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For TV or sports or what?

I have three. Linguist (I have a sole prop, but my main client builds chat bots in various languages), contact tracer and personalized ornament spellchecker. Also two classes in to getting my HVAC certification.

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Good. Dogs and small, extremely specifically trained monkeys are the only ones that can do the legitimate assistance services.

Other animal jobs (drug-sniffing ferrets, etc.) are important too, but they surely must have separate paperwork protocols to fly already. And I bet they're put in the hold, even though they have jobs. Teeny animal jobs. :'3

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I've seen arrests, but never been questioned or used as a witness.

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Pinky or Mega. If she had any taste, Mega.

And maybe Vegy, if Vegy weren't a middle-aged woman.

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CrimsonRage posted...

can someone give an example of good conservative comedy

This is more pro-status quo opposed to pro-conservative, but is the only example I can think of that actually makes me chuckle:

https://youtu.be/9tDZ5lriIIc

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It's a hope/assumption that he's realistic and easy going (and won't be on the woman to go on crazy diets or killer hikes).

Dadbod (ew, hate the term) is more appealing than a dehydrated, veiny bodybuilder, for sure, but it's not hotter than a fit body.

Also I think everyone is normalizing chubbiness because of the rising average weight and that helps mainstream it. I thought I only had 10, 15 pounds to lose 25 lbs ago and still have a good 10 or so left. Couldn't even see it before.

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Garland was sort of cool. A little generic bad guy, but the time travel was fun for its age.

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I see where you're coming from, but I'd say no. Not all facial hair is a beard (eyebrows, for instance). A cummerbund isn't a kind of pants, you know?

For styles like the horseshoe and circle beards, that's sort of a gray area.


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Bluh. I know that feel. Good luck, man. I always get "linguistics" or "linguist" or "language" results that are just using the form language at the bottom ("Nothing in the language of this ad is meant to imply any blah blah)."

The closest real result I've gotten for relevant jobs I'm qualified for within 175 miles is spellchecking personalized Christmas ornaments.

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Yeah, it was on the tail end of the glory days of Way Too Much Dye.

I didn't buy into the ketchup, but I remember it was 'justified' as "getting kids more likely to to eat green vegetables," despite 1. Ketchup shouldn't be classified a vegetable 2. Ketchup is usually red, so you're not making vegetables more appealing, just making ketchup less so 3. Purple is only the color of a small number of vegetables 4. Ketchup doesn't usually even go on vegetables.

Were you old enough to be excited by the rainbow popcorn and vanishing sunscreen?

The sunscreen was actually a pretty good idea, not sure why that didn't persist.

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People who style themselves as "liberal comedian" tend to be almost as bad as people who purposefully style themselves "conservative comedian," but liberal people are usually better comedians than conservative people.

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That sucks about the wedding. I remember you talking about that. Fingers and toes crossed that you can make it all up and then some.

I don't have set plans, but definitely want to. Since I can work remotely, I had intended for the 2020s to be a lot of travel while working. Now everyone works remotely and extremely domestically at the same time. Ho-hum.

My work took me to Scotland last year, made me work the whole time and NEVER ACTUALLY HAD IN-PERSON MEETINGS. So I already feel like I got the COVID experience. Want to see Pakistan, Australia, more of Colorado and Vermont, go to Japan again, visit Portugal, more US road trips (Mardi Gras would be fun).

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g980 posted...

thats fine but as a white male he better get paid more

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Check for fever.

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Funkydog posted...

And so what if someone wants a "male/female" style family?

Their objection is that when that's the only type of family shown (or when a family with same-sex parents who very closely perform the traditional division-of-roles including traits called "feminine" or "masculine"), you're not actually allowing additional freedom of self, just fudging the borders a bit while keeping it essentially in place. The contention is choosing to choose your choice isn't a freely-chosen choice if you've only ever been given two very, very similar options.

I can explain things without agreeing with them.

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ssjevot posted...

Can you elaborate on what this means?

The entire Republican party's platform since the 1980s has been about restricting abortion access. There are laws in more than 26 states that specifically and uniquely invalidate a pregnant woman's end-of-life wishes in order to salvage the possible pregnancy, regardless of standing directives or family wishes (Marlise Muoz is a recent-ish, but not unique, example). Judges are empowered to force or stop treatment of pregnant and birthing women in the name of "the baby (Angela Carder set an important precedent, but involuntary interventions are still common and permitted)."

