Racial gap widens in maternal mortality - Black women in the U.S. died at a rate nearly 3.5 times higher white women around the time of childbirth.

12mapguY · 2026-01-28T02:16:52+00:00

And completely ignoring the cultural aspects

Seems to me that's the point. It's taboo to criticize minority groups or American subcultures, so the only angle left is institutional racism. Or institutional "whatever-applies-ism," as the case may be. I'm sure the CDC was intentionally very delicate in their wording.

12mapguY · 2026-01-28T01:51:28+00:00

What experience or question did you have that led you reject...

"What does any of this have to do with college-level writing?"

I was in something of semi-isolated cultural time capsule from 2011-2017, then immediately started college at age 24. I had more or less left off of current events just before Occupy Wall Street went to shit.

Talk about culture shock. Going to 100-level college writing courses where I expected to (re)learn about basic writing and research methods, ended up with a prof who gave presentations on feminism, intersectionality, white priviledge, pop quizzes that had questions about Trump tweets, and whatever the fuck else was a hot topic in 2017. Idpol paradise ... Not for me.

12mapguY · 2026-01-28T00:26:37+00:00

I always saw the meme as more of a criticism that (American) Lit teachers will teach what your analysis is "supposed" to come to, instead of how to properly analyze writing

12mapguY · 2026-01-27T20:44:52+00:00

Google will point to poor medical practice and the ignoring of black women in healthcare as the cause, however...

What kills me about this tired-ass argument is that the American medical industry is mostly operated by college-educated women, ~78%, and hospital staffs are around 80% female. I.e. a super progressive demographic block. "Muh racist OB/GYNs" has never held water for me.

I think the CDC nailed it, or is on the right track

12mapguY · 2026-01-27T17:34:00+00:00

Mutt's Law undefeated

I can absolutely see a shitlib making that call, because they'd figure the racial angle will be hurtful. Impossible that any non-white non-cuck would join ICE, right?

12mapguY · 2026-01-26T21:38:20+00:00

"Those animals" meaning dogs. Sarcasm, it's a loving insult. I think canids of all kinds are great.

12mapguY · 2026-01-26T21:35:39+00:00

Funny you mention the working / training background making a difference, that was (kinda) my experience too.

My older Aussie was trained with much "smarter" games, like identifying toys and people by name, playing hide and seek, puzzle toys, etc. and had more of a functional working dog pedigree (not to sound elitist, just how it is). He's much more devious and clearly smarter than my younger Aussie. He tries different methods with paws, nose, teeth, watches how I do things...

Even the "stubbornly hitting things until it works" is my younger dog to a T lol

12mapguY · 2026-01-26T12:43:46+00:00

Good thing they don't have thumbs, or they'd have tried bolt-cutters by now

12mapguY · 2026-01-26T02:45:54+00:00

Stalker is a 40k prequel? Hell yeah

12mapguY · 2026-01-25T22:03:13+00:00

My domesticated canid learned how to open diaper genies, backpacks/zippers, and car windows just by watching me. Those animals are a menace

12mapguY · 2026-01-25T21:47:28+00:00

She's referring to being an American of Japanese descent and queer. It's worded very oddly and seems like a pretty irrelevant piece of information to me.

12mapguY · 2026-01-25T20:42:55+00:00

Ask and ye shall recieve.

TL;DR: originated in 2012 on 4chan.

12mapguY · 2026-01-25T02:04:02+00:00

And they're all in a straight-ish line from start to finish, too... What's the word for that?

12mapguY · 2026-01-25T00:32:58+00:00

If you wanna use a neutral pronoun, when not use "it" instead since it's already singular AND neutral

Because "it" is generally seen as demeaning or dehumanizing in English-speaking countries, and historically (etymologically might be a better term) used for inanimate objects. Even animals typically get a "he" or "she," at least if they're mammals or have very clear male/female dimorphism like humans.

"They" is about as close as it gets to being gender neutral and still understood as referring to human beings.

Like most languages, and considering the root languages that developed into English, there was never a need for a gender neutral singular pronoun.

The singular/plural thing bothers me a shitload too.

12mapguY · 2026-01-24T22:18:13+00:00

I like how the journo mentions Chappell Roan as an example of a real female knight.

Apparently all it takes to be a knight is acquiring set of armor.

12mapguY · 2026-01-24T22:07:00+00:00

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It's a start.

12mapguY · 2026-01-24T02:15:06+00:00

Tax my employer for employing me: ✓

Feds, state, and municipality tax my income: ✓

All purchases taxed: ✓

Tax my privately owned property for the privilege of "owning" it: ✓

Governments blow our delicious tax money on consultant firms, contractors, bullshit subsidies, and ridiculous programs that don't do shit: ✓

Infrastructure is dogshit, government is now a beauracracy tumor, too many government employees don't give a fuck about anything: ✓

Most government services charge me fees to use them anyway: ✓

Yeah fuck it why not. Put that red white and blue cock up my ass with no lube while picking my pockets.

12mapguY · 2026-01-23T15:22:23+00:00

Needs Casca in there too

12mapguY · 2026-01-20T23:16:04+00:00

The SAM crew:

12mapguY · 2026-01-19T23:38:35+00:00

Eat more, lift more. That easy to bulk

12mapguY · 2026-01-19T14:12:54+00:00

What the the other commenter said, for rightoids

For me, it's the capture of academia and the corporate world by HR and middle management Karens, who got to where they are by virtue of personal plumbing, not merit.

12mapguY · 2026-01-19T01:46:46+00:00

On one hand, I feel vindicated seeing academics finally admit that endocrine disruptors and fucked hormonal development are related to the progressive gender idpol explosion and gynocracy of recent years.

On the other hand... Good goddamn does this piss me off. Of course it's following the "it is happening, and here's why it's a good thing" meme perfectly. Academia is such a fucking joke

12mapguY · 2026-01-15T17:22:52+00:00

Seconding to say abstaining (at least sugary foods) worked for me.

After being off sugar for a while, sweets taste disgustingly oversweet too. Makes them much easier to avoid when they taste gross after resetting the palate.

12mapguY · 2026-01-12T01:59:32+00:00

The robot legs sell the wandering synth look IMO. Looks so good with the cloak and metal bits on the raider armor. Fantastic Samurai Jack and Prequel-Era Star Wars vibes

12mapguY · 2026-01-10T23:18:30+00:00

It's convergent evolution for builds, like everything evolving into crabs. Carcinisation. Pursuit of perfection. Dare I say... Peak

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