To be Democrats.

Someday, that old planter will become a fountain.

This is a good idea even if you don’t think they will do it. When they don’t do it, you can negotiate money back from the purchase to cover the cost of hiring a junk removal team. Then you can pocket the cash and do it yourself or you can pay someone else to do it.

Have you considered that the people “appeasing” Trump are actually on his side pretending not to be? Not that “both sides same” bullshit, but that conservatives have been really good at pretending to not be.

This is funny whether it’s a pet or an actual boss.

It’s not free. It’s paid for by taxpayers at much higher rates. Rehabilitation is actually cheaper in the long run, but then you don’t get the labor.

I mean, Trump went to UPenn.

Are you thinking of Penn State, or was there a pedo at UPenn, too?

Really? I think I sunk 100 hours into BOTW. I would also go with TOTK all things being equal, but I never felt like BOTW was a tech demo.

I use ostensibly a lot lately. Seems like an appropriate word for our times.

That’s the level of copium I’ve been mainlining since his heel turn. Like I didn’t want McCormick in the primary, and I definitely didn’t want fucking Oz, but this is pretty bad.

There are two types of people, those who will respect your pronouns, and those who won’t. The people that will respect your pronouns will support you and be glad you said something. This category of people does not want to make you feel bad about yourself.

This is where it gets dicey, though. Well-meaning people can take it too far, make too much of a spectacle of something that should be very simple. They don’t want to embarass you or exacerbate a socially awkward conversation, but by being too enthusiastic to be an ally, they can make it much worse.

The people who won’t respect you are pieces of shit humans, and it would be easy to just write them off entirely. The problem is they might be coworkers or managers or clients or vendors. They might be in-laws or neighbors or friends of friends or distant relations. They might hate you. They might be violent towards you. And there are more of them now, and they have a lot of power right now.

So sharing your pronouns is a risk. It’s always a risk. And that’s another thing well-meaning allies can miss about the situation.

The best thing for all of it is honest communication and a bit of empathy. Understand that most people do support you, they just don’t always know how to best achieve that. Understand that the people who misgender you aren’t necessarily doing it on purpose, but the ones that are should be flagged as a potential problem.

I wish there was a better answer that worked in all situations. Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith, and sometimes that leap will be met with hostility.

But every time you do, you are creating the pathways for future generations. It’s hard because nobody does it, and exposure is the best source of empathy. Take pride in being your authentic self, and stand up for you and for everyone like you who has or will faced the same decision. But also, don’t be ashamed if you choose to remain silent. It’s a scary world, and you don’t owe anyone the chance to hurt you.

If the tutor was being deliberately insensitive, that’s awful. If the tutor was just being regular person stupid, it’s pretty funny. People make mistakes all the time, and we don’t really think about everything we say. Using the correct pronouns shouldn’t be stressful as long as you’re trying to treat people with respect and decency.

Deliberately using the wrong pronouns is just bullying, though.

You know how you have to pay extra to have insurance to pay to take care of your mouth bones and your face balls? Well, what if we did that but with all the bones and stuff? Like, why are your foot bones included in the same insurance that pays for you to have knee bones or neck giblets? Why not do all the bones and stuff a la cart? And then maybe skin can be a premium add-on. We could charge separate for the red goo that’s all on the inside everywhere, and then it’s like a subscription model for having parts. We can sell it like “don’t pay for the parts you don’t have,” and people will think that they are saving money because each part costs less than the whole, but paying for everything costs more.

-some Health Insurance board member somewhere, probably.

I sunk hours into NetHack, and I still occasionally dive into the dungeons. I also have a NES emulator on my phone, but it’s just not the same. I’ll play Zelda or Metroid for the nostalgia, but it’s not the same as sitting on the couch with friends.

I’m glad you have data, because I was just thinking that cultural attitudes towards tattoos and nudity don’t seem to be related, but I can’t prove that.

… I should start an AI company.

Isn’t that like negative zero?

Sure are a contentious bunch.

Pretty sure every scam promises refunds. That’s not proof that it is a scam, but it’s equally not proof that it isn’t a scam.

They’re charging money for access to the inner circle. I don’t know you or the program, but that one piece of information would be enough for me to doubt everything else. That doesn’t mean they aren’t offering some nuggets of wisdom. Any profitable scam will sprinkle in something valuable, like the single hundred dollar bill on the top of a pack of newspaper cut and wrapped to look like a stack of bills.

Hell, early investors in pyramid schemes and ponzi schemes do very well before everything falls apart.