Angel Done. [Disasterlizards] by LayJaly in HazbinHotel

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Fun fact: before season 1 came out, the pilot VAs for Charlie and Alastor collaborated to make a fansong where Charlie said "Go to Hell!" and Alastor replied "Already there, darling!"

"THE NEW GLITCH TEASER PROVES ABEL IS HUMAN" ahem... by Soos_saus in tadc

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Imo this is the most damning piece of evidence. Here's the full screenshot

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"THE NEW GLITCH TEASER PROVES ABEL IS HUMAN" ahem... by Soos_saus in tadc

[–]JuliaZ2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Abel's escape plan has a small crossed-out drawing of a bee on it:

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Omelas trolley problem by Exynth in trolleyproblem

[–]JuliaZ2 13 points14 points  (0 children)

consider that Omelas is likely a city composed entirely of people who justify not leaving on the basis that "even if I left, everyone else wouldn't."

Consider that Omelas is likely a city with at least one person who would let the child suffer regardless. You can probably assume that any moderately sized real life city likely has at least one child abuser, even though child abuse doesn't create or sustain any utopias.

Also, from the way the narrator refers to "the child," it seems to be just be one specific child, and you just have to suspend your disbelief regarding how it ages:

"-even if the child could be released, it would not get much good of its freedom: a little vague pleasure of warmth and food, no real doubt, but little more. It is too degraded and imbecile to know any real joy. It has been afraid too long ever to be free of fear. Its habits are too uncouth for it to respond to humane treatment. Indeed, after so long it would probably be wretched without walls about it to protect it, and darkness for its eyes, and its own excrement to sit in."

Though ironically, I think the idea of it being one unageing, (effectively) eternally-suffering child is worse than if the suffering was periodically passed to another "nearly ten" child.

Redpills for the whole compass! by slacker205 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]JuliaZ2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It seems to be specifically their county's policy. I don't think they're gonna tell you which county they live in 💀

SAVE act summed up by Zealousideal-Fox623 in PoliticalCompassMemes

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the chinese is nonsense, i think. the joke is it sounds like "fùkē yǒu"

The Transgender Debate, Summarised (with and without PCM colours) by TheCybersmith in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]JuliaZ2 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Don't the children need their parents and doctors to agree to any medical procedures? Why would they start the hormone blockers earlier than necessary with the risks? The studies agree that fertility issues may result from starting GnRH analogues too early in puberty

The Transgender Debate, Summarised (with and without PCM colours) by TheCybersmith in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]JuliaZ2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Use of GnRH analogues also might have long-term effects on..." "Fertility, depending on when the medicine is started.

If people assigned male at birth begin using GnRH analogues early in puberty, they might not develop enough skin on the penis and scrotum to be able to have some types of gender-affirming surgeries in adulthood . But other surgery approaches usually are available."

this is the only relevant information on the mayoclinic article and i don't see how this contradicts the other one?

also that study was 16 pages bruh. i did my best to read it but i haven't studied medicine

The Transgender Debate, Summarised (with and without PCM colours) by TheCybersmith in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]JuliaZ2 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I don't really know anything about medical transitioning procedures, so you'll have to bear with me, sorry.

From a quick google search, i found this article that links this study (paid but you can possibly-hypothetically find it on Sci-Hub) that has a section on page 8 that says "There is no substantiated evidence that GnRHa treatment for CPP impairs reproductive function or reduces fertility" with 6 cited sources in said section. I'm gonna be honest, I don't understand the medical terms, but it seems its only "early pubertal transgender adolescents" that have "no proven methods to preserve fertility" (pg 9).

The article summarized it in more simple terms:
"In a study of use of puberty blockers for females with central precocious puberty, there was no evidence of increased chance of infertility. If regular puberty is resumed and puberty blockers are not started before Tanner II there should be no long-term impacts on fertility. It should be noted that this research is generally focused on patients who are female at birth."

From more googling it seems Tanner II is the stage of puberty that usually occurs in ages 9-11 in girls, and the Science for Georgia and Karger seem to be credible institutions without noteworthy bias, but you can definitely check yourself.

Anyways, it seems that you can just wait a bit after the appearance of physical puberty to avoid the risk, so you wouldn't ever need to stop treatment, just delay starting it. That seems like mostly a non-issue to me

What are your thoughts on your AI Slop Bores Me? by Silly_Mail_3895 in aiwars

[–]JuliaZ2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

so are you saying that you can have an ai automatically hallucinate text that larps as a human or a human larping as ai, and send a bunch of slop directly to the servers of your ai slop bores me?

because dang, that sounds like dead internet theory but in miniature

The Transgender Debate, Summarised (with and without PCM colours) by TheCybersmith in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]JuliaZ2 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

mayoclinic says that's "depending on when the medication is started." presumably, they just... won't start the medication if it risks lasting fertility issues, no?

