it's probably a good thing that the forum i spent a lot of time on as a kid is neither still around, nor had any wayback snapshots of anything but the forum index page.

so much retroactive embarrassment averted by poor data retention.

Yeah I agree. Forums were better than that. Also, the "rules" of using the internet as a teen were being discovered at the same time so my hat off to the pioneers.

This article is mean to forums!!!

This is making me really appreciate Salt Fat Acid Heat

these fucking dullards are minmaxing bread

“Women are more matter-of-fact [with the bread recipe],” Robertson told me. “They just make it.”

TY; still trying to figure out if I killed my own bro by babbling too much about brats and making him drink himself to death or if our bizarre and toxic family were actually telling the truth about his cirrhosis of the liver getting that bad that fast being "Just one of those things".

I'm seriously needing Trans 101 shit here to try to make sense of this shit sandwich I've been served. I know enough not to ask but I don't know enough yet not to be very, very grateful for any information that is offered to help me wrap my mind around the fact that everything inside my head is a lie that I buy.

So thanks. I appreciate that. It's hard for me to conceptualize Dysphoria because I have other private hells but this one was my brother's and I had no idea.

I will have to live with the fact forever that I had no idea. I just thought we were tomboys and he was cooler than me.

So sorry Holly. I can only imagine, but of course I do. It's not if but when since I have this body that is flipping out enough over meno and my mom had a botched surgery and my grandmother....

Well, they'll just write "alcoholism" or "exposure" on my death certificate at this point because who cares but before they do I wanted to vent my rage at doctors in general. I didn't just want to go flat, I wanted to go HONEST!!!! I wanted to go FULL ON FEARLESS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSZAIYOKHLg

and just tell them to take out the cancer, take off the nipples, leave the scars, and let me take off my flipping shirt legally when it gets hot out and say, "This is what breast cancer survivors look like."

Yea, well little thirteen year old idealistic hippie chicks don't always get what they want.

Pass me that bottle of brandy.

i didn't read this, just wanted to say having had a botched surgery, thank you very much for the content warning

You should like watch her videos in reverse chronological order whenever you can, she's like the best political content creator on YouTube.

i've never heard of her wow this woman sounds amazing

I didn't realize that this was by the mcmansionhell author now I gotta actually read this!! and not just think "same"

I'm a big fan of how this seems like a total joke.

"Wellness checks" are like that. Many perfectly decent people in less-marginalized circumstances aren't aware of this fact and genuinely think they are helping. Other times----well, it can be like SWATing.

Video isn't working for me so Imma go look for text. I hope Chelsea's okay...well, as okay as anyone can be. :(

ETA: https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2018/6/05/wellness-check-chelsea-manning-involved-armed-police

tl/dr: She wasn't home when the incident happened, fortunately.

Popper's falsificationist strategy of conjectures and refutations can only deliver negative knowledge. It shows certain scientific theories are false, but it never shows that any theory is true.

i don't understand why he calls this a flaw. refuting positivism was one of the main purposes of popper's argument (as i understand it, anyway). in both of the counterexamples he brings up-- that smoking cigarettes causes lung cancer and that matter is made of atoms-- neither needs to be strictly capital-t True in order for us to be able to apply those theories to make useful predictions about the world. in fact neither statement is capital-t True in the sense accepted by most skeptics. plenty of people smoke cigarettes and never develop lung cancer, and no one has directly observed an atom via their senses. Popperian falsificationism has a lot of implications about the nature of knowledge revealed by scientific methods but i don't necessarily think those implications are so disagreeable as to render his argument unusable. in fact i think we might be better off if this kind of understanding of the nature of scientific theories were more widespread.

Nice! TFS and very relevant, both historically and personally.

thought this was about poppers. i was about to get REAL gay in here

They won't. :(

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-won-t-hear-case-death-row-inmate-who-n884196

i want to hear the stories seymour doesnt tell.

i read this as "seymour harsh on spies etc etc" at first and thought of seymour the tumblr ape/monkey

more positive replies is a bit of a pleasant surprise, at least?

wow what a surprise

Is this a devolution derby?

this is fucking appalling. not only is the border a violent set of institutions that will never forget if you crossed it, but it will also willingly forget the circumstances of that crossing, so as to treat all instances as 'suspect' and in need of policing.

thanks this was interesting