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Proactively muting all conversations about Steven Universe being a hideously ugly cartoon animation, because for some reason, this wrong opinion is linked to lots of even worse opinions that have nothing to do with the art style

When transphobes talk about the ultimate sanctity of birth certificates, how they only describe factual information present from birth, I think about that a lot.

How the hell two old-ass Italians who could barely even fuck had a Puerto Rican baby I'll never know.

When I was adopted, they changed my name AND the parents listed on my birth certificate.

Meanwhile, a lot of places still want you to cut your guts open and show them documentation that you did it if you want to alter your birth certificate to list the correct gender.

All other circumstances: very hard, next to impossible, we never considered this edge case

The two circumstances where it's easy to get a name change pushed through:

1. When you get adopted by cishet white people who like collecting children of your ethnicity
2. When you marry a cishet man as a cishet woman

If you like the Smiths, but hate Morrissey, there are a lot a lot a lot of bands that are essentially the Smiths without Morrissey.

"You Should All Be Murdered" by Another Sunny Day sounds like a slightly more openly hateful Morrissey single

Although preservation is a necessary condition of eating someone who died centuries ago, could a European of this time period eat human jerky made from a recently hanged person and not feel any guilt?

Hm...was the cannibalism/not cannibalism distinction religious? Could a Christian eat a non-Christian? Something something eucharist

Europeans used to consume Egyptian mummies as medicine. During the same period they were actively doing this, they would frequently accuse indigenous peoples of cannibalism.

Why did they not consider mummy consumption cannibalism? Was it only cannibalism if the person being eaten had been alive recently? Was it about race? How does that relate to Europeans pretending that ancient Egyptians, who they were eating, were white? Or was it because mummies were preserved and not fresh?

Techbros think ahead 5 seconds challenge

"Hm...if I hardcode everything...it might be hard to change when I have to update it"

"Using tiny grey characters on a grey background might be hard to read for some people"

"Why add a menu? Maybe we don't even need this feature"

"Maybe I'm ruining society"

Tbh the OOP I learned emphasized using generics whenever possible. Acting like writing reusable code is too hard just stinks of inexperience.