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sims 4 patch notes will be like “fixed an issue where harvesting carrots caused toddlers to explode” then you load the game and all your sims are bald

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Some people in this fandom have pointed out that if SecUnits are cheaper than human security they should be way more common, but if theyre more expensive than human security it doesn't make a ton of sense to have them. But i think the reason they're used where they are - on surveys and isolated installations - is because of how the economy of Hypercapitalism In Space works. If The Company had wanted to send a human security officer with PresAux they would have had to ship in extra food, a bigger habitat, etc to account for another person. Yes they could have charged PresAux for that, but they still have to pay for it. By comparison, sending a SecUnit (who i would assume is expensive to purchase but much MUCH cheaper than a human to maintain) lowers their overall costs for the survey while allowing them to charge the same amount for the "service" of security. But on a station where the infrastructure exists to provide food and housing already, its cheaper to pay a human security guard and then just charge them for the housing you already own than buy that many SecUnits. Its all about the cost benefit analysis of whether its cheaper to rely on existing infrastructure or invest in new infrastructure. SecUnits only make economic sense where you're building stuff from the ground up.

This is also, I think, why ComfortUnits make economic sense when human sex workers certainly exist. Unlike a human sex worker, a ComfortUnit does not need housing or food, does not wander around doing stuff when not being visited by clients, and can potentially work forever (as opposed to corporate sex workers who are much more prone to being murdered or having mental breakdowns or getting old and not being perceived as so attractive etc etc) On a station, sure, you can run your brothel with the limitless supply of young people trying to make a better life for themselves, but if you run tiny little mines in bumfuck nowhere its cheaper to just buy some comfortunits and let them run than it is to go through the work of feeding, accommodating, etc all these extra humans.

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feminism shouldn’t be about patting housewives on the back for making that decision but it should be about making sure that if that housewife’s husband starts cheating or slapping her around that she can be taken seriously, get a divorce, not have everyone in her life turn against her, not force her to send the children back to his house every other weekend where he starves them just to send her a message, and not be left in financial ruin

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sorry I can't make it, my mutual is spam texting me about their oc. yeah actually not sorry, this is very important to me.

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Accepting that maybe even the best version of you would be hated by some people can really set you free like life doesn't have to be making other people comfortable or being the most lovable and fair person in the universe like actually the satisfaction you seek is beyond judgment and lies within your own interests and desires fr

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I'm so cloth mother with my plants. Do i love them? Yes. Do i provide them what they actually need to thrive? Well....... i forgor

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ART was raised by humans, it has Dads, what Murderbot thinks of as its favorite human it thinks of as its twin sister.

ART knows Mensah is Murderbot’s favorite human who is its legal guardian a legal arrangement similar to adoption.

ART makes everyone clean before Mensah comes on board.

ART think’s Mensah is like Murderbot’s Mom.

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Why does “falling in love” have pretty much exclusively romantic connotations it’s such a good phrase. I’ve fallen in love with every single one of my friends

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being european on the internrt will have you thinking chicago is like americas rome

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fic author describes baking as ‘less precise’ than cooking. immersion ruined

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Sorry it's actually ridiculous how "don't criticize women's bodies" has been weaponized into "act like everyone who points out a fucked up beauty standard is crazy and a misogynist because some women adhere to that standard and pretend it's normal"

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The point of fiction is actually to put that guy in a situation™️, and he might try to tell you the point is to then get him out of the situation, WRONG, second situation

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Sex is optional. This is true for everyone, not just asexual people.

Romance is optional. This is true for everyone, not just aromantic people.

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“Masculinity is always rewarded in girls/vagina holders”

I wanna tell you all about my mom. I know this is a sentence used against transmascs, and im a transman, so I wanna use my voice to tell you about my mom.

My mom is a cis woman, a gender nonconforming woman. (I had to teach her gnc recently actually, because she couldn’t find a term that she felt accurate.)

My mom has always hung out with mostly guys, she can fix cars, we half-joke (because its true) that every time she breaks up with a man they steal her toolbox (they do). We’re going to negate her current relationship because my stepdad is a feminist who adores her, but not all of her exes where like that.

