i thought i was a natural "night owl" because of comments like yours... until i didn't have electricity. suddenly im up and down with the sun and feeling rested and stable instead of sleeping 4am to noon and feeling shitty and depressed. i won't argue that natural cycles vary by individual, but how many people are fucking themselves up like that assuming it's just natural for them, like i was? you went straight to feeling attacked and lashing out, maybe log off instead of arbitrarily deciding you know what's in your DNA and jumping up people's asses about it when they describe how it works for most people despite what they prefer to tell themselves. try logging off and sleeping when humans evolved to sleep, it might help with that extreme sensitivity.
ITT people find reasons it's not their fault they don't sleep at night when statistically speaking most of them actually just need to find the self control to turn off the fucking screens at night and let your body find its natural rhythm.
i didn't make it, but my read on it was as a critique of male-gendered products go over the top injecting "masculinity" into their branding. they do mention the pink tax ("20% cheaper for no reason!"), i don't know that reactionaries would include something like that. Either way, I agree wholeheartedly that tampons for men who need them should be normalized.
it clicked pretty quickly when i finally went and looked it up online, and played a bit with a standalone browser version i found. the in game explanation just isn't very good.
Terrific advice in this thread, definitely start on flat ground (hell i started off practicing ollies in the grass) and wear helmet/pads (some people might give you shit about these; those people are idiots), BUT:
You absolutely will eat shit from time to time, and you have to accept this and be ready for it. I must have tumbled down the side of the bowl 50 times before I finally dropped in successfully, and it was worth every scrape and bruise.
Someone else said “learn to fall.” I’ll go one further and say if you have the means to do so then take a judo or parkour class - they will teach you how to minimize injury when you hit the ground.
Also, it’s not a terrible idea to walk an area before you skate it, and note large cracks/gaps in the sidewalk, scattered bits of gravel, etc. so it isn’t a suprise when/if you run over them.
it’s because (in the US at least) the “Skinhead” subculture has been colonized by neo-nazis to such an extent that they’re basically synonymous. also falling back on pedantries like “I’m not a nazi because I’m not a member of the german national socialist party” is how nazis try to deflect people calling them out.
edit: just realized you said it was /r/bald… very strange that people on /r/bald would start calling someone a nazi for having a shaved head. i think you got called a nazi for something else, and the content of this comment makes me think they were right.
e2: account is 10 days old, refers to women as “females”, and likes to whine about anti-white racism. tag appropriately
e3: a reddit account with the same username exists, but they’ve had a bot overwrite their comment history with gibberish. can’t find shit from them posted to /r/bald, so it looks like that’s just an out and out lie. why would you tell on yourself this hard?
“MLK envisioned a post-racism society in a speech once and I don’t know a single other thing about him, so we should ignore racism entirely and never, ever work to counter it”