The real problem is if you have a goblin. They can only be killed by technetium. And that doesn’t even occur naturally!

Not exactly a misunderstanding but… my dad (a professor here in the U.S.) had a close friend and colleague, a Spaniard, who would go off to an intensive language summer school thing every year to teach American college students whatever esoteric Spanish literature was his specialty and only spoke Spanish the entire time.

Whenever he got back, he would spontaneously start talking to us in Spanish, suddenly realized we didn’t speak Spanish, then restart again in English. It didn’t embarrass him or anything, but it amused me when he did it.

Until you run out of that fissile material when you could just be using renewable energy…

The fact that I had to come here and see someone post this from a specialist outlet like The Advocate to read about this is just shameful.

I check the news first thing when I get up in the morning and I did not see this story at all. Good luck.

Also, this part should be emphasized to show that it’s not just an issue to trans women:

The group was made up of people of all gender identities, including transgender and cisgender women alike, who displayed a pink banner in front of the women’s bathroom reading “Flush bathroom bigotry,” according to the group.

They wouldn’t pay attention to those either. You’d have to start a big movement to write novels where rich tech bros are super successful but also a robust social safety net and a moneyless, post-scarcity society were a utopian future and they might care. And good luck with that.

I think plenty of us saw that coming.

Tech bros have never read or watched any science fiction ever.

Proof: https://www.theautopian.com/dear-elon-musk-lets-clear-up-a-few-things-about-blade-runner-and-the-cybertruck/

Oh this is nothing. Read up on the streetcars. The country basically removed most of its mass transit light rail because the car companies weren’t selling enough cars.

They didn’t even do it in smart ways. This town just paved over the tracks. Now, 80 years later or whatever it is, the streets are caving in and they have to do all these expensive repairs.

things that are not necessary, for example Ozempic if one doesn’t have diabetes

Weight loss is important if you are obese even if you don’t have diabetes. Especially since it can lead to diabetes.

I wish people didn’t have to turn to a drug to lose weight, but obesity is a (no pun intended) massive problem in the U.S.

One of the big problems in our healthcare system is preventative medicine is not even considered a thing by insurance most of the time.

Well I hope China enjoys all the memes I see on Lemmy that I then text to my wife and/or discussions about the child or the dogs, because that’s the majority of my mobile communications.

Dude, Biden could have literally had Trump assassinated and it would have been up to congress to decide whether or not it was a crime or an official presidential act. Trump’s lawyers successfully argued that very thing in front of the Supreme Court.

This is a slap on the wrist in comparison.

We’ve already essentially perfected it. It’s even being scaled up now. The question is whether or not (at least in the U.S.) it will be legal. It already is not in Florida and possibly other states.

The question really is if 597 million eggs went missing first.

FDR also was from the 1%, so he knew how to talk to his fellows.

Clearly people who don’t have jobs don’t need to eat or see a doctor. That’s just a myth.

Surely a potential pandemic pathogen. This is still an epidemic, isn’t it?

It will be Dogecoin so that Elon can do more pump and dumps of it.

Oh good, we’ve reached the “make shit up” stage.

It is unclear where the name Hunter deButts even came from.

It was me. I was quite the hunter of de butts in my youth.

Correct. I decided not to report you for trolling. Should I have?