Magenta isn't real

And they were like "What?"

And I was like, "Agility isn't the ultimate form of preparedness. Contingency is. Agility still requires you to flounder and figure out a solution in the moment, but if you have a contingency plan, all you have to do is implement it."

And they were like "But you can't make contingency plans for every situation!"

And I was like, "Yeah, you basically can if you just identify all of your basic dependencies and contingency plan around the loss of any dependency," and then I gave a few examples.

And they all stared at me like I'm an alien.

As he described to the interviewer a moment of panic and how he he overcame, the interviewer said, in one of those, summarise-last-answer-given-with-appropriate-levels-of-respect-in-order-to-proceed-to-next-question phrasing’s, “Wow, so you rose to the occasion -“

But the key point here: from what I can tell, cyanide has been the main method of getting gold out of the ground for the last 120 years. (Yes, this process is still used today.) Before this technology came along, instead a thin coating of mercury was spread onto a copper plate, and the ore was allowed to wash over it. The gold stuck to the mercury, creating an amalgam, and then the amalgam was scraped off the plate and the mercury was boiled off (urk) to leave the gold behind.

And when processing mills shut down historically, why bother to dispose of your leftover deadly chemicals properly, when you can just bury them in your local tailings pile, which is already contaminated with mercury and arsenic? The known case of this happening in my local area was revealed through a bloom of “Prussian Blue” (ferro cyanide) on the surface of the tailings. Luckily, this is a fairly stable form of cyanide. Unluckily, geologists are crazier than archaeologists and they went ahead and dug a sample test unit right next to it, even knowing what it was, because science.

I’m going to address this in good faith.

Sexual fluidity is a very real concept, even if it is relatively rare. Perhaps even more importantly, people’s understanding of themselves can 100% change over time, and Bad Bunny as an often gender nonconforming dude and queer ally is intensely aware of that. His acknowledgment of it is important to stopping that kind of rhetoric and allowing people to grow and rediscover themselves over time, rather than forcing themselves into a singular box forever to their own detriment.

His exact words:

He made the lamp functional...

Like you know how cishet parents with enby kids will pressure them to be binary because it's easier and not "made up" but then will pressure binary trans people to be enby because then they can ignore your gender? That's what this is. Another version of parents pretending that they'll love their bi kids if they just marry the right gender person but then also will still refuse to accept that they're bi at all and pointedly erase it however they can. Or how they'll claim to be okay with gay couples that keep it on the downlow but then still call the nice white gay men with 2 kids down the block faggots when they aren't around. They don't actually like any queer people. They're just exploiting a loophole to keep ignoring our existence however they can with plausible deniability.

SCOTUS doesn't like enbies anymore than they like binary trans people. If they did they'd make bathrooms gender neutral and gender integrate all sports, because when things are broken down into female v male there is no room for enbies. A rule saying only biological females can play sports with other bio females doesn't mean afab enbies are safe to play sports with cishet girls and deep down I truly hope we all understand that. It will still be women's sports, it will still be gender segregated, and any "little girl" who deviates especially by insisting they are not a girl will be punished and excluded.

"Why do you need to medically transition? I'll still respect you if you just dress different and change your name!" Leads directly into -> "Well why should I be expected to use your new name and pronouns, you don't even look like a real girl!"

Me: “I work on a computer all day.”

Doctor: “Ah. That will do it. Right, so here’s a script for anti-inflammatories and a muscle relaxer. Also try hot and cold on it, 15 minutes each, and then gentle movements between each round. You’ll feel better in about a week.”

Me: “In a week I’m still going to need to work on the computer.”

Doctor: “And here’s also a script for 6 months of Physical Therapy.”

Me: “In 6 months I’m still going to need to work at a computer.”

Doctor: “And take breaks and do stretches between meetings?”

Me: “They book me in back to back meetings where I work. I eat lunch at my computer. I have to excuse myself to go pee.”

Doctor: “…”

Me: “…”

Doctor: “Um… it sounds like this job is actually, literally, killing you? Can you possibly work someplace else?” *

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