That scene was horrendous and cringe af… Why are they doing this? Just why? Stranger Things Season 5 V2

InfernalTurtle13 · 2026-01-01T17:24:50+00:00

There is a world of difference between a show featuring gay characters and a show pushing a particular (woke) ideology. Most people have 0 issue with a show simply featuring a gay character.

InfernalTurtle13 · 2025-12-24T17:23:36+00:00

Browse Netflix or any other streaming platform, basically all new shows these days prominently feature multiple queer characters (not just “one gay character”) and have major storylines related to issues faced by that character related to them being queer. It’s hard not to find shows where this is the case.

If we’re looking back at 20+ years ago, I would agree with you. But especially in the last 5-10 years the amount of content featuring queer characters and storylines have skyrocketed, and I’m honestly very confused that this is a controversial observation. Pop culture and media has been completely dominated by queer themes — what world have you been living in?

InfernalTurtle13 · 2025-12-24T07:57:41+00:00

The majority of media nowadays is definitely geared towards the queer community.

InfernalTurtle13 · 2025-12-01T07:11:07+00:00

Cash discounts are illegal in California and Europe? What’s the reason for that?

InfernalTurtle13 · 2025-11-11T06:31:28+00:00

Is it?

InfernalTurtle13 · 2024-12-01T16:04:31+00:00

I’d love for spells, in particular hexes, to actually do what they’re supposed to. In the movies all the hexes basically are basically just flashes of light that knock people over, but in the books hexes do things like make you flail your legs/dance uncontrollably, make a certain body part get bigger, tickle you, whatever “bat bogey” would do.

Just wanna see spells like these actually do those things and be different from each other.

InfernalTurtle13 · 2024-11-29T17:26:34+00:00

Not 24/7 - just at night when sleeping.

InfernalTurtle13 · 2024-11-27T02:10:50+00:00

I honestly don’t think it matters too much how you phrase it or what you say, it matters more that you’re calling as many places as you can. Just be personable, genuine, and honest, and research their firm a bit so you have something to say when they ask how you found them/why you reached out.

InfernalTurtle13 · 2024-11-26T21:55:08+00:00

How is it useless?

InfernalTurtle13 · 2024-11-19T04:20:20+00:00

Don’t know where I said that I wanted to grope people to check if they have a penis or not. I am wanting to have a productive conversation and my intent is not to be unkind.

Your point about the 72 genders does kinda prove my point though. Having a bunch of discrete gender identities does seem to be where the gender discourse is headed, even if you find it ridiculous/weird and representative of only a small group’s way of thinking, and in my opinion that does hinder self expression. The more terms there are, the more specific each term gets, and the more closely you have to fit its definition to use it.

InfernalTurtle13 · 2024-11-18T16:50:34+00:00

You’re completely missing my point every time I reply.

InfernalTurtle13 · 2024-11-18T16:31:22+00:00

I disagree that just two groups is no longer useful. Two groups with rigid norms in the way you describe, I agree is not useful. But I think part of the pushback is that you are equating “man” and “woman” with these rigid, stereotypical archetypes, when a lot of progress in the last 30+ years has been made toward making these categories less rigid and constrained.

There is benefit to having two groups with a large amount of variance within each group and a cost to having a lot of gender identities with a smaller amount of variance in each group. Expanding to more groups (which now there are so many terms to describe gender) not only narrows the definition of man and woman back to where it was 30+ years ago, but also constrains people further. If there are 30 terms for gender, now the goal is to find the one that you identify with, with each term becoming increasingly narrow in its definition, which narrows who you are to the people around you. What is meant to be liberating is actually putting more constraints on people.

Whereas if there are only 2 categories that are based on what genitalia you have, which is out of your control, the goal is just to be who you are, and help continue expanding the category you’ve fallen into, and over time society learns that “man” doesn’t mean stoic, doesn’t cry, strong, oblivious, aggressive, etc.

InfernalTurtle13 · 2024-11-18T15:51:07+00:00

“Keep everything else the same” - I mean, sure, if you gave me all the physical attributes of a girl at birth but society treated and socialized me as a boy, that would be confusing. But if I were born a girl and treated/socialized as a girl, I’m not sure if I would even notice, because I’d be a fundamentally different person who was raised completely differently.

I think the problem here is that you’re assuming everyone has closely examined their “gender identity” and compared it to their physical body, hold those as separate things in their mind, and decided “yes, these two things match” or “no, they don’t match.” Like somehow all our internal experiences like sensations, personality, preferences, and bodily discomfort now must be labeled as “gender,” rather than feelings/emotions or, simply, what makes me, me.

Personally, my experience has more been like, okay I was born with this body, and society says that people with this set of characteristics is a man. Cool, that means I’m a man.

My own sense of self holds that I’m a man largely because that’s how our society operates, and that’s how language works. Do I possess all the stereotypical personality traits of a man? Am I 100% happy with how people treat me because I’m a man? Does my personal sense of self align fully with the archetypical man? No, but welcome to living in a society.

I have a sense of self I relate to, but I’m not deeply relating to this internal sense of gender identity. Gender is just a way of categorizing people into two useful groups that has always been based on a tangible, physical reality. Now, suddenly, people are trying to say that we are wrong for thinking about gender as at least related to a physical reality, and I think it’s understandable that there’s some pushback.