Birth control is consistently kept expensive and given preposterous exemptions to keep women from getting it. Clinics that provide abortions are sabotaged and bombed. The official guidance of the FDA (and CDC?) have written articles that broadly define all women between menarche and menopause as "pre-pregnant."

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Tenlaar posted...

as a TERF myself

I am a radical feminist. I am not trans exclusionary. All of my activism has always been to support female people regardless of their identity. Including me, whose identity and struggle with gender you are disparaging.

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Funkydog posted...

What does compulsive heterosexuality have to do with transsexuals though?

The idea is that society finds it easier to accept two female people together if one of them looks like a male and vice versa. It's an extension of the gay and lesbian radicals who thought the butch/femme dichotomy was limiting and too self-consciously mimicked the nuclear family in an attempt to be accepted as 'normal.'

There were actually some gay and lesbians activists in the 70s through early 00s who opposed gay marriage as a central focal issue because they were afraid that once marriage was achieved, other gay issues would be ignored.

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I expect to be blocked or reported, but this is an extremely pertinent topic to my life. I don't give much of a shit about the actual tweets, but the fact that someone is being called a vile shitlord for pointing out that compulsory heterosexuality never went away is just beyond the pale of bad faith. I don't identify as a detransitioner because I didn't transition fully, but I had a partial social transition in college, have taken numerous drugs and have accessed one surgery (with hope of another) in the future. If I did believe in gender, I would be a transman or non-binary/agender. I do not believe in inherent gender; I am female person who was raised a woman and I do not believe anyone should ever occupy the social position 'woman.'

DeadBankerDream posted...

B) They claim ownership of another person's self in the name of their dumbass need to have a role model instead of, you know, finding another one.

That's literally always what hero worship, role models, icons and celebrity are. If you want to argue that having role models is stupid, it won't take much for me to agree, but it's not some unique wickedness of those tweets. If you think taking ownership of a person's self and image for one's own pleasure are bad, you'd actually really love the radical feminist position on porn.

DeadBankerDream posted...

A) Transmen aren't (trans)men, they're just lesbians with internalized misogyny

If anyone who identifies as trans is trans and their motives and self are unknown, then it is impossible to discuss internalized misogyny. Sociology and activism require looking at individual actions within the systems they take place in. The anorexia epidemic of the 90s was more complex than merely "girls think they should be thinner" and so is this.

My internalized misogyny, dysphoria and dysmorphia were not served by being told that I was not like other girls and that I deserved to have the freedoms other girls were denied because my soul was intrinsically different from theirs; it just made me hate myself more, hate other women more and hate the gender system that would never take me seriously as a man because I have girthy hips, a soft voice, a short stature* and the reproductive capacity to be forced to carry a rapist's baby regardless of how I identified**.

Radical feminists don't believe anyone has an inherent gender, so anyone identifying as a different gender is a non-starter for them in terms of freedom (i.e. needing to proactively assert you are not the gender you were raised as in order to live an actualized life indicates that gender is an f'ing prison, not a liberation zodiac). The grounding belief of feminism has always been that gender is an oppression structure which disfavors female/intersex AFAB people throughout life and that the confines called gender are artificial, as they can and do change across time and cultures.

There is a conflict between belief in inherent gender and belief in gender as a construct.

*The universal comments about "manlets" are all toxic masculinity, but that never seems to be as much of a concern, somehow.
**I got my tubes tied at 25 to alleviate dysphoria and dysmorphia. It was an uphill battle that would have been easier if I'd gone to a gender clinic and said I was trans, rather than asserting that I was female and did not want children (this was Seattle, 2014). That discrepancy in ease of access strongly indicates that women-not-want-children is more disruptive and shocking than woman-not-want-be-woman. Needing to access surgery (and fight for it) in order to have extra assurance that the government wouldn't turn me into a breeding pool is horrorstuff and absolutely contributes to girls not wanting to grow into women.

Tenlaar posted...

saying that gender dysphoria is actually just internalized misogyny and trans people don't exist

No one is saying this, not even Glosswitch. The position is that if no one can ever question transitioning for any reason, there's an entire population whose internalized misogyny will not and may not ever be explored. Dysphoria and dysmorphia are fully recognized by radical feminist theory and activists as painful psychic conditions that can lead to self-harm and devastation. We disagree that it means that our true souls are actually a different gender, because, again, we do not believe in gender. And radfems definitely believe trans people exist, just like atheists believe Baptists and Pastafarians exist.

