This is literally something my conspiracy-addicted mom says all the time.

According to her, this is why, for instance, you won’t find articles articles on “turbo cancer” in the mainstream media.

Some masculine traits in women are accepted to some extent. But, look at the backlash against that Algerian boxer.

For someone who really cares about fitting in with society, the pressure to conform can be pretty brutal. There’s probably more freedom to be who you want to be now than ever before. In the past not only gender roles, but every role in society was extremely rigid. People didn’t even have the freedom to decide whether or not to wear a hat outside. The expectation was that everyone wore a hat, and if you didn’t you were a real oddball.

I strongly suspect that some of the people who think they’re trans are just people who have interests/passions/attitudes/personalities that don’t conform to their stereotypical gender roles.

There are pluses and minuses for most things. Aggression can be very useful if the kid is into sports, or even competitive video games. Too much can be a problem, but too little and you get Milton from Office Space.

Pickiness can be thought of as the opposite of adventurousness. If someone’s too picky they may never try new things. If they’re too adventurous, they may never settle down, and might seek out situations that are too dangerous and thrilling.

I don’t know if how you’re raising your kid is good or not. But, I do know that as a kid, my parents never would have put up with that kind of pickiness. Either I ate what they were preparing, or I didn’t eat that meal. On one hand, this did result in my absolutely hating brussels sprouts. They were always prepared ultra mushy and now, even if I try some that are prepared well, the memory of the disgusting ones comes up and I gag. On the other hand, I’m pretty adventurous when it comes to trying new foods. I’ll hesitate a bit at brains or other organs, bugs, and fermented things, but other than that I’m eager to try new things. I think overall it served me well to have been pushed to eat outside my tiny comfort zone as a kid.

Stack 3 of them up and…

So, what happens if you resurrect an 80 year old human. If they’re an amputee, they get their limbs back… but is it the limb as it would appear on their 80 year old body? Or, the limb as it was when it disappeared?

Imagine an 80 year old with a 20 year old’s forearm.

Also, how healthy does it make you? Are you as healthy as you were before you died? Or, are you returned to perfect health? Or very good health for your age?

How does it affect dementia? Dementia is eventually fatal, but I don’t think it counts as a mortal wound.

Also, if it closes all mortal wounds, what about non-mortal wounds? Say Bob died by falling off a cliff. He’s resurrected, and he gets back the arm that he lost decades ago. Meanwhile his other arm is completely shattered, but not in a mortal way. The rock that was piercing his chest disappears and his massive chest wound is gone, however he’s still bleeding from a dozen small cuts, none of which are mortal on their own, but taken together will cause him to bleed out in a few minutes.

Their defense will be that they need to merge to be able to compete against Disney. The sad thing is they’re probably right. Even post merger their market cap will be less than 1/4 of Disney’s market cap.

Really, we need to destroy Disney.

They do have balls for the first time in a while, but it’s not just on them. The FTC sued to block the Microsoft and ActiBlizz merger, but the judge sided with MicrosoftActiBlizz.

And yet, a combined Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery would only be a tiny fraction of the size of Disney.

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But, genetics says that the amount of genes inherited from each parent is fairly random.

75% horse might instead have a horse head, a horse torso, but human arms coming out of its overly thick horse neck.

What’s especially bad is things that are meant for an international audience. Like the 2023 Miami Formula 1 race was held the weekend of the 5th to the 7th of May. But, say you didn’t know that and you see that the date is specified as: 05/07/2023. Is that a race in May or July? It’s Formula 1 so the audience is probably mostly European so the European order makes sense. But, it’s a race in the USA so the US order makes sense.

It really sucks when to decode a date and time you have to first figure out who the target audience for the information is, then use that to help decode the information.

but personally, saying

I don’t understand why it matters how you say the date vs. how it’s written with slashes.

If someone asks you the time, and you look at your watch and it says 11:45, you could just answer “eleven forty five”, but depending on the context you might just say “It’s noon” or “It’s almost noon” or “It’s a quarter to noon”. 11:45 is how you get the information into your brain. How you process that information and how you pass it on depends on the context.

The best date format is clearly ISO-8601, YYYY-MM-DD. In that format, US independence day is 1776-07-04. But, you don’t need to say it as “seventeen seventy six, seventh month, fourth day”. You can say “July 4th, 1776” or “The 4th of July, 1776”.

Saturday Night Live actually had a good sketch about this a few weeks ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYqfVE-fykk

Washington: "We fight for a nation where we choose our own laws… choose our own leaders… and choose our own systems of weights and measures.

I dream that one day, our proud nation will measure weights in pounds, and that 2000 pounds shall be called a ton."

Rebel: “And what will 1000 pounds be called sir?”

Washington: “Nothing. Cause will have no word for that.”

…

Washington: “Distance will be measured in inches, feet, yards and miles. 12 inches to a foot!”

Rebel: “12 feet to a yard…”

Washington: “If only it were so simple. 3 feet to a yard.”

Rebel: “And how many yards to a mile?”

Washington: “Nobody knows.”

Rebel: “Ok, how many feet to a mile?”

Washington: “5280, of course! It’s a simple number that everyone will remember.”

It’s the same (but even more dramatic) with Jupiter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHwkdcppsuo

Thanks.

Deserving love is different from deserving a girlfriend.

Love is something you can spread around to multiple people. It can be anything from fraternal love for a co-worker you’ve gone through some rough experiences with, to romantic love that bonds you to one specific person.

Everyone deserves love by default, although some people hurt other people and stop deserving love. But, deserving love and deserving the 1:1 commitment of a girlfriend are very different things.

If you’re a kind-hearted, hard-working, trustworthy person who was raised with some fucked up beliefs, I’d say you deserve to be loved. Hopefully one of the people who loves you can take you aside and explain to you why your fucked up beliefs mean you can’t get a girlfriend. Hopefully that loved one can help you change so that a girl might want to make a commitment to you. But, nobody really “deserves” a girlfriend. They aren’t awards that can be handed out once someone completes the required steps.

That’s not how green texts tend to work.

Rule of thumb: Anyone who says “I deserve a girlfriend” doesn’t.

Nobody, not even dumb people, think Joe Rogan sounds like a smart guy. They think he sounds like a relatable (dumb) guy who talks to smart guys.