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| Topic | Money |
| adjl 05/06/24 1:44:15 PM #3 | I usually have a bit of cash on me, but the vast majority of my transactions are debit/credit.
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| Topic | What's a game where you can win every single battle and still lose? |
| adjl 05/06/24 1:42:26 PM #28 | The earlier games were also pretty bad for "It's the last turn and you've been leading all game? Oops, looks like it's time to give all your stars to somebody else and there's nothing you can do to stop this." That's not strictly "winning every battle and still losing," since your overall loss is a consequence of losing that one critical battle (a loss which was entirely luck-based), but it's no less frustrating for it.
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| Topic | You have a royal flush and opponent just made a bet of $10,000 |
| adjl 05/06/24 8:30:57 AM #38 | ItIsSoOver posted...
you make it very obvious you've never played a high stakes game Uhh, duh? The vast majority of people have never played a high stakes game, by simple virtue of the fact that vast majority people don't have the money to play a high stakes game. You shouldn't need any actual observations to help you make that assumption. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Helldivers 2 delisted from countries without Democracy |
| adjl 05/06/24 8:23:41 AM #10 | Metalsonic66 posted...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/s/drBNoqoHzn "We're still learning what's best for PC players" Translation: "We didn't realize PC players already have too many accounts to manage and would resent our efforts to sneakily bring them into the PS Network ecosystem to make it easier to sell Playstations to them." --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Crazy bus |
| adjl 05/06/24 8:20:58 AM #2 | There's no such word as busalooey.
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| Topic | How do I wipe this song off the face of the earth? |
| adjl 05/06/24 8:20:39 AM #4 | Hotel California was already inexplicably stuck in my head, so that's kind of weird.
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| Topic | Attention: Immigrants |
| adjl 05/05/24 10:27:08 PM #12 | ListerineStrips posted...
I get that you left "native" in lowercase and are correct to do so but I still had to repeat this 3 times before I didn't read "Native Americans." That wasn't even deliberate, nor did I consider that interpretation. I probably should have worded that better, but alas, is too late. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | This is why people buy consoles/prebuilts |
| adjl 05/05/24 10:24:31 PM #26 | Prebuilt PCs usually come with some kind of support warranty from the vendor, at least for the first couple of years. It's still a modular system and diagnosing/fixing problems involves figuring out which part is responsible, but you can often just get somebody else to handle all of that for you. Build it yourself, and you get warranties for each part, but you've got to figure out which part's warranty you need to cash in on.
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| Topic | This is why people buy consoles/prebuilts |
| adjl 05/05/24 12:08:12 PM #19 | Dikitain posted...
But yea, once a computer hits about 5-6 years old, I know I am replacing the HDD. Although I have never had an SSD fail on my yet. Oldest one is about 10 years old, and it still works. My work computers are even worse, never had a HDD last more then 4 years on one of those. I'm still using the 500 GB HDD I put in this machine in 2011. It and the case are actually the only remaining original components, after I replaced the mobo, CPU, and RAM a couple months back. Meanwhile, I'm on my third SSD. On the flip side, the HDD that came in my laptop died in like a year and a half, but the one I replaced it with in 2017 is still going strong (well, as strong as anything in that laptop goes, but I never use it anymore). It can be a bit of a crap shoot. faramir77 posted... Consoles malfunction too, and are usually harder to fix. Indeed. By and large, I find consoles fail less often, but when they do, it's harder to fix them and you're mostly reliant on the company honouring their warranty if you don't want to just buy a new one (if that's even an option anymore). PCs have more frequent problems, but you can usually fix them yourself if you're reasonably competent. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | rune factory 5 makes me sad |
| adjl 05/05/24 11:44:54 AM #3 | 5 wasn't bad, but it was thoroughly disappointing compared to 4, which is one of my favourite games ever. In every regard, it just felt like a cheap 3D knock-off of RF4, cloning most of the core mechanics and items, then filling in the gaps with characters that weren't as interesting, really cheap-looking world design and assets, and really weird pacing that meant I'd done pretty much everything except get married by the first week of the first Summer (and I didn't really care about getting married because none of the characters were compelling enough to make me stick around for another three months of watering crops whose progression tree I'd already mostly finished and making incremental progress through the maze). I had fun for like 60-65 hours, which is respectable enough, but I didn't feel like taking it any further than that, in stark contrast to coming out of RF4 after 200+ hours and still wanting more.
