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I need fat female characters in tv whose weight is inconsequential. It means nothing to the story.

I like to experience things on my own, and the internet exists in such opposition to that concept that I think it gets perceived as hating mainstream things or hating that people are having fun, or just kneejerk contrarianism. It's not, though, it makes no difference to me what other people enjoy or how many friends and strangers they share it with.

“For example, if you’re trying to convince people to boycott a segregated store, your object is to convince them that boycotting the store will have a strategic effect, not that desegregation is morally important. For whatever reason, on a cognitive level human beings have a really hard time with this. Smucker cites an example of a Lefty roleplaying session where people were tasked with selling an action to people who agreed with them on principle but didn’t see the strategic merit of the action. Surprisingly, the sellers couldn’t make the conceptual switch to sell strategic merit: instead, they doubled down on THIS ISSUE IS IMPORTANT — even though it had been stressed to them that the people they were selling to bought into the importance of the issue. People react poorly to “this is important, so do WHATEVER I SAY”; they want to be convinced that what you’re proposing will work.”

Also from above:

Somewhat related, my favorite comic strip of all time:

I would actually go as far as to say that MOST abuse is unintentional. I think most people will go through their lives without ever experiencing intentional abuse. People are abusive because they're selfish, because they're stressed, because they care more about what society thinks they should do than the impacts of their actions on their children and partners, because they think what they're doing is correct, because they've made it make sense in their own heads, because they think they can fix their victims, they think they can fix their relationships, they think they can stop you from leaving, they think they can make you a better partner to them, they think that means you need to do what they want. We've sort of constructed mental illness in a way that doing this shit to other people counts as a form of mental illness because it is anti social behavior in the literal sense— it is behavior that causes social harm.

thinking about coptic mummy paintings and weeping

Me for most of the video: okay okay cool, I like the clicky noise, but why is it so long? What’s the point?

…and for those looking to understand the physics, @rpmaniac adds:

blue sunset on Mars is a real phenomenon caused by the way Martian dust scatters sunlight.