[-] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 2 points 2 hours ago

They decided not 2B, not that it was a question.

[-] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 2 points 2 hours ago

It's a bit like the logic of why Trump may be better than De'Satan, he's a reckless destructive arse, but at least he's stupid too.

Problem is though now they have a pile of people behind that 2025 doc to make up for their own lack of knowledge...

This one never had lunch at a public school in the 80s/90s...

Also a common thing at mine, oranges cut to a size where you could put them in your mouth to wear like a boxing mouth guard. Called them orange smiles...

[-] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 2 points 2 days ago

Huh, small rabbit hole there, wasn't aware there was a special baby blood type. So basically someone who has the luck to have dodged what sounds like a super common virus all their life gets to have special uses for their donations.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/cmv/symptoms-causes/syc-20355358

[-] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I don't know about the 'so shallow', that walks pretty boldly into incel speak generalizations. The part about the imbalance of likes rings true though. At one point an app I ventured onto had thought it was a good idea to make a visible marker on a profile of how many people liked them.

So as I'm going along it happened to try and match me with someone I know. So I messaged her for a laugh about it, and she said she had just joined a couple weeks back, boredom or some such. In the couple months I was there got something like a dozen requests, all from women in India or Phillipines, my guess they were hired by the company to help keep guys on since it was a fairly small place.

She on the other hand had a couple hundred already. Now admittedly she's plenty attractive, so that helps of course, but the number difference is crazy. At that point there needs to be some fast-call rejections to just have some reasonable number to look at in depth.

[-] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 91 points 4 months ago

How long do we have to put up with this charade of her being an impartial judge? Hardly a day goes by that she doesn't entertain some absurd request to impede the case in whatever way possible.

[-] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 101 points 5 months ago

I'm fairly sure if they took porn off the internet, there'd only be one website left, and it'd be called "Bring Back the Porn!"

[-] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 128 points 5 months ago

"See now, the press will take that, and they'll say, 'He said a horrible thing.'"

Ok, so the guy is a fuckwit and all, but the article has right in it where he pretty plainly put it as a joke. We don't need to feed the new cycle with every crass bs thing that comes out of his mouth.

[-] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 136 points 5 months ago

George Floyd murdered in the streets by police: "People are out of line and should be jailed for their reaction"

Old white dude gets convicted by a full jury of white color crimes: "BURN IT ALL DOWN!!!1!1"

Perfectly rational folks there.

[-] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 131 points 6 months ago

"Democrats were stymied for nearly three years because they did not take majority control of the five-member FCC until October."

Biden's first pick got held up in the Senate for a couple years and then replaced in 2023, until that seat was filled nothing was gonna happen.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com to c/lgbtq_plus@beehaw.org

Hey all,

So I'm looking to take an active step here to understand better some things that my straight/white/cis/middle-aged male brain has had a tough time wrapping itself around, particularly in the gender identity front.

I'm working from the understanding of physical sex as the bio-bits and the expressed identity as being separate things, so that part is easy enough.

What's confusing to me though is like this. If we take gender as being an expression of your persona, a set of traits that define one as male, female, or some combination of both then what function does a title/pronoun serve? To assume that some things are masculine or feminine traits seems to put unneeded rigidity to things.

We've had men or women who enjoy things traditionally associated with the other gender for as long as there have been people I expect. If that's the case then what purpose does the need for a gender title serve?

I'll admit personally questioning some things like fairness in cis/trans integrated sports, but that's outside what I'm asking here. Some things like bathroom laws are just society needing to get over itself in thinking our personal parts are all that special.

Certainly not trying to stir up any fights, just trying to get some input from people that have a different life experience than myself. Is it really as simple as a preferred title?

Edit: Just wanted to take a second to thank all the people here who took the time to write some truly extensive thoughts and explanations, even getting into some full on citation-laden studies into neurology that'll give me plenty to digest. You all have shown a great deal of patience with me updating some thinking from the bio/social teachings of 20+ years back. 🙂

[-] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 109 points 9 months ago

They should really try banning car theft, it's a lot more direct and to the point.

[-] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 241 points 9 months ago

*ring will no longer publicly acknowledge facilitating police requests...

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Or, when you get a sudden windfall inheritance from on high.

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