Yes… but I’m probably not going to last long, as there’s already a pretty huge bias here…
I have not received a wonderful welcome here with my lack of political affiliation, and your comment speaks directly to it.
I’m much less inclined to forums with a Republican bias though, so I’m here, and hopeful. If you want the wishy washy motherfuckers that flip flop their votes and basically decide elections these days to hear your side and not theirs, maybe you could be slightly less intolerant…
I don’t believe this is going to be the case currently… the trend towards conservative was a fiscal phenomenon, as young kids who didn’t have a lot of money and wanted a welfare state grew up and became financially independent, they wanted to keep what they were working to get. This would cause a self centric migration from trending democrat to trending republican.
That isn’t how the partisan tribes currently work… They’ve become more of a “morality” enterprise, on both sides.
The choice is now if you think it’s appropriate to ban huck finn and Tom Sawyer for the n word, or ban homosexual references. It’s a question of do we spend taxes on blacks and the poor, or do we spend it on cluster bombs for Ukraine.
I don’t think people will evolve from one side to the other the way boomers did. I think they’re evolving farther from center, on both sides.
I don’t like book bans period. I don’t like the budget growing exponentially period. I don’t like that 99% of the population increasingly wants the other half to be completely discounted… I’m essentially evolving towards not liking anybody at all.
I don’t think “liberals” are going to become more “conservative” as they age, because that scale is divorced from party politics. Liberal is no longer a democrat trait, and conservative isn’t purely republican. Both have adopted the entire con/lib scale in their own way. Democrats have conservative values, republicans have liberal values (the latter to a far greater degree, but I don’t think it matters tbh). Just depends on what issue you’re talking about.
The overarching societal rule of “don’t be a dumb shit asshole”?
I know people discount that as being viable these days, but like 99.99% of the population abides…
Twelve?
I’d probably go with almost exactly the way you typed it… “This avatar is from a pornographic game with furries”
A twelve year old definitely knows the word pornographic unless someone has been very helicopterish with their screen time, and if she has a chat program, she should know enough to recognize predatoryish chat on her own anyway at 12 (that’s just my opinion though). Maybe replace “porn” with “adult”, maybe replace “furries” with something else.
Discussion with her parents first is warranted if that’s a thing.
Be prepared to hear that she knew it was a furry thing too… Probably not super likely, but she might have known what she was doing. My 2nd child told me at 10 years old that she was lesbian. She didn’t fully understand the entirety of what she was saying, but she wasn’t wrong, all her early crushes were girls and it wasn’t “a phase” or anything. Assuming the amount of what they know can put you off your game real quick :) intelligence, curiosity, research ability all vary wildly from one kid to another.
Ugh… I won’t wear long anything to run in. I’ve always gone shorts and T-shirt, even in sub zero temps :)
The best clothing for a hotter environment is a tad counterintuitive, because it’s less comfortable in the short term… you want full sleeves, full pants or a long skirt/kilt/toga/whatever (I’m reasonably certain that if heat waves continue cranking it up, these are going to become a unisex thing, whatever we’re gonna call them…). You want everything loose so there’s room for evaporation to happen (it’s your body’s natural swamp cooler), you want large openings everywhere so the air can ventilate, and you want lighter colors that reflect. You’ll also want to cover your head, preferably withsomething wide (and/or includes the little neck covering flap deal) that creates a lot of shade, but it’s currently more common in deserts to see less shade producing scarves/wraps.
You’ll feel hotter in the immediate, and overdressed, but you’ll overall be absorbing less energy from direct sunlight, and that means a more stable amount of body heat overall, and less risk of things like cancer.
I wear loose t-shirts, jeans, and a wide boonie/fishing hat. Less overall clothing is better, but more coverage is also better. Gotta find that balance is all.
TL:DR, the clothes most people associate with the Middle East… clothes that are worn by people who’ve dealt with a hotter climate for millennia. The white robe looking getup is what’s gonna work best in a hotter climate.
Dude… My mom had a shit-vette… I was driving that fucking thing to the store one day and the clutch and brake pedals both dropped to the floorboard with a thunk…
It was definitely a Chitvreolet ;)
Bullshit… We had yugos, le car, citations, chevettes… People bought that garbage when we had it to buy, but they’ve figured out that a car that falls apart faster than you can pay it off isn’t really a great idea. Paying half the new cost for a vehicle after 40k miles is a much better way to go.
Actual answer? Who knows…
MY answer, because instance operator/server can establish whatever rules they want, and aren’t beholden to a CEO, shareholders, or any other entity that might want to put 50 ads on your feed for every post…
Because it’s open source and the community apparently wants it to stay that way.
Ya know… that’s not a bad point actually :)
Ill ponder that one. Definitely going to alter my perspective on Ukraine a little, but I’m not entirely sure how just off the cuff.