I’m assuming it’s because of that one time the Proton CEO endorsed or appeared to endorse Trump. If it’s more than that I’m interested in the answer too.

I’m confused about the back and forth about shooters. An audience member said five for transgender shooters (the numerator), then asked Kirk how many mass shooters total (the denominator)?

So the audience member was trying to disagree with Kirk to suggest the transgender shooters are a small proportion?

And the Kirk comes back with the gang violence question to suggest what?

I’m genuinely confused here, no agenda, just literally don’t understand the transcript.

Isn’t the rule of thumb that you can use it for things you can verify? They were able to verify.

Haha this is right in the middle of the spectrum between Comic Sans and Simpsons.

lol I had never seen that trailer but you are so right.

My Mac is supposed to be the safe box too. I keep having to talk myself down from installing Asahi.

Urge to distro hop again…rising…

I think this is a prudent approach and worth following through on, but plenty of intelligent people go bonkers outside of their domains.

Wait did you actually tip it and break it? That’s awesome I want to know this spite story is true.

Thanks so much for your reply!

I know there are lots of different scenarios, but isn’t the meme referring to someone who has undergone phalloplasty, which I assume is most commonly someone assigned female at birth?

I hope I haven’t offended anyone. I’m coming from a place of wanting to learn. I support trans rights.

I laughed so hard at this. Always love getting another take on the absurdity of treating the Bible as immutable knowledge.

I’m convinced of the dark forest hypothesis. Even 200 ly is too big for me.

Stupid question: are we talking about the penis of a transman? Is it actually generally bigger than the average cisman’s? I just assumed the surgery could not achieve that, but I don’t actually know anything about the surgery.

It’s the tweet equivalent of comedic timing.

You pick it up by the twine and apply the ol’ hectoNewton metre.

Is this a righty tax since they are forced to buy a higher minimum quantity?

Ok I accept they’re equally important. We don’t want either to be in short supply. But if your plumber or doctor dies, isn’t it harder to get another member of society motivated and trained to become a doctor?

I actually have heard people espouse that view, but I haven’t gone further than that as it’s usually coming from people who don’t really want to debate animal ethics.

It’s technically related since someone might believe that creating life and avoiding death is more important than any amount of suffering. It makes endorsing factory farming and anti-abortion logically consistent. But it’s a technicality because I don’t think people have really thought that hard about it, ergo I agree with you it’s nonsensical.

I thought their first and even second paragraphs are reasonable. They were not advocating for forced abortions or post birth abortions. I’m not clear on your objection.

Also just generally in this thread, I’m seeing the pro life camp being boiled down to “anti choice”. Sure, that isn’t untrue. To restrict abortion rights is to restrict the choices of women. And to put them at medical risk in some cases, and to potentially bring a child into a world of misery.

But if you’re starting from the premise of “it’s hard to say when life starts, we have to pick an arbitrary point, and I pick conception” then it’s logically consistent to call it murder after that point, and it’s reasonable to weigh the abortive rights of women against the morality of murder in that context.

To be clear, I don’t think life-worth-protecting starts at conception. I’m playing devil’s advocate here. I just wish that us in the pro-choice camp acknowledged the problem as not so simple.