16667th poster gets a cookie (cookie thread (Part 7)) (Part 9)

But why is public perception besides republicans apparently more reactionary against trans rights out of a sudden?

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Different logic.
Same conclusion.

I’m not gonna lie, the easiest, simplest, and quickest solution to this is probably earplugs

They’re invaluable to college living tbh, especially with a roommate or in a dorm

https://a.co/d/bNIQW6n

you could also sleep with noise cancelling earbuds instead if you’d prefer

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its not sudden
its been building like this for a while
likely the thing thats actually getting democrats to switch is that, out of all of his policies, the only one trump gets a majority of americans to agree on is his policies around LGBT people (mainly trans related)
democrats likely see that “switching” sides will gain them more votes, and thats all that really matters
theres a few who are staying strong, like i mentioned jb pritzker (illinois governor) is kinda the goat with that stuff
but it seems that the party as a whole is shifting over to anti-trans sentiments

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Completely dodges any conflict w/ roommate and allows you to sleep more easily in other noisy environments if you’re already fully used to wearing the earplugs

very worth imo

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oh based

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yeah I mean

what Marluna said is like 100% accurate

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if the alarm proves to be an issue (it prolly shouldn’t, earplugs should quiet out white noise but won’t drown out an alarm) you can put ur phone under ur pillow or buy one of those alarm clocks that shakes ur bed

or get a watch with an alarm feature but that’s prolly overkill

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There are good pretty cheap smartwatches (youu just need one compactible with your phone). I’m using mine since years ago, so it’s not really a bad investment.

Deadlock after 20:20-ish. (It had removed about a minute when I re-opened the tab.)

Resetting.

Correction: My beloved quartet of Silksong, Deltarune, Beyond the Spider-Verse, and Tsukihime: The Other Side of Red Garden.

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I see where you made the mistake… you put the 19 pair in row 1 pre-emptively. (You shouldn’t had have any reason to put them in that way.)

Cant believe he would do this :pensive: :pensive: :pensive:

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I mean, the fixed col for 1 in box 8, would have suggested the exact opposite placements.

imo largely the backlash is spurred by anti-trans propaganda by the republicans, particularly around women’s sports and and removing trans athletes from them. this is a wedge issue they use to gather support, very similar to how anti gay marriage sentiment was an important factor in the 2004 election.

It doesn’t really matter that there are extremely few transfem athletes at any level and it is truly an unimportant thing, stoking the moral outrage against that is enough to gain support

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Finished.
16:31

Reached a point of no continuation.
Realized it was time to start using negative constraints.

“I need to be sprayed”

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Hyperfocusing on fringe issues for political wins by moral panic gets me fatigued. Oh no the trans boogieman is going to turn your kid into an unicorn, my worst nightmare!

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Ive been sleeping with ear plugs for years because im also a light sleeper and stuff around me has always been loud, stray dogs barking, cars moving at 6 am and im on the first floor etc. they helped me a lot and i havent had issue not hearing my alarm. They dont make you like completely deaf. You could try it out on a weekend when its ok to miss your alarm to test if you can still hear it

As for your roommate, uhhh … White noise machine. “I cant sleep without my white noise machine”. This is something only a westerner would say :fearful:

She should be listening to whatever that is with ear phones instead of bothering people, its not her own place to play music / sounds loudly like she owns the place

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oh also they they killed kamala harris running ads portraying her as a loony who was going to use taxpayer funds to give surgeries to transgender prisoners, basically the stupidest outrage bait imaginable

but that stuff gets purchase in people’s minds and they get afraid of trans people because eww weird and different, very easy to appeal to that sort of bigotry

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