I will say that the blow dry option doesn’t really help sufficiently after using the bidet to avoid me wanting to use TP to dry off, but it might be sufficient for lady parts after peeing. Don’t have a vagina personally, so can’t say for sure.

Media reports help as they influence and are influenced by larger numbers of people. When a media outlet no longer feels it necessary to specify to their readers that meta was formerly known as Facebook, that is an indicator of wider acceptance. Local anecdotes are less useful. Your friends and acquaintances don’t say meta. Mine do. That doesn’t really say anything about broader trends.

It’s a failure of properly understanding intersectionality. Intersectionality says that the combination of societal status does not equal the sum of each individual status, but may in fact be its own unique thing. A black woman has unique challenges and experiences even compared with “women” in general, or “black people” in general, even though black women are black, and are women. This is a weird idea and hard for most people to wrap their heads around, so it’s not surprising that this comes up.

Jews (of which I am one) have a particularly troublesome social status intersection that creates a unique combination that leads to some troubling conclusions for modern left leaning Americans.

Consider the following two premises: oppressors, that is, the strong, should be fought against to prevent the weak from harm. And white people have historically been the oppressors.

Hopefully, these two statements are non-controversial and make sense.

Then come Jews, who, apart from their Jewishness, are basically considered white in the modern day. So jews are oppressors and must be fought against to protect the weak, right?

Ah… but there’s a nasty historical coincidence— the oppression against the jews has always been that they are secretly powerful and oppressing others. The elder protocols of Zion and other nonsense permeates the culture. Hundreds of years of jews being the evil bankers (because we were forbidden from having any other job). Constantly given garbage and unfavorable positions, and any success we reap from that is then used as ammo against us.

So the intersection of whiteness and Jewishness creates a self-reinforcing messy cycle of increasing hatred that is really hard to untangle.

Again, the new content is not dogshit. I get that you don’t appreciate it, but it’s simply not dogshit. And more than a fair bit of what went away? That was dogshit. The black armory? The infinite forest, heck, the whole Osiris expansion? No, it was not good. I’ll miss mars and the warmind stuff, but you have to admit there wasn’t a lot to do there. Forsaken? You can still access. That’s fantastic stuff. Beyond Light? That was loads of fun, still good, still accessible. Witch Queen? Wonderful. Lightfall? Well, the main campaign fell a little flat, but again, contains a lot of great content besides the campaign.

I understand being upset you can’t play the old stuff, like I can play old NES games… but it’s not a single player game. I can’t play Unreal Tournament 99 anymore either, and that sucks too, and there’s no real replacement for it either.

Yeah, you’re not buying something you get to own. I get wanting to own it, and you don’t. Here, you are buying access to what is available. But what is available is still fun. And that’s why people still play it. Objectively, why more people are actively playing it than ever have before— granted that I don’t understand how they can comprehend the story, jumping in late like this.