Oh that's that new "x"?! Tell me about it?!

Be excited people are joining your hobbies. Without people hobbies die.

The best we can hope for is for them to not increase as fast as they have

That's what inflation going down means. Inflation is the rate in which prices increase. Saying "inflation going down" means that the rate prices increase is not as much. "Inflation going down" still means prices are increasing. People are confusing "inflation going down" with deflation, which means prices are decreasing.

Skibidi - from a YouTube series made in source engine. Means "bad"

Sigma - alpha as in alpha male. Beta as in beta male. Sigma is a 3rd which means you follow neither alpha or beta but go your own way.

Rizz- short for "charisma"

Mewing - an act of contracting tongue /neck muscles to make your under chin area contract changing the shape of your jawline.

Gyatt - "god damn" - a big old butt.

Bet - "wanna bet?" Aka "yes"

Bussin - "busting" really good

Ohio - bad or mid "from Ohio"

Let him cook - let him do his thing. He's got this.

Baddie - hottie. Sexy.

It's the _ for me - pointing out the specific thing you enjoyed.

This is exactly how I felt. There is always a response that "it's intentional. Unreliable narrator...blah blah blah." Which doesn't make it better. It's that "jokes on them I was only pretending" meme, but in literary form.

This is a private individual who is suing valve for her own personal gain. This isn't a government or a class action. If they win valve gives this one lady half a billion dollars. Sounds bullshit to me.

The Honey pot conspiracy is fake. But Hillary Clinton did use her influence to prop up Trump early in the election thinking that he would be the easiest candidate to face. And I can see reddit being a part of that plan.

Yes the paper is examples of both, I specifically choose it so you couldn't claim it was biased.

You think the people second-wave feminists had to fight against for equality sat around arguing, "Well, the first wave feminist made great strides but these new ones just want to ruin men"?

You can keep pushing the goal posts. First it's all feminism and now it's "oh okay just the new ones". All feminists want equality. 2nd wave, 3rd wave, and the current 4th wave.

Being a man who has had to do the inner work to break through my own toxicity I understand that feeling that comes with being surrounded by feminist anger. It seems isolating because men have issues too. Men hurt. We suffer the most homelessness. We suffer from the most suicide rates. Male disposability is a huge problem that often gets overlooked. But shitting on feminism isn't the answer. A marginalized group struggling for equality isn't your enemy. The patriarchy is the reason for all those problems. Infact, after digging through my own shit and starting to understand other people's plights has just made me feel closer to everyone and made me realize the isolating feeling wasn't coming from feminism but from my own views. If you want to discuss feminism further I'll gladly in private, but I think I'm done with the back and forth on here. Take care, friend.

I'm sorry one Google search didn't bring up populist topics you where looking for. Just because family law isn't on the forefront of the general feminist agenda doesn't mean there isn't attempts at reform or, has been in the past. It's very obvious your entire concept of feminism is rooted in ignorance at best, a misinformation at worse.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3194962

Here's a paper explaining how feminism has changed family. Giving many modern (1960 onward)examples.

1. Removed the ban on contraceptives.Allowing the individual to determine their reproductive rights. Both man and women.
2. Made it so alimony wasn't just from husband paying wife but could be from wife to pay husband.
3. Made it unconstitutional to to discriminate against children born outside of marriage. Affects men and women.
4. No-fault divorce. Allowing people to actually get divorced. Both men and women.
5. Created laws for restraining orders, and classified marital rape.
6. Increases recognition of informal relationships (not legally married).
7. Created a legal separation between sex and procreation which laid the ground work for same sex relationships. Helps men and women.
8. Helped remove gender based roles described in family law which redefined legal marriage. Helps men and women.

"I don't know off the top of my head of any feminist court reform attempts so obviously there are none."

Get over yourself

Feminism when women have issues in society: "Men, you must fix this! Or else you are an evil person!"

