On my phone so I don’t feel like finding the source, but a recent study these chuds are citing does point to greater difficulty achieving orgasm for amab women who did not orgasm prior to blockers, hrt, and surgery. What they fail to address is the same studies show generally increased ability to orgasm following surgery. Beyond that, they ignore the existence of a population who has a famously high prevalence of difficulty with orgasm: cis women.
Fuck these chuds.
You should try it. I kind of does taste sweet.
It seems like you are conflating leadership with hierarchy. Where I am, I see plenty of leaders who step up when needed, organizing efforts on the ground. If anything, I think the current situation of the regime points to the danger of coalescing behind a central leader.
With respect to countering this specific empire, decentralized structures are more difficult to counter and have a history of prevailing against even overwhelming force from the US (Vietnam and Afghanistan come to mind). As for signing people up on any list, particularly large ones, that seems like a massive mistake given the surveillance capabilities and budgets commanded by the regime and the average person’s understanding of proper security practices.
Please actually read Chenoweth’s papers, especially the recent ones. Important points as I recall them from last year when this factoid first popped up:
From the paper quoted by the linked article: “The rule is derived from—and therefore applies to—
only a specific kind of campaign. The movements
on which it was based were maximalist ones, i.e.
overthrowing a government or achieving territorial
independence.They were not reformist in nature, and
they had discrete political outcomes they were trying
to achieve that culminated in the peak mobilization
that I counted. Because of this, we cannot necessarily extrapolate these findings to other kinds of reform or
resistance movements that don’t have the same kinds of goals as those in the NAVCO dataset…” (emphasis mine).
Yes, we need a mass mobilization to resist these fascist fuckheads. But please take on a real understanding of what this research does and doesn’t indicate. More importantly, don’t use this as an excuse or justification to police the behavior of others.
For our movement to succeed, we need solidarity between all people who oppose this regime and a diversity of tactics is a strength rather than a weakness.
Maybe. I’m not a communist (or at least not a state communist), but I share with many of them the beliefs that this current system is broken beyond repair and that the solution(s) will require more than a change of who’s on our money or the precise method we use to decide whose skulls the police should bash in. If longevity and happiness for our species, no say nothing of the rest of the biosphere, are real goals, we may need a radical restructuring.
A less exploitative, more free world might involve having fewer comforts or getting used to the idea that the things other people provide us are gifts rather than entitlements. It might mean making do with less reliable electricity because no one is compelled to risk their life 24/7 to keep the lights on. Maybe it involves smaller infrastructure so that the benefit of maintaing one’s own neighborhood grid are obvious.
I think you sort of gave short shrift to the above answer because they failed to provide you with a detailed list of incentives. They did, however answer with a pretty cogent framework for what to do with dangerous work: eliminate it or make it less dangerous. If no one’s willing to do a job, that sure sounds like voting with their labor and determing that the job edesn’t need doing to me.
Below, you talk about banking our species survival on whether someone enjoys a job without reward. Enjoy? No. Find necessarry enough to spend a portion of their limited time on this earth doing it? Sure. Humans (and every other species) have survived for the vast majority of our history without industrialization and work as it is today. A more just future might look more like our past than like our present or an imagined future in some ways. Historically, we’ve organized ourselves in wildly different manners and there’s no reason we can’t do the same in the future.
I do two subq injections a week. It’s honestly kind of a lottery. Sometimes it’s painless, other times it stings something awful. Way better than 2-3x daily pills tho.
Not at all… except sometimes I make murloc noises when I’m bored.
Sounds like you encountered an idiot. I identify as a lesbian. The fact that I have dated a man and that I have occassionally gotten sexy with men in group situations does not change this. Orientation labels are shorthand- something that saves time in communication with folks. It’s not meant to be an unyielding, eternal truth with no exceptions ever. If you say you’re a lesbian (in good faith), then you’re a lesbian, end of story.
Forget the ethics or legality (okay, please don’t, just set them aside momentarily). At a little over 1.3 million active duty military members, that’s about $100 per person. Wow, that’s gonna go so far at the commisary.
Sure, but rice is a shitty desiccant. If it weren’t, it would cook easier and we would ship things with packets of rice rather than silica gel.
Not so sure about any of that. Sounds pretty non-binary to me.
For this knob, at least, they are if you respect the autonomy of all people. Unless you’re looking for the total freedom of action of the despot (and expect to be the one in a position to enjoy it), I fail to see how any system that makes a belief verboten can be described as free, let alone truly so.
While I am an atheist, I no more desire the forcible eradication of religion than I do the instantiation of theocracy and I sure as shit wouldn’t count either as a milestone on the road to True Freedom.
True freedom or the power to abolish things. Pick one.
Stupid question, but which matrix space/room is for this jam?
I recently learned about and met some lovely folks involved with a lesbian commune that’s been running continuously for over 50 years where some of the current residents are in their 80s. Something like that sounds really nice.
Congrats!
This mirrors convoy with my mom.
Me: I need to tell you something and I need for you to not freak out.
Mom: Of course, honey.
Me: I’m trans.
Mom: Oh Jesus Christ! You had me worried. I thought something was wrong.
Early Zenphones circa 2014 - 2015 had X86 processors. I had one, it was neat. The dream of running legacy apps on a phone never materialized though.
I think they meant five 5-hour shifts per week.
I have to disagree that it’s even a nice idea. The “idea” behind AI appears to be wanting a machine that thinks or works for you with (at least) the intelligence of a human being and no will or desires of its own. At its root, this is the same drive behind chattel slavery, which leads to a pretty inescapable conundrum: either AI is illusory marketing BS or it’s the rebirth of one of the worst atrocities history has ever seen. Personally, hard pass on either one.
Idk. A strained relationship with the truth appears to be an asse trather than a liability in today’s political environment. I’ll shed no tears for transphobes, fascists, or other scum who get bogged down in spurious accusations.