If you do it right it's a dead ringer for chicken.

They look similar but taste very different. Both are good when used properly, IMO.

I spent most of my 20s alone, and met the woman I married at age 33. It's never too late.

The "issue" with trans people in sports is nothing but moral panic founded on propaganda narratives and fueled by hatred, ignorance, and lack of scientific data thanks to centuries of systemic oppression and erasure.

Studies so far show that trans athletes are overall physiologically at a slight disadvantage compared to their cisgender peers, and this is borne out by real world statistics wherein trans athletes (NOT the edge cases the media likes to stir shit about) tend to underperform.

Last I checked underperformance by a specific demographic isn't considered an issue. The rest is hot air and warmed-over gay panic with the end of excluding trans people from public life, and you ought to respect yourself enough to not legitimize this hateful crock in this manner.

"Gifted" education in the US means they burn us out with weird "critical thinking" extracirriculars and then berate us when the senioritis hits two years early.

I transferred schools in the middle of 10th grade, and the new Algebra class I landed in was several chapters ahead. I never caught up, but the teacher passed anyone who turned in literally anything for homework so I did that.

Now in my 30's I'm getting into indie game design, and I need that gap filled so I can write the code I need. So I went to the local thrift shop and picked up a couple old textbooks (since it's safe to assume that nothing groundbreaking has happened in the field of basic algebra in the past twenty years) for fifty cents and I've been working my way through them. I don't understand everything that's happening, but I'm pushing ahead with the faith that somewhere along the line things will "click".

the tide is coming in, and we're scooping buckets to protect our sandcastles. yes remove the water, but the buckets are pointless against the rising tide of the ocean if we don't build a dike first to hold it back. but so many people are like "hey your sandcastle is getting wet, why are you focusing on the dike?"

I knew a girl in high school that thought milk was an artificial industrial product and the cows were just brand mascots, like the Budweiser clydesdales. A privately-schooled friend of mine was taught in the classroom that "cacti" is singular and "cactus" is plural ("because the 'S'"). I once worked with a woman in her 30s that didn't know the Earth goes around the sun. Another coworker thought the sun turned into the moon and night and wouldn't hear otherwise until the moon in the daytime sky was pointed out. I don't see any of these people as "stupid", but the average American is grossly undereducated and generally terrible at critical thinking as a result.

and here i'd been blissfully unaware of it for days now. damn you all.

(wear earplugs to concerts kids, especially if you're playing)

fwiw i used to pooh-pooh my data-security-conscious friends when they were giving me solid advice. the rise of ubiquitous machine learning has me taking it all a LOT more seriously.

who the hell calls rugby "rugger"? that's even worse than "soccer".

1. This is foosball.

2. The sport with the egg is "gridiron football", we call it "football" for short for the same reason other countries call association football "football" for short, it's the most popular variant here.

3. We don't call it "American football" because that's not what it's called, you lot say that because of point 2. Nobody is going to say "European football" because that's not what it's called either.

4. The word "soccer" was imported from the UK (seriously that word is british as hell, you really think we came up with that shit?), and we use it for reasons outlined in points 2 and 3, and also because "european football" is inaccurate, tiresome, and stupid sounding.

5. This is the first and only time I've ever heard of rugby union football being referred to as "ruggers", I never thought I'd read a dumber-sounding word than soccer but you're just full of surprises today. For some reason i was imagining one of the replies was the same person, this was in error.

leave it to the internet atheist to try and dictate rules for everyone else. if you don't like it go look at something else.

bingo. if my irl peeps would use it i'd switch in a heartbeat; as it is i have trouble convincing them to install an ad blocker, let alone set up a whole new account on a new app.

hint for the identity police: it has to do with generations of historical discrimination and otherness. sorry our culture isn't yours.

or we could like, NOT enable obvious dogwhistling by bending over backwards to give people the benefit of a doubt

they already have. they were doing this shit during the obama years too, and a lot of them got sick from it. they just don't fucking learn.

it's an even more ignorant ass person who ignores cultural context. i see a white person in the us waving around swatstikas and 88 i'm not going "well, in india and china..."

i follow a channel on youtube called yitube that's impossible to look up because it gets corrected to youtube. it's maddening.

i find that people who cry about this-or-that is destroying humor or whatever, are pretty much universally bad at being funny. maybe up your game and stop blaming punctuation.