Feminism isn't women asking men to fix their problems. It's asking men to simply treat them the same so they can fix their own problems. And it's not even fully just men, but the patriarchy which if you don't know the difference then you need to figure that out before you start making broad sweeping generalizations of feminism.

Feminism when men have issues in society: "Ew, sort your own shit out, loser males

Except feminism is also about fixing male problems. Every single problem men face would be fixed if we got equal rights. For example one of those most prevelant problems that men face is discrimination in family court. Men almost always get screwed when it comes to parental rights. This stems from the old patriarchal view that men should be working and women taking care of the children. When divorce was first legalized courts gave the women custody of the children so men could be free to be men with out the burden of children. Now, men have grown and are starting to realize they want to be fathers. They want families. But due to old patriarchal ideals and ingrained 'traditions', often not even conscious decisions, men get screwed when it comes to parenting rights.

This reaches across all feminist ideals. Men just dont want to hear it.

I'm fully pro-abortion, pro reproductive rights, pro trans rights. I don't know where you felt I implied otherwise. Ill gladly clear it up if possible.

Role models

Boys traditionally are taught from a very young age that uncompromising, and 'unfeeling' toxic males are what we need to look up to. So that's what they gravitate towards. It's a whole other discussion about unburdening and unpacking toxic views in men that is the core issue actually at play.

Disproportional push in favor of girls and to the detriment of boys is also to blame.

Women pushing for equal rights isn't to blame for men not unpacking their own toxic baggage. If no one is standing up for boys look at the men. It's not girls' fault that no one is trying to reachout to troubled boys. The ones who are reaching out are toxic gross assholes like Tate or Rogan who are using these boys as a means to line their bank accounts.

Doesn't look like it's gonna fix itself anytime soon though.

Social inequality is never going to fix itself. There isn't a single issue in the world that is going to just fix itself.

50% of what Thanos considers life since it was powered by his will. Since he seemed to imply that nature (plants and animals) where not part of this it's safe to assume it was sapient life only.

It's an allegory for the civil rights movement with prof. X as MLK Jr and Magneto as Malcolm X. In proper allegorical fashion this means it can be representative for any form of civil resistance by a repressed class, including the fight for gay rights.

Random internet guy called it. Pack it up boys we're going home.

https://www.meche.engineering.cmu.edu/_files/images/research-groups/whitefoot-group/WS-FootprintFuelEconomy-EP.pdf?shem=sswnst

https://me.engin.umich.edu/news-events/news/cafe-standards-could-mean-bigger-cars-not-smaller-ones/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_average_fuel_economy

https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2012/10/how-cafe-killed-compact-trucks-and-station-wagons/?shem=sswnst

https://www.transportpolicy.net/standard/us-light-duty-fuel-economy-and-ghg/

The footprint-based system means that selling more small vehicles does not necessarily help manufacturers meet the standards. Smaller vehicles are subject to more stringent requirements, such that a manufacturer of smaller vehicles has a lower CO2 standard while a manufacturer of larger vehicles has a higher CO2 standard. Footprint systems encourage improvements in efficiency, regardless of vehicles size, and have relatively little impact on vehicle size mix. Unlike a weight-based standard, a footprint-based standard encourages use of lightweight materials while maintaining the vehicle size, without subjecting the manufacturers to a higher CO2 requirement.

Because car companies send lobbyists to Congress and pay to influence bills.

There is a law in the US that says trucks must meet a certain Miles per gallon fuel economy. But there is a loop hole that says trucks over a certain size are not included in that law. So as long as the trucks are ridiculously big they don't need to worry about their fuel economy.

Edit: it's the CAFE law.

When I was a kid I used to walk to the movie store to rent games. I would go back every time I had money and rent Chrono Trigger, but some one would always erase my save, so I would have to start over.

On my birthday I got a check from my grandma that was for 50 dollars. I walked right up to the game store and slammed my check on the counter for one copy of Chrono Trigger. I didn't know how money, checks, or sales tax worked.

