impartial_fanboy [he/him]

Same

Just one more lane!

Only had to endure one rant about Israel/Palestine so far. They brought up the whole, I can’t believe there’s LGBT people who support Hamas, don’t they know they’d behead them etc. etc. thing. Which I guess was their way of trying to bring me into the conversation but I didn’t bite. Six hours in the car tomorrow with them though so … yay.

On a cheerier note, I saw Poor Things which was really good even though they toned down the more overt socialist stuff in the book, apparently. Don’t recommend watching it in the theater with relatives who are uncomfortable with onscreen nudity cus oh lordy is there a lot of it.

I suppose it depends on your definition of conspiracy but yeah it’s to decrease turnover time.

Not sure if you’re being sarcastic or not but regardless, just the one about athletic performance being statistically equivalent for trans women (or maybe even worse) after 2 years of HRT as cis women. And the most important one about the lack of trans women dominating women’s sports (either in total or as a percentage of trans athletes), which one would expect to happen if there were a real advantage.

Oh yeah but not that kind of conspiracy. They meant it more in a Q adjacent way.

The whole trans sports thing came up but fortunately they’re not super confrontational so I just rattled off some stats, the line about how no one cared about women’s sports before this and if you really care that much about fairness you gotta ban people like Michael Phelps too. They stopped after that, for now anyways.

Not sure who it’s from but there’s a new talking point about food not being as nutritious as it used to be but in like a conspiratorial way not cus the soil is degrading from industrial agriculture way.

The Statue of Liberty would be our Colossus of Rhodes and definitely melted down in a collapse scenario.

Whichever unlucky PNW city that gets buried by one of the dozen or so volcanoes will be our Pompeii.

Miami will be our Baia. The server farms in Utah with all the NSA data will be our library of Alexandria. New Orleans would probably be (the original) Alexandria.

But if I had to pick one equally emblematic American thing that could conceivably last 2k years, it would (unfortunately) be Mt. Rushmore.

Silicone Valley > Silicon Valley.