Yeah a lot of bi people feel that way. I lose all horniness when I smell “man smell”. And I can say it’s absolutely about that because the incident was with someone who had just stopped testosterone and after a few weeks we were sleeping together a few times a week for months.
Personality is nice for me, but it’s body shape and feel and smell that do it for me, and it all points to women for me.
Nah nah you gotta introduce them to the concept of beer
Gods, I’d try so hard to figure out how to explain how to make a basic diode… Like how do you explain silicon to people who have no reason to believe you and don’t know that air is a soup of a bunch of different gasses, and from there doping it with the elements on each side of it?
I’d probably just stick to electromechanics. Any time after the invention of permanent iron magnets I can do a lot of cool stuff.
Because yeah it’s not enough to say it. Try explaining the periodic table to Trajan and you’re going to sound like the time cube guy. You have to demonstrate the veracity of each step. If anything, the best place to start might be the scientific method.
Yeah, it was a populist concession to the protestant Reformation. The high middle ages would leave you just being seen as a cunning person or a lunatic depending on charisma and reproducibility.
If I could go back in time my contribution would be electric motors/dynamos. I’d also teach basic battery technology, but with basic motors and wiring you can drastically jumpstart anywhere in the Eastern hemisphere starting really fucking early. I’m talking shitty transports in early Rome and streetcars in 11th century China.
You get massive labor saving devices early on and the basics to move forward and invest in more metallurgy.
But most importantly I understand how they work, how to demonstrate their usefulness, how to build them from ancient materials, and how to explain exactly why they work. Only problem is I won’t speak the language and Romans ain’t listening to a galla explaining engineering.
Is asking for money for coffee in your home not considered assholish prima fascia in the Netherlands?
Here in the US within the bounds of the home food and drink that is offered is expected to be a gift, and if you charge for anything it’s admission to a party or you pass a hat around for people to pay what they can. Typically though it’s either basic hospitality for small things or you should give in kind (bring a dish or some alcohol to share) for parties.
Ah yes, the “acid and meditation will fix all my problems” instead of “acid and meditation will sit me down and force me to confront some of my problems”. Such a simple mistake but so many make it
I think that your third principle has also been largely damaged as a moral question at least in America. “What is morally acceptable to do to an uninvited outsider?” In a lot of people’s minds the answer is whatever you want. Things like castle doctrine have led to a “shoot first, don’t bother asking questions, just assume the worst” ideology propagating through our culture.
Hell, how many would choose not to kill for their wife? Say someone sexually assaults her and she doesn’t want her husband to kill the perpetrator. Because, I’ve been in a similar position (no opportunity to actually enact the violence though) and I suspect a lot of these men wouldn’t. They aren’t wanting to kill for their wives, they’re wanting to kill to maintain their sense of safety and self image as a protector.
Well yeah, it doesn’t involve them getting to kill someone
Full agreement. I think another reason the debate bro caught on was that it makes for better content, even before the modern content economy.
Back in the day when the archetypal internet debates were atheists and science educators vs creationists, you could see it just as effectively. Nobody wanted to watch someone on their side go in with an open mind, open to being convinced and for both sides to come to a position entirely based on the evidence. Hell, I still don’t like that because one side has reproducible evidence and the other failed to indoctrinate me as a teenager.
A lot of modern bad faith debate tactics come back to creationists, with the infamous Gish gallop named after a creationist. And from there the opposition had to learn to play the game. Debate, not as a neutral shared pursuit of truth, the clash of thesis, antithesis, and evidence to distill an agreeable and defensible synthesis, but rather as a verbal gladiatorial contest.
The pro evolution side split with the death of new atheism, they’re on all sides now. A lot of the more committed debaters went right for varied reasons, and we wound up in a position where we needed stuff like the alt right playbook to teach how to argue against the dishonest.
And on the other side of the equation you have the internet rationalist movement, who are infamously bad at the “this sounds like bullshit” test among other flaws. They strive to accept any debate with an open mind, and find themselves a good example of why you need to keep some biases that while you’re open to changing, you’re gonna need strong evidence for.
Yeah tbh I think that’s a good next step for metrication. Currently it’s all in US customary until college with a brief lesson on metric every few years. With some high school teachers doing a bit more in metric. If you swap it these people will just instinctively use and understand metric.
Yep! It’s very similar because I didn’t really understand the difference between my anxiety and executive dysfunction when I was a teenager figuring out how to cope with them both.
Good luck!
Oh I absolutely would haul a chair up there to go up and enjoy the view from time to time, but I get that others may not
Yeah if anything it’s a very adult fantasy, closer to what my grandma would play than a more violent game
Put some patio furniture on it and you’ve got a nice place to relax with a beverage on a nice day
Oh well then, please feel free to take some stuff before burning it as compensation for your troubles.
Chimerism is weird and it can do really weird shit to your body
Well that shouldn’t be legal. I swear, Nader could write a sequel to his famous book these days.
I think 14 year old me would be most disappointed that I’m no longer catholic. She’d probably be a mix of angry and excited that I’m trans. Shocked and confused when I explain to her that her parents’ marriage is really really bad and she’s going to need therapy for the way her dad treats her. Then she’s going to be kinda pissed when I tell her that her dad is right about her needing to do better in school, it’s just that he shouldn’t be yelling at her until she self harms about it. She’ll be proud I’m still friends with her friends and that I got out of Ohio to somewhere cool.
Oh then she’s going to be incredibly disappointed I married someone with tattoos, especially since I’ll call her a classist little shit about it, and that I never had kids.