Well we'll just have to start celebrating trans kids coming of age like a sweet 16 or quinceanera except unbelievably gay. Sucks for the kids hard to not have access to puberty blockers and hrt (for older teens).
Unless the Democrats grow a spine and put up a fight (I'm looking at you Miss represent-all-Delawareans-except-the-trans-ones) the only thing we're going to be able to do is try to frame it as a rite of passage for trans kiddos.
A significant reduction in the population leads to better outcomes for the survivors. Mass death events in history, such as both world wars and the various pandemics, are usually (but not always) followed by a period of progress and prosperity.
Humans breed faster than their civilizations can keep up with and in the modern era scarcity is artificially created by arbitrary ownership of natural resources. Fewer people means more resources per person.
However if your hypothetical pandemic were to strike, it would create a problem the world has never encountered before (at least as far as I can find) so predicting what might happen is basically guess work. Given how violent brutes tend to be more successful in scarce environments, the outcome would be very grim.
Fuck that. You should or shouldn't do whatever you want. I laugh at my own jokes all the time, even when I am alone, or haven't said the joke out loud. People find it much more off-putting if you just randomly start laughing.
Anyone who has a problem with someone laughing at their own jokes either has trauma or is an asshole not worth anyone's time.
I found that was better when I would sort subs by new or rising and comment there. Once something makes it to the front page it's pointless to comment on unless your goal was getting more internet points. Lemmy is much easier to get into conversations just because of how much smaller it is.
Most of that comes from how much smaller Lemmy is than Reddit and the demographic of Lemmy users. I don't have hard information, but at least anecdotally the average Lemmy user is about ten years older, it seems more men use it even than reddit, and skews extremely left.
The low volume of users means a lot less content and fewer niche communities. The biggest between Lemmy and Reddit though is the lack of bots. There are bots on Lemmy for sure and probably the same kinds that are most of reddit, but there just isn't as big of an incentive because the ROI is smaller.
I decided to leave reddit after I switched from lurking to trying to participate more. Most of the comments I made for about six month had little to no interaction, to the point I wondered if I was shadow banned (but wasn't as far as I could tell). When I was able to interact with another redditor it was rarely pleasant and usually was just someone telling me I was wrong or misunderstanding my comment and arguing against the misunderstanding.
I didn't have a community of people on reddit to being but I did ask a friend to try it a few months back. She didn't stick around though because of the lack of content.
If reddit isn't working for you Lemmy might, but I would encourage you to consider what it is you want from social media and see if there might be a better fit somewhere because Lemmy is just anarchist reddit.
Edit: It's also worth pointing out the average Lemmy user is much smarter than the average redditor so if the idiots on reddit are your main problem you might find it fits your needs
There are a lot of factors at play that make transness an easy target to be the scary other bigots rally around.
The simple truth is that unless you yourself are trans you cannot understand the trans experience. There is no way to explain the scope or impact it has on someone's life. It's automatically alien and provides essentially a permanent out group. Anyone who is uncomfortable with people who are different or that have different experiences than themselves are almost certainly transphobic to some degree. Right now to the best of my knowledge transphobia is the only thing all hate groups share.
Trans people are the current scapegoats because prior to the pandemic we had an explosion of trans people feeling safe enough to come out online (I blame Obama making us all feel safe). They are particularly effective because both white nationalists and evangelicals use queerness as a scapegoat all the time anyway so it was easy for them to rally around. Which is why conservative politicians fearmonger around trans people.
It's not that simple, but it's close enough for a lemmy comment.
To be fair they're not actually lying, they are misrepresenting the truth. Facebook actually doesn't sell your data to third parties because they lease temporary access to it instead. Selling the data would mean they couldn't recapitalize it with the same customers.
Meta's customers couldn't use it to skip doing their own market research and need to already know who they want to advertise to before they buy ads with Facebook. (It does provide insights and analytics about demographics during a campaign as well)
The text in the painting reads "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" which (more or less) translates to "This is not a pipe." What Margritte is saying is that literally it is not a pipe, it is a painting of a pipe. But it's also not just a painting of a pipe, it is an image of what Margritte holds as his internal concept of a pipe.
Communicating complex ideas to others is difficult because words hold different meanings for different people and the more nuanced the more language starts to get in the way. But all communication is imperfect.
It's not solipsistic though because much of the meaning you might hold for words is contextual to the people who taught you language and your relationships with others. Your conception of those word's meanings are your interpretation of the meaning someone else holds. Language and communication are much more effective viewed from the perspective of collaboration rather than expression. In other words working to establish shared understanding makes communication more effective.
I don't understand why some books are wrapped in plastic at all. Like is it to protect the cover? Prevent people from reading it at the book store? Some weird contract with a vendor that requires a percentage of books be wrapped? A quirk of the shop that printed the book?
Interesting. There is a strong correlation between social media use and mental illness. I wonder if maybe there is some link at play here.
Unlike Millennials, gen z had social media as soon as their parents let them. I wonder if the social pressure of trying to maintain a presence on socials might be influencing the risk aversion.
Well we'll just have to start celebrating trans kids coming of age like a sweet 16 or quinceanera except unbelievably gay. Sucks for the kids hard to not have access to puberty blockers and hrt (for older teens).
Unless the Democrats grow a spine and put up a fight (I'm looking at you Miss represent-all-Delawareans-except-the-trans-ones) the only thing we're going to be able to do is try to frame it as a rite of passage for trans kiddos.