Also the fact that you can't place furniture right next to walls is the most infuriating thing ever and I have no idea who thought that was a good idea. Lokarin posted... and how is a part 4 the best in the series? There are many who would say that applies to Resident Evil and 2D Mario (SMW being #4), off the top of my head. RF4 also wasn't the 4th RF game, since there were a bunch of non-numbered games before it. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | What's a game where you can win every single battle and still lose? |
| adjl 05/05/24 11:30:11 AM #7 | Pandora's Tower has several different endings based on your performance across all of the levels, and some of those endings could definitely be called "losing" from a narrative standpoint.
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| Topic | I counted my PS3/PS4/PS5 games |
| adjl 05/05/24 11:23:22 AM #2 | BUMPED2002 posted...
Little did I know, I have over 200 games combined between the 3 systems and I do not want to even calculate how much I have spent on these games. $60*200=$12,000. It gets a bit more nuanced than that in that you likely didn't pay the full $60 for all of them and $70 has become the norm in the last couple of years, but it's a reasonable estimate for the maximum you could have spent. BUMPED2002 posted... I could have invested that money or made better use of it at the very least. $12,000 since November 2006 is only about $675 a year (and again, this is the maximum). If you've been making $7.50/hour working full time that whole time (and you've probably made more than that), you've made a total of about $275,000. You could have invested the money instead, certainly, but in the grand scheme of things it's not all that much. Meanwhile, that money has given you tens of thousands of hours of entertainment in those 18 years, to which end I don't actually know that you could have made better use of it. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | You have a royal flush and opponent just made a bet of $10,000 |
| adjl 05/04/24 9:39:10 PM #27 | ItIsSoOver posted...
And there is no way you can see 2 royal flushes in the same hand of Texas hold em. To elaborate on this in a way that's actually helpful, in Texas Hold 'Em, 3/5 of your hand is comprised of the cards on the table. If you've got a royal flush, that means the three cards on the table contributing to your flush are the same suit and therefore the only possible royal flush that can be made with them is the one you've got. Somebody else could have a straight flush in the same suit, but it's going to lose to yours in value. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Just got an ad for jordan b peterson on Gamefaqs |
| adjl 05/04/24 6:50:39 PM #98 | Zareth posted...
Everyone assumes the bear will be docile and the man will be a predator. Nobody assumes anything. It's a matter of predictability:
It's not a matter of assuming that the man is a predator, it's a matter of not being able to know that he's not. The bear, meanwhile, is a known variable: It's a bear. Choosing the bear is a matter of choosing a predictable hazard over an unpredictable element. Even if the unpredictable element is probably less dangerous overall, the fact that you have less control over the situation and less ability to proactively mitigate the threat makes it scarier. Now, on the flip side, odds are the dude is going to be more helpful for becoming un-lost than the bear is, and personally I'd be inclined to consider that value enough to mitigate the associated risks (which are actually fairly low for any randomly-selected guy), but I also don't really have to worry about the whole sexual violence angle and that skews my assessment. I fully understand why so many women would rather stick with the devil they know than roll the dice on an unknown factor. Not being in control of the situation is scarier than risks you can reliably predict and mitigate. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Just got an ad for jordan b peterson on Gamefaqs |
| adjl 05/04/24 5:01:17 PM #90 | Nade_Duck posted...
wait so the bears people have been talking about aren't big hairy gay guys There's no reason they can't be both. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | FAQs and Game Guide Writer Poll |
| adjl 05/04/24 5:00:22 PM #4 | I hereby pledge to write twice as many FAQs and guides for Strategywiki as I have for GameFAQs.
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| Topic | why are mods actually enforcing the politics rule |
| adjl 05/04/24 2:33:41 PM #4 | Most of the mods that had a problem with the new leadership have already dipped out. The rest, I guess, are just following along with the new rules because they hope Fandom's got the right idea for how to improve the community.
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| Topic | Corporations |
| adjl 05/04/24 2:24:41 PM #9 | Entity13 posted...
