Why do people keep reading dystopias as instruction books?

Oh, I’m with you. I don’t think anyone using Google VPN was using it because it protected their privacy on the Internet generally. At least I hope not.

Reasonable when the alternative is literally getting mugged on the daily?

L stands for leap year, so that tracks.

Then you have already lost, and are without honor.

Not tipping doesn’t fix this problem, it just makes someone get payed less.

Just in case it wasn’t clear, when one is not tipping, they are very literally not giving people money. The only “people” you are giving money to are the owners of the service, not the wage workers you may otherwise have tipped.

Nothing on Lemmy is posted on basis of “needs to be mentioned”,

Literally everything on Lemmy was said for a reason. Bad reasons exist, but I like to give people the benefit of the doubt.

Tipping causes lower wages because it relieves the employers of the obligation of paying their workers. Also, I am talking about systemic change,

Tipping doesn’t “cause” lower wages. Tipping becoming an expected social norm can cause that, or exacerbate it. But you as an individual choosing not to tip doesn’t really impact that. It certainly doesn’t effect systemic change. If the norm is already present, all you’re doing is literally lowering one individual’s wages by not tipping them, and if it’s not then what you’re doing is making a statement to that individual (ranging from “I come from America” to “you were really exceptional”).

Tipping occasionally doesn’t cause this problem either.

Being vocal about never tipping implies that it’s an exceptional stance for some reason. If that’s the norm where you live, why does it need to be mentioned?

Not tipping doesn’t fix this problem, it just makes someone get payed less. If you want to fix the issue, regulate it out of existence. You aren’t changing the culture, you’re just being a bit of a dick.

I love how you used pharmacist as both a location and a person in the same paragraph, and now I’m picturing them locking the pharmacist in a little cage after someone chases after to catch them when they just walk out.

…AI generated jeans spammers? What did I miss?

Apparently she defended trans people in a conversation, someone complained, and moderators got involved and manually overrode the ai. Paraphrased hearsay.

I mean personally I figure some way that doesn’t exclude anyone who’s had a hysterectomy, but

I mean, only insofar as that’s true of anything illegal?

It’s the only way to be sure!

Game over, man! Game over!

As a religious trans person, it’s deeply insulting how many anti-trans religious authorities say things like “don’t let the world tell you who you are, trust in the voice of God in your own heart” or something, and then go all surprised Pikachu when I’m still trans afterwards.

It definitely smells like that, except maybe just anti-“woke” or anti-minorities instead of just anti-women?

I’m not sure I understand what’s happening here, but I’m looking forward to the five hour hbomberguy video explaining the whole thing in about 8 years.

These words… They cause me… Discomfort.

Trans surgical procedures have some of the best outcomes of any major procedures. they are performed on consenting individuals who are always well informed and at or very near adulthood, and only after many other interventions have been ongoing. People who receive these interventions show incredibly low rates of regret (compare for example the percent of people who regret knee replacements or probably circumcisions), and enjoy increased happiness and satisfaction by almost any metric.

Basically every major medical organization in the world (and certainly in America) agrees these interventions are medically useful and should be performed. While there are doctors who dissent, they are in the vast minority and almost never actually work with any trans people, but rather insist all the doctors who do work with trans people must be wrong. It’s not a controversy in the medical world, just the political one.