[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 52 points 1 week ago

My area has mostly stopped getting snowfalls this-is-fine

When i was a kid, we used to build snowmen every winter. Just rolled up giant balls of the stuff and stacked them in the garden. Now we have maybe two days per winter where it doesn't melt to grey slush immediately. It's gotten to the point where i immediately go out and take a walk when we get snow and i have time because i just love snow. The way it makes the light stray, blankets the world, makes the air taste so fresh and icy, muffles every sound besides the creaking under my boots. And apparently, now it can also kill techbros.

[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 52 points 1 month ago

Because they're committing war crimes against Italians:

A primary cause of Italy’s reported embargo and Meloni’s open declaration of it is Israel’s recent attacks on peacekeepers in the United Nations’ Interim Force In Lebanon (UNIFIL), to which Italy is the largest contributor of troops.

Before this, Italy kept signing arms deals with Israel in spite of the war crimes in Gaza.

[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 54 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Trans women are also affected by baldness and as somebody who's close friends with several who suffer massively from that particular fact, it's kinda gross to have to read this. Cis women who suffer from alopecia will also be treated very differently than a bald man.

What we're talking about here is body shaming. It's not ok, it's particularly not appropriate "workplace banter", but we already have a term for it and it's definitely not gender-based harassment. Gender-based harassment relies on a gendered power hierarchy. Gendered power hierarchies in our society place men above women, cis people above trans people, binary people over nonbinary people, endo people over inter people and gender conforming people over gender nonconforming people. A trans woman being bullied for wearing a wig counts as gender-based harassment when we use that term to encompass transphobia, because people are actively using the characteristic of baldness to invalidate her gender identity and enforce a hierarchy that places trans people below cis people. A cis man being made fun of for being bald is not that. It's still cruel and not ok, it is way too accepted socially and if it happens in a workplace environment, it's perfectly appropriate when his coworkers get sanctioned for it because it's just shitty behavior. But it's not the same thing as the experiences of women in the workplace in a patriarchal society.

[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 52 points 1 month ago

Anybody, and i mean literally anybody in support of these laws is an accessory to infanticide and should be treated as such.

[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 56 points 2 months ago

guess he didn't take it too well when the game literally told him to stop obsessing over other people's sexuality

[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 52 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That's just how you say "hack journalists who googled 'Thomas Matthew Crooks Facebook' for five minutes" when you've watched too much Mr. Robot.

[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 51 points 4 months ago

My trick with astrology people is "i don't believe in astrology because i'm an aquarius".

[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 52 points 4 months ago

best satire of enlightened centrism since the disco elysium text with the coalition airships.

this is satire, right?

[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 52 points 5 months ago

This is bait, Germans are annoyingly obsessed with baked goods (or i guess boiled in that case) and ofc you can get bagles here.

[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 52 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It will never stop being weird to me that you anglos just translate his first name to Frederick / Fred instead of going with Friedrich / Fritz, it's as if i was calling Biden and Stalin "Jupp" because that's the traditional short form for Joseph in the Rhineland.

Wait i've actually called Stalin Jupp in the past nvm

Edit: RIP my inbox lol

these replies are actually really informative

[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 57 points 1 year ago

To think i ever doubted Stalin about social democracy objectively being the left wing of fascism.

[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 56 points 1 year ago

It's telling and damning when even cis users can clearly recognize typical chaser behavior like the fixation on pushing and enforcing certain ideals of transness (that line up with the average chaser's fetishism) as the only valid ones. I'm trans myself and date other trans people exclusively and a core part of making that work is understanding that trans bodies do not and can never fit one singular mold, are usually subject to change, sometimes massively so, and that the only responsible way to treat a trans lover is unwavering support and understanding along that entire process.

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