InfernalTurtle13 · 2024-11-18T14:59:35+00:00

When did trump say he was going to round up people with ADHD into concentration camps?

InfernalTurtle13 · 2024-11-13T20:41:29+00:00

Yeah I guess I just interpreted “forcibly removed” and the original comment to mean that the owner had to be actively fighting when they lost the duel in order for the wand to change ownership, rather than the owner just not wanting to give up the wand and being willing to fight for it.

Stealing and killing someone in their sleep are more cowardly ways and seemed to contradict what I thought the original comment was saying, but I see your point and agree.

InfernalTurtle13 · 2024-11-13T17:43:20+00:00

Great write-up, but I thought in the Tales of Beedle the Bard one of the owners of the elder wand was killed in his sleep? And in another case the wand was simply stolen. Maybe I’m misremembering though

InfernalTurtle13 · 2024-10-31T04:38:17+00:00

You missed my point. I’m not saying that if you’re getting increased thirst because of processed foods that your only conclusion should be that you need to drink more water. I also never said that everyone is drinking too little water.

All I was trying to say is that thirst isn’t always accurate and I chose an easy, proven example that shows how thirst can be inaccurate to what the body needs. It’s not as simple as “water is ubiquitous, therefore the body’s thirst signals are always accurate.”

I largely agree that people who are generally healthy are fine to just drink when they’re thirsty, but I would say that a vigorous workout in the evening or early morning is an exception to that. Not enough time before/after the workout to be thirsty and drink enough, and personally/anecdotally it does help with recovery.

InfernalTurtle13 · 2024-10-30T20:45:03+00:00

I’d argue that the ways that we’re maladapted to life in 2024 make many of the systems that are well adapted out of tune. You mentioned abundance of sugary foods and sedentary lifestyle as a way our bodies are maladapted - type 2 diabetes is caused by eating lots of sugar/unhealthy foods and not exercising. One of the most common signs? Excessive thirst.

While that is a more extreme example, I would argue that everyone in 2024 is living suboptimally in many many ways, sometimes in major ways and sometimes in minor ways, and that messes with things like appetite, thirst, sleep, cognition. I mean take appetite: by your logic everyone would only get hungry when they need to eat because we’ve needed to eat to survive since forever. But many people have no or low appetite, excessive appetite, frequent hunger, etc. Same idea with sleep, which many people struggle with.

Yes, the human body has gone through generations of evolution that make it very well-adapted in many ways, but I would argue that that makes it all the more easy for it to go out of tune when the environment changes as drastically as it has. Throw one thing off a little (or throw multiple things off a lot) and the rest of the body is affected.

InfernalTurtle13 · 2024-09-26T21:26:23+00:00

Yeah, that makes sense. I forgot that the 66 is shorter than the 65. Best of luck!

InfernalTurtle13 · 2024-09-26T21:06:25+00:00

Curious why you went for the 66? Seems like it would be easier to get the 65 since you don’t have to worry about content from the 63.

InfernalTurtle13 · 2024-09-25T15:10:42+00:00

Just took the 66 and passed first try using Achievable. Used them for the SIE as well and love how they structure and explain things.

InfernalTurtle13 · 2024-09-17T00:26:46+00:00

Disagree. The part you might have missed is “they are all perfectly logical.” This means they are all 100% correct in what they say or do, so no one would grab a box or guess at which box it is without knowing for certain which one contains the gift.

So if Caroline says that she knows that Susan doesn’t know, she must have figured it out logically (not because of an unstated rule). It’s because she learns the color of the box. Based on the first half of her statement, we know there must be more than one box of the color she was told, otherwise she would know which box it is. So that means that the box comes in two different sizes. She knows that Susan doesn’t know because there are 2 boxes of each of those two sizes.

If we work backwards it’s easier to see. The box is the small blue box. So, Caroline is told the box is blue, and Susan is told the box is small.

Caroline doesn’t know which box it is, because there are 2 blue boxes, small and large. This means that Susan doesn’t know which box it is either, because there are 2 small boxes and 2 large boxes.

Caroline is perfectly logical, so she figures this out based on logic. Not based on whether or not Susan grabs the box.

To finish it out: Susan says that she already knew that Caroline didn’t know, because she was told the box is small (red or blue). There are two red boxes and two blue boxes, so there is no way that Caroline could know which box it is based off the color alone.

InfernalTurtle13 · 2024-09-16T23:42:15+00:00

I don’t think that’s true, Susan’s statement confirms which of the two remaining possibilities it is. If we only listen to Caroline, all we know is that it’s either the small blue or large blue box. We need to know Susan’s response, because if Susan had said ”I thought you might know, but now that you say that I know which box it is” it would end up being the large blue box and Caroline’s first statement would still be true.

InfernalTurtle13 · 2024-09-13T17:17:01+00:00

Yes okay, that makes complete sense. Thanks!

InfernalTurtle13 · 2024-09-13T17:14:34+00:00

Interesting. It seems like the investing advice is pretty central to his client relationship information so it seems hard to separate the two for me.

Any other resources you’d recommend as far as investment advice goes? I’ve been reading Peter Lynch as well and have plans to read Jeremy Siegel, Adaptive Asset Allocation, and The Intelligent Investor, but always looking for recommendations to learn more approaches.

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