I mean he’s not wrong about the former, but he can fuck off about the latter.

Suggestions for maximum chaos and discord:

• Split the Nordic peninsula into 3 countries, but borders run east-west. People in former Finland have to go through another country to get around the Gulf of Bothnia / Baltic Sea.
• Expand borders of Germany, you know, just so they can have some Lebensraum. There won’t be any issues with that surely.
• Balkan superstate. Make sure everyone has a voice in its vibrant democracy, but gerrymander the hell out of it.
• Merge southern France, Spain and Italy so the merged country can have maximum Mediterranean beachfront. Just think of the tourism revenues!
• Leave Northern Ireland exactly as it is.

Anki is great for flashcards with lots of community generated decks for free download:

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Respectfully disagree. The entire reason ethical research standards exist is to prevent new Milton or Tuskeegee experiments from ever occurring again.

Regarding behavioral change, there is no measureable way to determine if the participants came to any harm or not because they were never properly informed. See the problem?

As for astroturfing and mass surveillance, it doesn’t matter that “everyone else is already doing it.”. Research needs to be held to a higher standard. None of those people filled out an informed consent form or agreed to be part of the study. The vast amount of astroturfing and data collection is itself a questionable ethical issue that private companies have exempted themselves from, but research cannot.

People came to real harm due to Stanley Milgram’s and the Tuskeegee experiments, and people may or may not come to harm because of this but there’s no way to tell because no one even knew. In the 21st century on the Internet, it’s not OK to discard the standard of ethics because technology allows. By ignoring ethical research standards, they are going down the slippery slope and inviting some new harm, as yet unknown.

Standards for ethical research have been established over many years of social and psychological research.

Two key concepts are “informed consent,” and respect for enrolled and potential research subjects.

Informed consent means that the researchers inform people they are part of a study, what the parameters of the study are, and how the research will be used.

This “study” did nothing to attain informed consent. They profiled people based on their user data, and unleashed chat bots on them without their knowledge or consent. The lack of respect for people as subjects of social research is astounding.

Reddit and the University of Zurich should be sued in a class action lawsuit for this stunt.

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Johhny Silverhand tried and look where that got him.

• Japan.
• JPY 980 per month.
• Plan includes up to 3GB per month 4g/5g data, and when going over 3GB, the data cap increases to 20GB for an additional JPY 1000. Unlimited voice and text, global roaming to 90 countries included.

Still don’t get bars inside some big buildings though :p

Feels like pressure.

At times it’s just a barely noticeable background level of weight, like sure I can handle this, no big deal. At other times, it feels like a crushing weight, painful, can barely even sleep, and all I can do is seek some kind of gender affirming euphoria to feel some relief.

Tonight is one of the latter, after feeling like I clothed myself in lies and had to perform all day, the pressure is unbearable. Looking forward to an evening of painting nails, makeup and spinny skirt.

It’s a built in, central facet:

This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries Of Financial Folly

Said Hera, Athena and Aphrodite, trying to get that golden apple.

Would highly recommend joining a community garden to anyone. I was a total beginner, paid 30 bucks for my yearly plot. There were always people who were willing to give advice, water the plot while I was away, or people even gifted transplants of new veggies I’d never tried. Learned so much from experienced gardeners, got free mulch and fertilizer and there was even a community barbecue. 11/10 experience.

"The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.”

–Socrates

Ask your endo about adding progesterone.

I’ve been struggling with the same kind of themes and wanted to share my experience.

Dreams have been bittersweet. On one hand dreams feel light as air and carefree to see myself as femme. On the other hand waking up puts me in a bad dysphoric mood the whole day.

Not woman enough. I’ve been taking a guerrilla war approach to this one because trying to do it all at once is overwhelming, and the key has been celebrating small victories. Laser hair removal takes time, but every little bit is an incremental victory. My nail painting skills are still trash, but as a result of getting some proper tools and cuticle oil I’m taking better care of them they are stronger and healthier. This theme also reminds me of the pressure others put on us to “prove it,” and that we put on ourselves to conform to some type of gender ideal. See The Null HypotheCis for more.

Too late. Yes it would have been nice to figure this out years ago. But wouldn’t it be better to live authentically, given that Now is all we have?

And… I love your username. Toughest Starfleet captain, model main character, and a picture of femininity.

Same. Joined at the Digg migration. Left at the 3rd party App-ocolypse. Reddit is dead. Or perhaps it’s more accurate to say that it’s a zombie: with more bots than actual human users, it’s the Dead Internet Theory in action.

All my screenshots are memes. Where is Google going to send me on vacation?

I’m more impressed that they can use a gamepad for CLI input.

You’re suggesting I should follow the yellow brick road to find the Wizard of iOT?

Bricking hardware is a form of enrichment for me.