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DomeGuy

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  • Windows copying Mac feature, but only in certain apps

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  • I wonder if this is a holdover from when you could navigate windows completely without a mouse using only the keyboard and shortcuts.

    You can absolutely still do that now. At worst, you install power toys and use the accessibility option to move the mouse with arrow keys.

  • Do you think western countries would benefit from adopting Asian Countries' harsh anti-drugs policies? Why or why not?

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  • Why ban advertisements for drugs?

    How would, say, a Superbowl ad for cocaine be any worse than one for alcohol,.mcDonald's, or voting Republican? (All of which are at least as strongly correlated with bad life outcomes as speed.)

  • What are my options for my trans kid in the USA ?

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  • Thanks! (Fixed now.)

  • What are my options for my trans kid in the USA ?

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  • Step 1: don't panic. The same garbage rule that is going to cost anyone on a ACA plan thousands of dollars next year will also hopefully keep MTG's transphobic bullshit from becoming law.

    Step 2: prepare to endure. Talk to your trans-kid's pediatrician or specialist NOW about roll-your-own HRT and puberty blockers. (You don't want the only person advising you on them to be an unlicensed internet pharmacist). Get a lawyer if you can or get in contact with your local trans advocacy group.

    Step 3: prepare to move. Leaving a garbage red state for a brave blue state is good advice for anyone who isn't a white nazi. New York and New England or the west coast. Not VA, PA or MI (Both lovely, too purple).

    Step 4: prepare to flee. Do NOT keep your family here if elections are cancelled, civil war breaks out, or the post-truno POTUS is an even worse Christian DominionIst.

    Step 5: talk to your kid about what THEY want. Children are just temporarily disabled adults, and they may surprise you.

    Step 6: vote. Pick Republican or Democrat, and vote in EVERY election, general or primary, whether you like the candidates or need to just spoil your ballot.

    Step 7: advocate. As much as you can, tell your neighbors and reps and random strangers that your kid shouldn't live in fear or be tortured because some small-hearted bigot doesn't know the difference between sex and gender.

  • What are my options for my trans kid in the USA ?

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  • Blue states like NY have statewide rules about trans care, so ifyou would rather live in a rural or small town they might still be a safe place to relocate.

    (Edit: added the missing if)

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    Is there a word to describe feeling that you want to tell those close to you your deepest feelings, but you don't feel like you should?

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  • Every now and again I see a comment on the internet that triggers my Dad response and makes me want to offer a virtual hug to a stranger.

    (You are lovable and the world is better with you in it.)

  • Arrows vs. Armor 3

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  • Is the answer anything other than "pretty damn well against the weapons it was worn against"?

    TV and movies often depict armor as if it's little better than clothing, as if it wasn't abandoned as soon as practical counter was developed. (And then re-invented as a guard against shrapnel and very-small arms...l

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    Was it ableist for my ex-friend to say “[all] autistic people make her uncomfortable “?

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  • Why should abelsim be given latitude that we wouldn't extend to racism, sexism, or anti-Semitism?

    My opinion is that embarrassed bigotry in private is still bigotry. It's good that those with such feelings recognize the harm that they bring (or at least the public shaming that they can suffer), but it makes for a simpler life to just excise such hatreds whenever you can.

  • Dawson County, Nebraska voted for Trump. And now 1/3 of them lost their job

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  • It was a meat-packing plant that handles a significant portion of the beef processed in the whole country. Beef that we can't really export anymore because Trump thinks trade deficit is the same thing as a credit card and RFK is trying to kill us all.

    Climate change may have had a hand in the drought, but the proximate cause for this is much more likely Trump's incompetent trade policy. If Tyson didn't see a recession coming, they'd likely retooled the plant to something else rather than scuttle the whole thing.

  • Republican declares second "civil war" has started in US

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  • When George f****ing Washington , inaugural president of the United States, leads troops into battle to assert the rule of law and congress's ability to impose taxes it kind of sets a precedent.

