I have to agree to disagree.

I often do find myself more likely to talk about gender specific issues when I know that the space I’m in will make an effort to exclude those people who don’t understand that some topics aren’t for them. I have seen, time and again, how any topic focusing on the issues of a specific gender will bring out hordes of people to scream about how this exclusion is somehow evil or wrong just because it excludes them.

Gender specific conversations draw out trolls like nothing else.

Yessss.

My ring is moissanite and it’s got a rainbow flash (instead of the boring diamond one). It cost just over a hundred off etsy and it has no slavery involved! I love it!

Moissanite is the way to go!

Where. Is. Thriller?

But seriously props OP. Type O is a great answer. I’m going to add (other than Michael Jackson) the song When You’re Evil by Voltaire.

What a fantastic, informative comment. Thank you! I learned a lot!

I support your mask theory! Well said!

I’m playing golf?

How unlikely! How fortunate I took so long to play Golf Story!

Wait, is it still homoerotic if Q is a being beyond gender? I have so many questions and zero interest locating the people who can answer them.

Impossible Meat was pretty good until twenty minutes later when I discovered my rare blood disorder makes me deathly allergic to the fake heme they use to synthesize blood. Seemed dead on identical to a Whopper, even the second and third and forth time I tasted it (from all the barfing).

I’ve had maybe two fake beefs that tasted dead on since then, and a bunch of fake chicken. I think since we have come this far in making fake meat, it’s conceivable that there’s a future tech that can craft a meat that doesn’t cause the negatives of meat consumption.

I think it’s also safe to presume that in the ultra future tech advanced society of Star Trek, they can remove the bacteria that causes body odor in humans.

I’m throwing in with the person who said that it might be cultural. Like how some people hate when I sweat garlic. And maybe Vulcans were too polite to tell humans about the unpleasantness of our odor since they logically know they shouldn’t comment on this aspect of culture.

And also they seem to really get off on feeling superior, so why tell humanity there’s something unpleasant about them? Those barbaric humans. I bet it’s their illogical obsession with emotion that makes them smell (since certain emotions do in fact cause hormonal changes that make smells). “It’s a biological side effect of unchecked emotion.”

Of course, if that’s the case, I bet they can smell Pon Farr. And you are welcome if you haven’t had that idea yet, fanfiction smut people. (This is a joke. Y’all are a million steps ahead of me. You can see in my comment history I only this past week realized how homoerotic Q’s obsession with Jean Luc has been all these years.)

Just because it’s replicated doesn’t mean it’s not meat, right?

That would certainly explain the make, though not the pricetag.

I think that this is a question for men. Catch a woman with period poops and I will bet money she never stands.

I haven’t moved to Linux because I work in healthcare and do 12 hour shifts and do not have the time needed to-

1. Wipe anything
2. Reinstall anything
3. Learn new things and finally
4. Use my computer.

The last one is the real pain. I’ll tell ya though, if I ever get to sit at my computer again I’ll learn how to unfuck it and I hope by then there’s some easy to access resources for learning a system!

Not Christian anymore but I grew up extremely Roman Catholic and I can answer this.

My priest preached evolution. The idea here being that the concept of Adam and Eve could very well have been some distant ancestor. After all, there had to be, even in evolution, a “first” man and woman, reaching some unknown criticality in the evolutionary process.

Just like the “earth was created in 7 days” bit, when Christians say, but what is a “day” to God?

I don’t follow it anymore but I thought I could shed some light.

The health care industry is a disaster.

We’ve been poised to lose the ability to care for our adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities because we pay the paraprofessionals who do this very important work so little that I could make more money frying chicken.

People like me who truly care for our most underserved populations (enough to continue working despite the pay, long hours, high physical and emotional demands, and awful benefits) are being forced into burnout because there’s simply no one else.

We are overworked, underpaid, forgotten and often as a consequence of the work subject to emotional and physical abuse.

My boss is out due to a factored kneecap. Her boss is unreachable because the new food stamps restrictions have made her spend every hour trying to secure food for her family (see again; underpaid) a necessary priority.

We are struggling.

I hope these workers strike and their conditions are improved. I will stand in solidarity with them at every step. I often wish my sector has that luxury.

I can tell you (professionally) that the people who saw less anxiety during the pandemic were people with severe anxiety. Statistically.

I can tell you personally it was because we could say, “Something catastrophic finally happened and I’ve been preparing for this my whole life.”

I used to drink a lot of juice of Sappho when I was a younger woman and it never left a stain.

I can’t ask all of them, so I asked one, and he said that he’s no less American because he’s in jail.

So back to my question?

Does your paintbrush extend to the incarcerated black Americans who are victims of the policies observed by the UN, or do you mean a specific subset of Americans when you say these things?

Thanks for pointing it out, too. I almost missed out on an awesome username.

'Tis a silly place.