WoodScientist
@WoodScientist@lemmy.world
- Comment on Weight-loss drugs alone will not solve UK’s obesity crisis, says Chris Whitty 1 week ago:
“Vaccines aren’t the solution to polio. I support behavioral changes and personal responsibility instead.”
- Comment on A product of his environment 1 week ago:
I mean, you can masturbate about all laws, contracts, and agreements being a “threat of force,” but I don’t give such libertarian dogma any credence.
- Comment on A product of his environment 2 weeks ago:
Respectfully, you’re painting with far too broad a brush. I don’t consider it authoritarian to not want my next door neighbor to turn their front lawn into a junkyard. Again, it really depends on the HOA. I know that goes against the Lemmy party line, but it’s my lived experience and the experience of millions of American homeowners.
- Comment on A product of his environment 2 weeks ago:
IDK. I’ve had good and bad experiences with them. But overall more positive than negative. It’s all about which HOA you’re talking about. Yes, you can say you should be able to do what you want with your land. But that isn’t how any kind of land ownership works anywhere on Earth. There are always some entities regulating how you can use it, as you inevitably have neighbors and you don’t have a right to damage the enjoyment of their property.
Can they be overbearing? Sure, the wrong ones can. But they also keep mean that I don’t have to worry about my next door neighbor turning his property into a junkyard.
- Comment on A product of his environment 2 weeks ago:
OTOH, your town planning councils tend to be a lot more restrictive.
- Comment on A modest proposal 2 weeks ago:
I mean, with modern drone armies, there’s less and less need to restrict the draft to they young…
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 2 weeks ago:
Before he’s set for release, they’ll put him in a cell with someone already serving a life sentence. Another jailhouse killing.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 2 weeks ago:
They’ll kill him.
- Comment on $1,000 car loan payments are on the rise, stressing household budgets 2 weeks ago:
It’s called critical thinking and common sense. Don’t be a sea lion.
- Comment on $1,000 car loan payments are on the rise, stressing household budgets 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think so. That’s just the normal price for a basic new Corolla.
- Comment on $1,000 car loan payments are on the rise, stressing household budgets 2 weeks ago:
Franky, I have no interest in a $2k vehicle as it’s difficult to know what you’re buying, and it’s going to be a money pit if you’re not able to do your own maintenance. I prefer to buy cheap sedans new and drive them into the dirt. That way you know they’ve been maintained properly and you know you’re not buying a lemon. Plus your time has value, and always being stuck on the side of the road with a broken down car isn’t fun.
- Comment on $1,000 car loan payments are on the rise, stressing household budgets 2 weeks ago:
We bought a new 2025 Corolla for $24k.
- Comment on $1,000 car loan payments are on the rise, stressing household budgets 2 weeks ago:
Seriously. Last September we had to replace our old 2007 Corolla that got totaled after someone drove out in front of us. We were the only owners of the 2007 Corolla. We owned it from new to dust. We shipped around a bunch, considering various new and used options. We eneded up buying…a brand new 2025 Corolla.
The cost of this vehicle? About $24k. We ran the numbers on it, and that’s actually less, adjusted for inflation, than we paid for the 2007 one.
Affordable cars still exist. You just have to be content with owning less car.
- Comment on $1,000 car loan payments are on the rise, stressing household budgets 2 weeks ago:
Every dollar of interest subsidies manufacturers give is a dollar they cut from discounts and other incentives.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 2 weeks ago:
Unfortunately we live in an age of madness.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 2 weeks ago:
And you don’t see the glaring contradictions in your beliefs? You complain about non-passing trans people with one breath. With the next, you condemn minors receiving gender-affirming healthcare! The entire reason there’s a desire to not wait until kids are 18 is to avoid years of the wrong sex puberty that can make it very hard for trans people to assimilate into their gender as an adult!
Critical thinking is dead.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 2 weeks ago:
It’s almost like you’re completely ignorant of this and are "umm aktually"ing an actual trans person who pays attention to this stuff!
No shit the law was passed by a Republican legislature. And yes, the law was vetoed by the governor. But maybe you’re just one of those Blue MAGA types that assumes Dems can do no wrong. But a list of trans people in the state already existed. And that list wasn’t created as a result of this law. It was created by policies of the Vital Records office, which the governor controls. In fact, Kansas, with its Democratic governor, had a pre-made list of trans people ready to go, which not even Texas and Florida had!
