Yeah, sorry about that. I’d like to think my comment was less of a serious suggestion and more of a pointing out of what y’all are up against, but I’m just feeling real cynical right now.

You can comment anonymously if you feel unsafe putting your name out there.

I should fucking hope so! “Register to oppose being forced to register” is exactly the kind of cynical Catch-22 bullshit the fascist regime would love to do, if they weren’t luckily too stupid to think of it.

I hate to say it, but considering how these things tend to go, y’all should probably be using some of that LLM astroturfing software to fight fire with fire.

Also, cross-post to more general-interest communities. I saw it because I read ‘All’, but not everybody does, and (short of the suggestion above) y’all are gonna need a lot more than just trans people themselves opposing it in order for it to fail.

I always knew enlightenment was riding a bicycle!

You need to evolve wheat from primordial soup.

I’m not a fan of Neelix, but I don’t think what was wrong with him was necessarily Ethan Phillips’ fault.

That wasn’t dressing for jazzercise; this was dressing for jazzercise!

Being overweight is in an entirely different category than the other attributes you mentioned because it’s a choice, and more importantly because physical fitness is directly relevant to a soldier or sailor’s ability to perform their duty. In fact, the show itself addresses this: there are scenes that show Tilly jogging around the ship so that she can get a “physical endurance commendation” and be more likely to get into the Command Training Program.

If she were a civilian character, sure: no judgement, no problem. But having an overweight military officer (especially if they hadn’t acknowledged and addressed it the way they did) would be problematic in a legitimate, non-judgemental, suspension-of-disbelief-defying way.

(That said, I don’t think Tilly was anywhere near big enough for fan complaints to actually be legitimate. I’m just saying that, in principle, that category of complaint could be legitimate for that type of character, in contrast to complaints about race/sex/hair that are never valid.)

Or valor, or velour.

[IIRC] is untrustworthy

Well, you’re not wrong, LOL!

Also, the citation was probably Kinsey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey_scale

“Three-Cuing” system

Huh. Apparently Georgia banned it last year, with a bipartisan bill that my (D) state senator co-sponsored. A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one!

Edit: never mind, too many of the communities over there are in German for me to figure out the correct one to put it in.

Alternate dimension Weird Al

Look, I didn’t want to shove that all into clarifying square brackets within a quote, OK?

It’s as if the Trump regime is trying to inflict maximum harm on the US on purpose.

Yep, do it.

(Posted from a Pixel 7 running GrapheneOS)

No, it does. The notion that urbanists want to get rid of delivery vehicles is a strawman argument used to attack us.

No! If you think you need hazard lights to be seen while driving, the weather is so bad you just need to pull the fuck over and wait it out.

Hazard lights are for when your car is disabled on the side of the road, not for when you’re driving.

Around here (the US), that’s the kind of thing cops do when they’re actually racially profiling you and looking for a pretext.

My (ambiguously brown) wife once got pulled over late at night in rural South Carolina for “one tail light not lighting up as brightly as the other.”

It’s mostly newer cars that I see going around without their tail lights on. I only drive older cars so I don’t know from personal experience, but I think ‘automatic headights’ might more likely be part of the problem.

Gather a lot of mint, put it in your cave in a pile, and lay down on it before going to sleep for the winter.