Yeah DuckDNS gave me many false positive outages where its resolution failed, for multiple half-days every year I used it (5yrs+).
I moved to the afraid.org and its been solid, if anyone’s looking for another free service - only cost is you have to log in once every six months to validate your account is not dormant. They have a paid tier which gives more features (that most home users will never need), and that allows the guy running it to fund a very reliable service.
I’m surprised the amount of people saying they have had no issues with DucksDNS. I’ve used it for about five years and had issues on and off with it being unresponsive many times.
Gave up and moved to afraid.org about a year back and that’s been a very solid service ever since.
Well that sounds right… like I said, Ambien is counter-indicated for alcohol, combined they can cause euphoria which leads to abuse. Gotta chill on the alcohol, the meds work without it.
This is more and more sounding like alcoholism? Treat that first, your sleep will definitely improve.
There is a regulated medication I have and success with called Belsomra that works well. Not cheap though, unfortunately (circa $1/tablet) - definitely cheaper than boozing it up every night though.
Whatever you try I’d recommend staying away from Ambien (zolpidem tartrate) as it can be abused with alcohol, and alcoholics often develop a tolerance and dependence on it. Docs would most likely recommend against it, but the internet / random people might.
Oh that makes more sense. Appreciate the explanation.
I’m was a casual RHCP fan until that book came out, I own a couple albums.
Haven’t been able to listen to them since. It’s just lost its appeal when it’s now associated with that attitude in my brain.
I don’t get how people can ‘seperate the art from the artist’. I get that it’s potentially a valid attitude, but my brain just doesn’t work that way. Same with Jackson after Leaving Neverland.
So if you want to convince me with those arguments, you have to first give a definition of man/woman that satisfies me.
Its not my job to educate you, and nobody ever changed someone’s opinion forcibly. If you want to learn about scientific facts of gender then read about it - nothing I’ve written above is scientifically controversial.
Good luck on your journey, here’s a couple starting points.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/heres-why-human-sex-is-not-binary/
I didn’t presume you were in the US, all of the examples I used of recent trans oppression apply to more than just the US but it’s true I was thinking of them while writing it. I’m not in the US either.
Mate, your five examples of trans demands are literally all wrong.
Gender is not sex. Gender is not binary, nor is sex. These are not scientifically controversial ideas. They are long studied norms.
What is the impact to you or anyone else of 2,3,4,5? Remember we’re discussing issues that are not falling into the category of “if this isn’t hurting anyone then hey none of my business” and “everyone deserves equal care”. Very, very few women are impacted by 1, most female (at birth) athletes are trans-inclusive - can easily Google hundreds of examples.
You have it flipped. Trans people weren’t asking for shit, dude. They just got turned into the scapegoat of the right wing. I pay my taxes… And if some guy gets testosterone therapy because he’s 50 and his testosterone has started to decline and he needs gender affirming care, that’s fine - that’s good. Same for an older woman needing oestrogen therapy - great, help her out. Why would I suddenly give a crap if some struggling person wants trans treatment and it’s recommended by the medical establishment?? Likewise if some lady who used to be a boy 20 years ago is really embarrassed and harassed every time she passes through an airport by customs and security questioning why her passport says ‘male’ - fair enough, that must suck.
And then there’s people like you, who unquestioningly accept these ‘demands’ as unreasonable - because someone told you they are.
Reconsider.
P. S. Love that it’s ok for you to gloss over direct questions, but for me to accept points and not respond to every single one is to “completely ignore” them. I do not have to acknowledge every single point in long comments. We’d be here forever.
if trans were just saying “we exist, let us exist, don’t hate us just for existing” like the rest of LGB, I don’t think it would be an issue. Instead they say “we exist, and even if we are the 0.001% (made up number), we demand 50% of society’s focus, and if you don’t treat us exactly the way we want, then you’re a nazi”.
I realize you’re being flippant and over-exaggerating, but statements like this make you look exactly like the right-winger you claim not to be. Trans people do just want to exist without being subjugated and stigmatized (which is definitely currently happening). None are making any such overbearing demands as you claim.
So, a thought. The mechanical manufacturing school your girlfriend goes to wants to encourage more women to enrol in the majority male class. How do they do it?
Do they promote the women actually already in the class in advertising, or… Do they take photos of the men in the class, which implies it’s mostly men, or do they photo the entire class, which shows it’s 80% men?
As you said, ‘the left’ will generally first point out that your story is anecdotal… Because it is. What makes it essentially useless to a discussion is that we don’t know the drivers for the decisions of the school… they are only inferred by our biases. Maybe the marketing team just chose the most attractive people, and that happens to be the two good looking girls in a class full of guys with neck beards and barrel chests?
Whatever they choose depends on their marketing degree advice and their professional experience. Is this womens privilege or is this just marketing exploitation of what they know will drive demand?
