And that’s why this will keep happening.

Absolutely not

My 2018 Camry doesn’t interestingly enough

I have an honest theory, it’s probably verifiable by someone smarter than me.

I think attitudes about this stuff are influenced top down by agenda - I think they’re influenced top down by religion, and government, I think they get looser and more strict by agenda.

I think when governments, religions, or theocracies are trying to bolster the amount of human capital they have, you see a slow loosening and normalization, more people seeing younger humans as more adult like to justify the position.

So too, when things are comfortable in an economy, you see childhood extended, creature comforts expanded, more luxury in a society, and consequently agendas moving towards lower birth rates and values that align with that ( higher education etc )

There is a type of generational moral elasticity to this, and I’m seeing it loosen worldwide, like this, for probably the exact reason it sounds - more desperate bodies for military and economics, boosting population for replacement.

I also think this is why countries are moving against LGBT rights, and specifically against transgender people, because hormone therapy sterilizes a non trivial amount of transgender people, reducing the ‘breeding stock’.

It’s actually well known that there are more trans men than trans women, that is, that more biological female transitioners than male born transitioners, but they get almost no media coverage because they’re not considered a threat to society in the ways they are trying to weapons the threat, but legislation covers them too, and of course intentionally.

I’m dead serious when I say this type of view goes hand in hand with anti LGBT and anti intellectualism if your goal is to nudge your people into having more babies with less opportunities. This is coming to the US and the West too, it’s already on its way.

Heaven help us.

We should create an equivalent Lemmy community instead of funneling people to Reddit tbh

I am deeply empathetic, but I pretty much experience zero embarrassment, regret, guilt, and very very little anger.

I experience a ton of sorrow though, and love, it feels like I love everyone. I know something is really weird with the way I experience emotions - I have wildly overactive empathy for emotions in others, but yeah, it’s like I don’t quite have a soul or something.

Love this movie actually

Most people in my life sneeze in clusters of three

This is super twisted and infantalizing to women to be honest. We don’t fight for equality by using equity logic that is faulty, we ask everyone, men and women to see women as equals in all areas of life. We’re strong, resilient, capable and independent, and you’re philosophy asks to maintain privilege ( not military draft ) because you think we face so much other issues, that you see that as equitable, but equity is often the incorrect solution to fairness, fairness is often blind, it says anything a man can do, women can do too. I want to be seen as an equal, not weaker. Women should be in positions of power, not protected and privileged, we are just as capable.

So can men, but in this instance they’re also compelled. The ask here is that if men are compelled to service, women should be too. That’s obviously equal treatment and fair.

Star Trek timeline had WW3 at 1996

I don’t agree with your premise, love languages are real, and some people, like me, what are called words of affirmation are very important and receiving them feels like receiving love, and when people don’t speak the same love language, an act significant to the giver may not be received and felt as significant by the receiver

It’s difficult to explain this, but you’re wrong, there is no regional dialect that would pronounce the word this as this, because it is awkward.

Both are interdental fricatives, but this is always done with a voiced dental fricative, a voiceless would be the way people pronounce thistle. Now try to say this place but say this without the le on thistle.

I’m on mobile and can’t type out the IPA symbols, but I did take linguistics classes so I know the difference between the two phones, whereas you seem to equate the phones with their orthography.

They absolutely do not

You can only stretch the firmament so much before it tears

Not to be funny, but this has been a thing for years, like at least a decade years, but probably longer too.

You are doom

The fact that this isn’t an every day occurrence confuses the shit out of me.

Prem kahani?

I’ve always understood historical Jesus as a concession, and not a reflection of confirmed existence.