Fullmetal Apathy

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You Have to show the same level of passion and interest that you show to future technologies and treatments that will allow people who can’t get pregnant to finally do so to future technologies and treatments that will allow people who can’t impregnate others to finally do so, btw. You simply Have To. One is not more worthy/morally virtuous than the other, one is not an easier burden to bear for those dysphoric about their current anatomy. You Must show the same level of compassion for people who grieve that their only current way to have a biological child with their partner would be to carry it themselves that you do to for people who grieve that their only current way to have a biological child with their partner would be to get them pregnant.

[ID: a reply from @birdman-general that reads, "oh is there another intended takeaway (genuinely curious) (this is the only implication ive heard besides obedience to god) (lifelong atheist but have mormon family) (shits depressing genuinely)" /end ID]

Yes, actually!

I can't necessarily speak for *intended* takeaway (authorial intent on Thee Bible is kind of. Uh) but in Judaism -- which generally encourages questioning and critical thinking, and places a good deal of cultural emphasis on intellectual pursuits in general -- I've seen a number of different interpretations from different people. The moral of the story doesn't have to be "knowledge bad" and/or "women are the root of all evil"

Like, you can interpret it as humanity becoming something "more" than other animals by this act of independent thought (good thing). You could say that God did this intentionally, you could point out that the first thing Eve did with it was share, that Adam took it in trusting his wife. You can take being cast out of Eden as more allegorical of leaving a sort of womb, something necessary. So on and so forth. But yeah the main thing is Being Capable Of Thought isn't, uh, BAD? A popular belief in Judaism is that our understanding of right and wrong is what makes us human and makes our choice to do good meaningful, where animals can only act on instinct

There's kind of a whole thing in christianity of Children's Innocence and Blissful Ignorance and etc etc etc that's like. A lot to unpack. And helps us understand the ideology behind their political interests 👍 but all of that is FAR far far far from the only reading of the text itself

unauthorized fucking thing!!!!!!

(warning: loud chirping throughout)

the first osprey is the father, the one that comes later is the mother.

ospreys are not eagles, they're ospreys

ospreys only eat fish, that's why they don't register this starling as possible food

the starling got home safely

the starling was not trying to eat the eggs, it was mostly curious and you can see it trying to hop under the osprey every time the osprey tries to sit down again--this is because the starling is still a baby and has the instinct to get under an adult for warmth, even though it mostly has its feathers. this scares the osprey because that is a Foreign Creature near its eggs.

at the end of the video you can see the ospreys starting to turn the eggs. birds do this so the yolk and/or embryo don't stick to the shell of the egg, which is bad for the egg's health.

Well I don't like how it feels. I don't feel cleaner without body hair. I don't prefer not having body hair. But who will advocate for women like me, but me? For women who do like hair removal, they are advocated for every time they step out of the house and see 99% of the female population also conforming to that standard, or when they watch a movie and see all the shaved actresses, or view an advertisment, or open a magazine, or watch a music video, or scroll through social media, or walk down the streets without receiving insults and glares for having a completely normal bodily feature.

when i was a kid, i would have to tiptoe around his anger issues often, sometimes running quietly past his work table until he got his own place completely separate from our family, locked away for days. every so often he would start screaming in the car and trying to hit me or my brother for talking too loud while my mom attempted to calm him down as he swerved on the road. and now he, smiling, helps me with car insurance.

The sharpest, best-trained pilots make worse decisions when they're tired or sick or stressed out, so there's two of them. The most dedicated and experienced air traffic controllers garble an instruction over the radio sometimes, so pilots are trained to always repeat clearances back to catch misunderstandings quickly. The best and brightest maintenance mechanic still overlooks a screw or misconnects a wire once or twice in her career, so aircraft systems are built with two or three or four layers of redundancy, and pilots are exhaustively trained to deal with failures safely.