DharmaCurious

What's the hardest part of being out as trans, other than the obvious transphobes? The subtle stuff most people don't think about, I mean.

I honestly hate that argument. "it would cost so much to change all those signs" is just negative talk for "it would employee a shit ton of people, create a lot of jobs, and be a major infrastructure project that could help our economy.". Honestly, the economic benefit of major infrastructure works is rarely talked about as much as it should be. Mainly, I think, because the people it benefits are the ones actually doing the work. And that's scary to a certain segment of society that would like very much that not to be the case.

No one in the US knows WTF a long and short ton are. A ton is 2k lbs. And most Americans probably don't even know the exact weight of a ton outside of "a shit load."

For the most part, we generally only use pounds, feet, miles. Everything else is a mystery. Even ounces, cups and gallons are some fucking magical mystery. Just follow the recipe.

I switched everything to metric years ago, and have never been happier. It made a huge difference in most of the things I do, having a system that makes internal sense. The only thing I still routinely use standard for is sewing, because it's damn near impossible to find any patterns or things like cutting mats in metric in the right sizes for quilting.

And there's no one there for raise them if you did

Only the purest bloodlines. Bloodlines so pure that they couldn't find a spec of unpure blood in Uncle Daddy during his last battery of genetic testing to determine why we all have blue skin and an allergy to calcium.

Hatchet

Can some ELI5 (Or, more accurately, ELI 30 something idiot) how this impacts the US for me? I get the basics of "big tech change in eu, will likely impact US to some degree" but I don't really understand how those changes work here. Like, no targeted ads for being gay in the eu. Would Google still be able to target me, a gay man in the US specifically on that criteria?

I never got to finish the series during it's original run. Got super busy in the second to last season. I finally researched and fi finished it last year. Dammit I enjoyed that show. It was weird seeing both a Mikail Bakunin and a reference to Dharma in a show, as a Dharmic anarchist. Haha.

I still actively use infinity for my alt account. Once it's gone, I guess that's it for me for reddit. :/

They are functionally owned by the same people, support the same macroeconomic policies. They work together to ensure a continuation of the same system. They are two arms of the same organization. The republican party moves policies to the right, the Democrats come in and move them marginally left, but less so then they were before the Republicans, and the republicans move them righter still. They work together to ratchet economic and social policies further and further rightward. This allows the parties to claim two positions, ensuring a maximum number of devotees, while functionally working towards the same goal. Differences between the parties are largely superficial. There is no real change within the democratic party apparatus. There is some attempts to move the party leftward, but as we saw in 2016, 2020, and just about every day in the house with The Squad, any attempt at moving things to the left of Center Right is treated as some evil that must be stamped out.

Oh damn, is iron druid finished? I've read a bunch of them, but I haven't kept up with the series. It's good.

Rivers of London is one of my top favorite series. So freaking good.