Isn’t Daiya based in BC, and owned by a Japanese pharmaceutical company?

Do you have any recommendations for Canadians? I recently moved back to Canada from the US and now that I’m trying to actively avoid buying US products I feel like I’m figuring out my routine from scratch again 😅

Echoing the suggestions from others, don’t mention being trans or strangeness at being best (wo)man. You don’t need to explain yourself or anything, just talk about your friendship with the groom, the happiness you’ve seen in the couple, talk about things they share that make them such a strong couple, and if you wanna bring some humour you can always share a story that might (lightly!) embarrass the groom but that you can use to maybe highlight a positive quality he has or talk about how he’s grown since then.

Your role there is to give the guests some insight from a close friend into the couple’s relationship and how special it is, and to help the newlyweds feel the strength of their relationship as they solidify it with their marriage. You can talk about yourself if it genuinely comes up in what you want to say, of course, but only if it’s something that’s ultimately more about the couple.

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I’m all for reexamining how we use our time and I’m definitely trying to get myself off always looking St my phone when I’m not doing anything.

But why does that mean buying a new product? You can change your behavior by just not looking at those things. And when you do legitimately need to have your phone to check something, you can develop the discipline to do that one thing and then put it away. Just seems like the obvious move.

He already wiggled out of this one. He said Ukraine shouldn’t start a war it can’t win and expect to buy missiles to make up for it. His base accepted this explanation despite it making no sense, his opposition was mad but couldn’t stop this decision and so everyone just moved on once it happened.

We’re not talking about an AI running a nuclear reactor, this article is about AI assistants on a personal phone. 0.001% failure rates for apps on your phone isn’t that insane, and generally the only consequence of those failures would be you need to try a slightly different query. Tools like Alexa or Siri mishear user commands probably more than 0.001% of the time, and yet those tools have absolutely caught on for a significant amount of people.

The issue is that the failure rate of AI is high enough that you have to vet the outputs which typically requires about as much work as doing whatever you wanted the AI to do yourself, and using AI for creative things like art or videos is a fun novelty, but isn’t something that you’re doing regularly and so your phone trying to promote apps that you only want to use once in a blue moon is annoying. If AI were actually so useful you could query it with anything and 99.999% of the time get back exactly what you wanted, AI would absolutely become much more useful.

It’s wild how “take seriously” just means “stop pretending that his ramblings are seventh dimensional chess”. Sometimes, the emperor really is just wearing no clothes!

I read his statements as attempts to make it clear he’s not the unreasonable “everyone must give Ukraine all the aid we want with no compensation allowed” figure that conservatives in the US now want to paint him as. It makes it clear that Trump isn’t upset that Zelenskyy isn’t open to negotiating compensation for the US, he’s just trying to find an excuse to pivot US foreign policy towards Russia’s goals, and Zelenskyy meanwhile is even willing to discuss something as absurd as signing away Ukraine’s rare earth minerals.

I think it’s a good idea for him to call Trump’s bluff. If he railed hard against the deal, it’d become another partisan issue, whether relations with Ukraine broke because of Trump or Zelenskyy being a hardliner. That’s why they’ve been trying to find any excuse at all to say Zelenskyy was somehow rude to Trump while he was sitting there listening to Trump spit out Russian propaganda. Conservatives need some narrative that the US pivot to Russian foreign policy is Ukraine’s fault, and Zelenskyy is denying them that.

I’m willing to bet there are boys that roleplay as humans on mastodon. While we lack concrete data, humans are a fairly popular race in roleplaying games such as Dungeons and Dragons. If there are at least 10 young men on Mastodon that play Dungeons and Dragons, there’s a very good chance at least one role plays as a human character.

Alright, I am officially done talking to you. Please don’t try and contact me again on another account.

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Glad I could clear that up for you 🙂

Why do you think I care lmfao

I called you transphobic because you made a transphobic post and you got really defensive over it. It’s not that deep.

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No I did read your post and replied in good faith. I’m sorry you didn’t like my response but I remain firm in my position that your argument doesn’t do enough work to distance itself from the clear transphobic origins of egg prime directive beliefs. People disagreeing with you isn’t bad faith.

My problem with defences of the “egg prime directive” is that it’s blatantly transphobic, and frames cisness as an inherently natural correct state while transness is something only a select few do. Encouraging someone to question their gender isn’t the same as denying them their gender identity, you can at the same time identify ways that someone seems to be having a similar experience as many trans people do before coming out while totally accepting that they are what they are right now.

I’ll be honest, it feels like a rebranding of the old homophobic defense of homosexuality, that it’s a small percentage of the population that suffers from this condition, so we should be nice to that select few, but oh no don’t you go implying morally upstanding people like me or my child could be one of those people.

It didn’t have a cutesy name associated with it, but it’s similar to why “born this way” was criticized when that framing was used for gay existence and why it played into a conservative framing of queerness: it’s a thing the degenerates do over there, but if they try to come into polite society and try to do things like talk to kids about being gay, it’s not because they’re trying to reach out to gay kids who might be in unsupportive environments where being gay is never presented to them as a thing they might apply to them, it’s because they’re sickos who are trying to groom kids into becoming like them.

In a time when countries are trying to make trans people legally not exist and forbid people from even being able to talk about them, I could not imagine a worse time to stop talking to people about transness and that people who don’t identify as trans might be trans. Our enemies will definitely happily tell anyone experiencing dissatisfaction with their AGAB that they’re definitely not trans just shy/not (wo)manly enough/needing conversion therapy/etc, so why let them control the conversation about who can or can’t be trans?

Are you under the impression PiS was normally a sane functional party before 2016 or something? Because I can strongly assure you this is more or less normal for them. Ever since the Smoleńsk plane crash in 2010, they’ve pretty consistently been insane and accusing KO (and the various precursor parties) of being agents of the global gay/Jewish/German/Russian conspiracy against Poland.

And I’m not against people having this recognition! I’m just saying, it’s hypocritical to tell Canadians we can’t see the US as an enemy nation if it acts that way, but it’s okay for urbanite Americans to see rural Americans as their enemy. Either it’s divide and conquer in both cases or it’s recognizing political reality in both.

You missed my point - if you’re saying Canadians recognizing the present reality that the US is an enemy nation of Canada is divide and conquer, I don’t see how that doesn’t apply to how you talk about urban/rural divides. Either acknowledging the political reality of a situation is divide and conquer or it’s not.

You’re complaining that Canadians seeing the US as an enemy nation is divide and conquer, but this screed against the rural peoples of your own country is just dandy???