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They're not wrong that lesbianism has been and continues to be less visible than male gayness; that we can't even discuss internalized misogyny; and that loss of representation and role models for young, female lesbians matters.

If people can send death threats and hold book burnings because a mediocre writer they'd idolized has disappointed them ideologically, it doesnt seem unfair or hateful for lesbians to lament an icon no longer being one, either.

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I do think there ought to be a stimulus for people who paid of some $X amount within a certain Y time period, because the people who ate lots of sweet potatoes and paid their loans aggressively also could/should/ought-in-a-just-world have been able to make at least some of those payments toward a car/house/nursery/business/stock investment/entrepreneurial venture if the economy were less rigged.

To totally just spitball numbers, I'd imagine something like "if you paid back more than $95,000 between 199X and 2015, you will receive a [$5,000 to $15,000, depending on certain metrics blah blah] stimulus check." Not a full rebate, but definitely something that acknowledges the monetary output that could have gone to more relevant economy-building things.

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Hexenherz posted...

"Killing and intimidating people" isn't the stated objective of any military unit or the DoD as a whole... And the DoD does *a lot* around the world that has nothing to do with killing or intimidating people.

I agree that (to rebuke Mike Huckabee) the military's job ought not be "kill people and break things," but that is definitely what its goal has been for more than most of our lifetimes. The noble projects of intel gathering, bridge building (i.e. Army Corps of Engineers) and extant-road-bomb disarmament would each be better served by a non-militarized gang of people whose only qualifier to join was "good at fitness" and "few other job prospects."

I'm actually not opposed to the death penalty or a violent military; I just simply want us to acknowledge the gravity and import of what we ask our military to do rather than pretend that anyone in possession of fatigues and a pension is just a different flavor of Mr. Rogers + Jesus.

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What's the military's job?

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Here's another +1 vote for Mega to be on the island

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Enlistment should be random and universal or voluntary and without any secrecy or euphemism that your job is hired killing. There's a lot of military in my family and it's weird to me that we're supposed to worship these people as gods while ignoring, downplaying and euphemizing the (purported) wholly-just smiting they are employed to do, for the purpose our worship. If what they're doing is good, why can't we call their job what it is?

If the only reason you join the military is for the benefits, you obviously aren't taking the oath very seriously (nor should you, since it's a desperation move in a shit career). The whole thing is a ponzi scheme meant to scoop up the desperate or sociopathic.

If you aren't doing hired killing, but rather data gathering, you'd be better served not being deployed alongside a bunch of tanks and flashy racists. If you aren't doing hired killing but rather just supplying the hired killers with the stuff of life, you should have gotten a job in the hotel industry or catering.

If you're a spouse, you are worth nothing to me, because you chose to join up with a hired killer/for-fun sociopath and that's the row you chose to hoe. I don't fall over myself praising oil rig workers' spouses or the spouses of triage nurses working swing shift (though perhaps ought).

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Sickening. My family is dealing with a lot of the same. "Uncle Billy's in the hospital now, so everyone else should be safe to come over." What do I say to encourage you? Stay the course? Keep the faith? Keep on truckin'? You're doing the right thing.

One of my jobs is spell-checking White ethnic names (e.g. Braxton, Caedyn, Brackstyn, Caiden, Bryksteanne, Kaydan, Braeqstine, etc.) on personalized Christmas ornaments. I could get you the hookup to just mail them ornaments instead of funeral invitations.

If you didn't love your nieces and nephews, they could all see you this year and never have to worry about a future year again.

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Period products could be made available by simply having an extra SKU coupon by the register that any cashier could swipe when a package of tampons, pads or a cup came across the belt, same way they do for "2-for-1" and "Bananas - Large Bunch."

If you want them free for everyone, then anyone presenting the product gets a SKU swipe. If you only want the desperate, pleading poor to get them for free, instruct the cashier to swipe only if they show the Official EBT or Whatever Mark of Assistance Cashcard or however government benefits are applied in whatever country.

And toilet paper should be the same way.

Whoever said "cars" has never heard of public transit (which should exist, funded, from everyone's paychecks) and whoever said "healthcare" has never heard of Democrats.

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s0nicfan posted...

it's really just his therapist

His therapist knows that this guy really loves his wife.

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Proto_Spark posted...

they spend the whole season building up a neat ending that would have been a solid way to end the series

I wasn't allowed to watch it as a kid and never could get into it as an adult, but would you please tell me what that build-up was about?