All corporations in general? That is a no, no brainer. Mega corporations that are "too big to fail?" Break them up. Kroger and Safeway/Albertson's should be broken up, for example, into smaller companies, not merge into a larger company with as-of-yet-determined store locations divested to C&S. No one should hold so much power over the economy and livelihood of everyone who depends on that economy. Indeed. Near-monopolies are bad, and have led to price gouging, stifling competition, and impactful lobbying that works directly against the interests of citizens. Incorporation is fine as a concept, though. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Attention: Immigrants |
| adjl 05/04/24 11:51:23 AM #9 | HornedLion posted...
So unlimited texting isnt really A thing in other countries? In some cases, but more saliently than that, unlimited *international* texting is very rarely a thing even for American phone plans, which means they need something like WhatsApp to keep in touch with family or friends in other countries. That's not really a thing for many native Americans or Canadians because it's significantly harder for us to travel to other countries than it is for just about anyone else (and at least in Canada, I know phone plans that include texts/calls to the US aren't uncommon, though it comes at a price), but for the many, many countries in the world where people can get to a new country with a 2-hour train ride, it's a lot more common for people to need to keep in touch across international borders. Wanting to use it for domestic communications as well is just a matter of trying to keep all of their communications in one place. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Anyone here ever take Naltrexone? |
| adjl 05/03/24 12:00:53 PM #6 | By and large (this applies to any medication), if it makes you sick, talk to your doctor about it. He'll be able to either tell you that it'll get better as you get used to it, or tell you how to wean yourself off of it safely and look at alternatives. It's very unlikely that the medication will cause any irreversible damage, it might just suck for a few days/weeks.
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| Topic | Anyone here ever take Naltrexone? |
| adjl 05/03/24 11:37:09 AM #4 | And that's really the problem: To get useful information, you need to find people who are trustworthy and have had experience with the medication in question, and on top of that you need to find quite a few of them to get an accurate picture of what the risks are (2/2 people saying "it made me feel nauseous" is not enough to conclude that nausea is a common side effect, nor is 2/2 people not mentioning blood clotting problems enough to conclude that it can't cause clotting problems).
Your doctor has ready access to literature discussing the medication, has likely prescribed it before and managed the prescription for other patients, and knows enough about the broader picture of your health to make guesses about how this medication will fit into that picture. Personal anecdotes often feel better than a formal professional opinion based on statistics and whatnot, but they're decidedly less useful for risk analysis than accounts that look at the bigger picture. Your pharmacy may have packaged a medication information sheet with it, or can provide one if you ask for it (pharmacists can also be a good source of information about what to expect from the medication, sometimes even more so than your doctor). That can provide you a high-level summary of what to expect/watch out for, though it won't capture any of your personal nuance. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Anyone here ever take Naltrexone? |
| adjl 05/03/24 11:09:24 AM #2 | You should really be asking your doctor about side effects, what to expect, and worries you have about any new medications he prescribes you. He's going to be able to offer significantly more comprehensive, accurate, and useful information than you're going to get by relying on the opinions of a handful of Internet strangers who are under no obligation not to lie to you.
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| Topic | Instead of capitalism lets have emmentalism |
| adjl 05/03/24 11:03:45 AM #3 | Sounds like a gouda idea.
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| Topic | Do you think Sony will continue numbering playstations? |
| adjl 05/03/24 9:54:06 AM #22 | ConfusedTorchic posted...
nintendo also just calls their new consoles To be fair, they only did that once (maybe technically 2 or 3 times if you count 3DS, 3DS Xl, and 2DS as separate instances, though I wouldn't). But yes, Nintendo's naming practices don't dictate anything about Sony's. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Just got an ad for jordan b peterson on Gamefaqs |
| adjl 05/03/24 12:01:18 AM #78 | Cacciato posted...
