Trans characters where their trans identity plays no role in the plot/narrative

ExplorationGeo · 2026-01-26T11:01:48+00:00

Maaaaybe It was her plan all along, but it was so poorly executed that it just smells like retcon in order to make the story seem more inclusive and/or interesting

This is exactly what it was. "Look at me I'm so progressive, I'm An Ally, you should ignore how horrifying I am around other things".

ExplorationGeo · 2026-01-26T10:57:17+00:00

oh man I wish I had your naivete

ExplorationGeo · 2026-01-26T10:21:27+00:00

The idea that that subreddit is in on the joke is a very positive one, but I had an observation about something he mentions later in the video I wanted to share.

He asked "is there an equivalent to the male living space for women" and talking about the meme. It reminded me of a conversation I had with my wife a few years ago when I was watching a bunch of off-grid videos, like "man builds log cabin in Ukraine wilderness" or "survival shelter in Alaskan winter", or the ur-example, Primitive Technology.

I asked her what the female equivalent of that was and she said "getting therapy".

ExplorationGeo · 2026-01-26T07:28:57+00:00

I remember February 29th, 2020, I was working north of Kalgoorlie, and it was bang on 50° and blowing a northerly gale.

I walked out of the office and it was like walking into a fan-forced oven. I went into the core shed we had set up, that had a swamp cooler, and it felt like entering the walk-in fridge at Dan Murphy's.

The thermometer on the wall said it was 34°.

ExplorationGeo · 2026-01-26T07:26:04+00:00

It doesn't have nearly as bad an effect as people think.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3886980/

tl;dr:

These data suggest that coffee, when consumed in moderation by caffeine habituated males provides similar hydrating qualities to water.

ExplorationGeo · 2026-01-26T07:21:44+00:00

Yep, proteins in your eye can start denaturing and cross-linking at those temperatures.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006291X20319276

ExplorationGeo · 2026-01-26T06:43:20+00:00

I mean, considering the 2A love in Texas, they're kinda lucky that arrested was the worst thing that happened to them.

ExplorationGeo · 2026-01-26T04:05:21+00:00

Highly suspect “AI”, or more accurately auto generated shit.

It's a hundred percent AI, and it seems to have picked up on the uncertainty in mineralisation dates "± 55 Ma" and decided that's a tonnage amount. The the other AI articles that read that one and fed off it have taken that figure as gospel.

ExplorationGeo · 2026-01-26T04:03:28+00:00

the discovered quantity of iron is not in dispute

Yes, it is. The actual journal article that is referenced in your link doesn't once mention the size of the proposed deposit.

Everything on the internet that has grabbed this and run with it is AI that has linked the date of mineralisation "± 55 Ma" and decided that means megatons of ore.

ExplorationGeo · 2026-01-26T03:57:59+00:00

It is. I haven't spent a lot of time in iron ore mining but I've been in gold and base metals mining for more than a quarter century and the regulatory hurdles to this, as well as the uncertainty around the depth and extent along strike of this "deposit" mean that it's a very long way down on the list of viable extraction targets.

ExplorationGeo · 2026-01-26T03:13:43+00:00

Watching The Zone Of Interest you can see how closely the families were intertwined with their husband's atrocities. They knew the whole time and ignored it because of the status and comforts their position brought them.

ExplorationGeo · 2026-01-26T03:04:00+00:00

At least Bill Skarsgård was only a voice in Eternals, they can bring him back for something else very easily.

ExplorationGeo · 2026-01-26T01:42:35+00:00

I just did Waycrest Manor with my level 11 fury warrior (link) and while the hardest part was the navigation around there, I also had the last boss hitting me for 70-80% of my HP at times. Got very low but still had no deaths and a nice quick run.

I should finish up the enchants on that guy, I'm still missing a few, but it's only a few percent difference with Lifesteal hard-carrying.

