HopeOfTheGunblade

I wonder how different things would be now if Roger Stone (still politically involved Roger Stone who was a major player in the last Trump administration and who has a back tattoo of Nixon) hadn’t caused the Brooks Brothers Riot and fucked up the counting of votes in Florida allowing the supreme Court (whoch at the time had multiple clerks that Trump put on the court) to declare Bush the winner.

Yeah, it’s been all the same people, fucking stuff up, all along.

My mom introduced me to Napster. So at this point, it would be a family tradition.

Yeah, unfortunately I couldn’t find revenue numbers. It seems unlikely to be costing that much to host. I’d be really surprised to learn it isn’t cash positive at this point.

Not made -31.5 billion. Lost -31.5 billion. As in they brought in that much, not cost it.

Yeah, sorry, sometimes I can’t help my need to play with language, when given the slightest chance.

YouTube lost google -31.5 billion in 2023, approximately 10% of all of alphabet’s revenue.

Thanks for the exact specific quote. I got lazy.

Biden told rich donors, “If you pay more in taxes, nothing will fundamentally change.” That is, the union will not fall because they didn’t get tax cuts. Don’t be disingenuous about what actually happened.

Surprised nobody has posted Newtonmas. Celebrate a historical figure who had major impacts on our civilization by advancing science, and who was actually born on December 25!

Tolerance was and remains a peace treaty: you be tolerant, and we’ll tolerate you. Once someone opts to break the treaty, they receive no further protection from it.

Alreader, I believe on both android and iphone. I use it at a very low intensity level with red text and black background.

Also if you’re hyper concerned about blue light, get some red-toned laser safety glasses, you can get some that go over existing glasses if you need them, and they will, if any good, cut out basically all blue / green light regardless of what’s going on around you. Recommend putting them on 2h before bed for best results.

You don’t need to post comments on youtube. You’re asking for people to do you a favor. They’re asking for more information before they do the favor. If you don’t want to fulfill the requirements, fine, but quit trying to act self-righteous because you’re willing to spend far more time trying to claim you don’t need to answer the question than it would take to answer the question, and going to that much effort to obfuscate rather than elucidate, suggests that whatever it is you are hiding would be seen as bad.

Glad I could help! Enjoy your time here!

So, people like to think that you can do something clever like invent a code to hide things, and technically, yes. And if they ever search your place and find it, they’ll assume it’s serious business and you’ll get the XKCD Security treatment.

Entry 71.

Pelvic tilt is a pretty obvious one, part of why women have shapelier asses and also reduces height a little bit. Emotions definitely feel more accessible, although I have heard that trans guys also get some of that sometimes so that might have more to do with dissociating less, but I also get some urge to cry at stuff like… Last night I was watching a movie with my girlfriend and characters were talking about people they’d lost, and it was an effort not to cry.

You can ask me literally anything you actually want to know about without losing points with me. Just be sure you want to know. There’s a pretty good chance I’ll answer and if you didn’t want to know you might have regrets.

Oh goddess does the temperature tolerance change. Turns out the fat distribution matters a lot for that!
Also yeah there’s a line in the first altered carbon book about how for men, skin is armor, and for women, a sensory organ, and it’s a little exaggerated, but it’s pointing at a real thing.

Re personality: that’s harder to judge, because you have so much going on. It’s a major change in your life, you’re altering how you and the world interact with each other, so it would be hard to avoid your personality going through a rock to mud transition and shifting, but I think there’s definitely some shift towards social responsibility, yeah. Obviously there isn’t an exact measurement, but I think it’s pretty common.

Oh, I’m sure they will. That is not, in the slightest, the same as caring about said implications in ways that mean that the species won’t get murked, though.

It’s a negative right and the fetus doesn’t have relevant rights. If both your kidneys fail and I have two that are a match, do you have a right to one of mine? That’s the beginning and end of it. You don’t have the right to anyone else’s body, not even if you’ll die without it. We can discuss whether it’s morally virtuous to offer your body, whether or not you should, but nobody has the right to your body and you don’t have the right to theirs.

PSA: if your truck didn’t come with balls, and you add balls to it, you’ve done gender affirming treatment.