I feel like the simple solution is that if you can’t have topless kids because of pervs, then you can’t have topless kids and gender isn’t part of it

And it would still be worlds better than the worst ICE cars, it would only be worse than average.

Murder Harem: Furry’s Vore Safari Edition, or even the vanilla crap I am actually even slightly into.

Don’t worry, we won’t tell.

It’s gross that anyone would make the list for reals, but I imagine they get a lot more traffic from people who think they’re ridiculous.

Well, yeah. There’s only two kinds of people in the world: cis/het white people and bad people. Freaky combinations of the two are ahistorical, just like prosthetics.

God please say I don’t need the /s

It is hilarious to me that there’s an encyclopedia entry for this. MAGA probably already thinks Wikipedia is woke trash or whatever.

Come on, name one time he’s ever lied before. You can’t even name two. There’s not even a dozen times. Certainly it’s less than a hundred? A thousand?

ETA: Wikipedia says it’s nearly 31000 just while he was president, if you count false or misleading, still more than 5000/2.5 yr if you only count outright falsehoods.

Well, he can’t use the song anymore, so he’s allowed to back down now. That’s just the rules.

How does it ever change?

I don’t know. But I’m going to keep trying.

I’m definitely going to vote, and everyone willing to listen should hear why, like you said.

But I’m also going to keep talking and listening to the people I disagree with, and nuts to your therapist.

Again, I agree with you. I just see the danger of refusing to acknowledge how a group conceptualizes their own position, even if they’re being deliberately blind to other factors.

And I wish people could spend more effort trying to understand each other’s perspectives, because otherwise how does it ever change?

I’m only barely talking about pro-life/anti-choice or pro-choice/pro-death here, too. The same kind of thinking and focusing on aspects the other person isn’t addressing is everywhere in discourse these days. And a lot of them are very close to home for me and I guess I want them to be able to consider my perspective. But they won’t, because they think of the world this way, so they see me as a problem and a problem-causer just by being me.

Any way… Rant over I guess

All the cool kids are still thinking about black holes. Not worrying about them, but

On the one hand, I absolutely think it’s worth calling out. On the other hand, they’ll often be very quick to try and turn it around on you, calling anyone pro-choice pro-death or saying they “want to kill babies”.

Obviously those aren’t quite the same thing, but they see it as the same and I just wish there was a way to bridge that gap and have everyone listen to each other…

I don’t think anyone said they were only looking at local viri. The original comment said (emphasis mine)

Of course, the reason the facility is there in the first place is because Wuhan province is a place where a lot of viruses originate naturally (in bat colonies), so it makes sense you research the viruses close to their natural reservoir.

So Wuhan was ideal because it’s where a lot of viri originate. That doesn’t imply they only looked at viri from nearby just that the location was chosen because there were so many nearby.

“Donbas Cowboy” sounds like text you’d get from an image generator you asked to show you a Texas football team.

I don’t have any information to add one way or the other, but it kinda sounds like you’re saying the fact that one bat-bourne illness was found elsewhere, it’s impossible that Wuhan has many or any such viruses too, which seems pretty fallacious.

Not realistically, no. It’s just about the same amount of difficulty.

Oh, shit, you’re right. I was looking at kilograms. Thank you.

But yeah, the point stands that small cars are lighter and safer than big cars, especially for the things they hit.

The irony is that I do, in fact, like mudkips.

I thought it was paved with being a bigot?

I’m saying smaller cars are usually lighter than bigger cars, even when the smaller cars are electric. And the car I was comparing to was the Chevrolet bolt “electric utility vehicle” that’s trying to be an electric SUV. Which is 1600 kg.

Where a Ford fiesta that’s almost the same size is still 1100 kg.

Edit: corrected units to kg.