No, it has a recurring theme of transformation. You could read the first part as a trans allegory, but you could squint and do the same for Star wars or Harry Potter. It’s the story of the chosen one

Not everything written by a trans person is a trans allegory. Trans people can tell other stories…a trans allegory is about that specific personal journey, not just influenced by it

I used to love that sub. Then it started to be about legal responsibilities instead of morality… From there it really turned into a dumpster fire

The only time I’ve ever been banned on a forum because although I said the woman had the right to do what she did and the guy was clearly in the wrong, she needlessly escalated when empathy would’ve led to a better result for everyone

No explanation, just a temp ban. For advocating empathy and third path conflict resolution

The fediverse is just a barnacle on the larger Internet at this point. It has to become more - we need to make our own web

In fairness, humans do this too. Ever share a meal where someone has already eaten? People find it extremely off-putting. It’s to the point where pacing your eating to someone else will make them like you more

It’s more like saying “the Heisenberg exploded, hydrogen blimps won’t work”

The Heisenberg exploded because of ruptured bladders and structural cables snapping, among other things. Hydrogen blimps could work - technologically they’re still very feasible

But they’re too risky to half ass, and their biggest proponents have shown themselves to be incompetent in the face of the engineering challenges involved

It’s not just shit technology - it’s about execution. If no one can demonstrate good execution, we have nothing. Better ideas have been killed for less… This whole concept is riddled with unsolved problems - it’s not feasible with the players on the board

This is too important to fuck around.

Stomachs aren’t necessary… You can jump straight to the large intestine. Even humans can survive like that

Obviously, they’re useful. It’s another stage of digestion, which means more energy and nutrients are extracted from your food. It widens your viable food sources, just like chewing does

But then, why would they be more stable when moving, even without a rider? If the steering is tight enough, you can push a bike to someone a good distance away. You can do it with a scooter too, although it’s a lot harder.

You can also look at a motorcycle. Their mass is far greater than a human’s, a person could never manage that. Those little RC motorcycles are the same, they don’t need some crazy balancing system to mimic humans, they just need to stay upright enough to get some speed going, then they balance themselves.

It’s the same with a wheel - the speed makes it stay upright, they can balance on the tiniest edge so long as they’re moving

It’s not a gyroscopic effect either, though that’s present. It’s a balance between rotation speed and the friction with the ground - the object as a whole has momentum, the rotation has momentum, and the contact with the ground balances the two. It’ll try to put it’s center of mass in line with these forces acting on it

Add in a human, and they can shift the center of mass on the fly. The vehicle’s speed is still pushing you upright - get on a bike with some good speed, and you can lean very far into a turn and ease off to return upright. Way more than you could if it wasn’t moving

Not really… This isn’t people being empowered, this is people being chewed up and spit out

I think that’s the sign of a good person

If you build a world for good persons, it’ll collapse in your lifetime.

Good persons want to understand each other. People don’t - they want to think as little as possible above all else

I think there’s a few core reasons

Some people would act like him if given the opportunity, so they identify with him or think he’d give them opportunities

Some people just feel isolated and know the world is getting worse but not why, so they latch onto the guy giving easy answers and simple solutions

And some people are just drawn to the idea of fascism or authoritarianism, even if they don’t realize what that entails

I’d put the self loathing in the first camp - many of them get through life through projection. They think everyone is like them

their fortunes

I think the term for that is “the economy”

Ok, let’s be real here. A charger can last a decade even if the charging speed slows…a cord will not outlast a phone. If it does, there’s a serious issue

They can definitely misfire, but humans are more likely to misfire

When the adrenaline is pumping, it’s real easy to squeeze slightly harder… That’s why your finger shouldn’t be on the trigger until you’re ready to shoot

You want to tell me your gun shot two rounds instead of one? I can believe that. You want to tell me a cold gun, with a round in the chamber for more than 5 seconds, suddenly decided to override the required mechanical safety because you waved it around?

By getting in early, and having a lot of child branches on the tree of life

It does help that “actually they haven’t destroyed a single work of art” is a pretty good entry point to explain how protests are just a way of displaying group outrage

Civil rights were won by relentlessly challenging the courts, exhausting the public so much it blew back on the government administration, and with the armed black Panthers present as an implicit threat - “if you decide to throw out the law, so will we”

I once got on the topic of the moon lending with a creationist co-worker. He said he wasn’t sure, but that if it happened we should be able to see it from satellite pictures. So I said “yeah you can”, pulled it up, and zoomed in on a landing site. You couldn’t see footprints or anything, but you could see the shadow of the flag next to clearly man-made debris

I showed him exactly what he agreed would be proof in a difficult to fake form, and it just temporarily nudged the needle for him

Now, I fight conspiracies with the opposite conspiracies.

Earth is a 4D hypersphere, the earth isn’t hollow, Agatha is just another part of the surface reached by holes

The elites are hiding all the best vaccines, like the ones that cure cancer

Fun fact, we did have a 20 year start on COVID. This was bird flu, SARS, MERS, swine flu… Scientists have been saying this was coming forever

This was basically as prepared as we could get. There were protocols in place for everything

Fortunately, enflamed beings often are already in motion, so ceasing immediately should provide some rotation

I respect it. We think of the Olympics as this Grand international unity thing, but it’s not. It’s a for profit entertainment company

It’s not the best in the world, it’s hundreds of feeder organizations that submitted the paperwork, and the people they chose to select

No one had submitted paperwork for Australian breakdancing… So she and her husband did

It’s art - intentional or not. Skilled or not (it was not). I don’t even know what county won breakdancing… But that couple made an impact on the world, undoubtedly. I could do some of her moves and anyone would instantly recognize it

Also, every other week we get another reason to make it a priority

The arguments against it boil down to “it’s different and scary/I don’t understand it”, “there’s compatibility issues that might be complicated to fix”, or “well what we have now is good enough for my needs”