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Cake day: March 16th, 2024

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  • I 100% agree with your plastic statements. However, wanted to make a note that it is standard practice to put type 1 diabetics on a low dose blood pressure medication because it reduces wear on their kidneys, thereby reducing the risk of renal failure and other complications. Cholesterol meds are also prescribed proactively to people with a variety of chronic illnesses, particularly those related to heart health, who are often eating better than anyone here, but have higher risks of complications. Medications are tools amongst a variety of ways to help people live better lives.

    All that to say, what choices you make about medications and their place in your health are completely valid for you. That doesn’t mean your choices are applicable across the board. Please don’t give medical advice on the internet. (A conversation about the importance of communities designed to encourage exercise, and easy access to affordable unprocessed/low processed food is a different thing from “don’t take medications: everything can be cured by kale and a walk in the woods”)


  • Do you work for one of those providers? Again, trying to figure out where you’re getting your information from. Not saying you’re incorrect; would just like to know where you sourced that info. It would be useful to reference in the future.

    ISDE shows that Bell and Telus (and their sub-brands) also use B12, which is the same band AT&T and T-Mobile use for rural and building penetration. The big 3 also use B17, which I’m not even sure the US providers use. That said, I’m the first to admit my work with cellular mobility wasn’t at the granular level of specific frequency coverage. Hoping your info source can help clear that up.



  • Just thinking your question through for fun. I’m sure there are more dedicated fans who will tear this to shreds:

    Tatooine is/was home to numerous moisture farms, which implies at least some moisture in the air to be able to extract. Granted, the size of water droplets needed for a visible rainbow is more than the minimum 1.5% relative humidity needed for those extractors to work. I can’t find anything on average relative humidity for Tatooine, but considering 1.5% produces only 1.5L of water/extractor/day, yet the Lars farm supposedly had a moderately successful hydroponics garden, plus drinking, cooking, and minimal cleaning water implies a higher average humidity than 1.5% while still at least scraping by. According to ‘The Complete Location Factbook’ Tatooine has 1% surface water. To keep surface water in the desert, you need either a ground source (underground water may or may not exist - I found conflicting info), or you need rain. In Star Wars: Rise of the Jedi, when Rey goes to Tatooine, you can see cumulus clouds which also implies occasional rainfall.

    So I’d venture that at just the right time, it could be possible to have visible rainbows.


  • Absolutely. Though I personally feel that if we’re choosing to perpetuate the stereotype by adopting it, we need to take the time to educate ourselves on what power that stereotype has, not to mention unpacking why we’re attracted to it: are we healing, or reopening a wound?

    Opting in to a stereotype means we can opt out, and that also means we may not be fully burdened by the harm that stereotype can do. Depending on the stereotype, we can inadvertently distress or reproduce harmful scenarios for people who do not have the option to opt out.

    I’m not responsible for where other people’s toes are on a dance floor. I am responsible for whether I’m wearing sneakers or boots, and adjusting my step if I see toes where I’m about to dance.

    (Edited to fix punctuation)


  • The last sentence in my reply was “we don’t know what her real life is like” you’re parroting that back at me, but trying to speculate on what her life is like at the same time. We don’t know. We can’t know.

    If you really want to know what it’s like to be a woman, maybe ask a few to go for coffee and actually listen to what they have to say. They’re not these mystical creatures you are making them out to be. If you are transfemme, or a CD, that’s great. And it’s still not OK to find your own gender by compounding the stereotypes.


  • The majority of porn is created for straight men. North American men, where the majority of the commercial porn industry operates, are socialised to think that finding another man attractive = gay, and gay = emasculating/bad (I don’t agree, that’s just the messaging). So the fact that porn only shows a man’s genitals serves 2 purposes: it helps maintain the “no homo” mentality, while also allowing the viewer to insert themselves into the scene. That’s now their big, veiny penis and huge cum shot. It has nothing to do with the attractiveness of men (though the statement “men are ugly” is a part of the larger problem in how our societies are socialised around gender)

    Beauty is a series of social expectations. By Eurocentric standards, in the 1800s a beautiful woman was fat. In the 2000s she was athletic, today, she is gaunt with a distinct lack of fat in her face. Nothing we see in photographs is “natural” beauty. Even this one - that woman is working. Her job is dependant on selling a sexual narrative to her customers. What you see isn’t so much “herself” as a product she has assembled with makeup and clothing in order to do her job. You are fantasising about the opportunity to be the fantasy she is selling. Not to actually be her. We don’t know what her real life is like.



  • A couple hundred hears ago, children were losing life and limb working 12 hour shifts in factories and mines. This is not a great example of how things were superior in “the good old days” - and also a perfect example of why we should be weary when anyone, ourselves included, speak of how the past was a better time.



  • The first KCD faced criticism for having exclusively white characters in it, and Vávra saying that was historically accurate (spoiler: people from Africa and Asia were in the Roman Empire at that time; generally as merchants or slaves). Vávra supported gamergate, and has always been vocally “anti woke”.

    There was a surge in purchases of KCD2 when Vávra claimed Dragon Age Veilguard failed solely because of involving “gender politics” in the game, which gives you a pretty good idea of a large portion of the gamerbase for the KCD games.

    You’ve made a good choice in not supporting this dipshit.