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[Yoink]

Do you know what a "spiral of silence" is?

By the power of Professor Google, sure. But you're going to need to spell out what it's got to do with this?

Are you serious, OW?

[Helgoland]

Worse-case scenario is the whole thing dragging out for many more years, with no government willing to get off their arse and stop it.
I can't see nuclear weapons being employed by anyone other than the terrorists themselves.

I can't see it being likely in any plausible scenario, but I can see it being likely in possible scenarios

Oh God, I didn't want to say anything before, but you're talking out of your ass so bad that I can smell it all the way across the Atlantic.

[Bohandas]

Tolerance or not, I can't see trans not being in the uncanny valley. The pointless systemized oppression will stop, and people will accept them, but in the same awkwardly polite way that they avoid  drawing attention to someone with extra fingers on their hands or webbed toes or that skin disease that Michael Jackson had

Believe it or not, that's actually incredibly rude.

That is the most polite phrasing I could come up with. I dedicated ten or twenty minutes coming up wih it and I think that's more than a reasonable amount of time to spend figuring out how to say something nicely.

[EnigmaticHat]

Some times it isn't the phrasing that's rude, its the message.

[Cthulhu]

I've suddenly got into operational strategy games.  I'm side by side playing Unity of Command and Gary Grigsby's War in the East.

Why is War in the East easier than Unity of Command?  I've heard UoC is supposed to be a really accessible example of the genre and conversely Grigsby games are the DCS of wargames but I'm finding it easier.  It probably took me two or three hours of experimentation to get a basic grasp of strategy in WitE and execute a sort of successful blitzkrieg (I was a little too slow to complete the mission but I'm betting I'll do it next time I try).  I've been playing UoC since last night and I still have no idea what I'm doing. 

I think I might be getting scales mixed up.  WitE is very very zoomed in and favors kind of large sweeping movements, my first blitzkrieg probably went ten or fifteen hexes in before we encircled, whereas UoC is kind of small.  I'm starting to think I'm trying to push too deep.  I dunno.  It's giving me a headache.  Also the zone of control mechanics are fucking me up.  Since zone of control doesn't extend into your own territory the russians keep squirting guys into my back line and disrupting my supply lines.  In retrospect they're doing what I should be doing, but the way the map is set up it's way easier for them to do it.

Edit:

You're saying trans people are freaks and maybe one day the population at large will be able to ignore their freakishness.  There's no way to sugarcoat that.

[Orange Wizard]

Dunno what happened there.

[Bohandas]

Edit:

You're saying trans people are freaks and maybe one day the population at large will be able to ignore their freakishness.  There's no way to sugarcoat that.

There's nothing wrong with being a freak.

[Eric Blank]

I didn't e an make it 1/3 of the way down the river before flipping and losing my paddle. Got banged up in the river, kinda sore. The intern and I had to haul our equipment up the terraces to the road through the woods. I feel bad for making her miss out on the trip now... I should have just taken the inflatable. v_v

Just generally feeling like crap from loneliness and lack of employment too.

[BlackFlyme]

Saw a man running into a store carrying a small dog. The man was looking for help. He was walking the dog, when a car came up onto the sidewalk, hit the dog, then sped off.

Poor thing.

[Yoink]

Saw a man running into a store carrying a small dog. The man was looking for help. He was walking the dog, when a car came up onto the sidewalk, hit the dog, then sped off.

Poor thing.

That's fucked up.

[Bohandas]

Saw a man running into a store carrying a small dog. The man was looking for help. He was walking the dog, when a car came up onto the sidewalk, hit the dog, then sped off.

Poor thing.

[JBramhall]

Well, I crashed my land cruiser today. may have wrote it off. am lucky though that the other person did not suffer any injuries. It was my fault though.

A fucking disappointing day. to top it off, the girl I like didnt want to talk on the phone about it. only via messenger...

[Tack]

ISIS has fanaticism.
I repeat, we must reform the Templar
Yes, holy Biblically-ignorant warriors willing to attack the Qur'an-ignoring infidels..

You're saying trans people are freaks and maybe one day the population at large will be able to ignore their freakishness.  There's no way to sugarcoat that.

There's nothing wrong with being a freak.

Agreed... on the 'nothing wrong with it' point, not quite so much on the language. But gender dysphoria is a mental condition.
So saying that 'They'll one day be regarded with the awkward acceptance such as you'd use for the many-fingered' is wrong.
If you're using that same analogy, they'd be regarded with the awkward acceptance such as you'd use for those with depression or bi-polar.

In which case, for 75% of them, you'd never know, for the 15% who let you into their confidence and tell you, you'd react accordingly, and there's the 2% who scream it from the rooftops in order to try and get a free cookie.
The other 8% is for all of the gaps on that specific bell curve.

[itisnotlogical]

Blender finally has support for AMD GPUs, yay!... My card is not one of those currently supported. Aww.

[hops]

Hey, if I was allowed to kill myself for having the wrong sexuality, I would have done it.