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Ideology gap increase between young men and women in various countries.
  • How do men suffer under patriarchy?

    Queer and gender nonconforming men get an immense amount of abuse due to patriarchy. Even gender conforming straight boys and men do if they show sensitivity in any real capacity. The abuse of boys and young men for the sake of making them “man up” is hardly an unusual in many areas.

    Do u really want to be the one blaming 75% of suicides on men not being allowed to beat their wives?

    What? This has nothing to do with the comment you replied to.

    Sounds like ur calling all cis men evil bad people.

    No, this is a ridiculous conclusion you drew from someone saying patriarchy hurts everyone.

  • 4th Annual LA BioBlitz Challenge - participate in citizen science in October
    lapl.org LA BioBlitz Challenge | Los Angeles Public Library

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    You can get involved by using the iNaturalist app and joining the challenge.

    The primary objective of this is to both get people more engaged and aware of their local wildlife, and to eliminate white areas with no observations on the iNaturalist observation heat map. This will help researchers learn more about urban ecosystems.

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    Replacing an old mini fridge
  • Where do you live that they can’t be called mini fridges? I’m in California and Home Depot sells them here as mini fridges. It does say that it’s thermoelectric, but you have to look for it.

  • City Forces Bus Benches to be Removed
  • Even if it’s 3x the size of the bench, it’s concrete, not a multimillion dollar building, and the community clearly wants benches. If the wooden ones are legitimately unfit for the public then they should install proper benches. But just pouring concrete would probably be cheaper.

  • Hurricane Katrina vs. Hurricane Helene
  • “Not evacuating properly”? Plenty of the people who died had no idea the storm was going to be as bad as it was when they were hundreds of miles inland in an area that had never had significant flooding.

  • City Forces Bus Benches to be Removed
  • For one thing, all benches must have a 5-by-8-foot concrete pad to be ADA compliant.

    Is this a Portland thing? In LA I see a lot of concrete benches, but I also see a lot of metal ones and in NYC I would see (possibly grandfathered in) wooden ones.

  • Insecurities
  • It’s kind of been a known thing among trans men communities that trans men tend to pass more in rural/more conservative areas than urban/progressive ones. This is something I’ve seen referenced, oh, probably for 20 years now.

    Having grown up in a conservative area, I think there’s an element of conservative communities sort of believing that if someone doesn’t look like a cartoon caricature of a queer person, they must be cishet and any ‘evidence’ to the contrary will be waved away. So what would be called a baby face in a conservative area might be seen as a feminine face in a progressive one.

    By contrast in progressive communities, my experience is that cis people will kind of over correct and assume that if you look gender nonconforming then you’re trans. Ask any butch lesbian in an urban area and they will probably tell you that they also get they’d a lot! Obviously it’s not the same as it is for trans people, but it’s probably nothing you in particular are doing to “cause” it.

    It’s a sucky experience but try to see it as it is: their imperfect interpretation of you, based on almost nothing other than a quick glance. Correct them if it’s worth your time and do your best to shake it off if it’s not.

  • TIL the average American is dumber than the average human
  • Also, the difference between the countries with the highest average IQ and the US was 10 points, which is the same kind of increase you can get in IQ testing scores if you tell the tester that they’ll get $10 if they do well.

  • I... don't know how to feel about this
  • Fun fact: one of (if not the) oldest known piece of human figurative art is carving of a person with the head of a lion. AKA a furry.

    Imagining furries is more innate to the human condition than farming.

  • Helene is deadliest mainland US hurricane since Katrina as toll hits 200
  • I am from the south and my fucking family is affected by Helene dude. Sorry for not being thrilled when Dems (would you prefer I say libs, even when it’s entirely along party lines?) jerk off about how the stupid southerners deserve to die for voting for Republicans.

  • Ride for free today on Metro!
    thesource.metro.net Ride Metro for free this Clean Air Day, October 2  | The Source

    California’s 7th annual Clean Air Day is just around the corner –– a moment where organizations big and small come together to encourage everyone to do their

    Ride Metro for free this Clean Air Day, October 2  | The Source

    Apparently it’s a promotion for Clean Air Day, I had no idea it was going on until I got on the bus to go to the store today.

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    At what point when learning a new language does someone become bilingual?

    Obviously learning a couple of words in another language doesn't really make you bilingual, or being able to say a few phrases. But there's also clearly some point before full fluency where you can be considered bilingual, but how is it determined (formally or informally)? Is it purely vibes based, you'll know when you see it kind of thing?

    I'm vaguely familiar with the CEFR levels measuring how much of a language you speak, but if there's a cutoff point for counting as bilingual in there somewhere I don't know where.

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    Microblog Memes @lemmy.world Catoblepas @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    After all, how far inland could a hurricane go?

    Source: https://bsky.app/profile/karidru.bsky.social/post/3l5bxb3ze4j2m

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    Hunter
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    YSK: some common medications can make you more susceptible to heat exhaustion and heat stroke

    Some of the medications include:

    • Antidepressants
    • Antihistamines
    • Stimulants
    • Beta blockers
    • Diuretics
    • ACE inhibitors
    • Thyroid medication
    • Antipsychotics

    Be sure to pay extra attention to any symptoms of heat exhaustion, stay hydrated, and in a cool area indoors when possible during heat waves.

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    Spotted by the bus stop

    Hello, likely other trans person who passed by this spot 👋

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    What's the most extravagant thing you've bought for your pet, and do you regret it?

    Inspired by watching my cat lay on her 6' (2 m) tall cat tower and sleep like a baby. Zero regrets, even if it makes us look like insane cat people for having a giant cat tower right in our living room. She lives here, she gets furniture too!

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    No puppies were harmed in this analogy

    Alt text: a post from @lolennui.bsky.social that says: Once my German friend asked what creative people do without arts grants and other support in the US and I felt like a parent trying to explain to their kid that the puppies can die sometimes

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    And they were ROOMMATES!

    Alt text: a post by mephistopheles that says: the wrath of khan is like really insane bc khan is like 'im going to make kirk suffer the way i suffered when my wife died' and then he kills spock

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    I finish so many little tasks this way

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17658187

    > me_irl

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    Weed and furry rule

    Alt text: a one panel comic drawn in the style of The Onion’s Stan Kelley that says “shelter from the storm”; three rain clouds that say “resurgent fascism”, “irreversible climate change”, and “impending economic collapse” are raining on a furry character, who is cheerfully whistling because they have an umbrella labeled “weed and furry porn” that is keeping them dry. Similar to The Onion comics, a smaller character representing the artist is in the corner, saying “weather proof.” The artist is CritterDome

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    newrepublic.com The Real Targets of Project 2025’s War on Porn

    It’s not just about people watching porn. It’s drag queens, trans people, LGBTQ library books, and more.

    The Real Targets of Project 2025’s War on Porn
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    Catoblepas @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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