LadyLikesSpiders

That second one is Age of Ultron

Very early in the morning, while walking to the bus stop to school, I saw, on the side of the road, just walking there, a Lobster. I am sure of what I saw. I went down to it, looked at it, really got close. It was a friggin lobster, miles away from the ocean. Now, I do live in Florida, so we're never really all THAT far from a beach, but I wasn't exactly coastal. A pretty long and arduous journey for a little crustacean to make

I remember when Jarritos was this exotic little mandarin drink, only stocked in one row at my local super market. I've loved them since then, and now I see them everywhere in all flavors. Like watching a child grow up :')

"Pretty much nothing" is an exaggeration, but they aren't wrong in stating that it isn't the ideal solution. You've pobably already seen them talk about how shitty the Lithium mines are for the environment, and if you're still getting your electricity from, like, coal plants or other environmentally unsustainable places, well, you're not emitting CEO2, but the plant that outputs the electricity that fuels the car is now outputting more. It's still better than nothing, though

My personal issue with EVs isn't so much that they aren't perfectly ecofriendly, but that the biggest pushers of EVs are still capitalists with an industry to make money. The best we have in terms of solutions is better civil engineering for walkable cities and a robust and efficient public transport system. 5 EV buses is better than 50 EV cars. Thing is, companies making EV cars still want to make money. They have no incentive to actually push for public transport (Some like Tesla seem actively hostile towards the idea), as they would make more money on 50 electric cars than 5 electric buses. Considering how much power companies have in politics, especially in the US (which is from where I'm speaking), things don't look good

I'm certain that EVs are less of an issue in, like, the Netherlands, where public transport is better, and people can just bike everywhere. Again, though, I am speaking as an ignorant American, seeing how things are playing out here. Either way, EVs are generally preferable to ICE cars, but they are a far-cry from the actual solution they are being marketed as

It's either my best or my worst: I bought a house with my SO that we got for about half of the value

Humans are not rational creatures, and despite all the knowledge we have gained, people will still find what they want to be true the most believable of all

Besides, you can talk about all of the science we have discovered, but the overwhelming majority of people don't really see it. We see the technology and all that, but we don't truly understand it, so you ultimately are just taking someone else's word for it. To me, the word of the scientific community is credible, but to some it is not

Some people are flat-earthers. People aren't swayed by reason. We're dumb animals, and the conceit of us as "rational" is hubris

Though biopunk is not the primary setting, the bioshock series' plasmids and vigors cast enough of that genre in there for me, with Infinite being one of my favorite FPS games. If you don't wanna count that, well Resident Evil 4 is another favorite of mine, and an entire series of mutant virii and evil parasites turning people into organic weapons has got to count

How do I cope? Poorly

Almost like that's what his supporters wanted anyway

Yeah, I mean you're absolutely right. There is a male default assumption we tend to have. Maybe it's a quirk of language, but I think it's certainly more cultural. Our preconceived notions of "person in internet" is masculine, even though women use the internet just as much and make up half the population. The only time it's not the case is when you're in places that are exclusively for women, or in places where the hobby is so dominantly feminine

For simple shit like this, I don't think it's particularly harmful or malicious. We invent a person we're talking to online, and the more often invented person is a man. It's more a symptom of the greater culture at large, and effectively just a part of our language. We have "they" but I think there's also a gender-neutral "he" that we just don't recognize that arose from the male-as-default idea. Intentionally misgendering, on the other hand, is 100% a shitty thing to do, but that's an argument on a different topic anyway

My own username explicitly alludes to my gender and I still get called a man about half the time. I don't really care or anything, but I think it's funny

The manosphere is so sad. I sorta hate how fascinated I am by it, and it seems like it is so incredibly easy for men to get sucked into it. I've seen guy friends go down that path, and I never would have predicted it. I've heard from other guy friends who crawled out of it that I never would have even expected it

Sorry you went through that, but better seeing that shit sooner rather than later. I really don't know how anyone can think "I bet if I told them they were just naturally dumber than me, they'd think it was hot." Clearly men are not all that logical if they keep falling for manosphere bullshit XD

You know your worth, so you just keep chugging along. Having no man is better than having a bad man