardless of the rate of the capital gains tax.

Unless, of course, you count the fact that it was taxed as income by the person who gave it to you, in which case all money has been taxed numerous times before and the argument is that taxes in general are bad.

Silentiea, to worldnews in Dead Florida dolphin was infected with highly pathogenic bird flu
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Okay but real question… Can dolphins sneeze?

Silentiea, to news in “Out of control”: Legal experts call for recusal, reform over Stop the Steal symbol at Alito home
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Couldn’t he? What rule prevents him? Like, it’s the most obvious situation ever where he shouldn’t be allowed to, but it’s there an actual law somewhere saying so?

Silentiea, (edited ) to news in First they tried to "cure" gayness. Now they're fixated on "healing" trans people.
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A very small percentage of people who transition ever choose to detransition. Further, a very small percentage of people who detransition report that their reasons for doing so included that they weren’t actually transgender. The vast majority of people who detransition do so because of outside pressure from their community and not because they think they were wrong to transition.

Silentiea, to news in First they tried to "cure" gayness. Now they're fixated on "healing" trans people.
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I don’t think I would pay for that …

Silentiea, to showerthoughts in In Star Trek, Commander Data is socially awkward because he lacks training data. This might be because he was built and developed in isolation from the rest of society.
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They are referring to Star Trek: Picard as ‘nu trek’, not TNG

Silentiea, to news in X now treats the term cisgender as a slur
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All in favor of intra-city public transportation being renamed the cisportation network?

Silentiea, to news in X now treats the term cisgender as a slur
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Look, some people just aren’t trans like normal people.

Silentiea, to news in X now treats the term cisgender as a slur
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If using the word “cisgender” is a ban-worthy offense, it’s not being considered “a word that can sometimes be insulting”, it’s being considered “a word that is inherently harmful to use in almost any situation”

Silentiea, to news in X now treats the term cisgender as a slur
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For me but not for thee

Silentiea, to news in Mississippi governor signs bill to let cis people sue trans people if they use the bathroom
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I’d love a source on that.

I mean, actually, is love for it not to have happened and for people to just stop being assholes, but barring that, I would be interested to see this corroborated

Silentiea, to news in Mississippi governor signs bill to let cis people sue trans people if they use the bathroom
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Or just, like, cis girls with short hair.

Silentiea, (edited ) to news in Mississippi governor signs bill to let cis people sue trans people if they use the bathroom
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Right, but can a cis woman sue a cis man for using the women’s toilet? I have to assume the answer is yes, there would be legal grounds to sue. Or at least that the lawmakers and governor believe there would be.

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