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  • Eh, I don’t think the correlation of age is the causation of getting wounded or killed due to questionable decisions on powerful motorcycles. I’d venture to say the correlation is moreso in personality type, and aversion, or lack thereof to risk.

    Like, you don’t see complete straight edge 16 year olds getting bikes, and from my own anecdotal experience, my straight edge friends were scared of it. Though if there wasn’t an inherent aversion to the risk, I’d bet those types would be incredibly safe motorcycle drivers.

    The types that currently get them are the types that will take risks, regardless of their age, and we can’t rightly outlaw something because some risk takers act dangerously on them. We’d have to outlaw cars too.


  • Fun fact: the CO2 version can actually be made incredibly cheap if you retrofit a decently sized paintball CO2 canister to work with your soda machine (kits can be bought). The biggest difference is that paintball CO2 isn’t food grade, but it’s pretty common to dismiss this if that’s something you’re comfortable doing.

    You go from spending however much (think I remember them costing as much as $50 for like, 12oz) on a SodaStream proprietary CO2 canister, to spending like $10-$30 every couple of months on a 20+ oz fillup at your local sporting goods store, and the one time $40-$60 for a decent sized canister that lasts forever. Seriously, I still have my canister from when I played paintball in 2008.



  • I’m going to 36 weeks of military training that will also be a substantial pay cut from my civilian career, but worth it in the long run as it’ll be the necessary experience to switch my civilian career to my field of interest. Not looking forward to the training, but I’ll be in such a better spot once I’m finished. Looking forward to that!



  • osmn@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlWhat tv show had a big impact on you?
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    How was it transphobic? The whole entire show is extremely critical of the wars (Vietnam in theory, and Korea in practice), the military, and the state of society in general.

    Stating that it’s transphobic because it just depicts a common practice of draftees seeking non-dishonorable discharge is like stating “Get Out” is a racist movie because it depicts racism.

    The only hate ever depicted towards Klinger is by characters that are considered antagonistic. Not to mention the multiple plotlines that are extremely supportive of homosexual characters.

    Save for the first three seasons with Hawkeye and Trapper’s overt “womanizing”, it’s an extremely woke show even by today’s standards. Alda even spoke out against his character being written as such. At most, it’s fairly misogynistic. I’m not really sure how you come up with transphobic though, unless you haven’t really watched it.





  • Absolutely, just the issue isn’t with the word “female” or “male”, it’s with the objectification and sexualization. We don’t have to vilify a word because it describes the subject of undue sexualization. “Person” or “human” could also be used, but I’d bet nobody would raise a stink about that.

    If it were a slur or something, that’d be completely different, but this is just a term that people don’t use on a normal basis, unless they’re part of a smaller group (military, science, maybe ESL) that does use it more than the general populace. Just because you’re not used to it, doesn’t make it wrong. Vilify the person, not the normal language they use.