Ginny [they/she]

Sir, you have insulted my ancestors, and I cannot allow this insult to stand. I challenge you to a duel!

People have known that water fluoridation is an international communist plot to sap and impurity our precious bodily fluids since at least the 50s!

Because using what little influence you have to prevent a trans genocide means you are endorsing Palestinian genocide, and are therefore a fascist. /s

It’s true. REAL anti-fascists only live in safe, non-fascist places. If you stay and try to fight the fascists, then you’re really just a fascist. /s

I’ve been using minoxidil and finasteride on and off for some years (on and off roughly correlating to hopeful and hopeless periods of mental health).

I’ve been informed by some hair loss people that at this stage they don’t think there’s any point wasting money on PRP or LLLT or anything like that, but I did recently buy a derma roller anyway, since they’re cheap and one can always hope for a miracle.

I think I’ll try to stick with a “delulu is the solulu” outlook until I’ve at least been on full dose HRT for a year or so and then cut my losses.

The essence of the trolley problem is to ask whether choosing not to exercise the agency that you have is a moral choice. The fact that you may not have complete control over the outcome doesn’t make the analogy bad in and of itself.

Suppose everyone else except you had already voted and exit polls suggested Trump had won by one vote. Would you vote, then? I don’t care what your answer is would be; that is between you and your own conscience. But, is the situation really so different from the real world situation where for all you know your vote might actually count?

You can disagree that the trolley problem comparison is apt, but I think calling it “deceitful and self-serving” is a stretch.

FWIW I am from the UK and I don’t care whether you vote or not.

If you hate imperialism hard enough, a viable third party candidate will emerge. You just have to try harder. /s

I think the most reasonable assumption would be that the Democrats reckon that coming out against Israel will lose them more zionist votes then sticking with Israel will lose them anti-genocide votes. And given the amount of money AIPAC has been throwing around against anti-zionist candidates in primaries, that might not be an incorrect reckoning.

Why is the mash brown? And why does it look too gloopy? I have a theory that this lunatic has mixed gravy directly into the mash.

He can’t be the pigeon lady because it turned out the pigeon lady was likeable.

The UK was not open and tolerant in the 70s, which is why there was one race riot after another on the 80s.

The UK has definitely gotten worse in the last few years or so, possibly a decade, but before that was a golden period just after terrorism-related Islamophobia had died down and before refugee-related Islamophobia kicked in where the UK was probably the best it ever was on terms of racial attitudes.

You can tell it’s British by the fact that there are two white vans and not a pick-up truck in sight.

Hey, no worries! It just seemed like a funny response to post. I appreciate you going out of your way to educate.

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The gay aunt is transition goals for me. Too bad I’m going to have to spend a lot of money to have a chance of growing back enough hair to make that hair style viable.

I don’t think the argument does fail. OP is not arguing against killing in the heat of the moment in self-defence or whatever. OP is arguing specifically about executions after the fact. The only way “maximizing who survives” would be relevant is if you believe capital punishment is a deterrent, and that is arguable.

In my case there was only ever the one excuse, which is that I thought the pain of being a social outcast (I’m never gonna pass) would be worse than the pain of dysphoria. I knew trans people and thought: “Damn, they must have been in a lot of pain. Unlike me; I’m only in a bearable amount of pain. I hardly want to unalive myself at all except sometimes.”

I don’t think the contrarianism is Lemmy specific. Whenever someone becomes problematic for whatever, there’ll always be people taking to twitter or whatever to say “well they were never really that good anyway”. And it is almost always just a cope, except in the specific case of Rob Schneider.

I think usually it’s just for fun. “Fook” is supposed to be evocative of Northern England in the same way “feck” is of Ireland, but in my experience no one in Northern England pronounces it that way for real. Not in the North West, at least.

If you wanted to crack your egg, you ought simply to have walked between 1280 and 10240 steps, depending on your egg group.

But seriously, same. I knew I was trans as a teen but I stuck it out pretending to be cis until my 30s “for an easy life”.