EldritchFeminity

Counterpoint

This planet is unprocessed, and I will be the one to refine it. The Factory Must Grow.

Yeah, this one feels more like, "I can't believe they hurt us like this. And by us, I mean me."

There's been enough that "Do you play War Thunder" is a security risk question that the US military asks during job interviews.

And they just keep happening...

They could've negotiated to try to prevent some of the damage for their vote for the bill. Would it have done anything? Doubtful, but it would have at least shown that the Dems are willing to try something before rolling over to take it in the ass.

I mean, have you seen what we wear in the US? American flags are on basically every house and half of the shirts, hats, and pants.

I've been going through the pictures on my phone recently and found the perfect one from COVID:

The cars make it more realistic, anyway.

An article from just after Jan 6th happened. My phone says I saved it on Jan 8th, 2021, so it was literally a day or two after.

Check his shirt. He's clearly a big Blizzard fan.

As somebody with a bit of learning on the matter (it's amazing the hats you have to wear to prove you deserve to live - from anthropologist to biologist to archeologist), it's interesting to see how the language of the community has evolved as our scientific understanding of sex vs gender has.

The term started as transsexual, and there are older people who refer to themselves by that term, but by the 2000s the term had shifted in favor of transgender, noting the recognition that sex doesn't equate to gender that happened around that time.

Then came the use of cis as well as AMAB and AFAB (assigned male/female at birth) in order to better describe the complexity involved around the fact that a doctor has to declare you one gender or another when you're born, and the easiest way to do that with the highest likelihood of being correct is based on sexual characteristics - namely, what genitalia you have. So cis is used to describe people who have no reason to disagree with the doctor's assessment, and there's a lot of discussion around where intersex people fall in the community (do they fit in the trans umbrella term?).

People like Dunning-Kruger up there are basically arguing that isotopes don't exist.

My understanding is that historically, the vote has been almost 50/50, but that there have been issues with the question that have thrown up doubts about the validity of the referendum conclusions. Stuff like giving the options of statehood or territory, but not independence, etc. Even the one you linked says that only around half of the population responded and over 200,000 ballots were thrown out for either being blank or invalid.

I had thought that a significant portion of the population had been in favor of independence, especially since we came in and basically destroyed their economy. They had been one of the largest manufacturers of pharmaceuticals in the world before the US, and now I think their biggest industry is tourism, which, as someone who has lived in a tourist town for decades, is not conducive to a healthy economy.

I agree, and that's one of the reasons that I'm interested in how they compare now, as those graphs were made before Biden's term and it would be insightful to see the comparison between Biden post COVID, Trump, and the others listed.