    America's had a bunch of tax rebellions, though . It's just that being a functioning democracy let us do it without anyone dying. (Save for two very notable exceptions.)

  • Women's rights vary

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  • Like i said, the issue varys wildly by state or court.

    Although part of the reason why men who ask for custody get it more than 50% of the time is that very often they know (or believe) they don't have a chance and so don't fight.

  • Republican declares second "civil war" has started in US

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  • Mega Man: Dual Override - Official Reveal Trailer | The Game Awards 2025

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  • That sounds like a great idea actually.

    Zelda's on like it's 7th reboot or something.

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  • As the guy who buys his own wine and isn't that picky, I'd much rather open a $5 bottle than one ten times that price. Especially if it's a sweet red; then I can get an order of magnitude more drink than the snob who likes sour grapes.

    (And, honestly, $50 is way too much for a common bottle of wine. Even $30 is nearly in the realm of conspicuous consumption.)

  • Women's rights vary

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  • I think we have a right to be judged fairly and not because of our gender or sex. But that's a semantic point and I don't want to quibble.

    I do want to push back on excusing from women their responsibility for the society we live in, however. (Or just underline an implied point we may both share.)

    Nearly every man I know values the opinions of women at least as much as those of other men. When a boy sees his mom belittle his father for being insufficiently manly, he hears a lesson that sexism is bad. When a man tells a boy that the way to get a girlfriend is to be a sexist jerk the boy listens, not because he cares about the con artist, but because he's desperate for a girl who cares about him.

    Men have a lot of the big levers of power, and do bear a proportionate share of our own blame, but we shouldn't excuse women who use the power they have in ways that make our society worse.

    We're all in this together, and all need to do what we can to make the world we pass to our children better than the one our parents passed on to us.

  • Women's rights vary

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  • I think we agree and agree.

    I was careful not to use the word "ignore", because the answer to anyone sharing how they were harmed by sexism should never be anything less than "that's horrible and I hate that it happened to you."

    Sexist women who claim to be "feminist" and yet feel free to denigrate men or dismiss their perspective are terrible advocates for the cause.

    (Not "their" cause, because sexism is an evil that harms everyone and everyone should be against it.)

    (And sealions who claim to be "men's rights activists" but just want to be sexist anti-feminist trolls are at least as bad.)

  • Women's rights vary

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  • Men have the exact same right to abandon and refuse to raise their child that women do. This right is not always respected in American courts, but the same laws that protect her if he doesn't want to help also should protect him if she just wants to drop the baby and run.

    And if she sabotaged the condom, stole his sperm for IVF,.or similarly took action to concieve against his wishes, then she committed a crime and should be punished. But not the child.

    As far as the law or justice cares, babies could be delivered by storks.

  • Women's rights vary

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  • Transphobia flourishes when it's dismissed, minimized, and forgiven.

    The only differences between "men's rights" and "women's rights" comes down to unequal treatment by police and the courts. When we talk about abortion and rape, the group in question can be described a bunch of ways ("female", "xx", "uterus-having") but not accurately simply as "women".

    Because trans-men are men, not women, and treating them as such is every bit as bigoted as treating trans women as men.

  • Women's rights vary

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  • I am also very supportive of women's rights but lying is not helpful.

    Worth knowing: although they attract a lot of anti-feminist losers, the "men's rights" activists are absolutely correct that men do not universally have the same support programs or even legal presumptions that women do. These can vary widely from state to state and even from court to court.

    It's not nearly as big an issue as "they want her to die from a miscarriage", but "they presume he's the inferior parent" or "they presume he caused the violence even if he's the one bleeding" are also sexist oppression.

    (Comparisons to the anti-woke "all lives matter" bullshit are apt -- men can and should recognize that relatively minor slights and injustices are not nearly as urgent as denying pregnant humans life-saving care!)