Ashelyn @ Ashelyn @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Very well put, better than I could have said it myself

Hot take:

Every time I see a Doctor Seuss parody that doesn't respect the very strict meter that made his stuff flow so well, it's always followed by about five minutes of me trying to fix it and then stopping because that was supposed to be the author's responsibility. You can sneak in an extra syllable here or there, and there will be situations where it's ambiguous based on word pronunciation, but any more than two syllables off and you should've workshopped it some more.

Take all of these matters most seriously
The gravest of grave should be clear
To step out of meter where any could see
Will only get side-glancing sneers

And who, then, shall patch up this unfinished road
Assembled with half-baked word stones?
'Tis not my intent but I think it's best flowed
With a concrete from Onceler's old bones

Seems like an awfully disposable view of support animals

How so?

This is the actual ad, the video the person above linked cuts periodically between the actual ad and drop-in skit scenes carrying the joke well beyond the point of being funny (imo)

https://youtu.be/uMwFWDIFVCU?si=TP0jPKxxj1-n1A0g

Still some weird undertones there tho

I understand the sentiment but there's a lot in the image that's arguably gender essentialist and/or not accurate.

Some thoughts:

Titties. Self-explanatory

Indeed they are, but they're not a necessary condition to being a woman.

Decimate your fapping addiction

I think my main issue is the implicit assumption that the viewer has such an addiction to begin with. Also estrogen has ways of compensating for a lowered libido, such as a reduced/eliminated refractory period (of course ymmv). Source: guess ;p

Ability to wear adorable clothes

Boys can do this too!

ditch your angry, masculine mannerisms

This kind of just assumes that men have angry mannerisms, and is what I take most issue with tbh.

The path to anger management is primarily through introspection and/or therapy. Estrogen will not magically overhaul your personality, habits, and tendencies; there are things it changes, and it's helped my mental state immensely—I wouldn't give it up for the world and it helped facilitate the changes I needed for myself—but there's so much extra work involved to in self-improvement and actualization than just acknowledging your gender identity and taking hrt.

So who decides the law and how does justice get upheld in this system? It seems to me that if any corporation becomes powerful enough, it essentially becomes the de-facto government in any areas it has control over.

Sorry, let me rephrase: while you can make a good approximation of the average person's schedule in many places due to 9-5 culture, it will, at best, still be just that—an approximation and there will be a significant number of people who didn't follow it. If you need to know a specific person's availability, you will still have to remember details about their routine, and then also convert their time zone to your own or clarify "whose time" you're talking in. That adds an extra burden on top of the whole AM/PM confusion that can occur as well.

If Alice lives in a timezone 4 hours behind yours, and you both have work until 5pm in each respective timezone, you've probably already calculated that difference and just kind of know that she's not off work until 9pm, and she's doing the same mental calculation that you're off work around the time her clock hits 1pm. This doesn't even take into account other obligations or scheduling.

Point is that there's already lots of memorization going on. What difference is it if you wake up at t=2.25 global vs 8:00AM local if it's light out and most others around you get up at the same time and work for a roughly equal interval to 9hrs including the unpaid lunch? Communicating with people further away requires figuring out schedules regardless.

Of course, nobody is used to dealing with the time in this matter. Transition difficulties aside, however, it's not objectively any more difficult than the juggling of coordination we already have to do. People just seem to have a weird attachment to everything having "normal" times even when it's all quite relative in this case.

Edit: grammar and stuff

You don't know my schedule just because you know my time zone lol

One of our cats has a problem with marking personal items left on the floor, even though she's fixed. We think it's partially because she has bad eyesight and so marks stuff so she always knows where it is. It's usually, but not exclusively, something I or my SO wear or have worn recently:

✔️ My purse
✔️ My jacket. Probably three times
✔️ SO's backpack
✔️ My backpack that was sitting in the closet unused for several months
✔️ Articles of clothing that didn't make it into a laundry basket
✔️ The top of the cat tower when we moved it into the living room (trying to assert dominance I guess)
✔️ Rugs (I dunno under what circumstances, she hasn't marked their replacements. She will re-mark previously marked and washed rugs though)
✔️ Towels that don't get put up

The solution has more or less been to stop keeping anything important on the floor.

The other cat likes to occasionally pull towels onto the floor so he can use them as temporary bedding or snuggle up against them. You can probably guess what sometimes happens after he leaves them there.

Capitalism 😍💕🦈💕

Reject modernity, embrace Sylphic pronouns

They do but it's also determined by how one sets their own profile to be categorized in the algorithm. On OkCupid for instance, you're given multiple checkboxes which include "woman" and "trans woman" as separate categories; the site doesn't require you to pick one over the other in any way, and there's a list of at least a dozen to choose from. I don't blame anyone who is trans and doesn't select the option; in a perfect world it really would be irrelevant imo. That said, I ended up picking only "trans woman" for my own category and being up front about it in my profile to weed out people like OP.

But what is there to stop them from simply hiring a private militia to kill their competition? The NAP?

Do you think they would be unable to form their cartels if the state was abolished? Pray tell, what's to stop them from doing so?

Ah but if you ask this guy that's because of big gubmint meddling in an imaginary, utopian free and fair market

Does covid count?

nice meme, bold of you to assume however that all rich people don't take all the money from the state they can get their hands on

Oh sweet nothingness, just me and the good ol puppers...

Opera has been in the web browser playing field for a long time at this point, but haven't been super relevant until the last couple years due to GX