ilyenkov

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[–] ilyenkov@hexbear.net 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I remember hearing about some conflict between Maduro and the PCV, has that all been worked out?

[–] ilyenkov@hexbear.net 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Huh, those do soon sick, but damn that's expensive. I'll have to save towards that

[–] ilyenkov@hexbear.net 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I should do that. I haven't cuz I've heard from others it's really only good for legs and you shouldn't use it on the chest and back and stuff. But it works well for you for that?

[–] ilyenkov@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago (13 children)

I'd been putting off any removal of my body hair because I can't really afford any of the good options (basically I have a razor and an electric razor) and like without doing it I could imagine it being better than I knew it would be.

I've finally shaved everything neck down and it is somewhat better than I hoped. I am so much happier with how I look this way, and it feels better. But also, my skin is so pale and my hair so dark I can like still see all my hair follicles sitting there, which is incredibly depressing. I can't make the hair actually disappear. And now, just one day later, I can feel stubble everywhere. The thought of having to do all that shaving multiple times a week is so depressing.

Hopefully HRT will do something here once I've been on it longer

[–] ilyenkov@hexbear.net 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I've decided that Nietzsche was trans. Sadly HRT wasn't avaliable at the time, and Nietzsche was unable to self overcome gender.

[–] ilyenkov@hexbear.net 20 points 7 months ago (3 children)

jailbreaks" of ISIS soldiers from SDF prisons

Real question: why didn't they just kill them all?

[–] ilyenkov@hexbear.net 4 points 7 months ago

I love it, and have only ever had a good time

[–] ilyenkov@hexbear.net 4 points 7 months ago

This doesn't make a lot of sense to me, tbh.

I am all for recognizing that languages change all the time, etc. But also, isn't the point of laying out categorical schemes like this to provide clarity? And I think clarity calls for us to, when possible, consider etymology, history of usage, etc. because that allows people to more readily understand terminology when they just encounter it in use, rather than getting it from some kinda chart like this.

So, I think it's weird to call bi an umbrella term if the term and the terms supposedly falling under the umbrella are exclusionary. Example: "communist" is an umbrella term. You can call both Marxists and Ancoms communists, because they both fall under the umbrella. I agree that you shouldn't call a pan person bi, but that means pan doesn't fall under any kind of bi umbrella.

Also, pan and omni are synonymous; pan being Greek and omni Latin. I've never heard of this distinction of pan having no gender preference and omni having one - feels made up by this person. BTW, I identify as pan, and have a preference (though I personally wouldn't say it's a gender preference. I know several agender people and I am attracted to some, and not to others, though none of them have a gender, so I don't think gender is really what my preferences are about. And I could go on about this, but that's a whole nother post).

[–] ilyenkov@hexbear.net 28 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Pure cowardice. We have several emojis of flags burning that have a cross on them. So clearly we're okay with burning religious symbols. Are we just afraid of being called antisemites? Zionists are going to call us that anyway.

[–] ilyenkov@hexbear.net 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Lord of the Rings cosplay

[–] ilyenkov@hexbear.net 4 points 7 months ago

I hold up the sphere of fixed stars

[–] ilyenkov@hexbear.net 9 points 7 months ago

If libs had a solid grasp on reality, they wouldn't be libs

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