I choose to read this as if you meant “only 10% sex” - because it amuses me, not because I think 10% is insufficient.

Same way you find favorite foods: give it a try.

Please provide statistics showing how ICE’s work is making thing safer. Show me the numbers on how many of the human beings that are taken into custody are violent criminals.

“Legal” is not inherently the same as “right”, “just” or “good.” If you’re going to call everyone here stupid, you have a responsibility to provide evidence of your claim that ICE’s work reduces violent crime and targets violent criminals. Or your implication that undocumented immigrants are responsible for an outsized share of those crimes. Otherwise, you are indistinguishable from right-wing propagandists who fail to back up their incendiary and dangerous assertions.

Picture’s worth a thousand expletives.

“Welcome to Walmart 17…thousand. You have chosen, or been chosen, to shop at one of our finest remaining retail plazas.”

Excuse, for sure. There’s any number of slimy “protect the rich and powerful” excuses all over the place. Fuck all the excuses, no one is above the law and no one gets to hold the country hostage.

Cool, you have no interest in understanding me. Have a good one.

You don’t need to, I already agree with you on that point.

Jesus, you seem to relish in imagining my meaning to be so opposed to your own. Obviously words and theater enough aren’t alone. I think I made that clear. I also think we are done talking, since it doesn’t seem to matter what I say.

Potentially, as cancer cells don’t switch off and die the same way, they have a longer lifespan to accumulate microplastics. Especially if the body’s disposal of dead cells actually manages to clear at least some of the microplastics from the body.

one study found enough microplastics in the average brain to make a plastic spoon

What the fuck does this mean for Spoon Theory‽

I agree with the core of your point. I’d like to assert, though, that all people exert some level of self-censorship in public on the basis of the opinions of their neighbors and peers. Having to worry about powerful organizations like governments and megacorps also always being there (instead of just sometimes, or usually) adds a new degree of reason to self-censor, for sure.

I don’t want to have to keep up with the current styles of SmartGlasses from however many makers of these things there are at any given time. I am happy to outsource this awareness to someone I can find good reason to trust to provide me the info I need. Just like I don’t make my own vaccines, because I have no idea how to get the 5G that small.

Warning: there is probably a bunch of phones near you right now.

I’m with you. Made a comment recently, here or elsewhere, that a huge thing to happen with social spaces over time is that trustworthy sources of information have a chance to really prove themselves as such. So when you rip apart one platform and scatter its users, you destroy that earned credibility and leave a lot of people without at least some of their reliable news sources. That’s most harmful to people looking for actual truth, since people willing to swallow comfortable lies don’t really need the providers of information to be vetted.

The conclusion to all this is that keeping social platforms from building large, long-term communities is a very effective way to keep people who seek truth from finding it.

I absolutely do not support the Democrat party writ large, and especially not on the willful disregard for genocide and other atrocities. Don’t decide for me that that is my stance, or put those words in my mouth and effectively tell other people that is how I feel.

My core point is that, Democrats seem to be less vocally approving/encouraging about stochastic terrorism against LGBTQ+ people, immigrants, and other marginalized groups, whether they are privately seeing them as chess pieces or human beings.

If one group is shouting that my cousins are subhuman trash undeserving of equal treatment and dog whistling support for people who advocate violence against them, and the other group is at least not encouraging the same violence, then my cousins would seem to be safer under the second group.

I advocate loudly for party reform or replacement and consider that to be the more important part of civic duty in this arena. When it comes time for an election, past when we can do a lot to change which two people actually have a chance to win a presidency, I will cast my vote for the one less likely to get my cousins killed.

Never said they gave a shit, just noting that - at minimum - they don’t seem to be shouting as loudly that they should be denied medical care, deported, etc. I will continue to do what is reasonably within my power, means, and capacity to work for a society that is fair and equal for all. If an election comes around that only meaningfully lets me choose between two piles of shit, I will choose the less smelly one rather than abstain.

I fully agree that the Democrat party needs to get its shit together, or more realistically torn down and rebuilt. Just also saying that, when all is said and done and it comes time for the general election, I’m going to place my vote where it’s going to do the most to deny, or at least delay, authoritarians.

The neolibs are usually treating LGBTQ+ folks and immigrants as remotely human, as opposed to targets. Even if you find the two parties to be woefully similar on too many big issues, please remember that, for as long as we exist in the shit system where election day really only lets you meaningfully choose between these two shitty parties, the lives of disenfranchised and vulnerable people do sit in one of the areas of difference where your vote could change something.

Neutral Good considers the rules and tends to acknowledge owledge the rules are usually good, but sometimes should be bent or broken. Chaotic Good ranges from “Fuck the rules!” to “Any rule that oppresses the people is bullshit” to “The rules are sometimes okay, I guess, but I’m gonna ignore them without remorse when they make no sense.” Minding that the Good component means they tend not to break rules for self-gain and/or at the expense of decent people.