Didnt he say his last purg was like 9 months? He did, but he said that six months after the post that got him purg'd. argonautweakend posted... Adjl better hope he didn't diminish my preconceived notion....or else. OR. ELSE. Your butt diminished your preconceived notion. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Just got an ad for jordan b peterson on Gamefaqs |
| adjl 05/02/24 11:29:49 PM #74 | BoomerKuwanger posted...
thinks that online represents real life Even then, trans people "going on and on about their trans identity" online tend to be doing so because it's contextually appropriate to do so. They're discussing their experiences with other queer people (online being a good place for that because it's significantly easier to find other queer people there than in meatspace), discussing current events and politics related to trans issues, or are just blogfaqsing about it for the sake of getting their thoughts down on paper (which is fundamentally no different from blogfaqsing about anything else). If you're seeing trans people talk about being trans a lot, it's because you've put yourself in a context where people are expected to talk about being trans, in which case there's really no room to complain about it. In a way, I'd say it's mostly just selection bias: For many people, they're only aware of the vast majority of trans people of whom they're aware because they see them talking about being trans. They don't experience the silent majority, which skews their perception about how vocal the total population is. Sarcasthma posted... Oh no, what happened to Skard's account?! Not the post I expected to do him in, honestly. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Just got an ad for jordan b peterson on Gamefaqs |
| adjl 05/02/24 9:39:59 PM #70 | SKARDAVNELNATE posted...
I see no reason they can't identify themselves as being trans and then move on to discuss something else. We're talking about you deliberately misgendering them. They likely have moved on to discussing something else, but they've had to come back to the issue of their gender because you insisted on getting it wrong. Even that's just your own addition to the scenario; perhaps they haven't said anything because they're uncomfortable trying to correct you after you've deliberately misgendered them. I asked for a situation in which you would be justified in deliberately misgendering somebody instead of accepting their identity, knowing the impact that can have on their well-being. You've responded with a situation in which you accidentally misgendered somebody, then manufactured them going on and on about that mistake as an excuse to just disengage from the whole issue. That's not you deliberately misgendering them, meaning it's not an answer to the question I asked. If you can't come up with a scenario in which you feel you would be justified deliberately misgendering somebody? Welcome to the club of not being a transphobic nuggetwanker! "I can't think of such a scenario" is a perfectly valid answer to my challenge, though that comes with the caveat that you abandon your defense of Peterson by saying that (or, more accurately, if you can't come up with a scenario in which he feels justified deliberately misgendering somebody, though that's implicit in not being able to come up with your own scenario because you could have just copied his). SKARDAVNELNATE posted... Now I'm questioning how good of a friend they are to mix that up. I'm not here to judge how attentive you are to your friends. Just to come up with analogies that illustrate how absurd it is to cut somebody out of your life because they corrected you when you got a key part of their identity wrong. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Just got an ad for jordan b peterson on Gamefaqs |
| adjl 05/02/24 9:26:10 PM #69 | BoomerKuwanger posted...
What's so silly about it all is like... you don't have to "believe in" or like trans people to use the proper pronoun and name to their face. People fake being nice to people they would rather not have to deal with all the time for various reasons. It's a shame that this is something that you would even have to fake niceness with, but I'd say that's still preferable to being outright mean A significant amount of transphobia boils down to one of two things:
The former doesn't really apply here, the latter is just factually incorrect (based on the science as it currently stands, gender-affirming care yields better outcomes on average than rejecting the trans identity). This, though, I expect is neither, and is instead Skard being overly attached to his hypothetical first impression and jumping through whatever mental hoops he needs to to hold on to that. He seems to know better than to actively disparage trans people (though he lacks the capacity to recognize that people like Peterson are not so generous, and has tried to argue on prior occasions that things like transphobia and racism don't actually happen to any meaningful degree), so he's come up with a contrived way to avoid actually doing so while still clinging to his hypothetical first impression (that is, accidentally msigendering the person). This is why we get the strawman of "why would I want to talk to them if all they want to talk about is their gender identity?": He's unwilling to accept that he just made a mistake and needs to correct himself, so he's turned the other person into the issue. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Just got an ad for jordan b peterson on Gamefaqs |
| adjl 05/02/24 8:51:48 PM #65 | SKARDAVNELNATE posted...
