MindTraveller @ MindTraveller @lemmy.ca

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Can you explain how a piece with a title like "Helldivers is awesome and fun" can be judged at all for factual accuracy?

I just had a great idea. You know how Rowling is always going on in the narration of the HP books about how X bad female character has "mannish hands"? Let's turn Rowling and her mannish hands into a meme just to fuck with her

There's no such thing as an objective left or right. It's a relative scale. You shouldn't have a bot calling things left or right at all.

Also don't push Ground News. They already get plenty of press from their astroturfing.

Make sure the screwdriver has a plastic or rubber grip lmao

I hear Walter White brews some pretty pure capitalism. Maybe we should try his stuff.

Can confirm, I did this joke once

https://lemmy.ca/post/26344221/10812115

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8372492/

Yes. Don't raise your kids at the bus stop if you can't play nice with the bus people. That bird had ample time to realise that people are always using the bus stop. Bird should have laid eggs somewhere peaceful. Now bird is being an asshole for no reason as a response to its own bad choices. We should kill off asshole birds like that and let the species evolve smarter and less mean.

Fun fact: a lot of fairy tales have wolves going after humans with a ferocity you will not see in nature. This is because back when those stories were written, they did. However, humans are vindictive. Man-killer wolves would be hunted down with spears and killed. Over time, wolves evolved to be more cautious of humans and less aggressive. And now our wolf problems are solved.

Robert Galbraith pretends to be a different gender in order to gain a political advantage and make money. Having absolutely no sense of empathy whatsoever, he assumes everyone else is like him. He assumes trans people are all pretending to be a different gender in order to gain a political advantage and make money. And the only political advantage you can get out of trans femininity (as opposed to trans masculinity) is the appropriation of feminist resources.

(I mean, you can also get great skin, beautiful flowing locks, and resistance to covid from trans femininity, but I don't think Robert knows about those)

It's made by a different team, but it's still Subnautica. I liked it, just understand it's not as good as the first.

Spare me these twisted visions, cruel spectre!

I think they're complaining that none of the other groups in the queer umbrella get represented visually. Always representing one marginalised group is indeed bad if it's always taking a place that could be representing a lot of different groups.

Also big assumption that they aren't a bigger target than drag queens.

The line is at policing other people using long initialisms. Using a short one yourself is fine, telling others not to use long ones is a dick move.

I'm not accusing them of misgendering her. I'm just saying they didn't use her preferred pronouns. I thought I already explained that fact. You keep on going back to this issue and trying to accuse me of misgendering. What's with all the false accusations? I already explained that I don't have as big a problem as you seem to think I have. Is it that you just want there to be a big blowout fight so you're trying to invent an argument on my side for you to rail against?

No, I just mean to say that they didn't use her preferred pronouns. Surely you can acknowledge this is the correct factual interpretation of what happened. A simple yes or no will suffice, I don't want this massive argument. I'm not interested in a big fight.

To be fair, Ender Wiggin calls his black friend the N word and jokes about owning him as a slave one time. Ender's Game still somehow manages to be less racist than Harry Potter, but it's a close race.

Totally agree with you that I'm less ashamed to like the Ender books tho. Every time I try to understand Leibniz I just remember reading the Ender sequels.

tbf tho Tate is a little manlet. I am in disbelief that anyone takes their cues on traditional masculinity from him. Guy with a face like that, he should be preaching the virtues of open mindedness and tolerance. If he was, I'd respect his masculinity. But since he demands that men be judged for failing to embody masculinity, I'm happy to treat him as he wishes to be treated and conclude he is a tiny soyboy with a pathetic chin.

Yeah the HP books are misogynist as fuck. When I was a little one and I found out they were written by a woman, I was in disbelief. Why would a woman write something so mean to women in general?

Well, the author of HP goes by Robert these days so I guess I had the right idea.

I am a woman, like any other woman. I was born a woman. I have lived as a woman. I compete as a woman. There is no doubt about that.

Imane is a Muslim from a country where being trans is illegal. I think she's said enough words to the effect of preferring she/her despite the language barrier. If you expect her to be familiar enough with English to describe her preferences with regard to the specific grammatical rules of it, I find your demand xenophobic and racist. Her preferences can easily be inferred from the translations of what she says in her own language, in the context of her own country's and religion's social norms.

Zek is a lot smarter than Dukat.

She thought she was Dax, but she's really Damar. Elon Musk is Gul Dukat.