You sound fun.

Define useful.

Will any martial art make it a good idea to engage in a street fight, ever? Will any martial art prevent you from getting shot, stabbed, or ganged up on and beaten? No. Your best bet is situational awareness and a keen sense of GTFO.

However, martial arts are physical activities. They involve precise movements, and allow you a safe space to build conditioning. All of that means that, even if the techniques of the specific art you practice are fundamentally useless in the situation, you’re going to be just better able to use your body effectively. Hopefully to run.

I’d say the biggest thing a martial art has over a traditional sport is conditioning yourself to take a proper hit. Beyond any technique, the first hit is usually the deciding hit in a street fight. Knowing what it’s like to be hit, and being able to not immediately crumble, go further than any technique.

Oh nice. I missed out on the wiiu entirely, so I wasn’t aware it was as capable as it is!

Original Wii is a very capable CFW/piracy device as well.

Folkmetal and symphonic metal.

Societal change starts with the individual. If one person today has changed their views, it’s a step.

And the way we move on from that is by each of us, individually, deciding that’s not an attack on manhood.

Only because we associate sexuality and “getting laid” with manhood. They aren’t the same. Are asexual men less men? No one’s gatekeeping manhood in this image, they’re gatekeeping sexuality.

Hmm. Normally I’d be inclined to agree, but this really doesn’t feel like it’s punching at men or manliness. It’s more just saying no one will find you attractive if you have a cybertruck. And we all know you can be a man as well as completely unfuckable at the same time.

You’re asking people to describe a qualic phenomenon. This thing, the feeling of being trans, isn’t really something someone can describe to someone who hasn’t experienced it.

Ultimately, what you’re describing to me is less trans, and more along the lines of how I am. I’m a cisgender male, but I’m also very feminine in certain areas. I paint my nails, I enjoy dancing, too, and I play female characters in games where I can make the character. I enjoy teaching, and nurturing. I have no desire to change my gender, or to conform any more strictly to one set of gender norms or the other.

So often, you’ll hear trans people say they always knew. I think that’s both the case, and a bit off. My guess is that they’ve always had a feeling SOMETHING was amiss, but weren’t really able to nail down the exact feeling until, well… They started considering transitioning.

Root beer. Or cream soda. Or a spicy ginger ale / beer. Anything with bite, flavor, complexity.

Am I missing something? Aren’t the people asking the man if he’s giving mom a break the ones perpetuating the “moms are expected to raise children” stereotype? The guy in this scenario is simply doing father things, it’s the assumptive person asking the question that’s hanging onto old beliefs.

I’m all for fathers being fathers, and I think anyone who bothers to take their kid to the park on off times is probably in the same boat. It comes across as more than a bit condescending to have some random person imply that this activity isn’t one that’s normal for your family.

Which doesn’t work if the air is already saturated. Water cools by evaporating. If the air can’t hold any more water, it can’t evaporate and cool. I mean, external cold water I suppose, but if you have actively cooled water, we’re probably not in a heat crisis situation.

It TOTALLY won’t be structured in a way to keep people of certain classes unrelated to child rearing ability from essentially reproducing at all.

Weird I didn’t, scrolled back, up, and for a split second, did as well lol

Does their gullibility somehow diminish their victimhood? Gullible doesn’t mean they’re malicious, it just means they’re easily misled. If anything, if they’re “just gullible” we should be even less hostile towards them, and more towards the propaganda machine (because it is) that’s feeding them their misinformation.

Can’t speak for anyone but me on this one. It’s the same reason I don’t hate anyone, really. We’re all unique with completely different perspectives on the world, perspectives that naturally lead us to different conclusions. Me hating someone will only push them into their own world. I’d rather share my perspective, and hope it moves theirs a bit, so that we might reach a better common ground.

I’ll give no. 2 a bit of the benefit of the doubt. Your partner starts shooting, the only reasonable training to receive is that you should also be acquiring the same target and shooting.

The whole thing needs to be structured and trained so that you can actually trust your partner to only start shooting if there’s an actual reason. At the end of the day, you’re (the officers) a team, and any team is as good as the shittiest teammate, and those shitty ones need to be held accountable.

I mean, sure maybe not all cops, but definitely THAT cop.

Exactly. So many people write off the impact society makes on our individual decisions. The thing that’s critical to remember is, we’re all doing our best. I believe that thoroughly - no one wants to be less than the best version of themselves. Celebrate the smallest of wins, and eventually we’ll all be there.