They aren't being ostracized for being trans. They're being ostracized for their conduct in the conversation. "Their conduct in the conversation" being to identify themselves as being trans in response to you failing to realize it. So you're ostracizing them for not hiding their gender identity. Oh look! We're right back at the exact opposite of accepting them and therefore elevating their suicide risk. Funny how you keep trying to dodge that little piece of factual reality instead of trying to come up with a justification for disregarding it. SKARDAVNELNATE posted... https://www.dictionary.com/compare-words/proper%20noun-vs-pronoun Potato, potato. You'll notice I also used the term "deadnaming" in the discussion leading up to this, which was very deliberate because it all falls under the same umbrella: Accepting the gender identity of trans people includes both getting their name right and getting their gender right whenever using gendered language. If you really want to be that rigid about it: "This is my friend Bill, she's really good at soccer." "She? I'm a guy, dude." "*To yourself* (Guess I can't expect a quality conversation from Bill, I'd better just avoid her)" Oh hey that response looks just as stupid this way as in the first version. It's almost like the actual semantics of the situation didn't change at all. (Side note: this is an example of a situation in which you might use third-person pronouns to refer to somebody who's present, since for some reason you struggled to conceptualize that) --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Just got an ad for jordan b peterson on Gamefaqs |
| adjl 05/02/24 8:31:29 PM #63 | SKARDAVNELNATE posted...
You would think that, if you think trans people can only talk about their pronouns. Where did I say that? SKARDAVNELNATE posted... I do think I can't expect a quality conversation from someone who makes that an issue. "Hi Bill!" "My name's not Bill. It's Jake." "*To yourself* (Guess I can't expect a quality conversation from Bill, I'd better just avoid him)" This is literally what you're proposing. I hope I shouldn't have to point out to you how utterly ludicrous such a response is. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Just got an ad for jordan b peterson on Gamefaqs |
| adjl 05/02/24 8:28:27 PM #62 | Also worth noting: When I talk about "accepting trans people as their target gender" reducing their risk of suicide by half, that doesn't just mean using the right name/pronouns when interacting with them. Cutting all contact with them as soon as you learn that they're trans isn't some loophole that gets you out of doing anything more to accept them. Deliberately ostracizing people for being trans is exactly the opposite of accepting them and subsequently also increases their risk of suicide.
So I ask you again: In what situations is it so important that you deliberately reject a trans person's gender identity as to justify doubling their risk of suicide? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Just got an ad for jordan b peterson on Gamefaqs |
| adjl 05/02/24 8:19:37 PM #57 | SKARDAVNELNATE posted...
They just tell me about the level of quality that I can expect from a conversation with them. "I can't expect a quality conversation from trans people." It's genuinely disturbing that you don't see the problem with what you're saying. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Am I going to hell? |
| adjl 05/02/24 7:48:33 PM #8 | Cruddy_horse posted...
The cashier does not give a shit. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Just got an ad for jordan b peterson on Gamefaqs |
| adjl 05/02/24 7:47:55 PM #52 | That you think that's comparable says a lot about you as a person. Nothing surprising, I'm afraid, but a lot nonetheless.
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| Topic | Just got an ad for jordan b peterson on Gamefaqs |
| adjl 05/02/24 7:39:51 PM #50 | "I'm not transphobic, I'd just prefer to categorically avoid talking to somebody after learning that they're trans than refer to them by their preferred name and pronouns."
Holy shit dude. For clarity, because I know you won't pick up on this on your own, this time your suspension is for being blatantly transphobic. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Should I delete AOL right now? Please help asap! |
| adjl 05/02/24 3:04:07 PM #10 | RJP_X posted...
@adjil Probably some other spoofy quirk. Change your password if you're concerned, otherwise it's probably nothing to worry about, especially if it's not an email you actually use for anything important. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Meme 35: can finally run for president |
| adjl 05/02/24 1:54:56 PM #287 | https://imgur.com/bIu5yAL
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| Topic | Should I delete AOL right now? Please help asap! |
| adjl 05/02/24 1:21:58 PM #3 | Hover over the "From" address in the spam email. Odds are it's actually from a different address, spoofed to look like yours. Spam emails will often be made to look like they're from somebody else, in this case spoofing the recipient's address for the sake of freaking them out. In that case, delete it and move on.
If it's actually from your account (unlikely, but not impossible), it's been compromised and you should change your password. Make sure you run a virus/malware scan on your computer first to ensure the password change isn't picked up by anything that might be lurking there, then change your password and force a logout for all devices. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Is it a good idea to have subsidized housing in a wealthy neighborhood? |
| adjl 05/02/24 11:40:36 AM #7 | ItIsSoOver posted...
They could always commute And what does that cost the city? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | More people regret having children than receiving gender-affirming care. |
| adjl 05/02/24 8:56:30 AM #14 | Jen0125 posted...
