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this isn't the gif i thought it would be .

Thinking about how much better medicine would be if Doctors were viewed (by themselves and the law) as advisors rather than caretakers.

So many people have gone thru so much worse but the way the m'lady meme guy was treated for the crime of 1. Being fat 2. Enjoying his own fashion choices was fucking awful.

& that should include foster care, psychiatric care, facilities for homeless youth, etc. Going from one abusive situation to the next is a known pattern. If the 'rescue' you're being offered isn't actually safe, you should be able to leave and you should have other options.

this is often where my sorta anarchisty/libertarian intuitions come from. a lot of the time when you point out that some practice or institution is horrible or abusive and propose literally the most obvious measure- making it optional- people will go "oh but then [thing institution ostensibly prevents]! shouldn't we focus on fixing it?". and every time it's like sure! but im not gonna hold my breath! why should the people subjected to this thing have to? if people willingly choose to brave the thing you're trying to prevent in order to avoid your "help" then that's that. revealed preference. if you do actually manage to fix anything then people will choose to avail themselves of your services. not everything is 10d decision theory chess, it's actually pretty rare that more choice can make a person worse off

Don't they deliberately have electric cars make noise so people will hear them coming and not get hit by them?

The only difference between a chud religion and a woke religion is whether or not said religion has the weight of the government or other powerful institutions behind it. No matter how beautiful and egalitarian and morally aspirational the original texts of a religion are, there is absolutely nothing stopping institutional actors from twisting those words to defend the powerful and demonize the powerless. Bitches in the U.S. will be like "Buddhism is such a peaceful religion, you never hear about Buddhist extremists" yeah of course YOU haven't heard of Buddhist extremists you couldn't find Myanmar on a map if your life depended on ir

That sounds excruciating and he should 1) see a doctor, and 2) repent for his cursing us with seeing that tweet in the first place

if you are a parent, or may become one, or you are otherwise likely to arrive in the situation of caring for a child while they eat, promise me this: if a child doesn't like a certain food or food group, you will ask them WHY. and specifically, you will pay attention to either confirming or ruling out "it makes my mouth itch" or "it makes my stomach hurt," both of which are medically important info that children may not provide unprompted. which i know because this PSA has been brought to you by "i spent my entire childhood and much of my early teens eating peas and lentils while wondering why everyone else liked the Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation so much, like were they a bunch of legume masochists or something, before i finally realized that Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation was in fact a sinister demon appearing only to me, and her true demonic name was: Legume Allergy"

I still think it’s funny how the Exagoge a Hellenistic Jewish play about the Exodus story written in the Ptolemaic period had to include a line where God tells Moses “it is impossible for a mortal to see my face, but it is possible to hear my words”bc Greek attendees would’ve been really confused about getting to the exciting scene where a god appears and would’ve been expecting Yahweh’s actor to be lowered from the ceiling astride a chariot and would’ve been scratching their head wondering if there was technical issues with the crane or something bc like where’s the god i was expecting a cool exciting entrance of a god they clearly got the burning bush effect to work like maybe that did happen during the opening run and they had to quickly insert that line

can you imagine having a small dick and going to buy your Gay Water and the box tells you youre racist

Because Catholicism and by extension Christianity are so big and normal I don't think a lot of people consider how strange the Vatican is just conceptually. Like yeah in the capital of a long-dead empire there's an opulent temple district that acts as it's own sovereign nation, still speaking the dead language of that empire for their rituals, ruled by a prophet-king chosen by a secret conclave of the high priesthood. Yeah his followers eat a lot of fish in the spring.