Owl

Horace

Ironic.

Amazing. Incredible.

But have you considered the

Incredible

Inedible

Carbink.

all those in a row make me think we need :owl-haddaway:

Ukraine will very slowly lose its war against Russia, and Israel will very slowly lose its war against all of its neighbors. NATO and the US will turn on Israel at the absolute last second so they can pretend they're on the right side of history, which will convince nobody, but all state governments will play along because it's just easier that way. A bunch of seemingly unrelated countries in South America and Africa will adopt anti-US foreign policies, publicly using rhetoric about the US-backed genocide against the Palestinian people, but practically because the US was revealed to be a paper tiger. China will get 90% of the rebuilding contracts and experience a post-war economic boom, but it won't be as notable as the US's WW2 boom because China's economy is already so large and rapidly growing. The US will continue to think of itself as a great world power despite no longer being one, like Britain.

It's possible another US-backed front opens up, but I actually don't think that's so likely, as a Harris admin would be a continuation of the Biden admin, which is presumably already getting all the wars their backers want, or a Trump admin would fail to put together a war again. If the US does start another war, it'll be even more secondary than Ukraine/Russia, and accelerate the same conclusions as before. Unless the US actually starts a war over Taiwan, which I think is very unlikely because literally nobody benefits, but wars like that have happened before, and if it does then the results will probably be the same as outlined above but faster, but the chances of that going nuclear are high enough that I'm moving to a cave in the mountains if it happens.

All of this will of course be a stream of horrors for anyone anywhere near the fighting.

If sixteen years of in-class education isn't enough for people to learn everything they need to know, just keep adding years.

(I don't think that is likely to actually be needed, kids can learn way faster than they are now by making sure they have better home lives, reducing classroom sizes, and improving teachers' conditions.)

I can't tell, are you doing a disingenuous debate-baiting racist thing, or are you so far down the racism rabbit hole that you don't think white South Africans count as "real" whites?

what if instead of jaffa cakes they were Jafar cakes and they were threatening to take over Agrabah

Okay so there's a few ways to phrase it, but one way is a set of questions like:

Which best describes how you felt about your gender when [you were in your teens, you were in your 20s, you were in your 30s, etc]

• cisgender (by default)
• cisgender (because you internally felt it)
• nonbinary
• trans
• agender
• etc (I'm sure you have a better list than me)
• this question assumes I'm heckin' old lol

Yeah, but my sleep meds just kicked in. Pester me if I forget to get back to you.

Is it the general gender identity survey again, or a trans specific one? If it's the general, I'd like to see an identity over time question (how did you identify before / how do you now), and to separate cis-by-default and cis-because-they-feel-it. I think a lot of people will want to know how common their journey is. Personally I went from cis-by-default to cis-because-internal-feelings and want to know how common that is.

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