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I can speak to this, as I was a mod of r/AskConservatives when reddit admin sent out the communiqué that misgendering someone or othrwise denying trans identity was a reddit rule 1 (“remember the human”) violation. Which I think was a step in the right direction, but those first few months were… rough. Inconsistent communication from admin, inconsistent removals by admin, and a slew of bad-faith actions from users on both the right and the left. A lot of bans given out, the head mod resigned over it, another mod was permabanned from reddit over it, and the rest of us just decided the only safe course for all our users –querants and respondents alike– was to preclude any questions touching on trans identity. (Which was unpopular with every stripe, the hallmark of a good compromise.)

Admin was already getting better at enforcing this interpretation of Rule 1 by the time I resigned my modship over the API debacle. I can only imagine they’ve continued to become more consistent in the time since and gradually transphobes are being weeded out with sitewide bans, or at least getting the message and keeping their bigotry to themselves. I still think it would’ve been better from the start to address the matter face-on, rather than shuffling it in with the proscription other dehumanizing behavior, but reddit isn’t know for great decision-making or forthrightness, is it?

Middle and ring, leaving index and pinky for the “legs”.

I went to the University of Chicago for undergrad, and took classes in the math department. So, yes.

Well, if it’s in Latin it can be erotic, but never vulgar.

No ads, better control over the feed, conversations with real people, being part of an exciting socual experiment

US, English and Spanish. But we had the option, schedule permitting, to go to one of the other highschools in town to take Latin, German, French, or ASL. One friend took ASL, the rest of us took Spanish. I still speak it every day.

Playing by Minecraft rules, I see.

Not necessarily.

I sleep with noise but I don’t need it to sleep. I just leave my windows open and get the ambient sounds of the city at night: traffic, distant music, fireworks, snatches of conversation as people walk by.

But I also go camping and the sounds of nature are just as fine: coyote howling, wind through the trees, crickets and birds and raccoons

I rarely get true silence but when I do… I still fall asleep just the same.

Because you didn’t get enough art education when you yourself were a child.

Middle Eastern cuisine has a lot of meat dishes but not nearly so much dairy, and the vegetarian dishes tend to also be vegan: falafel, hummus, Jerusalem salad, Persian salad, maklouba, baba ghannoush.

South Asian cuisine tends to be vegetarian and the dairy is usually ghee (sub in olive oil or another liquid vegetable fat). 90% of the recipes are already vegan-friendly: Chana masala, tarka dal, aloo gobi are my favorites. And if you do come across a meat dish, sub in green jackfruit and you’ll have a good time.

You don’t need a vegan cookbook, you just need Middle Eastern and South Asian cookbooks.

Depends on how good the AI was, surely? An LLM would be shocking, but something actually designed for policy work might be worthwhile.

I mean, there is no meaning in nature, it was man who invented it

This is how. I deal with it by inventing meaning. I’m not content with the natural state of nature, and actively seek to make the world better.

anything else invites ruin

It’s a velco strap you can wear on your wrist or ankle, it’s got a mesh pocket where you insert a little tab of gauze soaked in citronella.

I wear strap with a pad of citronella in it, that’s all. Never sprays.

Like why is it expensive as F in the first world.

Labor costs more, land is worth more, regulatory costs are higher.

This is the Way.

No one has ever said that to me.