Locking this thread to clean up the mess. Come on, ya'll, we can do better than this.
Edit: I've unlocked the comments in here. We've removed some comments in this thread for being inflammatory or for not adhering to Beehaw's one (and only) sitewide rule: Be(e) Nice.
To elaborate a bit on what that means in !politics:
Be(e) Nice doesn't mean you have to always be positive or happy. It doesn't mean you always have to agree. It does, however, that at all times we have to remember the human on the other side of the screen. We can disagree and still be kind to each other and try to assume that others are operating in good faith. I get it - politics are messy and complicated and the issues are big and for many existential. But we can talk to each other and disagree with one another without resorting to personal attacks or escalating the discussion into an all out flame war.
And to reiterate - that doesn't mean that we will tolerate hate speech, JAQing off, sealioning, or other ways of engaging in bad faith. If you see these things, please report them to the mods.
Zucchini for me - although I'm not a huge fan of any member of the cucurbitae family. They've all got a taste (including the melons) that is overpoweringly strong to me that I just really can't stand. I think it's a genetic thing, like how some people detect a strong taste of soap in cilantro and other people don't.
Although, I guess it doesn't really matter if I taste good to myself or not, so maybe it doesn't matter?
Queer theory denies human physiology, elevating the idea that everything is socially constructed
You're already getting pushback on your other points, so I thought I would weigh in here. Biologically speaking, sex is multifaceted, variable, and somewhat malleable. Even anatomically or physiologically scientists say that gender and sex are not as simple or clean cut as you are making it out to be. Additionally, gender diverse people can be found across all cultures and throughout history - transgender people are not an invention of the post-modern era.
I don't think that acknowledging the reality that human experience is complex and multi-faceted is a left wing value. It is evident to anyone who honestly engages with scientific consensus and with the lived experiences of LGBTQ folks that those people exist. They're not going anywhere, and I don't think it's especially "left wing" to say we ought to make space for them in society to just live their lives as they are.
I'm not saying that you are solely at fault for the thread getting out of hand, but I hope we can agree that when things devolve to the point that we're talking about murdering other users and eating their corpses that the discussion has probably gotten out of hand.
I think there are ways of discussing even controversial topics without the conversation spinning out of control, but I know that this topic in particular touches a nerve with a lot of folks. Just please try to be mindful of whether you're escalating or deescalating the argument in the future.
Folks, there is important, valid discussion to be had about meat eating both from ethical an environmental perspectives. I'm not sure that !Technology is the place to have that discussion, however.
More importantly, this thread was not the way to discuss these issues, particularly on Beehaw. The behavior in this thread was not nice, and is not the way that these types (or any type) of discussion should be conducted.
Obviously we're not there yet, but anybody have any alternatives to coffee that work for them? I have tried switching to tea because of anxiety but I think the tannins in black tea actually made it worse. Green tea wasn't as bad, but I just didn't enjoy green tea very much. I may have been doing it wrong.
Locking this thread to clean up the mess. Come on, ya'll, we can do better than this.
Edit: I've unlocked the comments in here. We've removed some comments in this thread for being inflammatory or for not adhering to Beehaw's one (and only) sitewide rule: Be(e) Nice.
To elaborate a bit on what that means in !politics:
Be(e) Nice doesn't mean you have to always be positive or happy. It doesn't mean you always have to agree. It does, however, that at all times we have to remember the human on the other side of the screen. We can disagree and still be kind to each other and try to assume that others are operating in good faith. I get it - politics are messy and complicated and the issues are big and for many existential. But we can talk to each other and disagree with one another without resorting to personal attacks or escalating the discussion into an all out flame war.
And to reiterate - that doesn't mean that we will tolerate hate speech, JAQing off, sealioning, or other ways of engaging in bad faith. If you see these things, please report them to the mods.