Mid 30s myself. From my experience, in Hexbear at least, we tend to skew millennial and older, though there are a couple zoomer posters. I know there are quite a few Gen-X and Boomers here too.

Bolognese

I recently saw a mini-documentary about the segmented apartments in Hong Kong, and how because now they’re banned, some of them have been made into mini-museums as a kind of walk-through PSA about the horrific conditions people were forced to live in only 20 years ago. As interesting as things like that and the Kowloon Walled City are from a historical point of view, I’m glad that the government turned it into a park and people have better living conditions now.

True, all snails are canonically bigender

I’m more of a fan of Socialist Classicism myself

I did the same thing when I was 2 years old, though just because I could read them didn’t mean that I necessarily comprehended what they meant. I used to get particularly upset by ‘to let’ signs because I thought they were misspelling ‘toilet’. I complained to my mother about it on the way to nursery, and she realised that I could read well enough to notice an ‘incorrect’ spelling.

(Not so) fun fact: The FBI specifically made ‘creative writing’ workshops back in the 1950s and 60s to kneecap media literacy and implant anti-communist propaganda into graduate programs so that those who went on to teaching would instill that same ideology into their students.

How is non-binary “beyond human comprehension”? It’s so simple. You’re not a 0 or a 1? You’re not one of two socially acceptable identities? Then you’re something else. That’s all it means. Non-binary isn’t a singular gender - it’s an out group of people who aren’t the socially acceptable genders. It’s much like how intersex isn’t a sex itself, but rather it’s an out-group of everyone who falls outside of the socially acceptable sexes.

In some cultures, yes, many GNC gay people would be considered part of a ‘third gender’, and this was also the case in a lot of the West before modern separatist movements came into the picture. There’s still an overlap today between he/him lesbians, stone butch, drag kings, and transmasc communities, just like there are overlaps between effeminate she/her gays, drag queens, and transfemme communities.

Also, non-binary people can physically transition through various surgeries and hormones, in addition to social transitioning. It’s often very difficult because much of western society doesn’t recognize their existence, so NB people are often forced to choose between the ‘socially acceptable gender’ of either male or female to live as legally, which can in turn lead to major dysphoria.

Exactly. So you agree that it’s impossible to earn and save a billion dollars just by working hard. It requires either exploiting your workers by stealing their surplus value, or by using the market by short-selling, using hedge funds, trading through illegal offshore numbered accounts, derivatives, etc.

The average US worker has a salary of $46,800 (in 2018) before taxes. Assuming they saved everything and spent nothing, it would take over 5 years for them to make 250k. Again, this is before taxes, and without spending anything. For the vast majority of people, 250k is a lot of money.

Assuming they saved everything and spent nothing, the average worker would have to work the entire length of all human history in order to earn a billion dollars. If they were to make as much money as Jeff Bezos, they would have to work for 2.8 million years.

Assuming you earned a million dollars every year, it would take 1000 years to earn your first billion dollars.

It’s not possible to become a billionaire simply through working, as humans do not live that long.

‘Was Lincoln a Tankie?’ – the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

I tried to find capybara communities, but there weren’t any that are federated with us

I think they’re asking why a Jewish person would support Nazis

This is actually rather amusing and inoffensive, though they should have also included a poop emoji with the pig 🐖 💩

Wasn’t there an informal deal struck between Gorbachev and (I think) Clinton that Russia would be allowed to join NATO if the Soviet Union broke up? Or am I misremembering that

It honestly makes me feel kind of sick? I already have imposter syndrome and basically went back into the closet wrt being nonbinary because I was being harassed a couple years ago