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This is chat gpt trash prompted to “sound Japanese” and it’s based off of racist old movie dialogue. There’s zero correlation here to Japanese grammar and how Japanese translates into English or how a native speaker of Japan uses English. It’s slop. It’s racist ai slop rehashing Western exceptionalism, fantasizing about a Japanese person being in awe of how great the USA is. It’s depressing that people fell for this. I know it feels good to think that other people like us, and sometimes they do, but this only works if you assume Japanese people have extremely limited experience and worldview. It’s mortifying.

It didn’t work. It didn’t save her. But it’s so very possible that he spent his last moments alive trying to save someone else, one of his crew, and they probably both knew that it wouldn’t work, that there wasn’t a lot of hope in a blizzard on the lakes in November, but he tried … he tried anyway. Even if it did nothing but maybe make her body easier for her family to find.

You know that Mr Rogers thing of ‘look for the helpers’? How many times has someone, facing the end, done something tiny and fragile and maybe hopeless just to try and help someone else? Whether it works or not. How many people went to their graves at least trying?

That has to say something about us. As a people. As monstrous as we sometimes (perhaps often) are, so many times we were also …

Whoever saves one life, saves the whole world.

And sometimes you can’t save one life, sometimes it doesn’t work, sometimes there’s no getting out of this for anyone, but … try anyway. Because it matters anyway.

As of this morning I was reluctantly looking for jobs because I love my job and don't want to leave it, but see: $10k raise problem solver.

As of noon today this was no longer an issue, because my boss called me with the news that I was getting a $10K merit raise.

I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders. This is roughly $200 extra per paycheck. Enough to pay off debt faster, rebuild my savings, and spend a weekend a month in Milwaukee getting obscenely laid. The sex I'm going to have on $200 extra per paycheck. You can't even.

The problem is that the rumors they take as truth are not exactly the most well-known ones.

Rest in Peace, Tony.

I'll always remember your smile.

I am begging the UK trans community and its allies to attend the Mass Lobby at Parliament on June 25th, 11am-4pm, organised by Trans Solidarity Alliance.

The new EHRC Code of Practice pushes trans people out of toilets, hospital wards, and community spaces. It normalises gender policing based on appearance and stereotypes. It becomes statutory guidance in the UK by the end of June.

Trans people are now legally their assigned gender at birth and must join gendered spaces accordingly, but if they are perceived as their lived gender, they can also be ejected from those spaces. The guidance says: either break the law, or don’t pass too well.

A mass lobby is where you invite your MP to discuss your concerns with you in-person. Ask your MP to:

Demand full parliamentary scrutiny, debate, and use their free vote on the EHRC Code of Practice.

Support any motions rejecting the EHRC guidance. As of June 4th, Labour MP Nadia Whittome has submitted a prayer motion - Early Day Motion 240.

Write to Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities about our concerns

Your MP does not have to be an ally, they do not have to respond to your email for you to show up and greencard them (details below the cut.) What matters is that as many people as possible show up.

I cannot stress this enough: Showing up in person matters. It is much more effective than petitions, emails, and letters.

It is a horrible, stressful time, and I am so sorry if you're trans and live in the UK. But I was at last year's mass lobby and the line for greencarding alone stretched around the back gates. It was a record breaking mass lobby and made us impossible to ignore. Let's do even better this time. Details under the cut:

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"He didn't act, but Daniel did!" Daniel had years of training for that kind of thing, Jonas did not. You ever heard of the 'flight, fight, freeze, fawn response'? This is to what they are referring! They are totally natural responses to danger!! Daniel fought (acted), that other scientist fled and Jonas froze. Jonas is not a bad person for reacting naturally to danger. He was a civilian.

"He let the Kelownan government slander Daniel!" Okay but Jonas was also a very high ranking government official. He has a huge responsibility to his country and pressure to act a certain way for that government. Would I have preferred him to speak sooner, sure. But even still, it's clear that Jonas is not happy about the position his government has taken but he believes its the best thing for his country that's on the brink of war. Jack dresses him down which gives Jonas the kick he needs to spill what actually happened, but the fact is, if Jonas had no character, that talk would have achieved nothing. Jack's talk only worked because Jack sensed Jonas had that character!! Might I add, that Jonas acting had severe consequences, he was branded a traitor for simply speaking up (and also stealing the naquadria but it was mostly the speaking up that cost him).

"It's insulting that the man responsible for Daniel's death took his place on SG1!" Jonas was not responsible for Daniel's death/ascension. I'm sorry, it's just facts. Anyone with common sense knows this. And Jonas laments his tendency to not act and even considers it a character flaw (even though its a natural response!!) but still overcomes it, by doing what? Saving SG1's lives. That's how he earns his place on SG1. He didn't simply replace Daniel.