My mom has faced SO MUCH misogyny over her clothing, her makeup, her hobbies. When she was building her tiny model car, her ex would drunkly rant how thats a “boys hobby” and “she shouldn’t be doing that”. Her and my dad used to renovate houses when they were married, Dad would plaster, and mom would plaster alongside him. While also fixing doors and windows, and floors, and ceilings, and painting the damn thing. When she goes to autoparts stores, or car lots, they always talk to her like shes stupid. Recently shes been bringing her husband, so the associate will ramble his ear off, and when theyre finally done, her husband turns to her and goes “babe I don’t know a thing hes talking about, what do you suggest?” because theyre both just so pissed off about it.

Don’t get me wrong, my moms for the girls too! She’ll give her enemy a tampon type of person. But the girls turn their backs on her, quite frequently. Mom used to have a friend, a male friend, who would go to the bar with her. I knew him well. They’re not friends anymore because he used her hobbies and interests to try to sleep with her. He would always try to change her too. Mom likes cooking, so he would try to push her away from things like watching fantasy TV (he thought that was a more ‘male’ genre) or fixing up the house for things like cooking and cleaning.

And so when I came out as trans, it was a really hard time for my mom. She understands now, and shes a HUGE HUGE ally and advocate for me, and I couldn’t fathom having a more supportive mother, but she was really confused. Mom was worried I wanted to transition because the misogyny gnc/masculine women face. I didn’t shave, I liked playing with knives and multitools, when I did makeup it was always more Kiss/Marilyn Manson style, when my sisters did a Marilyn Monroe.

I remember her driving us home from the clothing shop I came out to her in, and the talk we had. She asked me if I was confused, and I said I was sure. She said that I could just be a tomboy, like her. That it didn’t matter what everyone else said about being a masculine woman. Having talked later as adults, she thought I thought the only option for the type of masculinity I have was to be a man. She was so scared for me and my safety because of how punished masculinity is in women.

So now, as I’m 23, and its 2025, Mom is still the gender nonconforming woman she always has been. Mom taught me how to fish, how to use a hatchet, knife safety, and how to cook and sew. I’m a man who picks up heavy things for her now that shes too disabled too, who wears makeup and nail polish with my denim cutoffs and binder, who still has to call my mommy when I can’t get this screw to screw in right mom, I dont know your tips and tricks.

And masculine women can exist alongside trans men. My mom goes to my hormone appointments with me to make sure these doctors are listening to me, she yells at me when I take my shots late, she picks up my hormones if I’m at work. Mom takes me to Pride every year, and god rest the soul of any transphobes that cross my mothers path. My moms for the girls and the gays, the he’s and the they’s, the its and the lesbians and everyone between. Mom will fix you dinner and your car, and we give her gifts on fathers day too because she was Mom and Dad growing up.

So no. Masculinity isn’t always rewarded in female-presenting people or people with vaginas. My very cis mother could tell you that much.

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if you wiped every ICE agent off the face of the earth, a hundred million people would become safer overnight. if you wiped every furry off the face of the earth, the entire internet would collapse for good in a matter of hours. i know where my allegiances lie.

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i think the key element about klaus and five's relationship that makes me love them so much is just that they always believe each other. everyone else reaches a point in most conversations where they decide that five is crazy and klaus is attention seeking but these two never really reach that point of dismissing each other about it. like yes five is a little bit crazy (who wouldn't be?) and klaus does like attention and neither of them are stupid enough to miss that but it doesn't mean every word out of their mouths is a lie and they seem like the only two who really get that about each other. klaus heard and instantly believed five's time travel story and remembered exactly how long he was alone down to the number even after almost a year in a warzone while diego flat out forgot after like a month and five believed klaus about talking to their dad so easily once he realised he was being serious. even in the second season where they were barely allowed to breathe next to each other five was the only one who seemed to suspect that something was up with klaus being possessed acting so weird all the time even if he was never allowed to investigate it. it's a really unique kind of understanding between them that's so integral to who they are as characters and the things they struggle with most that it's kind of invaluable