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Changing your mind on the vaccines means accepting that you basically murdered your child. I'd be much more surprised if someone in that position could have their mind changed...

Technically all estrogen users are steroid users (and so are people use certain medications for reducing inflammation). But I know what you mean. I know men needed estrogen for certain things like bone health, but that's cool high T can be balanced by higher E for some of its side effects.

If you use estrogen, it probably won't help with the type of gains people try to get from lifting, but other gains are possible.

Somehow they've been convinced that the lower/middle class pays taxes so migrants and other minorities can live like the people they elected and Republicans are the ones fighting to protect them from Democrats who want all their money.

There's some that are quite clearly different than most. hexbear is probably one of the most notorious. lemmy.ml, while commonly associated with hexbear, still has a clearly different vibe from hexbear.

But with regards to toleration of transphobia, there's certainly variation with regards to moderation, which means certain instances have much more widespread transphobia than others. Similarly differences exist with regards to other forms of bigotry, such as some instances tolerating pretty overt misogyny with regards to the bear vs man in a forest topic while others used it as a chance to ban a lot of people they didn't want in their communities. Some see their instances more like a small community to hang out with friends and others see their instance more as a public forum open to anyone.

Lemmy.world for some reason seems to both have a lot of ban-happy mods, regularly being mentioned in places like PTBs, yet somehow is also known for tolerating transphobia.

Apparently at least one person associates the instance I'm posting from with people who just want reddit (unsurprising given the name it would appeal to such) and the person claimed to assume I was being transphobic somehow because of the instance I was on (I think they missed a word like "not" or something that drastically changed the meaning).

Imo, blahaj has a lot more similar feel to reddit trans communities than a lot of the other trans communities on the fediverse.

I don't normally pay attention to what instance communities or posters are from, so I don't really have much direct opinion and more just see second-hand opinions.

Smooth like sharks? In all directions.

One time I was with some of my friend's family and his uncle spoke to me in Spanish, and I responded in English, but that was still enough to surprise my friend's cousins. That in a part of the US where like half the people speak Spanish, yet it somehow is that uncommon for white people to know even the basics of Spanish.

I know someone whose supervisor tells them to drive in circles are the warehouse, wasting money, for the cameras because higher up people also have nothing better to do than watch the cameras and pretend to be busy by complaining about the actual workers not pretending to be busy.

Don't have quite a much problem, but thanks for reminding me that I can't tell the difference between being tired from not getting good sleep, physically tired from exercise, and hungry: I typically assume they're all hunger because I frequently experience hunger as being tired after like running low on energy. Haven't been sleeping well this week and have been wondering why I've been feeling hungry a lot and overeating.

3 full/queen sized blankets in one twin sized bed with a single person can also be convenient.

Use use normal balloons. If you don't fill them enough though, they're hard to pop.

Another way to differentiate would be things like rendering technology. While raytracing is starting to be partially utilized a little bit, I'd hardly say it's taken over yet, so there's not much technological difference between a 360 and a PS5. Mostly boils down to more cores and faster with some minor extra features. Far more difference between even the SNES and the N64 than between the PS1 and the PS5 imo.

You could also use Internet access as a determinant, but then even snes and Sega Genesis wouldn't be retro (at least in Japan).

Could just define retros as anything that fits at least one or 2 of those 4 characteristics of retro video game consoles, but the xbox360 is pretty much modern by all of them.