“Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good”, eh?

The reference you listed makes it sound like angels can actually have a gender (as in a social identification as man and/or woman) but not a sex (as in male and/or female biology, presumable about having genitals).

Well because readers would transfer some of that perceived competence onto Trump, so it might not be a bad enough look

What isn’t? Everything is growing, decaying, or changing in some way, honestly.

You’re right that some people don’t mind throwing other people’s lives away.

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The context as far as this meme goes is that he’s mad and showing it physically. Whatever the reason is doesn’t matter because we subvert it with the other text.

This is the narrative being established: We say he’s chosen to be on a healing journey, and he might be learning the hard way what that looks like, going through the stages of healing, where anger is one of them. But that’s not it yet, we also say he thought the process would be predictable, so he’s actually either mad that isn’t or is mad that we are noticing him having trouble with this. He would be even more mad to learn that this is a meme being shared on the internet and madder still that this whole narrative came up around it that could be true or entirely made up.

It sounds like other games and applications using the Discord Social SDK as you call it would also have the logging enabled by default. Setting that as the default feels like the issue here and including this info in the logs as an option is another.

There’s a bit of shared responsibility and negligence we can condemn here, but those are what I’d point to as the main causes.

This feels like more an issue with Discord even allowing these chats to leak like this. Why would any other app have access to that information?

My sources say you can in all 50 states by listing a park, shelter, or other place where you spend time as your residence and shelter, church, etc as your mailing address. You should be able to go to a polling location and get a ballot even if you don’t receive one in the mail.

Just saying that I think there are options for you next time if you find yourself in the same situation. You are not without some power.

I think many people today make an exception if gay is used to insult anti-gay people

If they are going to blame Mamdani, they should know that ultimately it will be Trump’s fault. And also God’s.

Are you a boss at work of some kind? Maybe your perspective is tied up with some problem you have with your work culture. People are just complicating things when this is actually just so simple, right?

“Seat time” is literally what you are giving them in that situation. You can say that it’s not “time” but I can say that it is because there is nuance and we are doing many things at same time. Being present physically, mentally, paying attention to your surroundings, putting in effort, etc, can in many ways be counted separately. Who’s to say if your way of accounting for time is the “correct” one or whether somebody else’s is?

Congress doesn’t want to have a record of members approving this, but they have decided that they will let it go forward

It doesn’t say that these are federal, but yes

All of them are up for re-election every 6 years, but only some of them are up at each 2 year interval.

I think you’re being too strict with your definition of an identity because it is not just one thing. Identities are multi-faceted and fluid. I think that you ignore an important part of the picture when you ignore perceptions of you as part of your identity. They add to a conceptual cloud around you that is you and how you come across to others. I rather like to avoid oversimplification which I feel you are falling for, although I still do believe that one’s own identity is most important of those and ought to be respected by others.

Have you seen the Clayton Biggsby sketch on the Chappelle show with the blind black white supremacist? He had no knowledge of being black, but I think most people would still argue that it formed a major part of his identity regardless of his own concept of himself.

To nuance your previous point, being misgendered is a negative experience because that person’s “concept of you” does not agree with yours, becoming a point of conflict between you two and even inside yourself, not necessarily because they are wrong (although you are free to have that opinion). Sometimes people close to you will know you better than you know yourself.

I think you could say part of one’s identity exists outside of the person. Their self-identity should be respected and often will align with what they project outwards, but that’s where people get confused about a person and then stubborn ones get fed up with the whole idea.

Anyway, in this case since the tree lacks sentience, it wouldn’t have an internalized gender that we could know, but we can see that its sexual characteristics have changed and give it a transexual label. The trans label can cover both.

I care more when it’s a feature central to the game, but it is not very story driven and the voice acting almost doesn’t matter in the overall experience of the game.

This is an example where I personally going to hold off pushing and pick a better battle.