My sibling asked me to ‘come out’ from a specific place, and I, jokingly replied ‘Ok, I’m bi!’

no reaction

Not even from my parents who were in the room at the same time (for context my younger siblings were like 10 or something)

Later, I causally mentioned in conversation that I was bi and nonbinary, so my mother told me ‘everyone’s a little bit bi’ and that being nonbinary was a mental health disorder or possibly a figment of my imagination, although they’re a bit more supportive now, I think they still think those things.

Oh, and I told my friends and they were like ‘that’s cool, I’m LGBT+ too!’

I suppose it’s a matter of how you go about it. You can not tolerate someone who is intolerant of a specific group of people by either offering understanding and support, explaining how hard it is to change your beliefs and that you’ll help them to be a better person, or you can punch them.

The first option is harder, and feels less satisfying - especially if they’ve hurt people you care about - but it is the solution that has the potential to turn intolerance into tolerance, rather than just making them firmer in their beliefs and hate you more.

Also, tolerance is not inherently good and intolerance is not inherently bad. For example, I am intolerant of people keeping slaves - and you would have to twist the meaning of intolerance to make owning a slave intolerant, rather than just bad - and I don’t think that is a bad thing to be intolerant of.

Food (or a way of getting it), same for water and medicine. Some form of shelter is good, but not the utmost priority, and a simply tree or something to sleep under can be good enough. I wouldn’t immediately go for guns, as there are usually nonviolent solutions to conflict and bringing in a gun only raises the stakes and makes it more likely for people to get hurt.

The knowledge you know in you mind has the potential to be just as valuable, if not more so, as physical items you have. Knowledge on how to catch food, and build shelter, can be more useful that simply owning some cans and a basement.

It’s ‘fem’ in Swedish too, guessing it’s something similar in Norwegian? In Hebrew the first is 5 too (Chamesh/חמש), so that’s an interesting pattern

Would our universe need to behave like anything inside our universe though? It could be a rotating expanding universe without being a black hole

Why would it mean that?

I’m honestly curious.

Age of consent in many countries, including the UK is (rightly) 16

That’s a great saying, gonna save that!

For ‘get me movies for free’, I point them to https://fmhy.net/

Green Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson

Assuming I appear naked in a field in England in 1375, I would first try to, in no particular order (at first, then a particular order)

• find cloth to cover my face and hands so I don’t transmit or catch any diseases
• distill water so I can drink it without getting diseases
• use yams or horse urine to create HRT
• communicate with the locals and seek a local blacksmith to create a metal tube with metal balls inside it, and mix charcoal, potash, and sulfur to make a primitive gun to defend myself against the people who think I’m a witch or a demon or whatever
• talk to the women and encourage them to rise up against the system and patriarchy, teach them how to make weapons, about 4 field crop rotation if they don’t already know it, otherwise about automated steam engines, weavers, hydroelectric dams, etc
• march up to the feudal lord and demand democracy, with the fear of the gun and half the population behind me they will agree
• teach about the scientific method to get them to question things, do their own research, and learn more
• there will be scientific labs, primitive computers can be developed, we can spread our advanced culture to the rest of Afro-Eurasia, also prevent slavery
• warn people about going to America and Australia unprepared, go with them in modern ships and don’t spread disease, talk to the locals and trade with them and learn from them, don’t kill them or replace them. Teach them the tech advancements too
• Write down lots of things, invent the printing press if not already invented, document human knowledge and encourage more documentation by others

This is all if I have any measure of success at the first things and don’t die or kill myself

Scientifically speaking, there is no absolute reference frame. So you can be wherever you like depending on what reference you choose.

Not usually, I wouldn’t, but if I would I would pronounce the r like short oo with vocal fry

You’re free to not use them, if you want. But me and many others are going to appreciate that these alternatives that don’t rely on centralised cervices exist, that won’t track credit scores, personal information, or use tech companies with privacy and freedom concerns.

That corn looks like a railing, like it’s a British park

I’m a trans person, so I think I feel qualified to say that people can’t choose who they’re attracted to - race, gender, sex, age, etc - but I also don’t think we need words for every specific sexuality. Straight, gay, and bi seem good enough, and you can qualify that (I’m gay and only attracted to black people, I’m bi but only for people older than me, I’m straight but only for people that are either cis or trans and have had bottom surgery).

Yes?..

Neither me nor anyone else was saying that disappearing people was acceptable.

I didn’t, I would say both are excessive generalisations that only serve to divide people though.

Ah yes, a specific anecdote is definitely reliable data to indicate a groups ability or lack thereof to accomplish a task.

I’ve experienced that with a variety of words at different times, I’ve heard it called semantic satiation, but also that that actually doesn’t mean this, but when no words make sense to you, not just a specific one.