winterayars

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[–] winterayars 4 points 5 months ago

You can pretty much do this with Firefox. I'm on my phone but ublock origin can block 3rd party cookies and scripts. This breaks a lot of sites but it also lets you turn those back on, on a case-by-case basis. Plus various other Firefox settings.

[–] winterayars 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Heinlein's "all you zombies" is an early version of this.

In terms of biology, it's extremely rare for humans to have fully functioning sets of both reproductive systems. The reproductive physiology develops from the same parts so it either develops "male", "female", or (more common than people think) somewhere in between but not "both". A clone may or may not even develop in the same way.

One other possibility, though also very rare. is near-identical twins. If twins have the same genetics (in other words, they're identical twins) but have intersex conditions that result in different reproductive development it's conceivable that they could reproduce with each other. It's uncommon to be fertile incongruous with your genetics, though, so again: this would be extremely unlikely.

That said, in a sci-fi context there are some options. Biological hermaphroditism is possible in animals, though there aren't any vertebrates on Earth, so conceivably an alien species could encounter this problem.

Advanced medicine could also build people a new reproductive system and implant it, giving them the counterpart they lacked.

Of course, in that case, advanced medicine may also be able to give you someone else's reproductive genetics (ex, implanted sperm or eggs) and thus effectively sidestep the genetic problems. I'm imagining a particularly narcissistic person getting a gender-flipped clone of themself and using someone else's genetic material to have a kid with themself but also avoid the shallow gene pool problem.

Of course, you don't need to go that far. If you're female (or have those parts anyway) you can just do IVF. Don't even need to clone yourself, then.

Anyway, this is getting a little silly.

[–] winterayars 151 points 5 months ago

The fact that they won't allow users to uninstall it should suggest some things about their motives.

[–] winterayars 4 points 5 months ago

I did a little Wegovy and then even less Zepbound and maybe they helped but also i think they messed up my gastrointestinal situation. Pay attention to that stuff, it's not fun if things go wrong.

[–] winterayars 178 points 5 months ago (11 children)

"High T alpha males" oh good, they invented a new gender again and it sucks.

[–] winterayars 5 points 5 months ago

As well as the package manager (and release type/schedule as mentioned in a different reply) you might want to look at the overall structure.

Does the distro use selinux or app armor (you probably want at least one)? Does it follow traditional distro structure like Ubuntu/Debian or is it weird like atomic (ex Silverblue) or declarative (ex Nixos) distro? Is it a minimalist distro (Arch is the big modern one) it maximalist (Suse)? Those kinds of things can also be informative.

[–] winterayars 11 points 5 months ago

Lae'zel is gonna run a super grindy traditional dungeon crawl with a lot of combat and math in it.

I feel like the best dm in the group is gonna be Halsin.

[–] winterayars 4 points 5 months ago

I think the real talk is that she's a little better than Biden, but Biden is pretty bad. It's hard to say what she would be doing because i get the feeling she's holding back out of desire to not undermine Biden's policies. I'm not anticipating much change overall, though. Sadly, we're all left watching the genocide.

[–] winterayars 1 points 5 months ago (5 children)

If Donald Trump had the faintest fucking clue what any of that was he would be getting very excited...

[–] winterayars -1 points 5 months ago

It's about Marxism, but yeah.

[–] winterayars 40 points 5 months ago (2 children)

One of the key features of authoritarian follower personalities is that they're desperate to be normal. Like, they're terrified of the idea that they're not just like everyone else despite the fact that they are big weirdos. People who are afraid of being weird, or who get weirdly judgemental about weirdness, is a big red flag for me, personally.

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