Poggervania

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[–] Poggervania@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago

Mostly because it has the best character: a wholesome pro wrestler who helps kids and orphanages. Also only speaks in jaguar and always has his jaguar mask on.

[–] Poggervania@kbin.social 17 points 9 months ago

Not an engineer, but I feel this as an autistic person

[–] Poggervania@kbin.social 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Smh my head, just do it the Canadian way and buy bags of milk

[–] Poggervania@kbin.social 15 points 9 months ago (7 children)

As a cameo? Hell yes, it would probably be hilarious.

As a recurring character? No thanks, let new young actors take the stage.

[–] Poggervania@kbin.social 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

So how long until Cities Skylines 2 becomes the new Crysis for modern hardware?

[–] Poggervania@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago

SKAVEN RIDES BIG-HUGE CHICKEN BIRD-THING, YES-YES!

[–] Poggervania@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Imo, it’s because EVs are dumb, expensive, and so far inefficient due to how many batteries are needed for the cars vs how far they can go on a single charge.

Having less cars on the road in general would do more to cut carbon emissions - EVs should replace fossil-fueled cars, yes, but we should be advocating for more public transit and alternative forms of transit like walking and biking before looking towards replacing regular cars with EVs.

[–] Poggervania@kbin.social -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh sick - I did not know that! That’s really cool actually. Would this be from something like the Smithsonian Museum if I wanted to read up on this kind of stuff?

[–] Poggervania@kbin.social -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (9 children)

Similar to another poster, I break it down like this:

  • Sex is your physical binary biological gender. If you have a penis and testicles that produce sperm, you are a dude; if you have a vagina, ovaries, and a womb to carry a baby, you are a female. No ifs, ands, or buts about this imo.

  • Gender identity is what you identify as. This is where we go he/she/they, and can be completely removed from the biological sex of the person because gender is psychological and belongs to the sense of self. We use “he” and “she” as binary identifiers of male and female species respectively, but with humans it becomes more complex as perhaps a male may identify as a female-gendered person, or a female may identify as a male-gendered person - or both of them identify as a non-gendered person.

  • Gender roles could (and I personally think should) be separated from both biological sex and psychological gender. This is what we, as human society as a whole, determine the division of labor and what activities, habits, and behaviors are acceptable for men and women. In the past when we were still growing as a species, this was actually important since men were needed to hunt down animals due to biologically being more suited to it and women were needed to do other things while the men were out; nowadays, however, this is a dated concept as anybody can earn money and we don’t live in a world where we need to hunt to survive. Women can just as easily put food on the table and enjoy riding motorcycles or chopping down wood just as easily as men could stay at home, clean the house, take care of the kids, and cook meals for the family for when their partner gets home. If anything, I would say that we could consider the “Masculine/Feminine” dichotomy as a sliding scale at best, but what society considers “masculine” or “feminine” changes all the time, so it’s arguably ultimately worthless trying to categorize this.

TL;DR Biological sex, gender identity, and gender role aren’t all mutually inclusive. If I am a man, I am not beholden to the expectations of being a macho man who slams IPAs and lifts weights while talking about cars; on the flip side, if I am a man who identifies as a female, I am also not beholden to obtaining a Blåhaj shark plushie, wearing kneesocks all the time, losing 60 pounds, and becoming a software engineer who only runs Arch or some other Linux distro.

[–] Poggervania@kbin.social 102 points 9 months ago

actively discouraged the COVID vaccine and iirc pushed the horse deworming medicine and bleach

“I was not in line with the acceptable narrative at the time”

Color me shocked she got public backlash when using her fame as a platform to spout anti-vax BS.

[–] Poggervania@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago

I only recently learned that knowledge, so I’ve only started doing this - hence the “personally, I haven’t seen” comment. But I probably just haven’t read enough of their articles to get a feel for their slants if they have any.

So far though, I will say, both AP and Reuters are a hell of a lot more neutral and matter-of-fact in presenting news than any news outlet in recent years.

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