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Bus and train. It may take longer than a plane, and be less convenient than by car, but better for the environment, right? Let's see.

Well. I COULD drive 11 hours from Austin to Albuquerque, where I have family, which costs whatever horrible gas prices we have right now. (Plus driving time always inflates for pit stops.)

OR take a plane (2 hours in the air, plus airport time, and probably need to rent a car there) for roughly $150ish.

Or...I can take the Greyhound bus, which....means taking the bus to Dallas, then transferring to go to Oklahoma, then transferring to another bus to go to Albuquerque. And it'll only take 20 hours and cost $250.

OR.....for $220, I can take an Amtrak from Austin to Dallas, then change trains to go to Oklahoma, then *switch to a bus* to go to....Kansas? And then get on a train in Kansas to go to Albequrque. And it will only take 30+ hours.

.....

Ok.

Chicago. Go see the Field Museum.

I can drive there in 18 hours. Or fly, about $200 and 3 hours in the air.

Greyhound for $250 in 25 hours. Amtrak for $230...in 29 hours.

.....

What if I just want to go to Houston for the weekend and not deal with the traffic? I can drive to Houston in 2.5 maybe 3 hours? I'd never fly that, since that's crazy (an hour in the air, but driving is actually faster if you account for airport shennanigans). This one at least has a viable bus option at 3 hours and $40 (but then you don't have your car with you, so you have to figure out transportation around Houston...)

Amtrak...amazingly , requires a train transfer in San Antonio, takes 16 hours, and costs $70.

Ok, New York City. 26 hours of driving. 5 hours and $300 flying. Bus is only $180 and takes....45 hours.

Amtrak. Costs. $440. And would take...54 hours...on three different trains.

And I just.

everyone in the trans community, including way too many trans women who call themselves transfeminists, plays this funny little game where if you’re transfemme you have to look as close to being a cis woman as possible and if you don’t it means you have internalized transmisogyny or you’re idolizing transmisogynistic caricatures. there’s “no” transfem butches because if you want to be masculine and transfem, you simultaneously have to deal with all the people who think you’re a predatory man and all the people who think you only want to be butch because you don’t understand your gender and the way it’s oppressed well enough.

everyone in the trans community, including way too many trans women who call themselves transfeminists, plays this funny little game where if you’re transfemme you have to look as close to being a cis woman as possible and if you don’t it means you have internalized transmisogyny or you’re idolizing transmisogynistic caricatures. there’s “no” transfem butches because if you want to be masculine and transfem, you simultaneously have to deal with all the people who think you’re a predatory man and all the people who think you only want to be butch because you don’t understand your gender and the way it’s oppressed well enough.

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7 years ago someone posted this-

And 5 years a different user posted this-

"yes!"

"so nobody in an oppressed group was ever happy!"

"no, some of them were sometimes"

"oh so the oppression wasn't real then!"

"no, it very much was and needed to change"

"but...if they were happy..."

"humans find ways to be happy in even bleak circumstances. it's kind of a defining trait of humanity. they had to live their lives in the world as it was, even while fighting to change it, so. yeah. they made happiness for themselves the way everyone does, even now with the problems we have today. there were good things in their world, too, alongside the bad. even some things we could learn from now, though definitely not their macro-level social attitudes!"

"...ohhh you're a shill for conservative values and you wish you lived back then! got it!"

you can insert tables into posts

you can link poll results and notes to a graph or chart

when you reblog a post, you can annotate it by highlighting words and drawing on the post (the drawings stack with each reblog) (you can only draw in your blog colors)

And then you actually look onto the research.

Kids do not generally hate learning or school. Quite the opposite. Children tend to enjoy learning and are naturally curious. It is exactly the fact that they are forced into school and into the rigid structure of it that often punishes curiosity but also is hostile towards the differences inherent in people, that kids hate it.

Kids do not naturally hate medical care. While medical care is scary at times, the fear usually comes from medical care scenarios being defined by adults overriding a child's agency, not explaining things to him, and otherwise being abusive, that makes children afraid of medical procedures. Additionally the way a lot of medical procedures go hand in hand with denying a child's reality ("Look, it is not that bad") tends to be traumatizing to children.

There have been studies done in this. If you explain a child - even a toddler - what you do and why, children will generally be a lot more okay with stuff like needles and simple procedures, and will even agree to necessary surgical interventions.

If you create a learning environment that allows more for self-directed learning, and involves less specific testing, most kids actually will enjoy learning.