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AbsentBird

@ absentbird @lemm.ee

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  • Noone has to do anything.

    The original tweet essentially said that all women have a mission from God to use their bodies to make babies. At the very least it's a value judgment on how women live their lives.

    There seems to be a sustained campaign against having kids.

    I have never encountered this. There is absolutely a sustained campaign for bodily autonomy, and for the acceptance of people who choose not to reproduce; but I haven't encountered anyone talking like the original tweet, saying women have a mission from God to not have kids or something.

    This is just fighting against the natural way of life.

    Here we go again with imposing judgements on people who don't reproduce. I feel like that's the bigger 'sustained campaign' in this conversation. The natural way of life changes over time, it used to be natural to die young from a bacterial infection, or to have your village sacked by marauders. We don't need to have the same pressures to keep reproduction high as in the past. Populations are still increasing, but people are out here blaming women for not doing it faster? Just take a breath, it's going to be okay.

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  • I think they're advocating that women can choose for themselves what kind of person to be, and the fact their bodies are capable of gestating new humans doesn't obligate them to do so.

    It's sort of like how the fact a man's body may be capable of entertaining others by dressing their penis up in a tiny coat and hat doesn't mean we should bully an entire gender into making that the purpose of their existence, nor does it mean we're advocating for a world without sharp dressed dicks.

    Let people live their lives based on who they are, not the abilities of their genitals.

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  • V762 Cassiopeiae: am I a joke to you?

  • Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency

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  • To each their own. Personally I can't stand MS Office, I think Google Docs is easier for most nontechnical people these days anyway. For the rare cases when Office is needed, the web version works fine on Linux.

    LibreOffice works great, and WPS Office is proprietary but at least it's free.

    Personally I write my documents in markdown and use pandoc to convert them into PDF or docx or whatever. It's like writing the source code and then compiling, I like it.

    I'm sure you've looked into all that, but for anyone else who is interested in alternatives those are my recommendations.

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  • Pfft, proprietary propaganda. How hard is it to let go of every app you're familiar with, learn half a dozen scripting languages, and memorize a hundred different commands in vim?

    What you say is true, though I've become so jaded with Microsoft that I don't think there's any software or situation I'd use Windows for; I'd sooner switch to Mac.

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  • What do you have against Linux?

  • SSD capacity could quadruple by 2029 — 8Tb NAND will bring big and affordable SSDs to the market

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  • A 3.5" cartridge slot with a hard drive reader in it sounds kinda awesome, not gonna lie.

  • America's youngest voters turn right

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  • She got 60% of young woman voters, but the enthusiasm was much less. Fewer than 20% of democrats said they were enthusiastic to vote for Hillary.

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  • Well we didn't see that enthusiasm for Hillary so I have no idea what you're on about.

    Also, and I wasn't expecting I'd have to say this today, women aren't horses. Additionally, horses are actually pretty egalitarian with their leadership; that's why they're such good allies for humans, they don't mind being led by a person instead of a horse.

    Tl;Dr: every part of your comment is wrong.

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  • Also there's no laws being passed to make it illegal.

  • Chappell Roan Says She’s “Voting For F@cking Kamala,” But No VP Endorsement & “F@ck Trump, For F@cking Real”

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  • That H-O-T-T-O-G-O verse is such an earworm.

  • To Americans: How far apart is everything in the US?

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  • But what's your straight line distance to the Parthenon?

  • Billboards Calling Trump Chicken for Running from Debates Pop Up in Pennsylvania

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  • Republican Voters Against Trump have been running veteran billboards for a while. The DNC has been running billboards calling him and anti-union scab.

    I think the chicken angle hits a bit different though, a lot of people write off everything trump says as just talk, and many attacks seem to get ignored as slander, but the fact he's unwilling to debate is a plain and uncontested fact, one that makes him look weak.

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  • Whiteness, at least from a racist perspective, isn't really about skin color, it's more like a club for 'approved' ethnicities. There's many Italians with darker skin than Mexicans, but Italians are considered 'white' and Mexicans are not. Same for large parts of the Middle East and Asia.

    Romani are white skinned Europeans, but they're not 'racist approved', so they make up rumors they're actually from Egypt and omit them from the White Club.

    The determination for what counts as white is highly inconsistent. Before the 1700s Germans were not considered white. Before the 1800s Irish were not considered white. For a time in the 1900s Finnish people were considered Asian (while many Finns were striking for better working conditions, what an odd coincidence). Italians weren't considered white until about a hundred years ago. It goes on and on.

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  • Worker bees are all genetically diverse, but the drones are masculinized clones of the queen. The queen's flying dicks.

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  • They explode on penetration, breaking off from the drone, causing him to die soon after.

  • TIL: males have 25% more neurons in the visual cortex than females

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  • TIL: males have 25% more neurons in the visual cortex than females

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  • Portable convenience [The Square Comics]

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  • That makes sense. Though I think it depends on what you're doing for that 1%. For me personally I prefer a beefy desktop for work+games, and a low-power laptop/tablet for portable jobs.

    That way I can upgrade the PC tower every couple years and keep using the same portable device for years and years, since it's basically just an email/web/SSH terminal. I've been using the same desktop PC since 2009, just upgrading it as needed. Over 15 years it feels like fewer devices than having to keep replacing a high end laptop every 3-4 years or so.

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  • Honestly I think it depends more on the guy than the bear. Any time you're alone in the woods (at least in the US) it's safe to assume you're with a bear, that's where they live. Most bears keep to themselves though.

    People tend to be less low-key, and less predictable. To me it seems more likely that a random guy could follow you around, take your stuff, or generally make life more difficult. There's also a higher chance for a guy to assist you and make things easier, but I can understand how the potential risk could outweigh the potential benefits.