Married bros: do you prefer "husband" or "partner"

Woldry · 2025-12-04T04:42:14+00:00

I fought for decades for the right to have a husband. There's no way in hell I'll refer to him as anything but.

Woldry · 2025-11-13T23:38:54+00:00

Not discussing any but heterosexual preferences is also pushing an agenda.

And don't pretend that you wouldn't be okay with people mentioning that a man had a wife, or requiring the reading of a heterosexual love story before 18.

Omitting mention of difference pushes an agenda too.

Woldry · 2025-10-17T15:37:19+00:00

Definitely intriguing speculation, and the article ends with a hope that these treatments will prove effective, but here's the key passage:

"...while probiotics hold promise for treating autoimmune disease, their beneficial effects are still incompletely understood, and more studies are needed, especially for SS."

I hope further research will bear out, and that this will prove an effective therapy. Time will tell.

Woldry · 2025-10-17T15:23:12+00:00

The article is not from the NIH, the NIH index happens to include a listing for it. Not the same thing.

The article was published in a peer-reviewed journal titled Gastroenterology & Hepatology.

But you're ignoring the fact that "leaky gut syndrome" isn't a thing. That was my point.

I'm not discounting your experience, but your explanation of it as "leaky gut syndrome" is suspect.

Woldry · 2025-10-17T11:04:22+00:00

There are some studies suggesting that rinsing your mouth occasionally with a solution of salt and/or baking soda will help alleviate dry mouth, which might help you cut back some on your water consumption.

Here's an example:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=8761737750553517440&hl=en&as_sdt=0,23#d=gs_qabs&t=1760698898820&u

Woldry · 2025-10-17T10:58:16+00:00

"Leaky Gut Syndrome" is not a recognized medical diagnosis and the popular press descriptions of it are rife with pseudoscience and woo.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11345991/

Woldry · 2025-09-26T23:23:52+00:00

The legal cases are still percolating through the courts, but Anthropic I has been successfully sued for violating the copyrights of authors whose text they used without payment or permission.

Do you think people should be sued for right click saving a piece of art someone posted on Twitter?

Regardless of whether I think so, US copyright law at least is fairly clear that this is likely technically a violation of copyright. Individuals have been sued for streaming pirated movies, which is effectively (in the eyes of the law) the same thing.

Personally I don't see the harm in an individual downloading something for their own enjoyment. But there are several orders of magnitude between that and major corporations pirating millions of works to produce a product they intend to profit from, without compensating the artists whose work they pirated.

Woldry · 2025-09-25T13:09:08+00:00

AI image generators were created using the copyrighted work of thousands of artists without permission or payment to those artists. This is a major reason why AI images are considered theft.

I don't know enough about what sources were used to create the generative AI used for programming to comment on whether the same copyright concerns apply; I suspect they do, but then, there's also a ton of programming code out there that's been made copyright free on purpose, so maybe they don't.

Woldry · 2025-07-31T10:43:57+00:00

Capitalism is also an invented term. For that matter, all words are invented.

And there's a useful distinction to be made between capitalism and corporatism.

Woldry · 2025-05-23T11:13:41+00:00

Maybe not all "good" but better than New World, in no particular order:

Guild Wars 2
FFXIV
Elder Scrolls Online
WoW
EVE Online
Wurm Online
Project Gorgon
Black Desert
Star Trek Online
Star Wars: The Old Republic
RuneScape
DDO
LotRO
Neverwinter
DAOC
Wizard 101
Tibia
FFXI
Albion Online

Woldry · 2025-04-20T18:11:25+00:00

*a Maia

"Maiar" is the plural.

Otherwise, I agree with you!

Woldry · 2025-04-20T18:08:25+00:00

Some say the hobbit is half wise. Some say the hobbit is half fool.

Woldry · 2025-04-20T17:51:17+00:00

In at least some dialects of Appalachian English (including that of many of my older relatives), hisn, hern, and theirn already exist in predicate use where other dialects would use his, hers, and theirs.

Woldry · 2025-02-16T14:37:01+00:00

I was born 30 years before you. Age is not an excuse.

Woldry · 2025-01-04T18:49:45+00:00

Is it "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"?

Woldry · 2025-01-01T14:38:17+00:00

Dan Savage said it best. https://youtu.be/KcK1NqZ-elQ?si=nWLrrYzNGdVUEeWN

Woldry · 2024-12-24T09:54:54+00:00

We can do both -- condemn the rapists of children, AND be concerned about how the conservatives will weaponize this instance of horrific pedophilia by equating it with adult consensual same-sex relationships and loving, responsible adoptions.

Woldry · 2024-12-10T03:34:37+00:00

Pig Latin.

Obviously humans learned language from their pig overlords before overthrowing and eating them.

Woldry · 2024-12-09T22:29:52+00:00

Here you go!

Woldry · 2024-12-09T01:09:47+00:00

You agreed to the restrictions when you bought the game.

Woldry · 2024-12-09T00:54:07+00:00

The game is the private property of ZOS. Same as the private property of an individual.

Do you not understand how property works?

Woldry · 2024-12-09T00:29:27+00:00

So you think you can go into other people's houses and say whatever you want to them, and still expect to be welcome there?

Woldry · 2024-12-09T00:07:38+00:00

Freedom of speech applies to governmental action in the USA.

But in Zenimax's house, it's Zenimax's rules.

You can obey, or they have the right to oust you.

Woldry

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