Luckily, my mom bailed me out. I played that game for years. I still have such fond memories of that game.

The guy you are arguing with is an idiot trying to make you angry to "win" because you said to not get angry. Just ignore the troll.

Are you okay?

She never did it unguided. And the way the therapist did it was different than what I've seen online. She would lay down and the therapist had her hold two paddles. One in each hand. The paddles would vibrate or lightly shock her, alternating between left and right. She did this while she was reliving old traumatic moments from her childhood. It was supposed to help process the information differently or something along those lines.

For my wife it was mainly a good therapist she saw weekly. I think what helped her improve that most was a form of radical acceptance .

• Intrusive thoughts don't define me
• Intrusive thoughts do not last forever
• I'm not alone

Or something like:

• I am not my thoughts. They are not my authentic self.
• I am just an observer of my thoughts. I simply watch as they pass through.

Often the reaction to the thoughts is what gives intrusive thoughts power. Accepting the thoughts for what they are takes the power from them. This is hard since often intrusive thoughts are ingrained into your most moral values, so to take that power is difficult.

One thing she had me do at the start of her therapy was to ask her a question when ever she had an intrusive thought: what if? What if you killed that person? What if you said that racial slur? For her it would be the end of the world, bringing it into reality would often ground the thoughts. For the driving example, "What if I hit a child?"

Well, then there would be a loud thump. We would get out and check on the child. We would call for help while we did what we could. We would probably go to the hospital. The cops would try and determine if it was accidental or not. You might be in jail. You might not. That is out of our hands.

Just follow the thoughts to the logical conclusion. That aspect of her work stopped shortly after we started, though.

She also did some trauma therapy. OCD can be rooted in childhood trauma. My wife had a sister with bi-polar, and owho ften got violent. Her parents wouldn't speak to the kids about it. So my wife's childhood was filled with this constant unacknowledged stress and tension, because she knew something was wrong but everyone pretended it was all okay. Coupled with her autistic hyper empathy, this sent her into a anxiety driven downward spiral.

Another thing she said that helped was EMDR. It's sort of a pseudoscience but my wife swears it helped a ton. So, anicdotal but worth a shot.

Anyways, thats all I can think of. I would recommend trying to find a therapist who specializes in neurodivergent people and go from there.

My wife has severe OCD. She has gotten to the point she has basically 0 symptoms now. Where before she couldn't drive or leave the house. Here is what I've learned through our journey.

• The repetitive actions are often caused by intrusive thoughts. My wife's stemmed from actions that were tied to her morality, and her memory. Such as, she would drive around the block 5 times because she would have this thought, "What if you ran over a kid but you don't remember it?" Which was the worse thing she could have done.
• 90% percent of people with OCD are also neurodivergent, namely autistic. My wife wasn't diagnosed with Autism until after her OCD diagnosis.

Watched this with some friends while nursing a horrible hangover. It was awful but there are some "so bad it's good" moments litered throughout.

The Crippled God from Mazalan Book of the Fallen. I should probably spoiler this. And trigger warning.

::: spoiler spoiler The High King Kallor once ruled an empire. And he did so with a cold hard iron fist. Some Elder Gods decided that he was to be dethroned, and set off to confront the High King. Kallor had gotten wind of this before the confrontation and so had all his mages begin a ritual. One that would summon an alien force from beyond the known universe. They were successful and pulled an entity of such power that it destroyed Kallor's entire empire. As the Gods approached the High Kings throne they found him there, emporer of only ash.

The power Kallor summoned was so alien and anthemic to the universe it needed to be destroyed. But they found it couldn't be done. So instead they crippled and chained the power. This power came to be know as the Crippled God.

It's hard to pinpoint exactly the cruelty that the Crippled God did himself. See, the crippled god worked in the shadows from his tent on the beach. He lifted others up to enact his broken visions. Granted them slivers of his alien power, and whispered promises of power or revenge into their ears. One such figure was the Pannion Seer.