…substack.com/…/kansas-secretly-spent-years-makin…
Whether by malice or ignorance matters little. Under the watch of a Democratic governor, the state went further than any other Republican state in having a records system that could instantly create a list of trans Kansas residents.
Yes, Republicans are the primary antagonists of trans folks. But Democrats are truthfully not much better. In fact, there are Democratic attorneys general in more than a dozen states that are currently ignoring their own state laws and refusing to enforce anti-discrimination laws. Many hospitals and clinics have been complying in advance with Trump’s illegal executive orders targeting trans healthcare, stopping services for children and adults. Doing so is a direct violation of anti-discrimination laws that LGBT activists spent decades fighting to pass. But the laws mean nothing if the attorneys general aren’t willing to actually enforce them.
A lot of Democrats have decided that sticking up for trans people is simply politically inconvenient. They won’t actively try to pass persecutory laws, but they won’t lift a finger to fight back against them either. The Kansas governor didn’t want the optics of explicitly signing a piece of bigoted legislation, but she also didn’t lift a finger to protect trans people. The very agencies she’s in charge of designed their records system so that it would be easy to find trans people, and it never occurred to the Democratic governor to try and do something about this.
So yes, this is bipartisan cruelty. Don’t be Blue MAGA and assume your side is innocent.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 2 weeks ago:
Your comments are complete gibberish. Yes, people get arrested for driving without a valid license. You have to show your license when you get pulled over. This really isn’t that complicated buddy. They just voided the license of every trans person in the state. These people literally don’t have valid drivers licenses. People could still use their old license, but it would be no different from anyone else driving on an expired license.
I’m not really understanding why you’re having such difficulty understanding these very simple concepts. That’s why I assumed you’re high.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 2 weeks ago:
What’s there to figure out? You need a job and a place to live. You either find a job and then move, or move and then find a job. (Assuming you’re not a retired, on disability, etc.) The organization I linked helps people get to the PNW, connecting them with people willing to offer spare rooms and such to folks as they get established.
The easiest thing to do is to move now, before your license gets revoked. But even if a false gender marker is imposed on you, you can always move states and then get it changed back immediately upon entering the new state.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 2 weeks ago:
Are you high right now?
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 2 weeks ago:
They’re devil worshippers. Literally. If your religion leads you to hate, you’re not worshipping God, you’re worshipping the Devil. Evangelical Christians better there is no afterlife, because every single one of them is going to the Pit if there is.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 2 weeks ago:
Nah, this is bipartisan cruelty. The Democratic governor maintained a list of trans people who changed their markers. How do you think they were able to send out these letters so fast? They already had a list of anyone that had changed their gender marker. That list was created on the order of a Democratic governor.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 2 weeks ago:
Except in the real world, you still lose your job after getting arrested and charged.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 2 weeks ago:
“Sorry, that job is for men. What are you, some filthy tr*nny?”
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 2 weeks ago:
The goal is literally to inspire acts of violence by trans people. You can only persecute a community so much before the more unstable elements in that community start lashing out violently against anyone they can blame. That’s the goal here. They’re actively trying to create trans mass shooters. You demonize and persecute a minority. When some return your violence, you use that to justify further persecution.
- Comment on Make a note 2 weeks ago:
No. You’re high. You think it’s the year 1999. It’s actually closer to the year 2199. You’ve been living in a dream world.
- Comment on No More Neutral ⚛ 2 weeks ago:
It also works for metaphysics. Reincarnation is real and there’s only one soul, just bouncing around through all of time and space in an endless loop.
- Comment on No More Neutral ⚛ 2 weeks ago:
I always liked the idea that the genie rules, when they’re presented, are not laws/rules so much as hard physical limits. You can’t wish for more wishes because the genie just doesn’t have that much power. They’re powerful, but they’re not God with a capital G. The genie tries to add a electron to every atom in the universe. If fails and collapses with exhaustion before it’s even finished adding one extra electron to every atom in your body.
- Comment on No More Neutral ⚛ 2 weeks ago:
They’re making the electrons gay!