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I’m an anti-Zionist because I don’t think Britain had the right to carve up Mandatory Palestine. I don’t think Israel should have been created, but I also think nobody has the right to get rid of them now. There might come a point when the Israeli government is as unsalvageable as the third reich, but just as there’s now Germany where that had been, I don’t think the solution is to just remove the people who are citizens of Israel. I do wish the world were better at enforcing consequences on countries/leaders for bad actions though.

I’m honestly not sure how that would apply to infant adoptions. It’s my understanding that if the adoption occurs early enough, the adoptive parents will be listed on the birth certificate. It certainly feels like a child adopted in infancy by citizens should be just as eligible for the presidency as a child naturally born to citizens, but I’d also have a hard time drawing a line age-wise after which that would no longer apply and I do see a reason to bar children adopted at 17 from the presidency. My niece was adopted at three years old and she does remember her biological mother, but she’s absolutely my sister and brother in law’s daughter, in terms of her personality, culture, and values. That’s only a data point of one and I’d like more, but I don’t know how easy that would be to track for other adopted children.

It’s also not an exact science, especially if you’re not on hormonal birth control. My cycle is 27-29 days, unless I’m stressed, in which case it can be up to 40 days. My period then lasts 3-4 days, but every 7-8 months, it instead lasts a full week and is way, way heavier and more painful than normal. No medical issues that my doctor can tell, sometimes it just be like that. So I will know that I should be getting my period in the next couple of days, but it’s never exact.

I used to be better about tracking it, but I realized I could feel a twinge about 20 minutes before the bleeding starts. Now I’ll even wake up to it, so there’s really not a downside to not tracking my period. (Except unforeseen medical issues, bc failures, and general bodily awareness)

I don’t disagree with you that society does think that way, but I disagree with the sentiment so much.

I’m 33 and afab. I accepted being called a “girl” until I was about 23 (probably not a coincidence that that was the age at which I graduated college), but it started chafing at like 16, even though I didn’t have a good alternative at the time (because I agree that “female” as a noun feels gross). If someone called me a girl now I would correct them without hesitation in basically every scenario outside of a eulogy or wedding speech.

I really wish there was a better option. I don’t really like “woman,” but it’s better than gal, lady, dudette, chick, or girl imo. I’m perfectly fine with guy or dude, especially in plural, but I’m probably an egg, so that colors my perspective for the singular use a little.

I like tequila with a pickleback, which is the way less classy version of this.

That preface though:

AT a moment when Europe is in danger of a catastrophe worse than that of 1914 a book like this may be condemned as a distraction from the desperately urgent defence of civilization against modern barbarism.

Year by year, month by month, the plight of our fragmentary and precarious civilization becomes more serious. Fascism abroad grows more bold and ruthless in its foreign ventures, more tyrannical toward its own citizens, more barbarian in its contempt for the life of the mind. Even in our own country we have reason to fear a tendency toward militarization and the curtailment of civil liberty. Moreover, while the decades pass, no resolute step is taken to alleviate the injustice of our social order. Our outworn economic system dooms millions to frustration.

They’re receptive to other viewpoints, so I’ve had pretty successful conversations with them, they just start off with terrible takes. Plus they posted a couple of good memes and spurred some good conversation in the comments sections of those memes because of their perspectives.

When I noticed someone had a few downvotes, I took it as a red flag, but I don’t like to block people who aren’t trolls or awful people.

I had that enabled, but then I felt bad because I had one user at like -50. They don’t seem to be a troll, they just have consistently terrible takes (imo) and try to make jokes at the wrong time. I’m not a big down voter, and I started to wonder if I was seeing the negative number and becoming prejudiced against them, so I got rid of it.

I don’t know what the record is now, but I at least don’t have a reminder of previous bad takes next to their name, meaning I stay unbiased as long as I ignore usernames, which I do.

This is going to be confusing because of false cognates, but German words are italicized and English ones are not, which hopefully helps.

I’m a native English speaker in Germany, and a few months ago, I heard the captain of the German national women’s soccer team talking about their success using the general you and male pronouns. For context, the way to say the general you in German is “man”(the word for “man” is “Mann”), and the pronouns used for it are masculine ones. That’s fine theoretically and grammatically, but when the speaker is talking about members of a women’s soccer team, it feels jarring as hell to hear masculine pronouns (to my non-native speaker hypervigilant about grammar ears, at least).

I think it’s probably still even the same in English, if you’re especially prescriptive, but it would feel bizarre to hear Megan Rapinoe say “when one of us is tired, he gets back up anyway.”

If your minor child gets hurt at my house, you can sue me for negligence. If I didn’t talk to you beforehand, you’ve got a much easier case. If I then present evidence that you were abusive, you’ve got a much harder case. You’ve got to feel out the situation a little bit, but currently there’s no indication that her parents are crazy. They could tell their son that they’ll need to talk to the parents first and see how he responds.

Or worse, her parents flip out on your son

Well that’s a fucking problem. What if Russia, India, and the US turn against the rest of the world? I don’t know if other NATO countries and other countries with competitive militaries can do it alone. China is going to have to take a stand one way or the other. I hope they make the right decision, but I don’t know if they will.

Ehh, they scored more than half of those points within six minutes, and six out of seven within the first half hour. They stopped trying to score after halftime and dampened their post-goal celebrations. It seemed like they really weren’t trying to rub it in, but Brazil was just not being competitive.

It’s roughly 722, which isn’t far off enough of 961 to make a difference in the plausibility of this claim, but I wanted to throw that out there.

Sorry for the TMI

That video helped me understand my own mortality. I recognized that “huh, I guess I’m fucked” look from how my mom reacted when her cancer came back and it suddenly clicked that anything can happen to anyone at any time. This was several years after she died, but somehow it still hadn’t occurred to me.

I’ve been reading too much fanfiction about cardassians lately for this not to resonate

I’m very, very susceptible to addiction, but the thing that makes it easiest for me to curb a habit is to pretend I’ve already moved past it. If I think about junk food, I intentionally think of overly sweet, salty and artificial foods and (internally) express my distaste. With smoking, I think of the smell of an ashtray in the rain; with drinking, I think of cleaning up day old beer with a hangover.

Saying “I don't really have a sweet tooth” is what made me lose my sweet tooth.

I had an app that made me solve a simple polynomial equation to unlock my phone between 22-7am because I was taking ambien at the time and I didn’t want to risk it.

That could work, but we’d have to find a problem that hegseth can actually solve sober.

Fuck, now I feel like the dumbass. I thought it was loiterers, but looters now seems obvious.

Feel bad for their children, not the Yale educated lawyer who chose to marry him.