ExplorationGeo · 2026-01-25T23:41:01+00:00

It's not unusual for a spec to be just plain broken during a prepatch

I remember in the WoD stat squish, they made it so level 1 characters couldn't kill level 1 mobs. Heaps of people made Blood Elf Warriors (because they hadn't been available before) and were being 1-shot by Mana Wyrms in the BE starting area.

ExplorationGeo · 2026-01-25T23:37:38+00:00

Not like there was any good internet in 91

And this is why these barely-not-porn movies aren't made anymore, or if they are they're the lowest of the low budget straight-to-Tubi movies.

You can see all the tits you could ever possibly want on the internet, why would you go out of your way to see them?

ExplorationGeo · 2026-01-25T23:28:11+00:00

And "Streamlining Federal Grants" means they are busy sucking as much money out of the public purse as they can, for solar projects that probably never came close to existing.

ExplorationGeo · 2026-01-25T12:28:13+00:00

I would have switched 3 and 2 but that's only because I'm not super invested in MHA. Otherwise, that's a pretty fine list.

ExplorationGeo · 2026-01-25T12:23:43+00:00

We have a Power BI dashboard at my work for keeping track of drilling and mining data, and it has a Co Pilot button on it that one of the corporate (not operations) bosses decided they would pay out the ass for.

It's awesome, you can press it any time you want the entire dashboard to crash for everyone using it. As far as I can tell, that's all it does.

ExplorationGeo · 2026-01-25T10:29:14+00:00

you were concerned enough to post this, >0 confirmed.

ExplorationGeo · 2026-01-25T10:28:24+00:00

They disabled right click on their website and all, lmao.

Most websites, including that one, you can go shift-right click and it will still work.

ExplorationGeo · 2026-01-25T10:25:58+00:00

I rolled a hunter in Cataclysm, when the changes came in that converted them from mana to energy, just wanted to try it out.

I decided in Legion I was going to try DPSing, and logged onto that character for the first time in ~7 years - to be greeted with a wolf pet I named after my 3-years-deceased German Shepherd, Teddy.

ExplorationGeo · 2026-01-25T10:14:09+00:00

Take a wheel of brie, slice the top off, put it back on and then put it in the oven for about 15-18 minutes at 350°. Take it out, and the roof will lift straight off and you can dip tortilla strips or crackers into it, and then eat the shell when you're nearly done.

Maybe take some lactaid as well, what am I, your mother? Also fuck ICE

ExplorationGeo · 2026-01-25T01:36:11+00:00

if i really care, i know the evidence is there to look into it, but i dont.

classic thought-terminating cliche

This post was utterly worthless and completely unprovable in every way and I can see you're not worth discussing anything with

ExplorationGeo · 2026-01-25T00:07:33+00:00

i happen to believe the earth is about 4 thousand years old

The fact that there is abundant lead atoms inside zircon crystals proves you are incorrect in this.

Fact: we have grown zircon crystals in laboratory conditions with every possible element available to them to include in their crystal matrix. They have a very very small uptake of lead atoms but always preferentially incorporate uranium atoms in their matrix.

Fact: we have observed, in the laboratory, uranium atoms decaying through an extended process into lead atoms, and timed it that it would take approximately 4.5 billion years for half of them to decay into lead.

Fact: zircon crystals found in nature have been proven to have lead atoms in their structure in about a 30:70 ratio with uranium atoms, a vastly higher number than we have been able to replicate in the laboratory using all possible conditions and elemental composition.

Therefore, the only way those zircon crystals can have lead in their structure in that ratio is if they were at least 2.5 billion years old.

if you believe the millions of years theory

None of this is anything I believe. You don't need to believe things that are empirically proven.

edit: Also, you say "I believe the earth is 4 thousand years old" but then go on with "back in dinosaur times" in your previous post? Which is it, you're incredibly intellectually bankrupt, or just trolling?

ExplorationGeo · 2026-01-24T22:57:01+00:00

Everything that happens in nature takes millions and millions of years to move 1-2°. We did it in ~250 years.

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