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Cockalorum t1_je725pt wrote

> Kansas and Arkansas pronunciation

Arkansas was part of the Louisiana Purchase, it was originally named by the French. It is a little surprising the Americans still pronounce it how it was originally named, given how everything between Detroit and New Orleans was named by the French, and for the most part Americans can't pronounce any of it.

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TenWildBadgers t1_je722j4 wrote

Humans are the only species we know able to express a more complicated relationship with gender than agree with biological sex.

If my biologically male dog had the... [Sound of a hard drive defragging itself as a very Cis Male who does not understand the trans experience well enough to articulate this tries to anyway] I guess the mindset and identity of a girl dog, do you think we'd be able to tell the difference? How much would the dog understand the disconnect, and would they be able to express anything of the sort to us?

I would interpret it much more that we don't know how animals feel in a lot of cases, only how they act. With language, we're relatively skilled at communicating how we feel to other humans, which is the only reason very Cis people like me can know that trans and nonbinary people are who they are.

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darkpenguin_ t1_je71hqc wrote

I decided enough is enough. Time to prove some random internet stranger wrong. I write up a plan and put everything in place over the course of several years. Next, I enact my plan. Sell my things, catch a bus to a cheap area, and grab my documents. Upon arrival, I make a few purchases and grease the palms of those that would be useful. Through a carefully formulated psychological warfare strategy, I simultaneously get rid of those who stand in my way and gain capital through my venture. The factory is printing death certificates on the cheap for the whole of my country. I watch every single certificate as it's being made. It's at this juncture that I know that I will have seen my own death certificate for sure so long as I never sleep. I realize I could just have gone to a single coroner's as I was dying and taken a quick glance at their blank death certificates...

TLdR: I have too much free time and manufacture death certificates, but that backfires

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