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In my day the punchline to this joke was

Polo: the one with the whole... Shit

Personally I group them into sets of 3 by release I.e. books 1-3, books 4-6... Each set is consistent with the others in its set, but the quality decreases as the sets go on. Which is alright because the first trilogy is amazing and the final trilogy is fine.

More than anything, I really enjoyed the found family in The Expanse and that's what pulled me through the series. I get actual homesick for the Rosinante after finishing a book. As for the writing, everything is "said" by characters if that's any indication, I primarily consumed them as audiobooks so maybe that's why it was so jarring,

Generally, I would definitely recommend the first three, would probably recommend the second three, and after that inertia will either pull you through or not.

That's what we call in the industry "foreshadowing".

In the game of patriarchy trans rights, women trans people are not the opposing team. They are the ball.

If it were something based out of a lack of feeling rather than a surfit it would probably be a fairly innert part of the way I express myself.

I obviously don't know what it would have been like if I were born female, maybe I would still be a man. As of right now though, I wear men's clothes because I always have, wear a man's hairstyle because I have always have, use he/him because I always have... It feels more like inertia than a part of me, along with just being easier to conform to something I don't particularly care about, so if the ball had started off rolling the otherway... I dunno though. I suppose another explaination is that I'm just really secure in my "manness" I don't feel any need to convince myself that I am man, I just am one. Probably why I don't care about the "because" I just don't need it.

My answer to the initial question would depend on how much it upended my life I suspect. If I woke up, I was a woman and everyone remembered me as always being a woman, my wardrobe filled with skirts and I could slot right in, I think I'd just keep on trucking after some initial shock. But, if I had to explain that "I'm a woman now", buy new clothes, and all that nonsense, I think my answer would more closely resemble the parent comment.

I believe I'm the latter in this unauthorized and unofficial poll.

I'm a lot more attached to my sexuality than my gender. I am definitely attracted to women. I am a man because it's more convenient for me to be a man however. I have thought about whether I'm NB due to my indifference, but then I rethink my thoughts and notice

I am a man [...]

and just decide to stop there, I don't have to care about the "because". I'm a keep it simple stupid kinda person.

I don't disagree. In context though, it's the last (read latest), best and final (there will be no more) offer.

Last week I went out for dinner. I hope this week isn't my final week, that would be sad.

You're not a train, you don't have to announce your departure.

Struggling actually.

I'm retraining into another sector, and so I'm taking a course on it. It's not that I fail to understand the information in the course, I struggle with the academic writing, and so can't communicate that understanding in the way the course demands. Which is unfortunate as I'm retraining into a communication based sector, being able to understand needs and communicate ideas is kinda the whole deal, makes me feel like I'm not cut out for it.

Compounded with that, I don't feel the course is setting me up for success, it keeps asking me to describe "how things work" in my organisation. I'm taking the course to learn how things work in such organisations, funnily they aren't keen on posting internal policies on the public web for me to find and describe. So, it's asking me to first conceive of a system I have zero familiarity with, then describe that system in a language no-one speaks in the real world.

On top of that my fiancée and I just moved and I'm the primary homemaker, so there's all those stresses and time sinks I'm falling behind on.

On the plus side, my motorcycle is in the livingroom so that's nice, it makes a pretty ornament as well as a fun toy and useful tool. We have a washing machine arriving tomorrow, so I can do laundry in the house which will save me time. And I booked a week off work, mostly so I can catch up, but instead I seem to have wasted it all.

Wildermyth is just so endearing I loved my time with it.

Taking the same character through each campaign was pretty fun like I was making a serialised demi-god: Doofus and the mountain horde, Doofus and the ancient threat etc. Because characters age though the campaign, it has interesting implications in the world lore. Like we're an archivist document the various legends of Doofus, acknowledging where they contradict and maybe speculating on how the differences in each culture's legend of Doofus reflects back.

Downside is I optimised the fun out of the combat in always having Doofus at the center of the strategy, each encounter then played out the same.

Nakamura said in a podcast all he would need to know is that there is a winning move and he'd be able to find it.

So, just one buzz is enough that says "in this position there is a move that wins the game".

Kinda like everyone's ratings in puzzles is higher than in elo because by the very nature of the puzzle there is a winning sequence to find.

In play, if I don't spot a winning tactic I just move to (try to) improve my position. In puzzles if I don't spot a winning tactic, I look again, and again, and again....

We all have.

At least "crazy cat person" has an excuse. When I want to run naked through the woods with the pack, it's just because I'm weird... apparently.

Toxoplasmosis?

Yeah I tried to summarise that in the what would prevent fatal attacks paragraph. I try to see through a "what effective measures have we done to regulate things that can cause harm" lense.

Cars can cause harm, we demand training, licencing, registering, insurance, stoppages by police to provide proof of the above, etc etc. There are still fatalities though. I would accept every one of those measures being applied to dog ownership, you're right it sucks for the peeps owning chihuahuas, their insurance will likely be low though.

That said, after engaging with the dog foster system (as a fosterer), I have other reasons for wanting to limit access to dogs. I weigh the harm done to families that lose an opportunity Vs the harm prevention I believe the above will deliver by decreasing the number of homeless dogs and increasing the living standards by improving the skills of the owner. I would add all animals are neutered at the earliest possible convenience unless owned by a registered breeder, that registration being an absolute bastard to get, perhaps requiring yearly inspections to curb puppy mills too. I love dogs, I don't see their ownership as a right but a responsibility first and a privilege second.

I did think about banning characteristics, which then lead me on to blades as we regulate blades by characteristic. I have absolutely no idea if it was effective though, and didn't care to check, so I didn't include it. But how to apply it to dogs, weight maybe, biting force are objectively measurable but what happens if some family just lands an absolute chonk. As you say, the actual relevent characteristics are functionally impossible to police.

Nice argument, I showed you the data the proves it wrong though.

But beyond that the argument is flawed fundamentally, dog breeds aren't static and the gog abusers don't have to start with dachounds.

My argument stands and is supported by the data.

Once again, someone didn't read my first two paragraphs.

But for challenges.

Here is a list of dog attacks fatalities in the uk the summary has a yearly count. Just looking at the numbers, what year was the pitbull ban and state your reasoning only using the numbers? For example if you pick 1985 because there were 4 that year and fewer after, then the dog breed ban wasn't effective because the exact same thing happened in 1991.

Dog breed bans do not prevent fatal dog attacks, the numbers bear that out and my initial comment explains why. This is so much red meat for the emotional or dead cat for the guilable, whatever it is, it's boring.

I went through PIP twice, denied, appealed and won the first time. Second time I was denied I just couldn't do it again. I'm also lucky in that I have a supportive partner, otherwise I don't know. Currently rocking a part time job as enforced physio and some pocket money, but there's no pride in that.

What's worse, if you're denied PIP you can't apply again for the same condition so I'm SOL now. If it hits the fan I don't know what I'd do, an increase in hours at my current job to support myself would be such a decrease in QOL I don't think it would be worth it, that's assuming I could do it at all.

I'm currently retraining but I don't know how I can sell a recliner as a reasonable accommodation for full time work. Mostly I'm just broken.... kinda just unloaded there, sorry.

I'm not sure this is a reply to me. Difference in what is that? I think my initial two paragraphs respond to what I think you're saying regardless.