Additionally to what has already been mentioned: People are susceptible to politics that confirm their prejudices. Right-wing political thought is largely based on confirming that whatever prejudices people hold, they are morally good and justified. Thus elevating an in-group above out-groups. That is a powerful lure.

I am not entirely sure, but it’s either the Aurora Flopsie or Cabela’s Giant Red Fox.

It’s quite easy to understand: If you aren’t white and successful in sports, you are not a real woman™.

Yeah, I don’t have much hope in that regard. I am sure Takahashi’s involvement with the series will mean that the original manga’s casual misogyny will be toned down, but I doubt that Takahashi will change much about the overall plot.

AI execs: Our AIs are going to be so powerful. More powerful than anything. Soon they could be able to destroy humanity!

Governments: Well, then we better regulate that shit and make sure that doesn’t happen…

AI execs: Nooooo! We did not mean it that way!

No, you see it’s not like education makes you see past your own prejudices and that makes you more liberal. If you are liberal you get awarded an education by the shadowy cabal that controls the education system with DEI measures! This guy only wants a tRuE mERiToCrACy where disenfranchised, downtrodden bigots get a chance to attend university where they are taught about the superiority of their white Aryan race.

/s if it isn’t apparent.

So much this.

It is the very definition of being cis to not understand wanting to be a different gender than the one being assigned at birth. People who are uncomfortable with their assigned gender are not cis.

But many need a while to realize that other people do not feel the way they do.

WillStealYourUsername has already given a very good overview, to add to that…

It is a highly individual process and while many trans people share certain experiences, no two trans people will have exactly the same kind of journey.

While the public perception of trans people is very much focused on the rather rare cases of young children who will insist on being trans from an early age on. While these cases definitely exist, far more trans people are going through a gradual process of realization. There may be a final “egg crack” (the moment of final realization), but it is usually preceded by a slow process of smaller realizations and it is nowhere near a linear process…

As WillStealYourUsername describes so well, in hindsight all the signs and individual quirks make sense, but most people have to attain a certain level of self-acceptance before being able to recognize the various symptoms for what they are.

In my personal case, it was an intense jealousy of fem people that would never go away and culminated in a moment where I had an emotional meltdown over a fictional character who transitioned from male to female in their storyline. That’s when I finally realized that I could do the same thing if I got my shit together and accepted being trans.

Yeah, I was pretty much convinced of the same thing while still in school: How could my class mates not want to change their gender? It’s the most amazing thing in the world to do! Who would say no to that?

Seems like Elon thinks he can use Teslas as compute resources without the cars being charged…

It is the internal voice of the female-presenting person in the far left corner of the first picture. All of the text is essentially the internal monologue of the comic’s creator, MilkyTrickster. He retells his struggles with his looks, until the moment he realized that he doesn’t need to pass as a man in order to accept his own trans identity.

Of course, everybody responds differently to such things. For me… (spoilered for those who still want to play it)

But ultimately everyone has to find their own way to figures themselves out. So I will keep my fingers crossed that you will find yours.

If you are in the mood for another game and have half an hour of time, I recommend checking out “What’s your gender?”. It’s a short experience that made a big difference for me.

It’s a cult. Altman is one of the TESCREAL devotees. He truly believes that he can build the electronic messiah.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”

In that regard, you cannot make a manager understand a thing that may detrimental to the profits of the company. Because the profits decide upon the size of the manager’s bonus - even if the profits are entirely fictional, only exist as a plan, a power point presentation or are pure hype for investors. So managers have a vested interest in insisting that they can circumvent regulations/disregard laws/lobby for exemptions/… in order to make more money, no matter what reality looks like.

I am shocked to hear that the company which needlessly and cruelly killed animals with their experiments, did not bother to keep records of the cruelties they committed. SHOCKED!

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The week after: Google introduces AI Mail that will receive and automatically respond to all mail. This will happen without the users’ consent or knowledge. In fact, users won’t be able to access their mail anymore at all “for security reasons”.

As mossy_ writes: Some people just like looking at girls, but when it’s compulsive for someone, it is one possible indication of being an egg.