Trans men are men.

100%

My grandpa, my dad, and my wife’s dad never got taught how to cook at all. My mom taught all my brothers and we share a love for cooking today. Half our conversation at (Canadian) Thanksgiving was about cooking and recipes.

I think it’s an important skill for everyone, and it’s definitely a taking care of yourself skill.

Cooking is cheaper than buying cooked/packaged food, it’s healthier, it’s rewarding, and girls love it when you cook for them. There are no downsides to learning, and there are recipes for every budget or amount of time online.

I woke up my cat I was laughing so hard at this

I read the whole article and I don’t think it’s bad.

He does have some points: that masculinity itself need not be seen as inherently toxic, and therapy for men should be designed for the needs of men.

Overall, the broad ideas all seem reasonable to me.

I even read a couple more of his articles and read one of his papers.

In the one paper I think his methodology from a math perspective was a bit dated and weak from current standards (e.g. binning and grouping variables, trimming outliers, how he used PCA), but is fairly average to see in research.

One thing he focused on and I want to call out specifically was his inference that a negative coefficient on the view “masculinity is negative” implies seeing masculinity as positive is good for mental health.

That inference isn’t logically or statistically correct. It’s simply stating that men who see masculinity as inherently negative had worse mental health, it says nothing about seeing masculinity positively impacting mental health. That’s a really big distinction to me, and it wasn’t a huge factor in the analysis to be the main conclusion (and he criticizes another paper for doing the same thing).

I’d love to see his same analysis done with some improvements to the math though!

Anyways, I digress, I get too into math. His ideas are not Jordan Peterson’s ideas, they’re reasonable ideas.

I’m certainly not happy with our government, but I’m optimistic that Marit Stiles seems to be starting to figure things out.

I would really like an election with the ONDP and OLP give the OPCs a run for their money.

I think Ontario can do better and I’d like to see us achieving our potential and thriving.

I had to look this up because you made me think he ate all 50 eggs

Apparently he only ate 8, but the rest of the crew ate the remaining 192 eggs which created a gassy day of work.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061512/trivia/#:~:text=Two hundred hard-boiled eggs,of flatulence the next day.

Me too

It’s a nice day for a Borg wedding It’s a nice day to start again.

I’ve never seen HD B’lana

I had no idea, that doesn’t sound like the worst day of shooting.

“Oh, sorry guys, I forgot my line again. I’m going to need a new bucket”

Had no idea, thanks!

Yep

I’m more and more realizing that left wing politics and non-toxic masculinity have a communication problem more than anything.

The right wing politicians near me are putting up angry YouTube videos every few days. They don’t promise any real solutions, but they say “we hear your pain, support us and we’ll support you”, and to a lot of struggling people that’s all they need to hear to support them.

For traditional masculinity, when I was younger I did have to try and figure that meant in my world. In todays world you hear a lot about toxic masculinity and how awful the patriarchy is, and for young not rich men it just sounds exclusionary. Then you have influencers like Tate going around saying it’s okay to want fast cars and be “manly”, and that society is forgetting you, so you need to grab what you can. Unfortunately his version of manliness is frankly weak and vapid and sexist, but he’s the only one teaching young men who are struggling.

The algorithms and hours of social media the average person browses daily make this so much worse, but we need more people just reaching out and acknowledging the pain people are feeling, and only then can we start building each other back up in a healthy way.

One thing that does help is to make broths and roux to help stretch your dollars further.

I take my leftover vegetable trimmings and put them into a freezer bag and froze them. When I make broth I toss them in and you’ve turned trash into nutrients and flavour (just make sure you strain them out of your broth).

I do not use potato peelings first that, but they probably work fine.

Accessibility features on phones and computers have made so much possible over time, it’s fantastic.

It turns out thinking outside the box of common leads to great experiences.

Barclay was left wondering if there was a comma in what he had heard.

Was it shit or not?

It was this question that led Barclay to bring Moriarty back from stasis.

Computer, locate commander Riker

Commander Riker is in Holodeck four

…he’s about to do something very stupid

Computer, transmit my financial details to the long lost Iconian King’s ship

Great now he’s going to sabotage the weather system in her quarters.

That’s a damn good joke

I’m going to use it later