Also "child free" as a term isn't even negative. It's just a logical label for people who don't have children. It's doesn't make a value judgment. I'd argue that it's typically used with a value judgement attached, but that's mostly because using the term intrinsically compares being child-free to the alternative, rather than any inherent value attached to the term. It can also go either way. "We've been trying to get pregnant for two years but remain child-free" frames it as a negative. "We're able to go on more vacations because we're child-free" frames it as a positive. Basically, like "gluten-free," it's a positive for people that want/need to avoid gluten, and either negative of neutral for people that want or don't mind gluten. It all boils down to how you feel about the thing from which you are free. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Just got an ad for jordan b peterson on Gamefaqs |
| adjl 05/02/24 8:49:32 AM #40 | SKARDAVNELNATE posted...
By continuing to call him transphobic you assert that his feelings about trans people are a primary motivation for him. No. By calling him transphobic, I assert that he considers the well-being of trans people to be a lower priority than whatever reasons he has for deliberately misgendering them. This is what I mean by saying that there are varying degrees of transphobia: "I want to hurt trans people" is different from "I don't care that I'm hurting trans." They are, however, both transphobia, regardless of how strongly the person in question wants trans people to be hurt. SKARDAVNELNATE posted... To support the claim of transphobia it would be necessary to demonstrate that this is the intended outcome. If you know that a given outcome is likely to follow a given action, and you take that action, that means you're intentionally causing that outcome. It may not specifically be your goal, but you've accepted its association with your actions and decided whatever good your actions can achieve outweighs whatever harm might be associated with the outcome. You are responsible for the consequences of that decision and must justify the harms with the good you believe your actions can bring. Again, it doesn't matter how smart or important you think you are, nothing about what you think, say, or do will ever justify doubling somebody's risk of suicide. If you think otherwise, that is devaluing that person's life to a degree that cannot be described as anything less than hateful. Ergo, transphobia. But hey, you seem to think you (or Peterson) have a point. So I ask you: In what situations is deliberately misgendering a trans person so important that it justifies doubling their risk of suicide? What answer can you provide to this question without admitting that you (or Peterson) care more about your own worthless ego than the well-being of trans people at a conceptual level? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Is it a good idea to have subsidized housing in a wealthy neighborhood? |
| adjl 05/02/24 8:24:11 AM #4 | Dikitain posted...
The trend in my area seems to be putting wealthy neighborhoods into poor areas for...reasons? IDK, it just seems odd seeing McMansions sprouting up next to the meth lab near where I grew up. Or putting expensive loft apartments less than a mile from where someone gets murdered at least once a week. That's just gentrification. Poor areas have cheaper housing, cheaper housing attracts less wealthy people like artists and quirkier small businesses that give the area interesting character, wealthier people start wanting to move in for that character, which creates an incentive to develop the area with higher-cost housing. What you're describing is a particularly aggressive example and may have skipped the "poor artists move in and make the neighbourhood interesting" step, but with the housing crisis, lots of developers are snapping up cheap land wherever they can and charging as much as they can get away with, getting away with significantly more than they otherwise might have been able to because of the low supply. Kyuubi4269 posted... Work needs doing everywhere and so everywhere needs to house minimum wage workers Pretty much. "If you live in a 15-minute city, but everyone staffing the businesses and services you use can't afford to live in it, you actually live in a theme park." The idea of "wealthy" and "poor" neighbourhoods the way America does them just doesn't work for designing a city. Sustainable city design entails designing neighbourhoods to be self-sufficient, and that means including a mix of businesses and housing such that people working in the area can live nearby. Otherwise, you need a ton of extra transportation infrastructure, whether that's public transit routes or roads with parking, and both are expensive (both in terms of direct costs and in terms of profitable land use). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | More people regret having children than receiving gender-affirming care. |
| adjl 05/01/24 9:58:07 PM #11 | Jen0125 posted...
