MindTraveller @ MindTraveller @lemmy.ca

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Travel between the east and west of Australia is made difficult by a lifeless expanse called the Nullarbor Plain. In America, long haul travel is supported by the truck stops, which I understand to be huge complexes involving McDonald's and sometimes even entire malls. In Australia, it's a little different. Truckers and travellers are supported by the noble establishments known as chip shops. They sell chips. Sometimes with gravy. And there is always a shaker of chicken salt on a little table next to the door. And if you want some protein in your diet, then you can instead order one of Mrs Mac's Famous Beef Pies. Make sure to get a little squirty pack of tomato sauce. Many people have claimed certain things as universal Australian experiences and been wrong. Chip shops are the UNIVERSAL Australian icon.

There are chip shops on the Nullarbor Plain, but they're not connected to an electrical grid. Which means that until recently, you couldn't drive an electric car from Adelaide to Perth. But you can now. They installed electric car changers. And what powers the chargers? Why, a biodiesel generator that runs on waste oil from the chips.

Everything old is new again.

There's also a Dread Gazebo, which is a joke only cool people will get

I think state machines are cool and groovy. I still don't understand genetic algorithms but I wish I did.

15 years ago we were all saying "AI is just a series of IF statements" because of expert systems and y'all forgot

Doesn't matter if the car sees me, I'll see the car. I'm always careful. Any time my attention is compromised, I do get off. When I'm healthy and cautious, I ride.

If there's no bike lane, and bikes can't ride across intersections, how on earth are bikes supposed to get around at all?

Yes. I also think doctors should risk the lives of patients by prescribing antibiotics for bacterial infections. This is a risk because some patients have undiagnosed penicillin allergies. There is always a level of acceptable risk. Given that nobody has ever been killed by a bicycle they weren't riding in my country, I find the risk acceptable. The pedestrians on the route I take have a higher chance of dying from lung cancer due to car pollution, PER CAR, than from me killing them.

Given that's not the law in my country, I have to assume that it's your personal opinion. And your personal opinion that I should risk my life just to get to the grocery store is fucked.

I hate shortened crossings. Pedestrian crossings should follow the flow of pedestrians. Bikes shouldn't have to slow down to make sharp turns just to cross the street. There should be crossings that go in a sensible line.

Hexbear users aren't leftists, they're radical centrists. Preach the virtues of communism while attacking people for being communists. Speak up about the genocide in Palestine while denying the genocide in China. Support capitalist Russia and Imperialist Putin in the name of anti-capitalism and anti-imperialism. Preach the values of queer acceptance while harassing people for being trans. Every good opinion they have is tainted by acting the exact opposite way the next day. They claim to be leftists, but 50% of the time their actions are the actions of fascists.

Yes, mangoes are too sweet. I hate them. It's like eating sugar directly out of the pot.

Please don't federate with Hexbear.

Why would there be burglars in a post scarcity communist society, genius?

https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/ektjhq/jackdaws_arent_crows/

It's an individual tracking code that tells Google who generated the youtube link you click on. That way, they can see who you're talking with on other websites.

You left your SI in the link

He's always been a ruthless capitalist scumbag.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp.

https://en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/72o8qh/the_sordid_history_of_microsoft_or_alternatively/

Here's the thing. You said a "dolphin is a whale."

Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that.

As someone who is a scientist who studies whales, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls dolphins whales. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.

If you're saying "whale family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Cetacea, which includes things from porpoises to belugas to orcas.

So your reasoning for calling a dolphin a whale is because random people "call the big ones whales?" Let's get whale sharks and great whites in there, then, too.

Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A dolphin is a dolphin and a member of the whale family. But that's not what you said. You said a dolphin is a whale, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the whale family whales, which means you'd call vaquitas, bottlenose, and other marine mammals whales, too. Which you said you don't.

It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?

This one.

What I'm hearing right now is that you think my preference to have a character that looks like me in video games isn't worth pursuing because of camel toes, and because a troll might conceivably use the same features that help me, to make a character you don't like. I already told you the nonbinary perspective on this issue. I'd just like to take a moment before I offer counterarguments to ask... what on earth is your intention with offering these arguments?

Now, as to camel toes: I cannot remember ever seeing a visible camel toe on a character in a video game. Maybe this is just because I don't make a habit of staring at the crotches of women and femmes in games. But if I did notice a camel toe in a video game that was not about sex, my first thought would be "what the fuck game developers" and I would immediately be on the look out for misogyny in other aspects of the game. Maybe I'm completely off base here and I've actually been playing characters with camel toes this entire time and not realised it because I'm not a creep. But in that case, revealing this information to me would increase the gender dysphoria I feel in these games. Why do you want to do that?

And as for trolls? I saw someone in this thread respond to you say they like bearded ladies. You might have read that as a joke, but it wasn't. Popular streamer JoCat is also a fan of bearded ladies, and I know this because he was cancelled by a bunch of TERFs for playing one in Baldur's Gate while singing a controversial song. He decided to quit making his YouTube videos because of the harassment. JoCat is not a transphobe. He's used his platform to raise money for LGBTQ charities in the past, and he was previously embedded quite firmly in the queer D&D youtubers community, friends with a lot of queer people who had nothing but positive things to say about him. I think that you're confusing your trauma around transphobic representations with other genuine queer people who just wanna live as themselves, and you're circling back around to transphobia as a result.

https://lgbtqia.wiki/wiki/He/Him_Lesbian

https://lgbtqia.wiki/wiki/Crosspronominal