how would you feel if your parent arranged a date for you without discussion or consent, and posed it in such a condescending way? The parent is communicating contempt and violating boundaries, nothing about this seems acceptable…

the dad is being denigrating, but don’t you also feel it’s a violation to set up a date without consent or discussion first? The dad seems so toxic in his behavior and it’s not surprising to read he is also controlling and “dominant”.

getting a girlfriend isn’t about being dominant, even if being charismatic usually would be helpful, it’s also not required

you shouldn’t feel pressured to get a girlfriend unless you want one, and you certainly shouldn’t be pushed into a relationship on someone else’s terms

I don’t think you should feel embarrassed, but I would understand if you felt angry - your autonomy is being violated, and ironically your dad is only enabling and promoting the behavior he seems to be judging you for. Either way, I’m sorry you were put in this situation, you shouldn’t have to deal with this.

A Short Hike was such a cute and wholesome game, was taken by surprise and reduced to tears at the ending 😭😭😭

gender identity has biological components:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25667367/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31027542/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11771763/

fistful of frags is strangely addictive, what’s your load out / weapon choices?

took too much scrolling to find AOE 2

sure, but Western cultural hegemony has been Anglophone for a while, at least a century or two, its roots being from Italy, hence my perceived irony. Still, I get your point, I’m being uncharitable and lazy by fabricating irony that isn’t there without generalizations I made.

ah yes, the great unserved non-Western culture of … Italy …

it’s wild how power writhes and changes, how Greece and Italy have become outside the center while being the origin of the center, especially ironic given this power gives so much talk of tradition and history.

thank you, so helpful! I had made it to the themes but was confused by the options and didn’t think to scroll 😄

In September 2005, Crichton testified on climate change before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Crichton opined that human activities are not significantly contributing to global warming, and encouraged U.S. lawmakers to more closely examine the methodology of climate science before voting on policy.

Crichton’s views on climate change are frequently criticized as pseudoscience.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#Politics

This novel received criticism from climate scientists, science journalists and environmental groups for inaccuracies and misleading information. Sixteen of 18 US climate scientists interviewed by Knight Ridder said the author was bending scientific data and distorting research.

Several scientists whose research had been referenced in the novel stated that Crichton had distorted it in the novel. Peter Doran, leading author of the Nature paper,[30] wrote in the New York Times: “our results have been misused as ‘evidence’ against global warming by Michael Crichton in his novel State of Fear”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Fear#Criticism_from_scientific_community

where do you find that setting?

I’m also on Adroid, here’s what it looks like for me:

oh no, Ted Chiang is a delight!

and the third book is even better.

But I agree with OP that the writing is bad, I just enjoy the intrigue and sci-fi enough to read the books, esp. at that particular part of the second book (the first book and first part of the second book were admittedly less compelling to me than the rest of the second book and the third book).

though fair warning, I have found IRL support groups even more toxic than online spaces. It’s important to go anyway and make connections, especially to find people in your local community - this is a good way to find safe doctors and other service providers (e.g. hairdressers, etc.).

and !femcelmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone (which is the closest we have I think)

if you read the article it talks about this, but it doesn’t make sense - the workplace detentions in blue states are often of people with no criminal record, so it seems more targeted.

Maybe ICE is being lazy in red states and just picking up those who land in jails and prisons, but the Trump admin seem to be punitive of sanctuary cities by targeting workplaces in particular:

But advocates for immigrant rights say the community arrests – from raids at factories and restaurants to surprise detentions at ICE check-ins – are punitive measures aimed at instilling fear in blue states and cities.

The aggressive tactics reflect “a deliberate federal strategy to punish Massachusetts and other immigrant-friendly states for standing up against Trump’s reckless deportation machine,” argued Iván Espinoza-Madrigal, the executive director of Lawyers for Civil Rights, a Boston-based nonprofit that represents immigrants in court.

thanks for the link!

Trump officials say the differing tactics are simply a downstream effect of sanctuary policies in many Democratic-controlled states and large cities, which can limit prisons and jails from cooperating with ICE. In many of those states, local authorities can’t hold immigrants in custody based on ICE orders alone – so they’re often released before immigration officials can arrest them.

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But advocates for immigrant rights say the community arrests – from raids at factories and restaurants to surprise detentions at ICE check-ins – are punitive measures aimed at instilling fear in blue states and cities.

thought this was interesting

The divide is especially dramatic in Massachusetts, where 94% of immigrants arrested by ICE were apprehended in the community, and 78% of them had no criminal record.

with so many from blue states having no criminal record, the Trump administration’s claim that allowing law enforcement to cooperate with ICE would solve this seems like a straight forward lie - it would only apply to a minority of people being detained in workplaces in blue states…

ha, relatable

I do have to think about these assumptions in web design, e.g. using block start or end padding styles instead of padding left or right, so that the page will render correctly if loaded in a different cultural context / language. Euro-centrism is strong, but English isn’t the only language, and Western culture isn’t the only culture.

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