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SynonymousStoat

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  • 120 anti-trans bills have already been filed across the United States before 2025 has even started

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  • I read your comment as they want to hook up with trans people and I was adding that some (most?) are trans themselves and repressing it. I think it's probably important to recognize both of those potential aspects of where trans hate can come from.

  • 120 anti-trans bills have already been filed across the United States before 2025 has even started

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  • No, they need to ban it because deep down they are afraid they are trans and if they can somehow ban it then they can keep pushing those feelings down and ignore it.

    Well, actually, it's probably both.

  • Jay-Z accused in a civil lawsuit of raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000 along with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs

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  • I think the difference between a 13 year old and an 18 year old is generally pretty obvious and if you can't tell then don't even risk it.

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    Retirement in the USA is a scam

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  • That's generally why when you're younger people tend to put their retirement funds into riskier investments and over time as you get closer to retirement you move portions of your money into less risky things that don't have the potential volatility of the stock market so that by the time you retire you don't have to worry about the stock market dipping and blowing out your retirement funds. At least that's one way to do it; obviously this isn't investment advice and you should seek your own professional investment advice.

  • FBI finds hundreds of weapons at home of suspect in Arizona Democratic Party office shooting

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  • How about both?

  • Infants died at higher rates after abortion bans in the US, research shows

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  • There isn't any CSS used on that page, it's all using old HTML only styling and I'd wager that it hasn't really been touched much since, ya know... 1997.

  • The Middle-Class Women Who Are Tripping Balls

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  • Would you say the same of a parent that gets drunk at night?

  • Infants died at higher rates after abortion bans in the US, research shows

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  • It's probably just some old keyword stuffing/SEO to get the page to show up under searches for all of those keywords.

  • Lionsgate Signs Deal With AI Company Runway, Hopes That AI Can Eliminate Storyboard Artists and VFX Crews

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  • It'll probably be like anytime someone decides to outsource work to a less skilled worker. You'll either end up with an inferior product or you'll have to scrap what you got and redo it at the cost of more time and a higher price thus completely negating the whole reason for outsourcing in the first place. So many people making these decisions can't see past the next quarter on the graph.

  • Is Everyone Conscious in the Same Way? | Simon Roper

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  • I'll look them up, thanks for the recommendation!

  • Is Everyone Conscious in the Same Way? | Simon Roper

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  • I came to the same conclusion about my usual disinterest in books stemming from me having Aphantasia. The only kinds of books I've been able to consistently get through are very comedic in their writing style (e.g. Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, Dennis E. Taylor, etc.). I think the focus on humor instead of visualizing the story and its world is what helps me when it comes to reading books.

  • Is Everyone Conscious in the Same Way? | Simon Roper

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  • Pretty strong case of Aphantasia here, it never even occurred to me that people actually saw things in their minds eye and thought it was more a metaphor or something. I do, however, have a very talkative internal monologue. I have a friend who has no internal monologue paired with Aphantasia, I always enjoy talking with them about their experience and how it differs from my own.

    It's really interesting to me how people's internal experience can differ and how we can never truly know what these different experiences are like.

  • Their Landlord Removed The Bike Rack In Front Of Their Restaurant, So This Manager Had It Sneakily Replaced While They Were Out of Town

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  • Oh wow, this is a 9 year old reddit thread? The author of this article is really digging for content.

  • FDA rejects ecstasy as a therapy: what’s next for psychedelics?

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  • I'm no scientist, but I don't really know how you can have a study of a psychoactive drug and the participants not be able to guess if they had the drug or the placebo.

  • Valve unintentionally set the stage for today's digital economic hellscape, according to its former economist in residence

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  • You're right, I don't, but it sure as hell makes it a lot easier to keep the hundreds of games that I have purchased organized. Not to mention I don't have to manually keep each of the 95 games I currently have installed updated or have to worry about backing up game saves or having them available across multiple different devices with zero effort from myself.

    Steam isn't perfect, but it does add a massive amount of value for consumers like myself who take advantage of a lot of the different features that are mostly unique to Steam as a platform.

    Also, I believe when a developer releases a game on Steam they are given the opportunity to use Steamworks, which provides a lot of potentially useful tools for a game deceloper.

  • Valve unintentionally set the stage for today's digital economic hellscape, according to its former economist in residence

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  • It's a developers choice to release on Steam with DRM, Valve does not enforce it, there are games with no DRM on Steam.

    Half baked features? I don't remember the last time I tried using one of Steam's features that I listed (and others I didn't list) and it didn't work incredibly well.

    Don't get me wrong, I believe DRM generally only causes problems for paying customers and I'd be much happier without it, but I think Steam's DRM is one of the least invasive solutions that currently exist.

  • Valve unintentionally set the stage for today's digital economic hellscape, according to its former economist in residence

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  • "...their useless proprietary launcher." Steam is by far the least useless launcher out there. Steam has so many incredibly useful features such as remote play together, community controller layouts, the workshop, cloud saves, family library sharing, etc. Not to mention that they continue to keep adding new features that no other launcher is even close to having such as the new game recording feature that is currently in beta.

    Sure, Valve charge a pretty decent amount to game developers for the sale of a game, but they provide a load of features in exchange.

  • Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled

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  • Firefox has been, and still is, my primary browser since before Chrome even existed so, definitely not FUD. Also, it's generally not Firefox's fault either, but instead the developers of websites that don't work in Firefox are usually doing something that isn't standards compliant.

    First to come to mind is that I can't log into the account management part of the pet boarding company I use when in Firefox. Another scenario is that a lot of movie streaming sites won't give Firefox video higher than 720p so in that case, Edge is often the only browser that can receive 1080p video. From my understanding the movie studios are the ones to blame for this.

  • Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled

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  • I only have Chrome installed for the rare occasion where a site doesn't work in Firefox. I feel like we've gone a bit backwards as of lately in building websites that are browser agnostic.