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  • She's been pushing for a ceasefire since way before Biden supported it. I think her first calls for it came soon after the conflict started.

  • Noone has to do anything.

    The original tweet essentially said that all women have a mission from God to use their bodies to make babies. At the very least it's a value judgment on how women live their lives.

    There seems to be a sustained campaign against having kids.

    I have never encountered this. There is absolutely a sustained campaign for bodily autonomy, and for the acceptance of people who choose not to reproduce; but I haven't encountered anyone talking like the original tweet, saying women have a mission from God to not have kids or something.

    This is just fighting against the natural way of life.

    Here we go again with imposing judgements on people who don't reproduce. I feel like that's the bigger 'sustained campaign' in this conversation. The natural way of life changes over time, it used to be natural to die young from a bacterial infection, or to have your village sacked by marauders. We don't need to have the same pressures to keep reproduction high as in the past. Populations are still increasing, but people are out here blaming women for not doing it faster? Just take a breath, it's going to be okay.

  • I think they're advocating that women can choose for themselves what kind of person to be, and the fact their bodies are capable of gestating new humans doesn't obligate them to do so.

    It's sort of like how the fact a man's body may be capable of entertaining others by dressing their penis up in a tiny coat and hat doesn't mean we should bully an entire gender into making that the purpose of their existence, nor does it mean we're advocating for a world without sharp dressed dicks.

    Let people live their lives based on who they are, not the abilities of their genitals.

  • Fair enough.

    If you did like using straws you could just swipe some of the salt onto the rim of the straw.

  • Why not just use the straw?

  • To each their own. Personally I can't stand MS Office, I think Google Docs is easier for most nontechnical people these days anyway. For the rare cases when Office is needed, the web version works fine on Linux.

    LibreOffice works great, and WPS Office is proprietary but at least it's free.

    Personally I write my documents in markdown and use pandoc to convert them into PDF or docx or whatever. It's like writing the source code and then compiling, I like it.

    I'm sure you've looked into all that, but for anyone else who is interested in alternatives those are my recommendations.

  • Pfft, proprietary propaganda. How hard is it to let go of every app you're familiar with, learn half a dozen scripting languages, and memorize a hundred different commands in vim?

    What you say is true, though I've become so jaded with Microsoft that I don't think there's any software or situation I'd use Windows for; I'd sooner switch to Mac.

  • What do you have against Linux?

  • It's not an either-or situation. Vote for Kamala and organize for socialism. Voting is super easy, it just takes a little time once every four years.

    I fully believe a socialist revolution will only be made exponentially more difficult under Republican leadership, it wouldn't make anything better, and it would hurt many people I love.

  • A 3.5" cartridge slot with a hard drive reader in it sounds kinda awesome, not gonna lie.

  • She got 60% of young woman voters, but the enthusiasm was much less. Fewer than 20% of democrats said they were enthusiastic to vote for Hillary.

  • Who numbered this, Hideaki Anno?

  • Well we didn't see that enthusiasm for Hillary so I have no idea what you're on about.

    Also, and I wasn't expecting I'd have to say this today, women aren't horses. Additionally, horses are actually pretty egalitarian with their leadership; that's why they're such good allies for humans, they don't mind being led by a person instead of a horse.

    Tl;Dr: every part of your comment is wrong.

  • Also there's no laws being passed to make it illegal.

  • Rail

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  • Hmm. I see the argument, but it seems to be more like an issue with pricing than a flaw with HSR. Once high speed track is in service it should be able to run plenty of trains all around the clock, I can see how it could make low speed rail seem redundant.

    I'd think it would make more sense to keep the low speed tracks and use them for freight, and also make high speed rail cheaper to ride.

  • Anyone else see the back of the chair as the person's hair in the first two panels?

  • Rule

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