That weird compulsion to always be in pursuit of a relationship might be gender dysphoria.

At some point it will happen to you, and you will be sober. And when it does, you will remember this day.

I mean… Was she into it?

Good question. I don’t have a good answer. I just wanted to pause for a moment and reflect on how concisely this question captures the moment we’re living in.

Calling everyone “man”, “bro”, “you guys”

Think of it more like a holiday

I used to feel really sad about having to wear pants all the time. Some might have even called it dysphoric.

One of my acquaintances started a fairly large group text thread recently. Somewhere along the way someone said, “Who’s the android user in here ruining everything?” I never said anything in the thread, so I felt like I was in the corner of a crowded room wearing a disguise about to be exposed.

I was also pretty annoyed. Like, what’s it matter? Texts are for text. Text works fine.

I’d give it a solid 25% probability of being one of those issues where the public is nearly universally in support of it when polled in isolation, but which nonetheless gets gridlocked by partisan shenanigans and fearmongering about the “nanny state”. At least in my town.

Why would the owners of a website want to make it harder to browse their website

Don’t some companies sell “popcorn oil”? What is that made of?

I don’t think it’s an objective metric. Based on my experience, they talk amongst each other at research institutions, conferences, and through journal articles. If someone claims “most experts think x” when in reality most experts do not, then most experts hearing it will probably speak up about how wrong it is, shoot it down during peer review, or publish scathing critiques in response to it.

A “most experts” proclamation that aligns with reality will also cite several prior publications that have also been read and cited widely, which shows the idea has kinda stood the test of time.

Source: I been in the game a while, despite several attempts to escape. I do wonder if other fields have more objective approaches.

I mean if you wanna get into semantics, technically any knife could be called a butter knife once it’s used to spread butter, couldn’t it? But some knives are better at spreading butter than others. So maybe a more precise question would be: What makes a good butter knife? But this isn’t c/precisequestions now is it

As far as how I end up in this situation: sometimes I cut my fruit before I go to butter my toast