Yes, but don't use them because they dull your knives very quickly because there's no give to them when your knife makes contact with the board like with wood. So all of the force you hit the board with goes right back into the knife.
It perpetuates the myth of recycling and puts the onus on the consumer and state to recycle instead of the corporations to stop using containers that pollute the environment, will be in the environment for decades without breaking down, and is likely causing yet unknown harm in our bodies since plastic is inside all of us now.
The first of the "3 R's" is reduce but instead of that being the focus because it hurts their bottom line, they prop up recycling and sell the lie that we can keep living as is if we just recycle more and get better at recycling.
To me...
Mama! The sun killed a man!
It didn't mean to make him die.
It was just shining in the sky.
As a long time zip-up wearer and supporter, how is the pull-over better? I always find it way more annoying to put on and take off.
It's like putting on an extra shirt that then clings to your first shirt whenever you want to take it off so you have to work harder to not flash everyone when you take it off. For the zip-up, it just wraps around you and zips up. It's easy on, easy off.
Pretty sure that suffering is consensual, so it's fine. It's like how vegans can drink human breast milk or eat people who want to be cannibalized.
If everyone was supportive, I think it would be fine. It'd be seen like needing glasses. We just need this relatively easy medical care and it's far less effort if intervention is done before puberty.
Transitioning socially would be less of an issue too since it'd be seen as just something that happens sometimes and has been normalized.
Her twitter is mostly about trans people instead of HP too. She could have just kept quiet and kept having her PR team sweep all the transphobic tweets she was liking under the rug like they did early on before she went full mask off. But no, she wants to get rid of all the queer people and is actively working to try to make that happen.
Yes! Please let me be part of the flesh devouring hive mind colony that likes books and lives in the dark.
There are a lot of different types of poly relationship structures and different names for them. The base unit of relationship is a standard couple where 2 people are together. Add another person in and they can either be in a relationship with only one of those people and form a "hinge" aka "V" or be in a relationship with both of those people and form a "triad" aka "throuple". As many people as those involved consent to can be added this way.
Most of the time it's one person who is in a relationship with multiple people who are each in relationships with multiple people. This forms a "polycule". Where you have the people you're in relationships with aka your "paramours" and they have the people they're in relationships with aka your "metamours". This group of relationships can take many forms and can be drawn out into a cool diagram like a molecule, hence the name polycule.
The people you're in a relationship with can break up with you like in any other relationship and vice versa. It's more complicated when you add in housing situations if you're all living together, multiple people are all dating each other, or if two people are married.
Using one of my breakups as an example:
I've been in a triad where one person broke up with the other. I was then put in the middle of their breakup drama. I set a boundary of not wanting to deal with their drama/shit talking of the other. One of them kept breaking that boundary, so I broke up with that person while still being in a relationship with the other. Luckily I was living with the person I stayed with or that would've been way more complicated.
During hostile ignorance:
- I had to leave the state I grew up in to get into a place I could access medical care, get away from an unaccepting family, and get into a place I wasn't afraid of being attacked while transitioning (being visibly trans till HRT kicked in).
- Trans panic was seen as more of a valid defence back then for killing trans people.
- I think we were seen as more of a curiosity/fetish than people, but that's debatable since that's definitely still an issue.
- People were more afraid of being visibly trans and finding community outside of forums was harder.
- I was certain I'd lose my job when I inevitably had to come out and had prepared for it by saving up enough to get me through finding another job. I was amazed when that didn't happen and most of the company accepted me. I still had to deal with harassment that nowadays would probably get those people fired.
During hostile attention:
- I had to leave my home due to the state no longer ignoring us and focusing on passing laws to make our lives more difficult.
- I know a ton of trans people and have a stronger support network. Finding others is easier now.
- Medical care is easier to get now if you aren't living in one of the states currently trying to ban HRT.
- Parents seem a little more accepting but it's still divisive
- I'm less afraid of the average person fucking with me in most areas of the US
- I'm afraid of government attempts to round myself or loved ones up into camps within the next few years.
Generally, I prefer the visibility and broader social acceptance we have now. More people know about us, so more people hate us but way more people accept us. I see it as how being gay was in the aughts. More people were out and it was less of a big deal even though there was still a lot of hate crimes against gay people. Now it's way more accepted outside of ultra conservative areas. I'm hoping we are more accepted within a decade instead of being rounded up and killed en masse.
You can still experience this. I've had this just in the past few weeks in a major city. Trust people again.
Lesser known chess move like en passant. When you get into the ménage à trois board state you're forced to immediately stop the game and eiffel tower with your opponent and any 3rd party. Whoever cums first loses.
There are definitely some amazing PMs, but I've met way more terrible PMs who don't know shit about fuck and don't care to learn than good PMs.
Who makes the new set? The one on the right looks like YMI, but I don't recognize the one on the left. It looks great!
Ok doomer. I love how convenient the "It's too late! We're already fucked and we'll never change!" narrative is for just sitting back and doing nothing to make things better. I understand it's hard, so live checked out and in a spiral of fear and anger at humanity if you want while those of us who give a shit try to fight back and make changes.
Humans aren't a monolith, and putting yourself over anyone else isn't a trait inherent to humanity. Plenty of cultures value the group over the individual, just not America, and America is paying for it as it sets itself on fire.
No, those are eco fascist talking points. Eco fascism is still fascism. Humanity isn't a virus, and this system isn't normal or "in our nature" or similar drivel. This is the result of capitalism and overconsumption driven by the 1% inundating us with an incessant stream of propaganda (ads) that are explicitly designed to psychologically manipulate us. America is one of the biggest offenders for this, but other countries do it as well.
We don't need to all have cars, the latest clothes/tech, eat meat for every meal, have as many kids as possible, live in spread out suburban hellscapes with large yards and oversized houses, etc. We are capable of turning things around and establishing that equilibrium with our environment where we can thrive alongside nature. We're a long way off from it, but more people are seeing the cracks in the system and starting to realize we need major changes.
Balrog from The Lord of The Rings.
I highly recommend at least watching the movies if not reading the books. They're incredibly influential on fantasy as a genre and on our culture. You'll see related memes all over the internet.


It took me a little over a year of playing, ~1100 East games, ~400 South games, and several failed yakuman waits, but I finally got one!
Link to the game below if anyone is curious. I Yakuman in East 2 and end the game, so it's short.
https://mahjongsoul.game.yo-star.com/?paipu=230915-dc23ecde-d0c6-46fd-ab4a-bddce5d9e57c_a907387108