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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • IUD’s can be great too. My wife has used them for years. Reduced period frequency and severity, higher effective rate of contraception, no need to worry about taking a pill late or missing one. Her gynecologist said it will probably reduce pre-menopausal symptoms too when she gets older. And it’s pretty easily removable.

    There was a couple of weeks when she was sore from the initial placement, and the same whenever it gets changed. They keep on getting approved to last longer and longer- the most recent one was good for 8 years, but there’s a good chance it will get extended before it needs to be replaced as more research is done.

    Not for everyone, but great for a lot of people.


  • You can find critics of its use that are almost as old as its use. Oddly, for some reason critics of its use don’t seem to show up… Until it started being used.

    Poets and authors have been artistically butchering, changing, and shaping language for as long as language has existed. This is neither an argument for nor against any particular change. Just look at the nonsense that James Joyce did.

    I have a non-binary partner and I respect their pronouns, but personally if I cared enough to change my pronouns I would be more comfortable with “it” to avoid any confusion when discussing a mixture of singular and plural nouns. Heck, if I was going to make my own language from scratch singular vs plural pronouns would be much more commonly used while gendered pronouns would be reserved for specific scenarios where gender is relevant.


  • It’s a shame how many people here are willing to just pretend those statements don’t exist and handwave then away because they like the game.

    Also, the game has never gone on sale, and in fact saw a price INCREASE years after launch. $30 was already a bit steep for a game like this when there are tons of similar indie RTS’s for $10-$20 that go on sale, and they increased it to $35. And then added a $30 DLC on top of that. If you’re looking for a good value RTS- Dwarf Fortress is free, and if you want you can pay $30 for the nicer version and support devs who, afaik, do not have such controversy attached.




  • Just because she’s a YouTuber doesn’t mean that she even received these comments, but let’s just say she did.

    It’s a much further stretch to assume that the same people saying “your husband wrote that for you” are re now saying “AI wrote that for you”. Both men and women are equally subject to being accused of using AI maliciously, and both men and women have an equal capacity to maliciously use AI in the first place. This is an issue about society and technokogy, and bringing alt-right gender identity politics into this only serves to muddy the waters and undermine the legitimate criticisms of AI.




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    12 days ago

    Ah Ladybutterfly… the first user I ever added a positive usernote to, but then stared posting anti-men content and also flooded the autistic communities with ADHD memes, so I had to downgrade the usernote to “meh”. Shame.

    I don’t think Ladybutterfly is related to this recent influx though.





  • And Google, Amazon, Apple.

    Steam peaks at ~40-45 million concurrent users so far. The Switch sold over 150 million units. Of course, there’s no way to know what the peak concurrent switch users were, or the total count of unique steam users from 2017-2025, but I still think these numbers are good indicators that Steam is NOT the gigantic monopoly that the vocal minority of haters think they are.