How dare people write fiction with icky things in it.

(Context for people not in the PNW, Mox Boarding House is a board game and card shop with an attached restaurant.)

When you have the space for it sure, but urinal stalls seem like an exorbitant luxury 99% of the time I need to pee. I’m fine with a wall-to-wall stainless steel trough.

When my college moved to gender-neutral bathrooms they took every urinal out. It was a 60% loss in places to pee. Gender aside, it was a stupid decision.

Washington has a law against hunting Bigfoot (but this is to keep people from shooting other people “accidentally” who may or may not be dressed as Bigfoot)

They could be more based and let Catalonia go.

Private school is not automatically better. I live in a million dollar house and very much intend to use the public school district here.

Corporatocracy is part of, and the logical conclusion of, any economic system that values private profit. Capitalism is not the pure, uncorrupted version of this. (And from where I’m sitting you’re a bootlicker too for takes like “he built that company with his own sweat and he deserves to reap the benefits of such.” It conpletely ignores the labor everyone else put into that company, from the employees to the supply chain to the tax-funded infrastructure.)

The Pacific Northwest was very mild all winter so I’d bet BC.

https://human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu/ruralPopDisclaimer.php

False. Well, it’s true there was that one study but it wasn’t accurate.

I have a good relationship with my family, but they are still miserable and draining to be around.

Why would you tolerate this?

Hey look, it’s both sides of the trolley problem.

It’s called “sealioning” and the only solution is to not engage with these types. They aren’t interested in honest answers, just controlling the conversation with a veneer of legitimacy to shield them from criticism.

Just stamp a line of €1 coins with the bird on them, every EU member gets their own coin.

does suck for upper middle class kids who’s parents suck

There’s no solution that doesn’t suck for somebody.

“Nature” is every state of being the universe has ever been. There is no before or after Nature. Nature is not Life.

Currently? The “British Invasion” era? “Rock” is an extremely broad genre.

My controversial opinion is that you shouldn’t be able to opt out.

If someone takes hormone blockers for several years before deciding to stop, does puberty proceed the same as in a younger person?

Pretty much, yeah. There’s legitimate concern regarding bone growth (height, density) but it’s usually fine and nothing compared to the known problems with being forced to live in dysphoria.

I was pretty ambivalent about my gender
Gender kind of partly feels like a process you go through vs an identity.

Gender is a lot of things and different for everyone. I remain very ambivalent about my gender as a man in my 30s. It’s probably most accurate to call myself agendered but biologically and socially I’m male so I don’t think it’s worth the fuss. It strains my imagination to contemplate “feeling masculine/feminine”. The point is that you can’t necessarily apply your (perfectly valid) experience to others and making trans people go through natural puberty dooms them to irreversible changes that can cause severe psychological distress.

This isn’t “controversial” this is straight up hatred and bigotry.