On of my ancestors cut his two fingers off to escape the Russian draft decades and decades ago. I’m not in America and I think I might be disqualified anyway if I were, but I wonder if that’s a modern strategy that could work. It does sound a bit drastic…

Well han is Swedish for ‘he’, so not quite the same 🤣

I specifically like it because it’s not gendered though, I feel like we should normalise non-gendered pronouns more

You get YouTube where everyone likes everything and nothing is ever bad quality /s

Yes to all three. But people who claim to be trans are rarely any of those, and scientific consensus shoes that trusting them generally leads to less harm than disbelieving them - especially as puberty blockers are fully reversible. If the adolescent is not trans, they can stop them and have their natural puberty continue as normal.

Why would you trust what someone else says about them rather than what they say about themself? If someone says they’re depressed, do you believe them, or do you need ‘objective proof’? Gender [dysphoria/euphoria] is the same, it’s an internal experience.

It’s not really that it’s a choice to not be cis, but yeah, we shouldn’t assume people’s gender at all imho until they tell us themselves (and as children can’t tell us until they’re older don’t assume until they’re older), and even when they do it shouldn’t need to affect stereotypes or the way we grammatically refer to them or anything, just maybe what body they want to have and who can be attracted to them

Probably men

Little girls from Sweden dream of silver screen quotation
And if you want those kind of dreams it’s Californication…

To make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe - Carl Sagan

The flashback would have to go all the way back to the Big Bang to fully explain it

The Owl House

The Singularity Sky/Iron Sunrise series

The Prayer for the Crown Sky/Psalm for the Wild Built series

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Just a lonely day, no one here but me, oh

Could the sidebar include a an explanation of what ADBL stands for?

So you think news should be a privilege for the rich?

I use GUI wrappers for yt-dlp - Parabolic on Fedora GNOME and Seal on Android

Thanks!

Nude scenes/nudity is not a problem. Nudity is completely natural and should be normalised. The problem is in sexualising children, whether they’re nude or not.

It’s important to not conflate the two to avoid reinforcing puritanical views around nudity.

They have RLHF (reinforcement learning from human feedback) so any negative, biased, or rude responses would have been filtered out in training. That’s the idea anyway, obviously no system is perfect.

Bank cards, loyalty cards, other cards…

Calling a 20 year old a kid is pushing the term beyond the point of respectability. I can understand why you think so many people are pedophiles if you treat 20 year olds as children.