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· 6 years ago
It’s kinda hard to say that isn’t balanced. 2 sith were able to wipe out almost all 10,000 Jedi. Of course, then 2 (or 3 depending how you look at it) Jedi to defeat those sith. So I’m not really sure how the equivalency breaks down, but likely it depends more on who the sith or Jedi are.
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· 6 years ago
For some- learning is fun. The great thing is that you aren’t obligated to read or reply to things you don’t like. You’re free to post your own comments or memes that are fun to you. Then there are fun things of many types for all sorts of people who enjoy different things and everyone can have fun. Yay.
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Did she do the right thing? 9 comments
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· 6 years ago
What they did isn’t important- what they’re doing now is. But- ok, maybe he feels “betrayed” because she said she hadn’t had that many partners- it’s pretty understandable however that someone might lie about that. The fact she wants to hide it would suggest she didn’t volunteer it. If you’re sitting there hoping your partner doesn’t ask you about your sexual past you probably aren’t going to bring it up. So that’s his bad too for asking. In the end though, famousone hit it dead on. If he’s going to be dramatic and treat a common and harmless lie to save face, or that number of partners (whatever’s the issue for him) like some huge thing worth calling off a marriage- who knows what would send him to divorce court? Saying you’ll order dinner and forgetting? Finding out you didn’t really like his meatloaf but didn’t want to hurt his feelings? Best luck to those kids.
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Did she do the right thing? 9 comments
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· 6 years ago
However sex positive one wants to be, however experimental- that’s their business and nothing to be ashamed of. If you don’t have any lingering baggage from that which is likely to be something your partner has to deal with in your life together- it’s not required you share your past with them and really- it isn’t their place to ask. That said- you shouldn’t lie either, although on the list of lies that are really common and meaningless, sexual partners or deeds is a minor one to me. People tend to “adjust” their numbers and really- unless it gets you off- who wants the details of a partners past sexual exploits?
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Doesn't Fit the Narrative 8 comments
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· 6 years ago
So if the point is a link between mental instability and violent crime, and an implication the defendant is mentally unstable because of gender transition- it should read: “Defendant diagnosed with Gender Dysphoria...” However it does not. Which implies they can’t report that since it hasn’t happened, and thus there is no factual basis to assume the defendant has Gender Dysphoria. Likewise- one can’t make a solid case for mental instability- or especially Gender Dysphoria, making a person at higher risk for violent crime. So I think the assumptions are flawed here.
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Doesn't Fit the Narrative 8 comments
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· 6 years ago
Well- that’s an interesting thought- on the surface it would seem self evident that the mentally unstable might seem more likely to commit violent crimes- however statistically only 3-5% of violent crime is committed by those deemed mentally unstable. So that’s a hard statement to back up. Likewise- we could argue that a “mentally stable” person by default doesn’t commit violent crime and by committing violent crime one is at least in that moment mentally unstable- but that’s sort of philosophical. The bigger problem though- what does transitioning genders have to do with mental instability? A person diagnosed by a professional under the terms of the DSM as having Gender Dysphoria can be said to be suffering some mental issues- but most people transitioning sex do not meet the criteria for having Gender Dysphoria. A diagnosis cannot be done “remotely.” A professional must see the patient one on one and asses them.
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guest_
· 6 years ago
Ok... so I wonder though...? What is the significance here? 1/164+ mass shootings in recent decades was perpetrated by someone supposedly transitioning genders and this means what exactly or is important why exactly?
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· 6 years ago
Super speed is another one where you likely can’t survive the forces applied to your body, G force of acceleration or stopping, friction, wind. Vision is one that is important too though. Even wearing some tripe of protective gear and keeping your G force in check somehow- how do you see and react? A human being traveling 60mph in a car will travel 88 feet in one second. That means your time to react or adjust at any “super speed” isn’t enough to do much or anything. If you do react... Gforce. Say you are going right and need to stop or pivot right? If you don’t slow down first you’re in trouble. Again at only 60mph speed for you or any part of your body, a sudden stop or change in direction would be like being in a car that crashed. You’d need to slow down before you could stop or change directions and that could take hundreds of feet just for sub triple digit speeds. And forget about punching or catching people or anything. Imagine slamming your body into an object at those speeds?