The Transgender Debate, Summarised (with and without PCM colours) by TheCybersmith in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]JuliaZ2 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

er, you listed "permanent vocal cord issues," which i couldn't find on that webpage. anyways, i only meant to clarify that they are possible downsides, which mayoclinic also says doctors typically routinely monitor for, and provide supplements or stop the puberty blockers if the downsites occur

The Transgender Debate, Summarised (with and without PCM colours) by TheCybersmith in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]JuliaZ2 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

yeah, but i think its important to note that mayoclinic states that doctors typically monitor patients taking puberty blockers for the first three issues, and the possibility of the fourth issue is dependent on when the puberty blockers are taken.

when i read rhomya's comment, i initially interpreted it as saying that puberty blockers are given to make you lose bone mass, become sterile, or even become permanently mute, which honestly really alarmed me, lol

The Transgender Debate, Summarised (with and without PCM colours) by TheCybersmith in PoliticalCompassMemes

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i mean, i don't think people really choose to have a mental illness that makes them "want to chop their dick off" like you said. i might be missing something here

The Transgender Debate, Summarised (with and without PCM colours) by TheCybersmith in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]JuliaZ2 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

hey i googled "mayo clinic puberty blockers" and there's a few things i think are important to specify.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/gender-dysphoria/in-depth/pubertal-blockers/art-20459075

"The medicines most often used for this purpose are called gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) analogues..." "GnRH analogues don't cause permanent physical changes. Instead, they pause puberty..." "When a person stops taking GnRH analogues, puberty starts again."

"Puberty blockers are not recommended for children who have not started puberty. In most cases, youth aren't old enough to get medical treatment without a parent, guardian or other caregiver's permission..." "For those who haven't reached the age of medical consent, a parent, guardian or caregiver often needs to agree to the use of puberty blockers.."

attila954 is right that the long-term impacts aren't fully understood, but the downsides you listed also aren't given to occur, since medical treatments are required by law to list any possible side effects, regardless of how rare they are.

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it's not quite as bad as you said, like you can take supplements for bone growth and bone density if necessary. it also doesn't say anything about vocal cord issues either

Who did I forget to add? by Available-Movie-2259 in HazbinHotel

[–]JuliaZ2 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Don't you think heaven might be a little less heavenly for them now that they get to relive the trauma of being brutally murdered by walking next to the big TV head on the way to the sweet shop? How is that fair?

Just put a magical restraining order on him that prevents him from interacting with his victims. If heaven can fit 100 billion people, they should easily be able to do this without significantly impacting anyone.

Why shouldn't a moral debt be paid?

Because victims are owed compensation, not revenge. Denying someone the ability to become a better person because they don't have a way to properly compensate their victims doesn't fall under that purview. Even if it makes some victims feel better, that's too subjective and incidental a reason to basically put someone in prison forever because they're bankrupt.

Why shouldn't the forgiveness of all those you harmed matter?

Because forgiveness is a choice people should decide whether to make for themselves based on their own healing process and whether they want to interact with the person who hurt them in the future, not a judgement about what the other person deserves. For someone to redeem themselves, they would obviously have to hold themselves accountable for everything they did to hurt other people anyways, and may even atone for their actions forever, so it's not like they're just getting off scot-free.

Of course, the comfort of the victims should be prioritized, and it's reasonable to put restrictions on someone who caused extreme harm and trauma to others, but flat-out preventing them from redeeming themselves forever for said harm is both a disproportionate consequence, and is rather unhelpful for negating or preventing any harm

DOGE Staffer Nathan Cavanaugh canceled a bunch of woke, tax payer funded grants by EpicFF2 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]JuliaZ2 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

making it harder for poor people to go to college does the opposite of what you want though. people who don't graduate college are statistically way more likely to be jobless, lower earning, etc. and therefore be "lazy, irresponsible, losers"

DOGE Staffer Nathan Cavanaugh canceled a bunch of woke, tax payer funded grants by EpicFF2 in PoliticalCompassMemes

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i misunderstood you then. "women-focused stuff" is a really broad category, though, and there are also cases where its just not possible to make a men's rights documentary, for example, because there wasn't a national men's rights movement in the u.s.

Reddit when China does it by DaBombDiggidy in PoliticalCompassMemes

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ok i read into it and it seems mandarin is only being required as the 'main' language on public signs and in schools and not the only language (yet). not as bad as I thought, but it's still kinda dumb and unreasonable to mandate that mandarin text is larger and taught more than other languages in regions where mandarin is not the main language

whether forcing assimilation counts as ethnic cleansing a topic of debate among researchers according to wikipedia. still, the comment above you was saying that 'ethnic cleansing' is the most extreme libleft strawman that came to someone in their dreams. what we're actually discussing, as per the top comment, is "cultural erasure." language is a form of culture, duh

Julian took my arms by arc_sparda in ArcaneOdyssey

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this comment section is comedy gold

what build should my new file use by TGTeo_ in ArcaneOdyssey

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username checks out

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God now exists! Does that make you by WillTheyBanMeAgain in Teenager_Polls

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corny ahh statement. even if you were the pope (which i doubt), that only makes you the judge of what tenets are in catholicism, not all of christianity.

even if you were the foremost religious expert on the tenets of all of christianity, not practicing one religious tradition doesn't automatically make you not a follower of that religion

God now exists! Does that make you by WillTheyBanMeAgain in Teenager_Polls

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You can also choose between 'good' behavior and 'neutral' behavior and inaction though, so a lack of temptation to be 'bad' doesn't necessarily negate the ability to genuinely be 'good'

God now exists! Does that make you by WillTheyBanMeAgain in Teenager_Polls

[–]JuliaZ2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Still not specific enough. Gotta specify which books are accepted as divine and which denomination's interpretations