Yeah, specifically I’m fairly third wave in that I’ve been convinced of the value of an intersectional perspective, am pro modern sexual liberation (including the freedom to not want it), and generally am more aligned with the feminist critiques of the second wave. Furthermore I find a lot of the fourth wave to a shitshow, though considering the concept of the fourth wave is not based on academic ideas or coherent demands, but rather the idea that social media changed feminist discourse so radically as to constitute a change to a different wave.

Feminism has always had multiple sides, and like most liberatory movements it has people who are cringe, who are counterproductively hostile, and who generally suck. It will try things that don’t work or push things in bad directions. Also college students and young people will do it in ways that look terrible. But feminist theory is also insightful texts that challenge cultural biases. And in a time where rights such as abortion are under attack and government officials are expressing their opposition to women’s suffrage, the principle of equality and fundamental rights remains even if it looks different now from when our grandmothers and great grandmothers were fighting for the right for a bank account.

You can’t just ask someone if they use þorn

If so that’s really funny. Meta ai telling you to kill a politician when you ask for a recipe funny

Altman looks like a douche by tech ceo standards

Because linux wasn’t a problem for me gaming anymore

I consider it to be a popular dogwhistle for those who use hate speech. I don’t think it’s bigoted to use, but if I see someone using it I think they might be a bigot

Because we’re a nation made out of ideology, but we have two. We believe in the freedom of all people, liberty and justice for all, all people are created equal and endowed with inalienable rights, etc all that shit we won’t shut up about. But we’re also a nation of domination, genocide, chattel slavery, and Christian nationalism.

The civil war was the closest we came to resolving that dichotomy. It was also one of the first two sided industrial wars, so you know, rivers running red, bloodlines ending in an afternoon. But mostly it was a war for the soul and substance of our nation.

Then right after the war the president was killed, reconstruction was botched, and the granddaughters of slavers erected monuments to their evil grandpappies while calling it the war of northern aggression. We never resolved the root conflict so we still are stuck on it

Well at least we’ll all go together when we go

Yeah we can nuke the goddamn moon with a missile controlled from earth. We have hypersonic jets that can carry nuclear payloads from bases all across the planet. Those are the first strike legs of the nuclear triad. The subs are terrible at first strike capacity, but so long as they remain hidden they can’t really be prevented from assuring mutual destruction.

But also Trump didnt know the nuclear triad in 2016 and his brain was only mostly pudding back then

As someone with a career in manufacturing who lived in the rust belt most of my life: I knew I was fucked financially each time Trump won, even without the needing to move to avoid hostile laws. What American manufacturing needs is affordable housing, reasonable trade, subsidies to start, and to accept that thr future of american manufacturing is high tech manufacturing that relies on our high numbers of engineers and our skilled tradespeople. Well paid, unskilled manufacturing jobs aren’t coming back, but sensible forward thinking policies can ensure we have plenty of jobs designing, building, operating, and maintaining advanced and modern manufacturing systems.

Also the fact that our currency is highly valued isnt the best strategy for manufacturing, but it’s an excellent strategy for other industries like finance and provides us a powerful ability to purchase foreign goods.

Yeah this seems generally opposed to the concept of a general education. I get that many people don’t like that they had to learn all these things in an environment that generally sucked to be in, but also basic understanding of math, science, language, music, etc is just a nice thing for everyone to possess.

Like several of these things will be tangentially encountered at various points in your life. Yeah I’ve never had to write in cursive, but I’ve had to read it. I haven’t done much chemistry since college, but carbon sure comes into the news a whole lot. I don’t use a protractor much, but I’ve had to imagine them for various uses of space. I don’t diagram sentences often, but it’s really useful when learning a foreign language, and also way too much of the country thinks pronouns were invented in the 21st century. Communal making of music is something that used to be normal as a fun way to pass an evening and recorders are cheap and easy for children to learn.

Also you can just think of it as Albuquerque themed

Yeah, sometimes I just want to savor some bourbon with tv. When I’m socializing I feel like a douche for swishing my sip and sniffing my glass. Which to be fair is pretty douchey but it brings out the subtleties

I had a friend who was a landlady, but as an anarchist she more or less rented her building at cost so as to not need to sell it while she was taking care of her parents

It’s called a gay bar. You go, you chat with people. You walk away with a fun evening or maybe a new sibling.

“No zio, anti zio jews are welcome”

How is this loss?

I could live with it even if it doesn’t

I’d encourage them to work with a physician about it. They’ll never believe their partner that they aren’t fat, but they might believe a doctor

Most of them, it excludes the American west coast while including the poorest regions in the country (Appalachia and the deep south, neither of which can really be considered developed)