I’m proud of this guy! I’m trying to click follow, but it’s not working.

Oh, for sure. I don’t imagine bears have the same cultural understanding of sex, however complex that may be, that people do.

bear in the woods isn’t thinking “Since I am a heterosexual bear, I am not going to rub my penis on that other bears ass because I see it’s a boy bear and that would be gay. […]”

I do think this might be overly simplistic, though. The tendency for a bear to “be gay” by our standards might manifest differently, but it would still be an observable behavior, no?

But they don’t have language

Ant… pheromones? Whale song? Whatever crows do to remember peoples faces they haven’t seen.

Not every animal is as sophisticated as we are, but communication in general is pretty integral to herd survival strategy.

How does an animal know sex leads to pregnancy?

We’re not… different. We have schools and parents and movies we aren’t supposed to see yet that tell us it does.

The trailer certainly failed at making his apparition exciting in any case.

I… completely disagree, but you know, whatever.

No! It’s embarrassing~~

We can do a little bit by mocking the branding mercilessly.

You also seem to be taking it really personally for some reason.

What does this even mean.

They’d probably spank him for pointing it out anyway.

And why should those things be stopped? See, unlike you, “I believe in freedom.” If people don’t like their company town, they shall simply move away~.

I said it is better if the government doesn’t verify all the code that makes it on the internet.

You also said this apropos of nothing. I didn’t say anything about vetting code. You think I care if Biden has read your commit messages.

Oh, I understand. So, it was advertisers who fueled the 2021 capital riots.

What if that authority only disallowed bad things like murder and insider trading. Hm. Yeah, that doesn’t really feel like North Korea at all.

And what part of this requires the facebook engagement algorithm?

Oh, for sure. Public opposition is really important. I didn’t mean to imply you shouldn’t.

Like I said or implied maybe (I forget), I get really annoyed by the anti-intellectualism displayed by people who simply refuse to understand what toxic masculinity is. “But it sounds mean” should really only work as an excuse until it’s explained to them, but that’s never how it goes because they don’t actually care. And in those cases, you’re really arguing in front of an audience more than you are with them.

And how ads on TV are sometimes so much louder than the show they’re cut between. And the glitches! Sometimes, you have to completely power cycle your phone to fix something simple. And how Facebook’s curated, algorithmic feed sends people down extremist pipelines, fueling things like public shootings and the January 2021 Capital riots. And how the continued atomization of society into smaller and smaller pieces (e.g. suburbia) has made people lonelier than they ever have been. And how the displacement of work onto capable machines never seems to yield benefits onto the people whose work is being displaced, only their bosses.

I guess if all you remember are Letterman’s fumbling grandpa jokes about what the Internet is, gosh dang, even useful for, I could see why you’d think nobody’s criticisms are real.

Let’s imagine that there are 16 good things about computers, and 3 bad ones.

I don’t like the bad ones.

people talked so much shit on them.

So, what shit were these morons saying then, hm?

Now, we all have the future generations of them in our pockets.

And nothing bad ever came of this. That’s true, that’s true.

Which applications?

I think the core problem here is just a matter of rhetoric.

Like, I agree with you, and usually when an argument like this pops up, I spend most of my time making fun of the alpha male in the chat for their willful refusal to read above a 6th grade level. And it is willful, just to underline that part.

But the truth is really that it doesn’t matter how correct you are. You can argue until you’re blue in the face about how defensible “Toxic Masculinity” as a term really is, and you’d be right too, but that doesn’t really change the fact that you are arguing about it.

You know the adage about arguing with an idiot: they’ll beat you with experience.

As much as it does irk me a little bit to admit, “gender policing” is better (I think) because it’s much more difficult to assail (something I think you acknowledge is worth it), and it doesn’t spell out men in particular. It’s really hard to have the inevitable “yes, femininity can be toxic too, jesus christ” argument when it’s never even brought up.

Thanks for that read.

It’s worth noting that 200 to 250 of those calories are from the bread, and the other 300 are from the 3 different meats and the 2x cheese.

The turkey sandwich, the one I normally get, is a bit better at 310–360 or so, but I probably make up for that difference in mayo. That said, I don’t know… is the BMT an average, standard order? … Um. Commit to memory what bread, meat and cheese (and mayo) typically add to a dish and you can apply that anywhere you go; these are usual suspects and I doubt you can make an Ultimate BMT at home that’s much better.

Also, if anyone is not sure why processed meats are bad, the nitrate and nitrite found within can become carcinogenic (cancer) via processes somewhat unique to them (plants have nitrate, but they don’t typically form nitroso compounds)—raw meat, even red, is less likely to have this problem, though it is recommended you limit red meat for other reasons.