GreyEyedGhost

A very visceral example of “I would rather be harmed myself than help certain other people.”

I’ll leave this here.

Become a threat to my safety, and suddenly I don’t give a shit about your my safety.

FTFY

I had a buddy who would time his driving so that he could go through green lights at full speed. All well and good, and perfectly legal, but none of that helped him recover when he T-boned the guy who ran a red light. Sometimes a little prudence goes a long way, even if you’re in the right.

Or, to put it succinctly, that which gets measured gets done, and the people in charge of measuring don’t know what’s important.

Yes, Steam doesn’t require DRM, but if a dev wants to check that box GOG ain’t gonna cut it.

This is also how mosquito magnets work. Release CO₂ and an attractant, catch the fuckers in a bag, and they dessicate. Unfortunately, it doesn’t need lasers and can’t shoot your eye out. I’m sure it’s also more expensive, I mean profitable.

I wouldn’t call GOG shitty. I wish they’d better support Linux, and I’m sure some developers avoid them early release due to no DRM, tho.

Example 24,582,835,739 of simple solutions for complex problems not working.

That’s actually an ingenius and relatively cheap way to verify the authenticity of your product with a serious legal penalty if it’s faked.

Pretty sure that’s for NetHack, not Hack.

“Why can’t we describe something as just A or B?”

“Here’s an article about A, B, and a whole bunch of things in between.”

“WDYM?”

If you couldn’t look at the little chart in that article and figure out the whole thing is about how gender isn’t that simple, that’s on you. As a side note, most things are more complicated than people who aren’t in the field think they are. When that field is biology or society, it is almost always much more complicated than people think they are. If you don’t want to take the time to educate yourself on those things before forming your opinion, it will probably be the simple, and wrong, answer.

You accurately describe the difference between need and want at the beginning of your comment, then ignore it at the end.

Why does ambiguous intersex characteristics matter for defining binary genders? Why indeed?

As the other poster said, what does it matter. Also, there the issue of the whole intersex issue, which Scientific American had an article about, but has since been removed, doubtless due to the inaccuracy of the science and not how it upsets the beliefs of the current American administration. /s

Here’s a link to a blog talking about the Scientific American article, with a disclaimer saying this article is the author’s opinion and not necessarily the views of Scientific American. If you click the link to the article you get a 404 error. If you think this vindicates your opinion rather than a violation of freedom of speech, that says more about you than anything else.

The video adds something extra to it. Cleavon Little’s restrained grin is perfect.

You could legitimately make this argument about any topic you like. Fortunately, it’s easy to block at either the account or instance level, so you can see the things you want to see and I can see the things I want to see, whether those things be politics, Trump, porn, trans news, left wing politics, genocide, genocide denial, memes, tan eggs, cats, or, god help us, beans, jeans, orbs, and corn.

How’s that for freedom?

Reviving the classics!

PvP games all turn co-op.

There is more swearing.

People stop worrying about shit in other people’s personal lives that doesn’t affect themselves or harm anyone.

Scientists expert opinions are respected while their non-expert opinions are treated the same as any other layperson’s.

Tattoo artists go out of business.

Cola surpasses tea as the world’s most popular beverage. Dentists go to sleep at night knowing their children can go to the college of their choice.

Lawns become local wilderness due to an intense desire to not mow them. Incidentally, local wildlife flourishes.

EV adoption skyrockets, grid solar and battery investment gains focus.

Billions of projects are started, millions are finished.

Scammers reasses their life choices.

…and so does cancer!