faythofdragons @ faythofdragons @slrpnk.net

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In the US it's technically a target, since you can be ticketed for going too fast or too slow.

Yeah, we absolutely need to start with worker rights. I think part of the problem is that we in America have been on the nationalist train for so long that we're simply unaware of how good it could be.

It's nuts that people over here think my state law of 1 hour PTO awarded for every 40 hours worked is too much of a burden for employers.

How does missing work help the climate? Genuine question, but I've been fired when a car broke down over the weekend, and I couldn't get another one before Monday. I don't see how it was better that I wound up spending the money I was saving for an electric car on an old junker so I didn't miss rent and get evicted.

Edit: Just tell me you don't have an answer instead of downvoting, this isn't Reddit.

On the flip side, they've got plenty of excuses they can use, I'mma smoke my weed, haha

Nah, I'm calling Hitler a Nazi, unless you want to claim that he wasn't

Tell me you don't know about the madagascar plan without mentioning the madagascar plan

The stereotype didn’t coalesce out of nowhere spontaneously and entirely out of the imagination of privileged assholes.

No, it came out of propaganda, but go off on this imagined past that neither of us actually experienced.

Nice, another person that doesn't care about accuracy of information in their arguments.

That's not true though. I am a skilled machine operator, and I was hired with zero experience and trained on the job because there just aren't enough trained operators locally available in my industry.

historically a lot of those jobs were populated primarily by high school students

TIL McDonalds didn't used to be open during the day because the majority of its workforce was in school.

I will never put a light mode display in my car. I will take an analogue dial over something that burns spots into my retinas when I'm trying to drive. Even with dark mode, the amount of ambient light coming off that thing is gonna bother me at night.

We need to downgrade everybody's headlights while we're talking about personal preference too. If the car behind me has lights that are so bright they cast a shadow over my own headlights, they're too bright.

Right wingers when someone left of centre appears: I don’t think you’re right but you make valid points on xyz

I see you haven't met my family.

So, I'm afab and probably agender, which is where the confusion is coming from. I'm on estrogen and progesterone because otherwise my cycle is stuck to 'on', so even my relationship with hormones is complicated.

Neither of these things directly tell me my subconscious sex, but when the testosterone makes me feel awful, or when being treated and seen as a woman makes me feel wonderful, or when estrogen gives me mild waves of buzzing bodily euphoric, I make inferences about my subconscious sex from that.

See, none of that resonates with me at all. Going off my meds makes me feel terrible, but that's from the resulting anemia. I've tried living as a man, I've tried living as a woman, I've never gotten that "yes, this is me" feeling that people talk about. I don't know what "psychological self conceptualization" as a gender means, because it's all uncomfortable for me?

It feels like what you're talking about is the university course and I'm still in primary education.

When I say gender identity is biological, I am talking about what Julia Serano calls “subconscious sex” which she also sometimes interchanges with “gender identity”, which is basically that innate and unchanging sense of your sex / gender.

Okay, but what about those of us that have never had an innate and unchanging sense of my sex/gender?

I'm with you on this. My childhood church was christo-fascist, and it was my wide wanderings on the web that showed me a different way was possible.

It has a fair share of copypasta, and I am curious what would make copypasta a meme, but not a twitter screenshot.

That doesn't match up with what KnowYourMeme.com says

Memes are broadly defined as culturally transmitted information or ideas and beliefs that can be spread from one organism, or group of organisms, to another.

Honestly, 'patriarchy' is a terrible term that leads to so much confusion. Too many people use it as 'blame men' and forget that it's supposed to be about men being culturally cast as perfect leaders and therefore punished for not meeting those impossible standards.

I have high hopes that the spreading acceptance of transfolk will start to break down the weird gender roles we've got, and maybe we can talk about some of this stuff more directly.

It's one of those things you kinda had to be there for. Japan used to be practically synonymous with new tech, and now it's just been baked into the aesthetic of the genre.