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Evkob (they/them)

@ Evkob @lemmy.ca

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  • What are The signs about you being trans that your pre Crack self ignored/overlooked?

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  • I spent so, so much time in trans subreddits, especially /r/egg_irl.

    It took over two years of basically exclusively looking at trans memes, "to get a better understanding of the trans experience as an ally", for me to start considering I might be trans!

    I also recall a time near the beginning of that trans meme phase where I said to a friend "I think I'm probably non-binary". He was like "what?" to which I answered "what?" and I just left it at that, not even a hint of introspection.

  • What was the last image you saved from the internet?

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  • I work in a café and the comments I overhear men saying to my feminine coworkers are insane. I get some weird comments sometimes (I'm pretty visibly queer) but it's nothing compared to them. I honestly don't know how women deal with it.

  • Veggies Burgers

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  • Tomatoes would be odd, I've never seen that. Onions, or at a minimum garlic power, should be in any burger recipe, IMO. Carrots would totally work for a veggie burger, I found this recipe that looks pretty tasty and uses both carrots and onions.

    But disregarding all that; I very rarely eat burgers that don't have both onions and tomatoes as toppings :P

  • Veggies Burgers

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  • To add to idiomaddict's great points, the animals don't eat exclusively grass. In Australia (assuming based on your instance): "the latest estimate (2017-18) of annual feed use in Australia is 13.58 million tonnes" (SFMCA).

    This includes "cereal grains, legume grains, vegetable protein meals, animal protein meals, cereal milling co-products, minerals and vitamins" as per that same source.

    I often see people use the deforestation of the Amazon for soy crops as a sort of gotcha for vegans, even though most soybeans are grown for use as animal feed (in the Amazon, mainly cattle). Incidentally, cattle farms are also responsible for much more deforestation in the Amazon than soybeans, but I digress.

    I'll also note that grass-fed beef has often been shown to be as bad (or sometimes worse) for the environment than feedlot beef. It also can't scale to meet current meat consumption.

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    How are you doing fellow kids

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  • Even though OP specified it's a real tweet, I honestly didn't believe them. Until I checked.

    Fuck, man. I've been getting more and more desensitized to the absolute bullshit that abounds in this world, and most of the insane stuff fascists do barely registers anymore.

    But this hit me like a ton of bricks, for some reason. These people are gonna gas minorities and make memes about it. What a fucking pathetic waste of atoms these assholes are.

  • Switch 2 vs Steam Deck: the Cyberpunk 2077 face-off

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  • Sometimes adding the installer as a non-Steam game and running it through Proton works, otherwise I use Lutris. You can find tutorials online for setting it up to use with FitGirl's installers.

    Although specifically for Cyberpunk 2077 I had issues with the install, so I found a no-install version, I believe from DODI.

  • What's your favorite thing that anyone has done out of pure spite?

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  • I'm very curious at to what these "far-left" extreme views that the media (owned by billionaires) are espousing. The only news I see is either aligned with fascists or the milquetoastiest of liberalism.

    (I'll bet anyone here 5$ that this guy considers "racial minorities and trans people deserve human rights" to be an extremist position)

  • Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic Portal 2 as Steam’s top-rated game

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  • Ooo I've never heard of this! Kinda sad I only saw this comment after the Summer Sale :P Thanks for sharing!

  • The Bloc Wants to Break Up Canada—but Not Yet

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  • I'm honestly curious, how would you define anglo-Canadian identity?

    I feel like more and more, English Canada is becoming culturally Americanized. Less gun-obsessed, sure, and hockey over football/baseball, but apart from that the difference seems to be waning.

    Not that francophone communities, including Québec, aren't also influenced by the US, but the impact is a lot lesser. I'd be super curious to see how much Canadian music/TV the average Canadian listens to, versus how much québécois content the average person in Québec consumes.

    There, to me anyways, seems to be a much higher emphasis on national identity in Québec than anywhere else in Canada (for better and for worse).

  • Switch 2 vs Steam Deck: the Cyberpunk 2077 face-off

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  • If you know where to look, a certain athletic woman can give it to you for free if you're on a Steam Deck!

  • Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic Portal 2 as Steam’s top-rated game

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  • In a similar vein to Superluminal, I'd also recommend Viewfinder, it's kinda like Portal but with a camera rather than a Portal gun.

  • prediction

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  • Fun fact: there exists black women other than Oprah Winfrey! Experts say there are at the very least 12 non-Oprah black women.

  • WestJet agent rejects First Nations elder's ID card, prevents him from boarding

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  • If your job mostly revolves around checking people's documentation and you fail to recognize government-issued ID (from the country in which you work, no less), you're objectively shit at your job.

    I don't understand why you're making excuses for the airline. I did a better job than this as a 19 year-old cashier selling lotto tickets.

  • RCMP charges CAF members with trying to create 'anti-government militia' and seize land

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  • I would definitely put my money on white nationalists.

    Seperationists don't tend to join the Canadian military, nor would they typically display stickers of the American flag on their trucks as you can see in one of the images on the article. Also, when's the last time the souverainiste mouvement got violent? I can't think of anything more recent than the early '70s.

  • The rise of Whatever

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  • I think what the author describes as the culture of Whatever is also a big reason everything kinda sucks now. It's all run by MBAs who have no relation to the product and have no vision except "line goes up". They have no incentive to care about the product they're offering because they couldn't care less about it.

  • How much spacing while stopped at a red light?

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  • Thanks for not participating in the vehicular arms race!

  • How much spacing while stopped at a red light?

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  • I think this advice made more sense when the majority drove reasonably-sized vehicles rather than the huge trucks and SUVs that pollute our roads now (at least in North America).

    I wouldn't be surprised if this bit of advice contributes to the problem in OP.

  • The power of time

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  • I copy-pasted the quote in a spoiler tag because scrolling through the in-line code markdown is an awful way to read text.

    No, I didn’t [confirm The Matrix is a trans allegory].

    Yeah, so that came from an interview I did for Disclosure. They had a bunch of Matrix questions. And the question they asked me was about Switch, who was originally written as a trans character who was male in the real world and female in the matrix. And they took that response and attached the question that everyone now references that it’s a trans allegory. And so it was slightly out of context, but I don’t sit here and put a stink up about it, because it is a trans allegory in that it was written by two closeted trans women. And so all of the things that are in it are super-duper trans. The idea of transformation, even the whole “My name is Neo, Mr. Anderson —” that idea of claiming identity, it’s undeniable.

    Yeah, with all the decisions we made with that film, there’s just this burbling transness simmering below everything. So when I look back at the way that we cast those two parts, I can see how obvious it is that they’re one part in a lot of ways; that they’re two sides of the same coin. It’s not like these were conscious decisions, but more like we’re finding our way instinctively as these two closeted trans women. So all those things that your receptors are buzzing about are completely valid. When people say, “Oh, it’s a trans allegory,” it’s like, “Yeah… it is, but we weren’t like, Hey, let’s write a trans allegory.” That’s not how it started. We were like, “Hey, let’s write this action film,” and then we got our trans all over it. [laughs]

  • What seemingly backwards solutions have worked for you in life?

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  • I love how all of this was just to avoid asking a family member "hey can I change some settings on your router to fix the Wi-Fi?"

    I mean, I get it. More often than not you'll either become the de facto tech support or they'll find a way to blame you the next time something doesn't work.