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I was really worried until the end. <3 :( I'm glad they made up.

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RedJackson posted...

You ever think maybe youre not really her friend at all? Lol

I just call 'em like I see 'em. She's been reading parenting books since she was 17 to "be prepared" but somehow thinks she's been wronged by not having paid any attention to how the world was doing. That's like buying six different carseats during pregnancy in the name of 'safety' while still continuing a habit of two drinks at Happy Hour each night and then being surprised when your doctor scolds you.

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I have a friend who shouldn't have had kids (they're ugly, she's miserable and her husband is useless) and what drives me up the damn wall is how she always says "Oh, if I had known about Trump/corona/global warming, I would have reconsidered bringing children into the world~~~!"

She's 30. Her kids are both under 5. She had access to all the same doomsaying 90s cartoons and Twitter feeds we all did. There is no excuse for her to have pretended her belly fruit needed to be pollinated. She was selfish before she had kids because she never paid attention to the world and she's selfish now because she feels like she's entitled to pity for having been literally too self-centered to watch the news once in the first two decades of her life.

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The number of how many genders there are or could be is "arbitrarily many," but the number there ought be is zero.There are zero innate genders because gender is an oppression structure based around biological sex and reinforced throughout life to make someone fulfill a prescribed social role. No matter how many genders a society recognizes or concocts, none of them are actual, intrinsic parts of a human and all definitionally block access to the suites of behaviors, preferences, stereotypes and personality traits of whatever other gender(s) someone does not identify as (and treating 'identifying' with one's role in an oppression structure as liberatory is further missing-the-pointism).

It's like asking an atheist how many religions there are. Like, there are however many you want, bro, but the question misses the point.

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AirFresh posted...

I'm not quite sure yet that it's a time loop. Remember that Elizibeth the character found him from the comic at the end of the last arc.

I had had that thought as well, but we already know that alec will change what she's said (and will write what he imagines she's thinking), so maybe Elizabeth was his girlfriend IRL in the early days, who broke up with him spurring the divorce plot and the 'real world's has been an additional fantasy.

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...going rate?

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Zodd3224 posted...

Okay good, crisis averted

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Parappa09 posted...

happy thanksgiving! hope youre enjoying the day and everythings well

Things are fine on this end. I've been in a tizzy, but healthy and all. <3

Green bean casserole is basically the only worthwhile casserole, though it's scarcely part of my actual Thanksgiving repertoire (only relatives make it). It hits big at church basement potlucks and Eastern meals, though.

I hope you made enough for leftovers for the week. If you need to cook before December, it's not a full Thanksgiving meal. :P

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Sharing a j with a pandemic going on? Bruh.

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Outstanding! Way to be. <3 Happy Thanksgiving.

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chaoyun2k posted...

probable relatives

This is called a 'cognate.'

I'm amped for Thanksgiving, though at this point I don't really use recipes for any of it.

This is a cool topic. Thx.

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Doubtful. If he couldn't shingle a roof or castrate a pig or play two instruments or build a cradle, his only shot to even be introduced to a woman would be his raw animal magnetism and effusive chattiness at a public festival centered around goodwill and outdoorsiness.

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I hope we get to see Gina from Porco Rosso and Samus Aran again (they're his former wives!) before the end of the comic.

Or the women who rejected him, thereby inspiring him to 'get married' to them the same way as his Betty-Elizabeth psychotic break.

Or maybe a new lover from a media series (SONIC????????) will become his new wife.

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I'm hoping it's ramping up to a full-length theatrical release of a motion picture.

It'd be both exactly the type of 1990s strip blow-out the comic has been based on AND something nearly within Robbins's power to do, as a film-and-TV guy who once pinched a network camera for art. A 2020 shadow marketing campaign in the form of an absurdist comic would be the best PR stunt since the Deadpool crap and that "Find the missing children!!!![but it's a movie]" campaign.

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Somehow creepier than the inCEst age of the early-mid aughts.

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s0nicfan posted...

:o

:O

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'Mr. Boop' is just a rip-off of the Smyth Jewelers ad in Baltimore, MD that married the National Bohemian and Utz logos. Since Robbins came clean about being a lying liar who's NOT EVEN MARRIED TO BETTY BOOP, it's obvious he just stole the idea.

And now he's holding out on us, with a scant two score and some days left in the countdown!

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Right on, solid. I like this.

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I left. Did nine years on the outside.

Not worth it. Can't make it out there.

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