Kraiden

This. He wants to fabreeze a turd and sell it as sausage.

There’s a real economic cost to [blah blah crybaby way of saying AI disclosures]

Yes. There is. Because informed consumers vote with their wallets. As it should be. Moron.

Pigs or it didn’t happen

Wonder if this is related to this shitfuckery.

Just to be clear, I don’t know anyone who thinks LNG is a good idea here either. We have an election in November, and if it goes the way I’m hoping, you can kiss that opportunity goodbye. Unfortunately it’s currently too close to predict.

Surely there were a non zero number of left wing transgender witches that were polled, sooooooo teeeechnically…

omg! Donald J. Sump!

Congrats! Assuming you mean some kind of stimulant based medication like methylphenidate or dexamphetamine. Been off and on them for 28 years at this point, so here’s some stuff I wish people told me:

The first few weeks are going to be the most productive of your life, but this will fade, because you will build up a resistance to the meds. Your best bet is to use the first weeks to put systems in to place that will help you on the days that it’s not so effective. Also take tolerance breaks. Look into how stoners do it, they have the T break down to an art.

Be aware of what you’re doing when your meds kick in. They can sometimes cause you to hyperfocus on the wrong thing. Best to be staring blankly at what you actually want to be doing rather than “I’ll just check Fedi while I wait” unless you want to be arguing on the internet for the rest of the day.

If you’re struggling to sleep, you can take vitamin C at the end of the day, as well as some L-Theanine, which I found helpful.

Anxiety! Methylphenidate caused some really unpleasant side effects as an adult for me, and is more likely to cause side effects in adults generally. If that happens talk to your doctor about trying dex. I’ve found it better. It also just feels less “speedy” overall.

Also be aware of alcohol! I swear it’s different on days I take my meds, but that’s pretty anecdotal. Possibly just a me thing, but if I end up having a long night, it’s almost always after taking meds.

The meds aren’t a magic bullet but, my god, life is better with them! If I think of anything else I’ll add it

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it

Ye, I’d struggle to believe ONE key getting generated like that, but 8 points to pure incompetence

No it’s not! That’s my whole point! Her appearance is beyond irrelevant! Focus on what matters!

Yes because that’s an ACTUAL hate symbol. It’s not equivalent, and it most certainly is not the same thing here.

Her appearance is relevant

No. It’s not. Everyone adjusts their appearance to some degree to fit in with their chosen group.

If you can’t make a coherent argument against someone’s behavior, or politics or beliefs, you fall back to their appearance.

It’s why bigots will attack transgender people for not “passing” or attack Muslims for wearing a hijab, or misogynists attack women for having died hair, or too many piercings or why racists will attack the way other people dress.

It’s easy. It’s lazy. It’s just “othering” people in the dumbest way possible.

She’s done PLENTY to criticize, no matter what she looks like.

So what? It’s still attacking a woman based on appearance. It’s not ok, no matter who the woman is, and I will die on this hill.

Now if you want to attack her CHARACTER because her office decided that SHOOTING A 1 YEAR OLD BECAUSE HIS MOTHER STOLE DIAPERS is somehow ok, have at it.

No, no, it’s “have you tried a more expensive thing”

Nope, that’s what it is, although “hallucinations” is generous. “Waking nightmares” is probably a better description.

Honestly, smart move, op. That shit is an active hostage situation. DPH addiction is the scariest thing to me. At least with other drugs, I understand that taking them is fun, but DPH is just fucked from start to end

I don’t know if it’s easier to manipulate people into baser emotions, I think the sort of people who want to foster the more noble emotions just aren’t interested in manipulating people at scale like that. Perhaps that should change.

5 cubed as in 5 to the power of 3

The response is clever because to reverse it you say you’re looking for the cube root of 125