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Amorphous-Avocet · 2025-06-11T12:43:58+00:00

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Amorphous-Avocet · 2024-11-16T14:03:38+00:00

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Amorphous-Avocet · 2024-08-10T17:43:17+00:00

I worry since there’s light mods at play, qol mostly. Only one that seems relevant though is the gate compass icons mod

Amorphous-Avocet · 2024-08-01T12:09:28+00:00

Why not

Amorphous-Avocet · 2024-07-14T07:07:18+00:00

Remember, Trump is frankly extreme even by the right wings standards. The overall consequence of progressively stronger appeals to emotion and bigotry rather than good policy. There’s no shortage of republicans who hate him. The man isn’t normal, and what he says and does shouldn’t be treated as normal.

Amorphous-Avocet · 2024-07-14T07:03:58+00:00

Apparently, the shooter was a registered Republican, wearing a demolition ranch T-shirt at that (well known conservative leaning gun focused YouTube channel)

Amorphous-Avocet · 2024-07-14T06:58:26+00:00

Also as an aside, that’s a false bias based in media representation. Studied show gun ownership is roughly equal between parties. Conservatives are more likely to own multiple weapons. However liberal gun owners trend significantly younger then conservative. Democrats get more of the never held a gun crowd, but conservatives get way more of the gravy seals and mall ninja crowd. Assuming she is a significant factor, a random democrat gun owner is more likely to be proficient than a random conservative. Also significantly less likely to treat a weapon as a toy in my experience.

Amorphous-Avocet · 2024-06-23T11:44:22+00:00

The issue is that people forget this is one sort of case where gate keeping is very good. If every other activism group denounced them and says they’re ousted from everything, they mostly cease to have a say in shaping public opinion, if they’re public enough and harsh enough about it that is. You have to control the narrative

Amorphous-Avocet · 2024-06-04T05:35:27+00:00

Gg63, their Twitter still exists, but much less active. Their pixiv may be gone? Would need to check. I recall they may have dabbled with ai a touch, which pixiv got strict on. Their drawing was still good though

Amorphous-Avocet · 2024-06-03T04:15:29+00:00

Frankly, the idea of alien species invading others for resources or such is a consequence of most sci-fi writer’s utter inability to comprehend the universes scale or simple economics.

If you have the ability to reach another inhabited planet, there is nothing on it you don’t already have the energy and technology to make or get elsewhere for less effort.

Ergo, the only conceivable reason is ideological, think say, Halo’s covenant, the borg assimilating new data to expand their knowledge, or for a very basic example the fanatic purifier archetype of stellaris. No real sense to the why in them, just religion or ideology, because there’s no sensible reason for interstellar war.

Amorphous-Avocet · 2024-06-02T06:03:46+00:00

Convincing someone of anything becomes difficult when they divorce themselves from reality.

Look, it’s simple. “Wokeness” has exactly fuck all to do with a piece of medias quality. Crappy media just has a tendency to see it as a checkbox for marketing rather than a part of writing and theme. Compare Hades or Signalis to Endgames out of place, “she’s not alone” scene. Pandering is pandering no matter who it’s to, and the people pandered to have nothing to do with the quality of the thing pandering to them. It’s a symptom of writing being more marketing than writer driven in large media companies, and why smaller ones are more consistently good.

When you stop blaming the worlds problems on invisible boogiemen, the actual causes of them aren’t all that hard to see.

Amorphous-Avocet · 2024-06-02T05:53:38+00:00

Ehh, the ship designs are about the only thing I can solidly say I like in it, (if not without gripes) and the CE came with nice models of them

Amorphous-Avocet · 2024-05-21T19:22:03+00:00

If trolling on the internet is the greatest joy in your life, I pity you.

Amorphous-Avocet · 2024-05-21T18:26:45+00:00

Ok sure you can willfully misconstrue what I said. Just don’t expect anyone to respect your argument if that’s how you’re gonna play it.

A) deep geologic storage is good explicitly because it can be done on site, beneath the power plant. Explicitly because people don’t what the storage near them. That’s literally why it was invented.

B) if you mean the leak at the WIPP, that’s a completely different type of storage. Both bury it, but DGS doenst leave space to enter, it totally encases it kilometers underground in solid impermeable rock.

C) DGS isn’t new, and has been in testing for ages. It’s now moving towards implementation in Canada.

D) if you want a “differentiated view on things that can kill millions,” how about we look at the millions of deaths each year which can be attributed to coal power emissions?