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· 6 years ago
Talking to animals likely sucks too. First off- most animals do not likely think in a way that would make sense to us. They tend to communicate in a broader sense of intent or emotion generally, using pheromones and context and gesture from the best we can tell. But let’s say animals could just be communicated with. They still don’t subscribe to human culture or ideas. They have their own cultures and ways, for instance some animals are solitary by nature or exclude those not in their group, or only respect one who is their “alpha.” Animal Logic is likely very different than human and it’s unlikely most people could understand and effectively communicate even in plain English.
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· 6 years ago
What does your body do when you lack the energy and building blocks to regenerate? Currently the body “cannibalizes ” itself when we enter this starvation mode. Would it be a meltdown as your body eats itself for lack of energy and attempts to repair what it has broken down in a cycle that rapidly kills you from wasting away? What of blood cells that can’t die? Immune function? Do you regenerate bile and acid and mucus then at an accelerated rate? Would you possibly choke on your own mucus? The body makes 1.5qts a day on average. Is that supercharged too? What about all the waste products in the body made through normal function? Those must increase along with body heat from all the extra activity.
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· 6 years ago
How do you form memories? If you regenerate physically to a set state- how do you form new mental pathways without them reverting to the previous state? How would you ever grow stronger if your muscles always revert? How would you increase aerobic function or cardio vascular function? You couldn’t lose weight either most likely- and if you have any hereditary defects Or chronic conditions... well you’re kinda screwed. Then there’s all the other functions that regardless of how we want regeneration to be explained- would likely go haywire if the bodies functions were changed to make regeneration possible. Does your hair grow super fast, or not at all? Considering it’s dead cells generated by your body. Do you sluff more dead skin or now is it none? What happens to your metabolic processes and endocrine function? You’re base energy needs would likely increase greatly as would your protein synthesis.
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· 6 years ago
Regeneration can be a mixed bag. There’s stuff about maybe not wanting to live forever or whatever- but maybe it’s not that strong regeneration? Well... it gets picky and complicated- but if we say regeneration is like an accelerated version of normal body processes- you’d die faster not slower. A cell can only replicate so many times before it goes bad. You’re looking down the barrel of cancer more or less not to mention crazy scaring- but what if it’s not just an acceleration of normal processes but like a “save” state and your body returns to that state? So I guess no cancer, but.....
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· 6 years ago
What? You can freeze time? That... that includes the movement of molecules no? Like... air? So another “suffocate/overheat/becomes toxic” situation. If it’s a bubble around you... how long before your bubble is full of C02?
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· 6 years ago
Fire? The human torch? The power to make fire and the power to not be hurt by fire are different powers. How does not being hurt by fire work exactly? What constitutes “fire?” It must be some temperature thing since it’s the heat that burns. Well- even if you managed to not suffer third degree burns- what about body temp? You’re in a fire. Your body can’t regulate, there’s no air to draw. Oh man. You also ant breath- what with the fire using up the air and all.
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· 6 years ago
Shrinking? IF the human body could function correctly at that scale (probably can’t...) and even IF it didn’t hurt like hell to shrink (it may or may not,) how do you breath if you become smaller than air? What about temperature? When your surface area shrinks like that you now have much less ability to rid yourself of heat to the air. You’d likely die quickly if you survived long enough to shrink at all.
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· 6 years ago
Invisibility would mean no light could teach your retinas and you’d be blind as well. Flight? Asides your meat body being unlikely to survive many forces and objects encountered in flight- high speeds and altitudes would be very cold. You’d have things to worry about like not freezing to death or burning up, birds and bugs hitting you, power lines etc, and electrical buildup and discharge that could kill you along with staying pressurized and being able to breath. Landing could be very dangerous, and good luck navigating. Trained pilots have instruments and radios and get lost or crash all the time. Without lots of training things that seem simple like where is the sky and where is the ground can be life ending.
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· 6 years ago
What about laser eyes? Well- asides vein. Near impossible to aim- and really- how are you going to see anything but laser while your eyeball is engulfed in laser? Lasers powerful enough to be useful generally.... mess up human tissue. So the first time you used your laser eyes you’d likely go blind or die. Also to focus the beam your eyes would either need a special lens that would make normal vision impractical, or just wouldn’t focus it and your have scattered lasers. The chances of someone not wanting to get a hold of your eyeballs to try and research a biological material capable of withstanding or generating lasers is pretty high too. And you’re still otherwise vulnerable. It’s not really better than surgically impacting a gun behind your eyeballs in terms of making you dangerous.