The Seer was a holy figure who led an massive army, the Pannion Domin, on a crusade against the world. This was a holy war and such his followers where blindly devoted. His most devoted where called Tenescowri. The Tenescowri where purposely starved. Given no rations, no water, no food. They had to subsist on what they were able to find. And what is the most common thing found after a battle? Dead bodies. The Tenescowri was an army of forced cannibalism.

It gets a bit darker. The most powerful of the Tenescowri where the Children of the Dead Seed. During battle the fervent women would take dying men, and force them to copulate. Filling their wombs with the seed of a dead man. These children would grow up to be unholy warriors.

I think it was said the Tenescowri were 100,000 strong led by Anaster the Fist Born of the Dead Seed. :::

Zombies aren't real. And will take on any qualities the writer wants. Some people write zombies as brain eating mindless undead. Others are super fast group thinking infected humans. It's all up to your imagination.

Because Mike Johnson isn't in my district or anywhere near it. But I know my representative's voting history, and that's what matters. Local governance is very important.

It's important because it shows exactly what they stand for in legal writing. Yeah it won't pass but it's still good to note.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_Heselden

Guy who owned the segway company died after rolling backwards off a cliff on one.

It sounds like your partner has autism with a PDA profile. Pathological Demand Avoidance. One way that expresses itself is through using perceived physical inability to avoid doing what they see as a demand. Such as your partner being too tired when having to go to therapy, but not when shopping.

I don't think I have much advice for your current situation beyond reading up on PDA and how to cope with a partner who has those signs. Mostly, I think it's going to have to come from within your partner. Who will have to go to therapy, and work on coping mechanisms for someone with PDA.

If it helps, if you give in to the urge you unlock special powers and stuff.

Who's gonna stop it?

I feel like that is kind of the whole point behind this thing. They get to completely shut down the government while they play up all the internal strife as if it's not manufactured to keep the government from performing it's job.

Possibly. Since every person with a uterus knows what oppression feels like the good ol USA, when their medical privacy and autonomy where stripped from them.

Sounds like OCD.

This seems disingenuous. You don't have to date anyone you don't want, and you don't have to be friends with anyone you don't want. Why did you decide that was the place to draw the line? You do not have to date Bob from accounting for any reason. But you also don't deserve a job along side Bob if you go on talking about how he doesn't deserve a place in our society.

Ones rights doesn't supercede anothers. You can be a Nazi in your own home, but once you start sprewing hate publicly you are infrining the freedoms of others. This is already the law. But people want to change this law, and are using transphobia to do so, in much the same way they use fear of pedophiles to errode your rights.(trans people harm kids, we must ban trans people to protect kids, is the essential arguement.)In essence You claim that if we stop trans-hate speech, we are losing our rights, but in reality those who are sprewing trans-hate are actively trying to remove your rights and just using transphobia as a means to an end.

Hate speech is always about removing freedoms and rights. Either through violence or legislation. If you want to talk about lines drawn: should we stop Bob from screaming "gas the Jews" in his own home? What about outside a synagogue? What about on the Senate floor? Which of these seems more of an infringement of a Jewish person's rights?

Literally no.

If that logic holds true than pure American pitbull terriers should actually be the safest dogs to own in regards to people. Pitbulls where bred for dog fighting, but even more specifically they were bred to not bite the handlers. As getting a dog to fight is just a matter of time and selection, but getting a dog to fight only dogs and not people is something much more difficult and valuable, at the time.

But, that was many, many years ago. And the breed has been bred and bred and inbred and bred again. An American pitbull terrier average weight is about 35 to 60 lbs. Average. 35 is no bigger than an average corgi. With 60 at the high end being a small golden or average chow.

These XL bully breeds aren't pitbulls. Hell, even pitbulls now days aren't pitbulls. They are a mix of staffy, mastiff, American bull dogs, English bulldogs, and random other terriers. And then sold as designer breeds like the American bully with no regard for behavior, temperament, or loyalty.