[-] Ibaudia@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Because Trump is very deeply popular with a huge voter block. Going against him means he'll just point those people at you and say "this guy's bad, also probably a pedophile or some shit idk" and then your career is over.

[-] Ibaudia@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

There are no sidewalks near any of my nearest gyms ironically, and I live in a fairly large city. Just busy stroads as far as the eye can see.

[-] Ibaudia@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago

One time when my mom visited France, she asked a shop's clerk for directions. She tried French but kind of gave up and used some English words scattered throughout her sentence for words she didn't know. The clerk acted annoyed and pretended not to understand, so my mom tried to use only her broken French. The clerk responded very quickly in French.

My mom then said, in English, "I'm sorry, I didn't get that, French is such a beautiful language but I'm having a hard time learning it". The clerk then completely 180'ed her attitude, acted all happy and switched to perfect, fluent English, with almost no French accent.

That situation taught me that some French people apparently just want you to suck the metaphorical dick of their culture before they choose to be nice to you lol.

[-] Ibaudia@lemmy.world 72 points 1 day ago

I think this model of education is damaging to kids and the government should do something about it

I'm going to train my kids to fucking kill you

Most normal libertarian response

[-] Ibaudia@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago

This man is talking about rape survivors who want female-only care, the nurses currently suing their health trust for making them change in front of a man, girls and women losing sporting opportunities to males and female prisoners incarcerated with convicted sex offenders.

It's hilarious that she's making these seem like widespread issues when most of them are literally just one incident, or aren't happening at all. These are the best examples she can come up with of legitimate grievances against trans people?

How about "bullied to suicide, denied medical care, housing discrimination, employment discrimination, and getting violently hate crimed at enormous rates" for the other side of this issue? Even if you think trans identities are invalid, at least pretend to treat them with the same respect you would other human beings. But no, trans people who are just trying to survive day-to-day are nonchalantly grouped in with pedophile rapists, as if those two things are in any way equivalent.

It's easy to hate someone when you just ignore what they really are and supplant it with something else entirely.

[-] Ibaudia@lemmy.world 80 points 2 days ago

The more you read into the themes of Rowling's work, the more you realize she just has very poor media literacy in general.

[-] Ibaudia@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago

Taxes exist to provide common goods, I think preventing mass food insecurity is a common good lol. Healthier population of your country is good for everyone in it, not just the people getting the food.

[-] Ibaudia@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

There can be other forms of compensation in currencyless societies, so not necessarily. There's also just the personal fulfillment aspect, which is supposed to be the main thing motivating people to work in this hypothetical.

Edit: Other forms of compensation would re-introduce ethical questions, so that's probably a bad suggestion. It would have to be a post-scarcity society, as others have pointed out.

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Thinking about this because of a greentext I saw earlier complaining about OF models.

It feels like a lot of the stigma surrounding sex work in the modern day (that doesn't just boil down to misogyny/gender norms/religion) is based on the fact that selling intimate aspects of one's self places a set value on something that many see as sacred; something that shouldn't have monetary value.

Not to say anything about the economic validity of a society without currency, but I think that, hypothetically, if that were to exist, sex work would be less stigmatized since this would no longer be a factor. Those engaged in sex work would be more likely to be seen as doing it because it's something they are good at/enjoy, and less because it's an "easy" way to make money, as some think. It would also eliminate the fear of placing set value on social, non sex-work related intimacy (not that those fears were well-founded to begin with).

[-] Ibaudia@lemmy.world 74 points 3 days ago

Take valid social commentary about capitalism's commodification of intimate relationships and the impact that has on our ideas of dating

Turn it into ridiculous, hyperbolic, misogynistic, victim complex nonsense

Oh yeah, we're greentexting today.

[-] Ibaudia@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

To be fair, when you're touch-starved and attracted to women sometimes it really feels like they're the most important thing in life lol.

[-] Ibaudia@lemmy.world 58 points 3 days ago

Grandma is ~~republican~~ suffering from some sort of cognitive decline because this will get her sent to hell if Christianity is correct

[-] Ibaudia@lemmy.world 68 points 3 days ago

Reduce teen literacy levels with this one easy step!!! Teachers hate it!!!

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Found this in the middle of nowhere in Kentucky on a road trip.

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I've been having pre-carpal tunnel symptoms lately and I really want to switch to a vertical mouse, but I've heard from a lot of people that they just don't have the same sensory quality that you get with a traditional mid-high end gaming mouse. This would be an issue for me since constantly do quick flicks and don't think I can just tollerate an inferior sensor. Does anyone have experience with this sort of thing, and if so do you have any good recommendations?

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