Are_Euclidding_Me

That's fair

Nope, this is too many layers for me. I'm with you that reddit sucks, but jesus, let me get this straight, we're 5 layers of subtweet deep. I can't do it. That's too online for me.

"Oh just hit them with sleep pots, you can't lose!"

Have you considered I'm bad at this game and that's a sure way to waste every single one of the super rare non-respawning flowers used to make sleep pots?

(My best tip is to summon Bernahl. He's helpful. Not an instant win by any means, but a big help.)

Right?! It's got a normal sponge on the other side! You get a two for one with that one!

(I do actually hate scrub daddy's, because boy howdy are they microplastic generators! They fall apart immediately, and it sucks quite a bit. I've stopped buying them because of how quickly they fall apart and just turn into horrible little bits of microplastic.)

yes

Oh hey, you mentioned perhaps writing documentation in LaTeX. I'm quite proficient in LaTeX and would love to help, when you get to that stage! I'll keep an eye on the project and volunteer again when it's closer to time!

This project you're doing is so super cool!

But what if we grow? What if more people pirate?

Good. Unlimited piracy on media and software corporations.

I'm a communist first and foremost. Private property is wrong in all its forms, this wrongness is just most obvious when talking about intellectual property, because intellectual property can be easily copied and isn't something physical like the tools in a factory. Of course corporations will always try to clamp down on piracy, they've been trying to do so my entire adult life. It doesn't really matter how many pirates there are, because corporations don't just want money, they want all the money. If even one person pirates, corporations will try to make piracy difficult.

I guess I fundamentally disagree with your statement that "The world can handle a stable population of pirates." I don't think that's a meaningful statement. It's not like there's some "carrying capacity" for piracy after which point the intellectual property ecosystem will tip out of equilibrium and cause pirates to become an endangered species.

Nah, it's way easier than that: pirate everything, give as much money as you can afford to small creators. Intellectual property is a fuck and the vast majority of any money you pay for media goes directly into the pockets of wealthy executives, not to the people who actually make the media you enjoy.

Honestly? I think that should be more normalized, across the board. A month or two of hrt (usually) won't cause massive physical changes, but it will change your mental state, and seeing whether that change is good or bad can give a lot of self-knowledge.

I legit don't think it's silly to "test" hrt at all. I wish it were normal and doctors were cool with it

I love hexbear and my trans comrades! It's so cool to have a space where we can just hang out and be unapologetically trans, talking about trans stuff together, share knowledge and all that good stuff!

For instance, two weeks ago or something, some people were talking about hrt injections and I read a comment saying that when they injected too shallow, they got an itchy lump that lasted several days. Now this has been an annoyance I've faced with my injections for awhile and I just assumed there wasn't really anything to do about it. But after I read that comment, I did the experiment and injected at a deeper angle the next two times. And wouldn't you know it, I didn't get an annoying itchy lump after either of these two injections!

I never would have even known there's a solution if some other trans person on here hadn't just mentioned this off-hand! And now because of you wonderful people, I have one less annoyance in my life! Thank you so much to whoever it was who made that comment!

I'm reading all the Dune books again (just finished 5). The thing that strikes me this time around is that Frank Herbert should have read some communist theory and some queer theory. A far-future society where fucking everyone is cis and straight? I don't buy it. And feudalism is the economic/social system that makes the most sense? I don't buy that either. But I don't know what I expect, the guy (Frank Herbert) clearly believes wholeheartedly that history is driven by a select few people and the mass of humanity don't matter. He's also pretty into eugenics. It's really annoying, actually. It just doesn't strike me as very good or interesting sci-fi. I'd sum up the premise of the Dune books as "What if hundreds of thousands of years from now humans had done eugenics enough that some people can literally see the future?" And like, ok, the literally seeing the future stuff is interesting, and I think the role of prophecy in these books is pretty cool, but once Leto II dies, prophecy and prescience just go out the window as plot devices, and we're left with Miles Teg turning into The Flash (because of his Atreides genes, it's so fucking full of eugenics I hate it) and the Honored Matres who use sex as a ridiculously potent weapon, but they're bad for doing so, at least according to the Bene Gesserit. And what's up with that? It really feels like the Bene Gesserit use sex as a weapon too, but I guess it's more correct to say they use sex as a tool in order to do eugenics better. They're into it for breeding reasons, whereas the Honored Matres are into it for controlling men reasons. Oh, and the Tleilaxu are another power player, but you know what? I'm not even going to get into their whole deal (extremely misogynist, unless I've seriously misread something).

It's all silly and annoying and I don't think Frank Herbert is as deep as he thinks he is and I wish he had thought about politics and sexuality from a few more perspectives (specifically, a communist one and a queer one, respectively). I think this series would be better with more emphasis on the mass of common people who have to live in this deeply fucked up universe and any recognition that non-procreative sex (especially gay sex) exists and is cool and good.

I'm probably not going to read these stupid books again once I finish them this time. Well, maybe I'll read the first three again at some point, because that's where the questions I find interesting are explored. (Mostly the seeing the future stuff. How do you live a life if you can see the future? What if the future you see is horrific? Should you fight against it? Can you even do so?)

It really isn't. One and three aren't even the same gestures and two is such a common gesture, I've done it this week. It's literally