Jojo, Lady of the West

Being unable to move fast enough to escape though? Also unscientific, as long as the camera is close to the ship. Spacetime is always locally flat.

I mean Project Orion was a thing, but

I didn’t know if you meant it that way, but my sleepy brain read it like a threat

I’ll give you the first two, even if neither one was at all constructive or even radical about it. (Neither of them were really trying to change the system, just to abuse it for themselves after being told they couldn’t succeed inside of it).

The third one is practically the antithesis of this comic.

smoking is often statistically associated with substance abuse and bad health - which increases the likelihood of major trauma events, but on the other hand smokers die earlier,leaving more old people to walk in front of vehicles due to reduced cognitive abilities)

So what about if we control for age? Are old smokers more or less likely to get hit by a bus than old non-smokers?

Quick, someone do an RCT.

I’ve never survived being hit by a bus, and I don’t smoke. Checkmate, atheists.

Also you’re more likely to be milling around outside

Ohhhh, now I get it! I thought that meant it would make my cupboard colder.

Incels: How come no women want to date me?

Also incels: Eeew, women in my social spaces how even dare they!?

Someone ran a DND game from a module, but decided to switch the gender of everyone in the module without telling the players.

The players were convinced there was some secret conspiracy to get rid of the men, because the only man they could find anywhere was the unnamed spouse of the blacksmith.

All men: business as usual. All women: there must be a secret conspiracy to erase the men.

If I had the money, I’d pay to watch this.

Okay, never mind. THAT’S the most dystopian thing I’ve read all day.

Still works in your house, but you might have to make the problematic person leave.

It’s probably aware of them, but generally no. Most slopes for driving on are smooth enough to be pretty negligible unless you’re going hundreds of miles or more, in which case fives of miles won’t make much difference either.

But if you’re traveling by bike those small slopes may make some parts of the ride significantly more difficult or easier, and for cars may impact fuel efficiency in a way much more significant than just counting the extra distance traveled. So many navigation systems will still account for slope, even if they don’t necessarily acknowledge the length of your path as precisely as you may have hoped

Normal? What is normal in the first place?

“Normal is what everyone else is and you are not.”

Dr Tolian Soran to Geordi La Forge (Star Trek: Generations)

I like “realize”. I knew there was such a thing as a “sex change surgery” and even looked into it from a technical perspective because it intrigued me. It’s fantasized about moving to a new city and getting one; starting over.

I’d heard an offhand version of David Reimer’s story as kind of a conservative horror story. I’d seen movies and tv shows make plenty of fun of people who “pretended” to be “the wrong sex”. Monty Python’s “lady penis” scene still pops into my head sometimes.

I knew trans people existed and I’d seen a couple of people with “they/them” on their name badge. But I never really put together that those things were “real” in a meaningful way, or applicable to me and my experiences.

So then I kind of realized what it all meant.

So often, you’ll hear trans people say they always knew. I think that’s both the case, and a bit off. My guess is that they’ve always had a feeling SOMETHING was amiss, but weren’t really able to nail down the exact feeling until, well… They started considering transitioning.

That’s almost exactly what I was trying to say with my top level comment.

I agree with the other replies too, but also yes. The hardest thing for some people to understand about my transition is that I don’t want to be a different person than I was before. I’m not trying to change who I am. I just want to live who I have always been where people can see it in a way they couldn’t before.

As for you: talk to trans people. See if you can relate to them.

I second this whole thing. Consider your gender. Spend a bit of time thinking about it. If you are trans and don’t know, it’s not something that’s going to suddenly start being true, you’re just going to put the pieces together.

I can’t speak for anyone else, but I didn’t turn anything, I just found a way to say what I had already been feeling the whole time. I never felt like a “man” or a “boy” and just smiled and nodded when other people described me in those categories. I didn’t have the words, didn’t have a way to let other people know how I felt about myself until now, and still struggle with some people who still don’t understand.

I’m not a woman because I like nail polish, dresses, or unicorns, and I’m not not a woman because I like video games, dragons, and nerd shit. I’m a woman because that’s who I am, and once I realized that was “allowed” it was the only true way to say it. I’m not a feminine man and I never was, and while I don’t think I’m a particularly masculine woman, I didn’t think “looking girly stuff” or “liking manly stuff” is ever going to define who you are. If you honestly don’t know who you are, I can see it helping you figure it out, but if you are comfortable being who you are, you don’t need to change it.

I was thinking the same thing.

She asked me to murder someone. You know, couples stuff.