It always kinda amazes me how little interaction there is across generations.

The hippies and such that were part of the pre-eighties boomer counterculture movements are still there. Most of those don’t look the part, but still hold the same beliefs.

Some just grew the fuck up, had families, and no longer had the energy to sustain a life of protest. A lot of what drove that era’s visible counterculture was youthful energy. Young idealists eventually hit a wall where no matter what their beliefs are, they’re limited by reality in how much time, effort, and resources they can put towards their cause.

But there’s also the fact that every generation is diverse. You’ll have the edges, where you find the most vehement people, but the majority are going to just not give a fuck as long as they can live with acceptable levels of hassle. In that laundry majority, you’ll find the folks that agree with a given principle, but can’t/won’t do anything about it. They will, however, give lip service.

That’s boomers, Xers, millennials, Z, Alpha, whatever age range you want to point at. You’ll still have the vehement and loud, but as they age up, there’s less of their age peers jumping on the bandwagon.

Then, the next age group comes along and wants an enemy. That enemy is going to be the establishment because establishment is the thing we all are forced to live in. It’s the default, the status quo. And that means the previous generations that are in that majority that are just trying to live and survive are part of that establishment. So you get the bullshit generational warfare. Which, once you live long enough, and/or look back at history enough, you discover happens every generation. There’s always a struggle of some kind because there’s always some degree of power imbalance created just by surviving long enough to accrue knowledge/resources.

This is phenomenon relied on by power brokers. The 1%, if you want to look at it that way. The folks that have control of enough resources that they essentially control everyone’s lives.

I responded to a similar question below.

It’s that the objection to the choice of “hormone replacement therapy” for gender affirming care is malarkey. Yeah, the term for those medications started for people that have a deficiency in a given hormone, typically as an age related issue. But that doesn’t negate it when used for replacing one variety of hormone for another.

In other words, the argument that it isn’t replacement therapy when the levels of existing hormones are normative for a person with a specific type of gonad that are fully functional misses the point that it’s still HRT, just a slightly different semantic expression of it.

I mean, yeah, kinda, I guess, but misses the entire point.

The two easiest ways are signing and writing.

I’ve never known anyone to object to either. Mind you, the percentage of totally mute people I’ve interacted with long term can be counted on one hand. And, the number of short term isn’t much into double digits. But you’d think one of those would object to writing on some level, but the response I got was smiles and friendly communication

My sign language skills were never high, and lack of use made me lose them, but even being able to spell things out can help a little.

Seriously, learning enough of whatever version of sign language is used in your area isn’t super hard. Enough to communicate prices, directions through a store, the bathrooms, stuff like that you can pick up on YouTube these days. But classes for beginners are usually easy to find as well. Big plus is that once you know a little, you can show your frIends some, which means y’all will have an extra way of communication in a pinch.

You missed this part:

The pharmacological approach in this study, however, uses a pharmacologic agent (P7C3-A20) that enables cells to maintain their proper balance of NAD+ under conditions of otherwise overwhelming stress, without elevating NAD+ to supraphysiologic levels.

It isn’t about killing the idea. It’s about making it known that some shit erases you as being allowed to exist.

That way, even when it does crop up, everyone knows exactly what will happen.

The only good nazi is a dead nazi.

Not important to me. I dig the skullet I have, and the shape of my head works for me overall.

Plus, my beard is fucking epic :)

It happens :)

Something that would be said in person in a way that makes it obvious as a joke doesn’t scan as well in text. Add in the divergent thinking so that even the text is different than what a neurotypical person would think of as a dark joke, and things can fall flat (or worse).

Keep at it though, humor is the only thing getting a lot of folks through life, even when it’s dark

Why? Your mum didn’t stop last night

I love that reference :)

Yeaah-heah!

Used to be my grandfather.

The man had magnificent salt & pepper hair right up to his death, though the salt was well into taking over in his late seventies. Absolutely amazing hair. Alas, the genes for male pattern baldness hit me because that’s how it works.

Pfft, doesn’t matter, still counts

Everyone is ugly eventually, and ugly is as much in the eye of the beholder as beauty.

Remodel your meat machine to match the soul inside; it’s what the universe has given us via our monkey brains doing fancy stuff to chemicals: the ability and right to shape our flesh.

Nah, as long as it isn’t significantly different, all that matters is that it isn’t going to irritate and rub.

Mind you, the more of a difference there is, the less comfortable it’s going to be in shoes, no matter what material it is.

You might run into the patch job wearing the surrounding fabric out faster if there’s a decent difference as well, but it isn’t like something that thin is going to last very long once a hole appears anyway.

The point is mostly to contain the inevitable griping to some degree.

If there’s a c/ where complaining about reddit is the default, then it’s easier to channel such things to that c/ rather than dealing with it constantly in other communities. Can’t say how effective it actually is, but that would be the point imo

Pretty much, yeah, though it doesn’t have to be low, iirc. It can come from higher in the throat, and thus sound higher pitched as well.

Isn’t that a version of fry?

Yeah, it’ll be a while yet