I just saw a tiktok of a woman saying the term "child free" is offensive because it means it's like a negative to have kids. Imagine being so sensitive. Why do you careee. She compared it to other terms like "debt free" and "cancer free" saying we use it as positive and so saying childfree makes parenting seem like a negative. As somebody who enjoys bread, the term "gluten free" is offensive because it implies that gluten is a bad thing. It's almost like different people have different ideas of what sort of things and experiences they'd like to avoid and express negativity toward those experiences accordingly. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Fuck Fandom. |
| adjl 05/01/24 9:54:36 PM #20 | They've even tried to say that queer stuff isn't political, but that's frankly just burying their heads in the sand and refusing to acknowledge the reality that pretty much everything about queer people is politically contentious in some way. It shouldn't be, and it only is because certain groups insist on attacking queer rights such that it's necessary to defend against those attacks, but that's the simple reality of the matter.
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| Topic | Just got an ad for jordan b peterson on Gamefaqs |
| adjl 05/01/24 9:47:34 PM #34 | SKARDAVNELNATE posted...
You don't seem to know what transphobia is.adjl posted... deliberate deadnaming and misgendering is nothing more than a self-righteous circle jerk at the expense of the mental health of your victim. End of story. There are varying degrees of transphobia, certainly, and I'll happily concede that somebody who deliberately misgenders trans people in a handful of circumstances where they think it's a good idea is not as egregiously a transphobic nuggetwanker as somebody who does so because they want all trans people to go away, but they're still a transphobic nuggetwanker. Remember: accepting a trans person as their chosen gender reduces their risk of suicide by 50% (a substantial additive reduction, given that roughly 30% of people with gender dysphoria attempt suicide). It doesn't matter how smart or important you think you are, nothing about what you think, say, or do will ever justify doubling somebody's risk of suicide. Nothing. SKARDAVNELNATE posted... I assume you only brought it up to distract me and lead me off on a tangent. Deadnaming Twitter is a pretty well established meme/running joke at this point. It's nothing to do with you personally. Get over yourself. HelIWithoutSin posted... Yeah adjl, stick to the topic of monkeys full of snakes. What if a snake eats a monkey, but the monkey is still alive inside the snake, then the snake disguises itself as a monkey again? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Just got an ad for jordan b peterson on Gamefaqs |
| adjl 05/01/24 7:59:25 PM #28 | SKARDAVNELNATE posted...
His stance is that it depends on the situation. And that's transphobic. Full stop. Unless it's Twitter, deliberately deadnaming or misgendering somebody is transphobic (and it's only okay in Twitter's case because Twitter isn't a person and deadnaming it is just resisting Musk's absurd insistence on trying to force a new identity on it against whatever will it can be said to have). The only situation in which it is not is if you are a medical professional responsible for the well-being of the person in question and you have genuine cause to believe that their apparent gender dysphoria will be better served by not providing gender-affirming care, and even that situation is exceedingly rare because the vast majority of the body of research on the subject advises against being so antagonistic to anyone seeking gender-affirming care. In every other case - with no further exceptions - deliberate deadnaming and misgendering is nothing more than a self-righteous circle jerk at the expense of the mental health of your victim. End of story. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Fuck Fandom. |
| adjl 05/01/24 7:43:23 PM #18 | Nichtcrawler-X posted...
So Fandom simply does not understand what the word "political" means? Pretty much. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | More people regret having children than receiving gender-affirming care. |
| adjl 05/01/24 7:42:07 PM #8 | It's almost like making a treatment decision after several years of consulting multiple specialists and working through numerous less-invasive/irreversible steps to ensure it's the right decision for you stands a high chance of actually being the right decision for you. I'm not remotely surprised that the rate of regret is lower than decisions that are made more independently and without oversight from anyone to ensure people are as informed as possible before making them.
Lynyrd_Skynyrd posted... Wow they overturned it without me appealing Even the mod staff can't agree on what "politics" means. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | On Tuesday I have a consult to get my tubes tied |
| adjl 05/01/24 11:58:36 AM #60 | Zareth posted...
I wish they could just like irradiate my nuts or something instead of painful surgery. As I understand it, it's no more painful than most dental cleanings. It's not pleasant, so you aren't exactly going to book a bunch of recreational vasectomies, but it's not painful enough to warrant avoiding it out of concern for the pain if you do in fact want to be sterilized. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | What exactly was the endgame here? |
| adjl 05/01/24 11:42:18 AM #7 | For that matter, the driver/passenger would have likely been able to claim self-defense if they just straight up shot the tow truck driver for trying to kidnap them.
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