Bias is only a privilege if it helps the person experiencing the bias. Does it help these ladies to be in the adverising material? Will it help them land a job? Do you think them adding it to their resume will give them any meaningful benefit? Because I doubt it. As someone who has been responsible for hiring people if I saw them include this in a resume I would think it was an odd thing to mention, it has no merit on their skills. Meanwhile, they’ll go into the manufacturing workforce and then they’ll get a job where they get paid ~85% of what a man does in the same job, statistically. That is not a thing of the past… It exists today in the USA. Earning 15% more because you were born male is a privilege that actually does have significant benefit. https://www.forbes.com/sites/josiecox/2025/03/05/over-the-last-two-decades-the-us-gender-pay-gap-has-hardly-moved/
I note you have no examples for the demands trans people have made. Yet their demands are a big enough problem in your initial comment to warrant first mention.
Gotta say, these big unfair reverse-bias microsexisms you cite seem pretty damn insignificant in the grand scheme of society. Meanwhile… trans people are literally being murdered quite regularly for being trans, being told which bathroom to use by legislation (and then regularly being attacked and beaten for using the legallg mandated bathroom), being banned from sports, banned from military service, constantly maligned in the mainstream media (sadly OAN and Fox are mainsteam), etc. Women are being legislated against using birth control and dying from easily preventable complications of childbirth due to draconian anti-abortion laws. Still experiencing domestic violent and sexual assault at rates absolutely dwarfing those of men.
Right wing guys: society hates men. Left gone too far. Ladies and trans get so many the benefits. Lady got to be in photo! 😡
No, because they are not hunting bird and small animal species to extinction.
They’re also part of the native ecosystem so anything they do kill is generally for subsitence, and not impactful to the ecosystem they’ve existed with for thousands of years.
Barn cats just kill for fun.
OPs comment was not very constructively phrased… But it actually pretty much is that simple.
However, most right-leaning young men will not be brave enough to actually ask women their opinions on divisive issues, and open enough to listen and consider their own assumptions could be wrong (‘maybe my dad is a misogynist… maybe I was raised to believe things that just aren’t accurate’). Those ideas are confronting and take a lot of emotional maturity.
You’ve hit the nail on the head but not in the way you think. Let’s dig into the things you state made young men no longer accepting of the, (1) “let people do whatever they want if it doesn’t affect you” and (2) “every human should be treated equally”.
The goalpost-moved, “we have to change the rules for the trans”. What do you mean? The whole trans issue was invented by the right wing as a new bogeyman to attack. Gay people were accepted (after many decades of abuse) by the general public - so they were no longer an effective target. New target: trans. I had honestly heard about trans people about a couple dozen times in my life prior to 2010, and I knew two of them. It was just not any kind of big deal. Very easy to file under (1) and (2). Zero impact to anyone’s life but their own. Then all of a sudden: bathroom bans, Jordan Peterson talking about them a lot, Trump banning them from military service, and so on… And so forth. There was no great request that trans people suddenly made to society - they were just thrust into the spotlight as a new target for people who are scared of anything they’re not familiar with (conservatives) to fearmonger into the right ("teachers want to let your boys wear dresses to school and turn your kids trans!").
Next “we have to give women privilege to compensate for misogyny”. What privilege? Honeslty. I’m really at a loss on this one. The privilege of police having to actually take reports and follow then up when they claim they’re sexually assaulted or raped, as opposed to the 90s & prior standard of “are you sure you weren’t asking for it?” & filing it in the back of the drawer to never see light again? The privilege of MeToo which is where many women came forward about sexual assault that they were pressured against mentioning in the past? Again, anyone on the left was fine with the ‘privileges’? as they firmly slot into (1) and (2).
Please elaborate, because details matter on these two issues you list as prime examples of the left moving the goalposts ‘beyond their original principles’ - because to me, a leftist, they seem perfectly in line.
Yeah, fuck the local wildlife if it means you don’t have to deal with the hair of your pet being on your couch.
You should change your username to PermanentlyPedantic
Joke not funny, advice dumb. People no haha, give better advice.
Judging by those advice posts being massively upvoted - seems most agree.
We identify the joke, it’s just not very funny
People used to not use VPNs too - until they realized how useful they can be by spread in pop culture and increasing tech awareness of the general public.
If commercial VPNs are banned the tech savvy will move onto a replacement immediately, and the knowledge will slowly expand through social circles and social media until it has similar penetration in society.
A VPN ban would be both harmful (to business and consumers short term) and pointless.
Next step: you must have a camera enabed to use YouTube so we can directly monitor your facial expressions with AI✨ and save you precious rating time to recommend you better videos!
WinDirStat imo is a better alternative - same functionality, much older and open source.
Wiztree borrows a lot from WinDirStat’s interface.
I’ve used it several months and can recommend it. No issues so far and seems to get regular updates for bugfixes and minor new features.