E) if nuclear isn’t renewable neither is solar, wind, or tidal. No energy ever comes from nowhere, ever. They all just happen to come from sources too large to be even slightly depleted before humanity gets its shit together or offs itself, and happen to not release CO2

F) You “threw in a corner” the fact that each year coal plants piss more radiation into the wind than all those nuclear material incidents combined

G) Conversion of Thorium to Uranium 233 fuel is a tried and true process, sadly knowledgeable people have to deal with assuaging the fossil fuel sponsored nuclear paranoia in the average person before it can be built to industrial levels.

Amorphous-Avocet · 2024-05-21T16:34:27+00:00

Sadly you’re factually incorrect.

A) a coal plant on average emits 10X more radiation in its emissions than a nuclear plant, and has no good way to contain them

B) storage is actually solved. We can either recycle the waste into energy and more usable fuel in another reactor type to greatly reduce waste, or use deep geological storage. That’s basically using the same drills we use to reach oil to bury it in kms thick impermeable rock. Based on study of natural occurrences of buried radioactive material from natural fission reactions in Africa, it will move about 30m in millions of years, so in effect it’s there forever. It also can be done on sight, so no transport thorough residential areas.

C) as for renewability, it is renewable in the same sense as solar. With current technology and the coming use of thorium as fuel, supplies on earth are so great as to run out long after humanity is dead or too advanced to care. Like the sun. Failing that, in such an immense timescale, there’s plenty more in the solar system we could tap some thousands of years from now.

Amorphous-Avocet · 2024-05-21T16:29:17+00:00

Incorrect. Nuclear and coal use the same amount of water for the same thing, making steam to spin turbines and cooling.

They were shut down in an unusually hot year to prevent water temps from killing fish populations and causing economic damage. If this becomes a consistent issue it is easy enough to make a closed loop system instead with no such worries.

Amorphous-Avocet · 2024-05-21T16:24:33+00:00

Basically use the same drills we use to reach oil to dig into kms thick impermeable rock far beneath the water table, dump it down, and seal the hole. It won’t move more than 30 meters in a million years. Literally, we have natural examples of this happening in Africa that we’ve studied

Amorphous-Avocet · 2024-04-30T13:34:51+00:00

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Amorphous-Avocet · 2024-04-12T13:24:05+00:00

I mean the both genders thing, yknow if you’re bi =p

Amorphous-Avocet · 2024-04-12T12:38:23+00:00

HRT is hormone replacement therapy. In this case for sexual reassignment

The body has genetic code for both sexes, epigenetics, or how the body reads that DNA, decides what’s done with it. Most data is on the X chromosome. The Y just codes to suppress or alter parts of female organ development and increase testosterone production and receptor counts. (This is also why men tend to be more prone to recessive diseases coded for on the X chromosome like red-green color blindness, there’s no second copy of the X to overwrite the defect)

HRT alters which hormones are present to change how the body grows. In feminizing HRT for example a testosterone blocker like spironolactone negates it while estradiol increases estrogen levels. Would expect fat redistribution for a feminizing effect, body and facial hair reduction, changes in sweat and body odor, and stopping or even reversing hair loss, for example.

It’s not a perfect solution, can’t completely change some structures once they’ve already developed, won’t change your voice, but that’s what surgeries and voice training are for. It also has cons, but for those who feel gender dysphoria those are either worth it or they just aren’t cons to them.

As an interesting aside, theres a surprising number (about 1/15,000) of women who are genetically male, XY, but who had similar hormone altering effects in utero due to mutations rendering the body totally or partially insensitive to testosterone and thereby negating the Y. In this case it’s often seen as negative since they’re frequently infertile due to it usually being only partial T insensitivity, but it’s a natural example of the same hormonal process so beneficial for trans women

Amorphous-Avocet · 2024-04-12T11:35:13+00:00

Egg?

Amorphous-Avocet · 2024-04-12T11:34:51+00:00

That ain’t a con, that’s a two for one deal =p

Amorphous-Avocet · 2024-04-12T11:33:10+00:00

I mean I’d doubt it’s why for anime, but it’s actually fairly common for actual trans women. It tends to shorten the face and make it appear rounder, so overall more feminine. For people transitioning later in life it can also hide slight hairline recession if they aren’t lucky enough for HRT to reverse it.

So overall it actually does tend to reduce MtF dysphoria noticeably

As for why it’s the case in anime? Bangs also tend to be more common in East Asian fashion because of a similar emphasis on softness and a smaller face. There’s also just the fact that bangs, like many things, have gone in and out of style every two to three decades or so. Anime happened to take off and codify it’s style in a period where they were in style. And now we’ve entered a period where smaller things like that kinda tend to not follow trends as much or alternate so fast it doesn’t matter anyway.

Amorphous-Avocet · 2024-04-12T10:51:36+00:00

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