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· 6 years ago
And that’s IF getting super strength doesn’t kill you by itself. It would have to be a VERY specific and TAILORED method or an evolution so precise that it’s almost impossible. Many conditions and drugs cause changes in muscle mass or composition and the fact is... your body has muscles that shouldn’t be bigger or stronger. The heart is one that often kills people. A “buff” or large heart could kill you very quickly. Super strong eye muscles... doesn’t sound good.
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· 6 years ago
... you’d still absorb all the energy of a massive fast moving object through your bones and soft tissue- and die from massive trauma. The list goes on- but that’s IF you make it that far. Anything that causes muscles to tense from a jolt of electricity to a sneeze or orgasm or even flexing your own muscles could kill you. Human muscles already have the strength to rip tendons apart and break our own bones. When people get shocked by high voltage and go flying? That isn’t the electricity. Their muscles do that. A normal person could leap across a room in a flash of their body didn’t stop their muscles from using their full potential as a safety mechanism. In fact many steroid users injure themselves because of the rapid and drastic increases in strength.
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· 6 years ago
You have the strength to poke your fingers through the steel hull of a boat- but once you start lifting the hull comes apart. If you don’t a suitable handhold- the many feet of boat that are hanging in the air are likely to break apart. Likewise- you currently have the strength to break glass, but it will still cut you just the same- so being strong enough to rip metal doesn’t mean you’d be able to do so without your skin being flayed. Stopping a speeding bus? Same deal. Your tiny hands or body wouldn’t stop it as much as they would rip through it. Like pushing meat through a metal grate with a pneumatic press. Of course... that’s IF that even. More likely because of the mass and total energy behind the object- strong or not- you’d just be flung through the air and likely die. Even IF you actually stopped it and didn’t get cut up or go right through it..
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· 6 years ago
It turns out many super powers by themselves are terrible in real life without support powers or mguffins. Take:
Super strength: ok. Your muscles are super strong. But your bones and tissue aren’t. If you lift up a train- before it’s over your head you’d rip your arms from their sockets and likely break several bones. But if you do lift it up- your legs and spine will accordion under the force. And mass is important too. All the weight in put to the ground through your 2 tiny feet instead of many wheels. So the full weight of many tons is focused on a few square inches of ground- you’d likely cave through or fall over and crush yourself to death. IF it worked at all. Planes and cars and boats aren’t made to support their weight in random single places on their structures.
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Super strength: ok. Your muscles are super strong. But your bones and tissue aren’t. If you lift up a train- before it’s over your head you’d rip your arms from their sockets and likely break several bones. But if you do lift it up- your legs and spine will accordion under the force. And mass is important too. All the weight in put to the ground through your 2 tiny feet instead of many wheels. So the full weight of many tons is focused on a few square inches of ground- you’d likely cave through or fall over and crush yourself to death. IF it worked at all. Planes and cars and boats aren’t made to support their weight in random single places on their structures.
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· 6 years ago
But- it’s complicated and I won’t do the whole thing- English is a mismash of languages and roots and loan words and sounds. The “his” in many words like history can come from Ancient Greek, Latin, etc and isn’t based in gender as those languages didn’t use “his” as a gender word. The gender words in English come from many places too, but modifications of German and French are sources for some of the common ones. In reality it’s more complex because German and French also borrow from Latin and Ancient Greek- so sorting it all out is tricky, and we can still argue that these roots were chosen with some type of gender bias but then we get into a deep dive of what words and sounds were invented first and a whole mess. But in short- plenty of words contain common roots because those are all... common. In most cases the gender is derived from the root and not the other way around, or the two evolved parallel.
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· 6 years ago
Ok. First to get it out there, daughtHER. HEReditary, HERald, HERo, HERbal, HERe, HERculean, HERitage, cinematograpHER, biograpHER, catcHER, seismograpHER, togetHER, decipHER, tougHER... I could keep going all day. There’s a lot more words just for “her” even without including any other roots.
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