Whhhhaaaaa..... So instead of an elected offical who has been making headlines weekly for the last 6 years, but the unelected wife of the president from 12 years ago?
Just my 2 cents, myself and many other trans women use Finasteride for hair retention as well. For what it's worth, my hair line is the same as when I started Fina.
(but I am on other hormones as well which helps, your personal results will vary)
That's a peak western chauvinist take right there. My wife and I are lowkey planning a trip to Thailand to explore the food, suppose that makes us some sort of creeps?
This whole concept of some places being judge worthy is racist as hell.
Sorry I want the world to be objectively a better place.
You're reducing racism and bigotry to an unmuteable fact of their biology. If someone like MTG or Matt Gaetz did a 180 and started showing up at protests talking about the inner workings they was privy in the white house, introducing bills to protect trans folk and correctly identifying the genocide in gaza. Would they still be ugly?
If not, then it's not an objective fact about their body, but their choices and opinions. If they are still ugly, then I guess their choices were born with their inherent "uglyness" and they no longer have responsibility for their choices.
At best, this idea white washes personal responsibility, at worst it's a further divide that keeps MAGA fucks from listening to objective reality. They were just born to be racist so why even bother?
You sound like a evangelical preacher yelling about "physically evil" minorities. Mark of Cain turning people black as sign of their "taint", queer and trans folk not following gender norms looking "ridiculous" or why feminist are always "ugly women who are jealous". This sort of rhetoric has long been used to justify all flavors of bigotry.
You believe what ya like. Obviously I can't stop you, but there are better arguments to make and better uses of your energy.
I'm thankful that I can see the enemy for what they are.
You literally can not.
All you are doing is classing up ableism under the cover of resistance. Republicans provide more than enough reasons to hate and distrust themselves, you don't have to pretend it's physical defects. In fact, presenting this weak argument just makes them less likely for their supporters to be reached.
WARNING : Playing excellent, well told, thought provoking puzzle games about AI will make you so much madder about the silly folk that say "I turned AI sentient" folk. 🙄
Oooh I was thinking of grabbing Steins. I know I watched the anime several years ago and enjoyed it, but only have hazy recollections of the plot. Doing the VN seems just enough same, just enough different to be fun.
Just finished Tyranny and Pilliars of eternity so I'm picking up the sequel Deadfire. Checked out the price history last week and seems like it's regularly 75% off during seasonal sales so I'm pleased to see it at $10.
Oofh. I sorry friend, it's a fantastic movie but also a rough watch. Hope things are better now! 🤗
If you haven't seen it, "Don Jon" (also staring Levitt!) approached the same flawed relationship story from a totally different angle but in a quite fuflling way.
discovered that the lemming scene was actually filmed at the Bow River near Canmore, Alberta, and further that the same small group of lemmings was transported to the location, jostled on turntables, and repeatedly shoved off a cliff to imply mass suicide.
Highlights from the Wikipedia article on Pain in fish
The central nervous system (CNS) of fish contains a spinal cord, medulla oblongata, and the brain, divided into telencephalon, diencephalon, mesencephalon and cerebellum.
Studies show that fish exhibit protective behavioural responses to putatively painful stimuli. When acetic acid or bee venom is injected into the lips of rainbow trout, they exhibit an anomalous side-to-side rocking behaviour on their pectoral fins, rub their lips along the sides and floors of the tanks and increase their ventilation rate. When acetic acid is injected into the lips of zebrafish, they respond by decreasing their activity. The magnitude of this behavioural response depends on the concentration of the acetic acid.
Early experiments provided evidence that fish learn to respond to putatively noxious stimuli. For instance, toadfish (Batrachoididae) grunt when they are electrically shocked, but after repeated shocks, they grunt simply at the sight of the electrode
In a 2007 study, goldfish were trained to feed at a location of the aquarium where subsequently they would receive an electric shock. The number of feeding attempts and time spent in the feeding/shock zone decreased with increased shock intensity and with increased food deprivation the number and the duration of feeding attempts increased as did escape responses as this zone was entered. The researchers suggested that goldfish make a trade-off in their motivation to feed with their motivation to avoid an acute noxious stimulus.
We could go philosophy 101 and wonder if you see the same color blue as I do, maybe yours is red? It is easy to say that's immposible to know, but that ignores everything science understands about visible light spectrums, cone recpetiors in the retina and the genetic markers that lead to color blindness.
Fish have nerve endings, they have brains that can process stimuli and their reactions to human standard "painful" stimuli is identical to our own.
What reason is there to even doubt they feel pain simmiliar to our own?
Well, IMO that's actually pretty easy to determine. I assume the pain you feel being cut by a hook is simmiliar to pain I feel being cut because we react the same way. Basically every living thing reacts the same way to cuts, yelping, bleeding then flight/fight. Cats, dogs, animals of all sorts go through the same steps when they are cut so it's a safe assumption their pain is simmiliar. And things that don't react, such as cutting a techincally alive potato, aren't really feeling pain. Idk maybe potatoes silently scream, can't disprove it, but that's just not the same as creature that flee from threats
So while we don't know what a fish thinks about suffocating in air, it's a reasonable assumption that it's similar to humans suffocating in water, unpleasant. We both thrash around and do our best to breathe again. Sure, in a philosophical sense it's imposible to know what other creatures think, even other humans that can verbally communicate, but that ignores some of the more obvious context clues.
Say what you like of Clooney Batman, but it was the most memorable. I think of the bat credit card more than I would like.