Depends on the city. I live in San Francisco, and honestly I see almost as many gender nonconforming people out and about as I do gender conforming. There are trans flags waving all over the place. A few years ago a bunch of Trumpers tried to have a rally in Oakland and people threw stuff at them until they left lol

Merde!

Can we pick the nature of the upgrade? I want to pee champagne

Did you never go to high school? It’s not like this is a new phenomenon.

Lemmings don’t really like when people argue against the majority opinion, on any topic. The Fediverse is incredibly tribal.

2 chicks at the same time

I can say no, but it’s difficult…overtime. They pay me a RIDICULOUS amount of money and usually not much is expected of me because I’m just filling in.

They hadn’t invented gloves back then?

I just want to compliment you for spelling and using “kowtow” correctly

More salient takeaway is, don’t use a LLM to translate a scientific paper. Because it can’t translate a scientific paper. It can only rewrite the entire paper, in a different language. And it will introduce misunderstandings and hallucinations.

Because retailers are middle-men by definition.

Hell, a large amount of local businesses’ stock is probably bought on Amazon Business.

I live in a fairly small, poor, remote suburb of my city’s district. The city is divided into districts, with a representative for each district, and the power of the city government is largely in the hands of these representatives. My neighborhood is part of a district that, due to geography, is mostly very separated from us (think like a long thin line sticking way out of the main body of the district with my neighborhood on the end of it).

Certain city boards were trying to make up revenue by taxing our neighborhood specifically in various ways. We were obviously furious about it. We have regularly scheduled community town halls, like all the districts, and our rep shows up at them.

The town hall after the taxation proposal was released was scheduled to run from 3pm to 6pm. It lasted until well after midnight.

My district rep stayed there the whole time, obviously exhausted but still asking questions and opinions of the speakers and making promises. He promised to do something about it. And sure enough, within a month, the city boards backtracked on the taxation scheme.

We’re a poor neighborhood, and we’re not super numerous either. He didn’t have to help us, he could have sacrificed us to subsidize the main body of the district. But he didn’t, he stayed all night and then went and fought for us in the city government. He later went on to higher offices at the state and federal level.

Also, I once accidentally touched the Mayor’s boob at a party rally, so that could count I guess.

While I agree with you, I don’t think it’s fair to characterize all of society as misandrist based on that. There’s a significant number of things that you’re ignoring or are not privy to, where women are harmed by men. The patriarchy isn’t just this fantasy that feminists made up, it’s a real thing, and while not as powerful as it used to be it still harms women substantially.

I think it’s fairer to say that some parts of our culture are misandrist, some misogynist. And on the whole, women have it worse - but men also have it pretty bad.

I’m in my 30s and probably at over 100 rejections like, total in my life. I’ve never been looking for long term relationships so I do try with a larger number of women than most men. But like…hundreds of rejections between success? That’s absurd. You’d run out of women.

I’m not mocking, she was cool as hell.

It’s just…fuckin weird.

Remember when that dude blew up his cybertruck in front of Trump tower and everyone was like “oh it probably just did that” rofl

Duuuude why is the air force full of weebs

One of my coworkers was a female former air force mechanic and even SHE was a fuckin weeb

In a personal sense, I define productivity mainly as objectively measurable accomplishment over a period of time. If I used time productively, I either improved my circumstances (or my employer’s circumstances, when they’re paying me for my time) or worked towards that improvement in a permanent way. Research and learning is productive, when it furthers my ability to improve my circumstances. Research and learning for its own sake is only mildly productive in that it makes me a more knowledgeable person.

Leisure activity is NOT productive, mostly, but that’s not a bad thing. The main thing is to avoid COUNTER productive activities. Leisure activity is somewhat productive when it allows me to rest and recuperate and be more productive later.

Productivity involves “getting things done” but only when those things matter. Making my bed every day has no discernible benefit to me, so that time is not spent productively. The dude in front of my house with his loud-ass leaf blower spending an hour blowing a single leaf all around the street is not being productive. Sure, it’s more productive than sitting catatonically, but not by much. It’s productive to him in the sense that he’s getting paid for that time, but it’s not productive on behalf of his employer (who is, in a sense, me via my landlord).

I doubt it. If you don’t provide context, people will provide their own context. And then the question is just a kind of Rorschach test.

Right, and I assume that’s the vast majority of whatever women these guys are satisfying their fetishes with (aside from women paid for it).

But it’s still odd the fetish itself is so overwhelmingly male.