u/irisflame

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I had a guy fall asleep (maybe?) next to me (he was middle seat and I was window) and his legs kept getting wider. I too tried to hold my space and didn’t shy away from him.. until he put his hand on the inside of my knee. I yanked my leg back and crammed myself into the wall of the plane as much as I could after.

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Everything changed after the reddit API changes.

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What about “indulge” as in the phrase “indulge me.”

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necroposting this because me and my bf saw this term for the first time today and a google search to figure it out led me here lol. we were both on support, him on Mercy and me on Kiri. We had two random hitscans on our team and the enemy team was saying "predscan theory" and "double predscan + pocket" and "yeah w predscan" lmfao. To be fair our random soldier's name was "IBark4Mommy" 🤮 but still my mercy bf is a 26 year old man.

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no girl didn't you know youre supposed to feel disrespected at being called a person instead of a woman.

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Yeah us women aren't people how dare they call us people

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I have seen multiple people in various threads across reddit victim blaming Mikayla and saying she should've just ignored social media, not read the comments, etc. People aren't "downplaying" the online harassment, they are rightfully pointing out that this went beyond that. It wasn't internet strangers. It was people she considered close friends. It was peers in the animal rescue community.

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Yes. You need to join r/50501 if you want news about it. There are protests planned nearly every day at this point.

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This is literally untrue. A random ass reddit user started a grassroots campaign that is continuing to grow, see /r/50501. We saw protests in all 50 states on February 5. Then we did it again on President's Day 2/17. Then again two days ago, 3/4. We also had an economic blackout on 2/28. And a larger boycott of Amazon is planned for at least 3/7-3/14. There's a 40 day boycott of Target being organized by a black megachurch. There's another nationwide protest being organized for April 5th. There is a march on DC being planned for Independence Day (July 4).

Don't fucking sit here and tell me the people are not doing something. Look at this fucking calendar https://events.pol-rev.com/events/calendar. There's so much more there that I didn't even know about. Just because you don't go looking for it and the media isn't covering it doesn't mean it isn't happening.

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Wait staff don't need to get paid 20% more. They need to get paid 240% more just to reach the federal minimum wage of $7.25/hr.. which is not even close to what people actually need to survive these days. Tipped minimum wage is $2.13/hour.

Also studies have found that customers prefer to pay 20% tip on their bill instead of having menu prices increase by 20%. John Oliver just did a special on the topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89R9ZxKaIOw.

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You just helped /u/Submissive-whims realize they have POTS lol

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Should have added that both Christmas and Easter were also originally pagan holidays.. that Christians co-opted during the Christianization of Europe. Easter is literally named after a pagan goddess of spring (Ēostre).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturnalia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%92ostre

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I refuse to be any amount of confident. I have to keep reminding myself that reddit is a bit of a liberal echo chamber/bubble, so even though my views seem very popular here that doesn't reflect for the country as a whole.

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This is a way more technical answer than you want but..

Tabby is influenced by the agouti gene which restricts the production of eumelanin on the "background" (non-striped areas) and causes each individual hair to alternate between bands of eumelanin (black/brown/gray) and phaeomelanin (red/orange/cream/yellow). When a cat is non-orange, it must also have agouti for the underlying tabby pattern to become visible. Orange cats always show the tabby pattern, regardless of agouti gene.

A non-orange cat with black eumelanin and agouti will express as a "black/brown tabby." The background will appear an ambiguous gray-brown color because the hairs are alternating between black and yellow. This is your cat.

A non-orange cat with black eumelanin and the dilution gene will be a more definitive gray ("blue tabby").

There is also a gene that turns eumelanin to a more definitive brown which would make a "chocolate tabby."

And last, but certainly not least, there's also torbies/calibies, which are tabbies with the tortoiseshell/calico pattern that alternates between splotches of black and orange. And similarly, diluted torbies/calibies, which will alternate between splotches of gray and cream. These cats are almost always female due to reasons I won't go into because this post is long enough as is lol.

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I was NOT expecting a body that bony after seeing just his big ass head and some armor for so long.

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Maybe :( I do struggle with eczema and other dry skin issues on my face around my eyes. I got it though because it was the number one recommended sunscreen on r/skincareaddiction and I wanted to start taking care of my face more.

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Contrapoints has done a couple good video essays deconstructing her over the last few years, but she also was discussing her more off the cuff on a podcast recently and this was a big thing that came up. How Joanne could literally have retired a hero, she's a billionaire that was once a (seemingly) progressive icon, but now she spends all her time picking on trans people on twitter, literally retweeting/attacking tweets that will have less than 50 views, or people with less than 300ish followers, shit like that. And how bizarre it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSfKKxyC1Cw I think its a pretty good listen.

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That’s what the study seems to indicate yes lol. Furthermore, it showed that men with higher sex drives or men that have a tendency to objectify women were more likely to believe that as well.

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Not conforming to gender norms =/= having a different gender identity.

I don’t conform to gender norms as a woman: I wear mens shirts, don’t do my makeup often, play video games and work in devops.. but I still identify as a woman so I’m not trans.

F1nn presents as a woman often (defying gender norms) AND identifies as gender fluid now, not as a man. So they are trans.

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Yeah my mom waited about that long with a brain aneurysm rupturing in her head. And she had health insurance. And she still got saddled with tens of thousands of dollars in medical bills when she miraculous recovered 6 weeks later.

Really disappointed in Pizzacake for this one.. very tone deaf comic that doesn’t even make the point she supposedly wanted to make according to her comments.

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Man this subreddit is fucked. I’ve never seen more people missing the point anywhere else. This is just sad..

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The point might have gone over your head..

OP is demonstrating that jobs with valuable skills are still underpaid. You can’t determine if a job is not valuable just because the person working it is struggling to make ends meet. The person 3 levels up implied that the OOP tweet was not working a job with a valuable skill. You’re in a thread with people sarcastically rebutting them.

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Most relatable comic of yours yet :P

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What gender are intersex people

The only one disputing science here is you. You choose which science supports your world view and ignore everything else.

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I didn't say anything about sex or karyotypes. I said gender. Gender is assigned arbitrarily based on genitalia, and genitalia at birth are a product of your karyotype.