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imo the way you feel about groups it's fully socially acceptable to hate (like children or polyamorous people, among others) is the canary in the coal mine for underlying bigoted beliefs. if you're only supportive of marginalized groups when it's cool to do so, probably you don't actually care about marginalized groups, you care about other people thinking you care
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Kind of funny to me when humans are saddled with instincts which, historically over millions of years, offered a net-benefit to survival. And yet now in certain circumstances of modern day living just result in a doctor going, "yeah, so don't do that."
As hairless and warm-blooded creatures, we surely, I imagine, have been highly susceptible to parasites attached to our skin.
As creatures with dexterous opposable digits and fine-tuned motor skills, we surely, I imagine, have been able to fight back against this parasite blight by detecting the parasites on our skin and picking them entirely off.
And yet. When there is a highly unauthorized blemish. On skin. You """"shouldn't"""" """"pick at it"""" because that's """not the way to deal with acne""". Which is advice from someone who just sounds like they're jealous because their ancestors weren't nearly as skilled at skin parasite eradication.
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Concerning clowns and dignity
They have no kings, no gods, and no laws beyond what's fair and what's funny. They will respect you in their own way, but only on their own terms.
You cannot shame a clown in any way that matters.
You cannot silence the clowns in any way that matters.
The only way to offend a clown is to try to silence them.
Nobody has dignity unless the clowns allow it. If you don't like how they treat you as a friend, you won't like the way they treat you as a threat.
Clowns have active clown code / clown laws. They very much are beholden to them if they are a Professional Clown.
Very fair clarification.
Clowns have their own laws. Do not presume that you know what a clown is and is not allowed to do.
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I know that most American midwesterners have a granular knowledge of tornado-ology by dint of living here, but just in case you need a refresher (because this rhetorical system is NOT intuitive).
A Tornado Watch: lower-risk, BOLO situation. There are conditions (usually a severe thunderstorm) that might produce a tornado in a county or metro area. These can be multi-hour blocks of time. Try not to be more than 10 minutes from a safe indoor location, and just have a plan in the wings if it escalates to a warning; otherwise, you can mostly go about your day.
A Tornado Warning: a tornado has been spotted or is likely to touch down in your specific area. Go inside now. Put your plan into practice. Do not under any circustances get into a car to start a drive now (and if you're driving, don't park under an overpass, you're going to cause an accident and possibly harm yourself or others). These typically last for 30-45 minutes. If you're in the lower floor/interior room of a reasonably well-built commercial/residential building, you're fine; just stay there and stay away from windows.
A Tornado Emergency: you might have anywhere from six minutes to thirty seconds of warning before your shit gets properly rocked. This is not a drill. If you don't have a basement, go sit in your bathtub or an interior room. Wear shoes and bring anything that you need to quickly evacuate your space with you after the tornado passes (keys, phone, pets, wallet, flashlight, etc). I've only gotten two of these in my life, and both times I had less than 90 seconds before the sky turned green and trees started turning into shrapnel.
I too was a "go outside to take pictures with a beer" tornado person until my first EF3 (ironically, not in the midwest), when I saw a rusted stop sign get snapped in half and was immediately like "shit, the air has guillotines in it."
Remember: tornados are silent, fast, and can turn everything outside into debris that can kill you. Building-leveling EF5s are extremely rare; otherwise, the more quotidian tornado danger comes from the debris. Sign up for text alerts from your local NWS branch; don't just rely on sirens.
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I never thought I would be siding with the pope’s involvement in politics and cheering him on. I will say that.
Imo the best type of system for children to grow up in would be one that assumes the birth parents/primary guardians won't do shit and takes care of every aspect of childcare that's essential for their wellbeing and development, collectively.
But I'm just a guy who only learned how to brush his teeth properly and got glasses as a child because we had both a dentist and a doctor come to school on a regular basis. The dentist would have us all stand in a circle with our little toothbrushes and show us how to brush and correct our technique. The doctors would give us general health assessments and then have the teachers contact our patents and essentially peer pressure them into getting us any health intervention we needed. My parents only reluctantly got me glasses because they knew the teachers would judge them if they kept seeing me sit in the very front row and still squint to see the chalkboard. So I'm biased.
The only times I ever remember seeing a dentist or doctor as a child was at school. I'm quite healthy physically and I'm very grateful for all the care I got from the various professionals who cared about my well-being and development more than my actual parents did.
We had free healthcare including dental, mind you, my parents just couldn't be bothered. When my brother, as a teenager, asked our mother if she could take him to his orthodontist appointments (which he'd already arranged for on his own) she basically told him she didn't feel like it and he had to take the bus.
If I could improve anything about that system, I'd take it even further and make it so kids could see a doctor and get meds, treatments, therapy, tests, disability aids etc. without having to rely on their parents as well. I shouldn't have had to put up with being bullied and guilt-tripped about the family finances and the time investment needed to take me to the optometrist every time I needed new glasses.
Some parents would not take care of their children even if they were given all the time and the resources. Mine are a great example of that — my mother stopped working and became a homemaker when I was in kindergarten, my father worked from the garage and was also always home. They had a car and our village even had a bus that would come once or twice an hour that would take you to the next two bigger cities.
Did that, plus the free healthcare, translate into them actually parenting and caring for us properly? It did not. They only ever did any of that reluctantly when not doing it would make them look bad, and most of the time they did a shitty job because they could never resist the urge to boost their egos by means of bullying literal children.
So I have to wonder: what did they actually contribute to our upbringing? Like they didn't teach us shit and mostly they just endangered our mental and physical health — but hey, at least they gave me cPTSD! That took some work too.
It's a nice thought that with the proper support and resources, all parents could do a good job, but that kind of fails to account for all those who are essentially overgrown school bullies who despise their children, think they're subhuman and/or mostly only had them because they wanted to have complete power over someone who can't escape.
If children born to people like that can't still turn out ok, the system just isn't good enough.
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"Denigration of [Australian] Aboriginal buildings by Europeans took several forms. The explorer Ernest Giles was contemptuous of Aboriginal achievement. That prejudice squeezed his racism like toothpaste from a tube, so it is no surprise to read that when he discovered huge piles of stones with large central slabs, he assumed, with no evidence, that they were for cannibal sacrifice. If they were not old house sites, they were probably graves of significant figures, but it was too much to expect that Giles would describe them in anything but derogatory terms. … The underestimation of Indigenous achievement was a deliberate tactic of British colonialism. Large structures of North American First Nations people were similarly ignored, or credited to earlier Europeans; and in South Africa, Cecil Rhodes made it illegal for anyone to mention the huge Shona structures found in what was once Rhodesia and is now Zimbabwe. It was obvious they were built by the Shona, but in order to legitimise his usurpation it was important that their achievements were denied."
Page 131-132 of "Dark Emu" by Bruce Pascoe (Australian Aboriginal author).
For no reason here is a library story
There will be millions of actions like this over the coming years. An important thing to remember is that for them to work (anywhere, not just libraries) is people absolutely can’t announce that this is what they are doing.
Not seeing constant acts of resistance doesn’t mean it isn’t happening all around you all the time. Some very effective methods require silence and secrecy.
Something to keep in mind.
My least favorite new politically correct term is "unhoused." Like you can just tell it was created to make liberals feel less icky when talking about homeless people.
I was homeless. I was homeless as a child and as an adult. That shit sucks believe it or not.
The uncertainty. The ever-present grimy feeling from lack of access to running water. Having nothing to your name. The shame you feel is asking your fellow man for the bare minimum. Just so much shame, man.
"Unhoused" is so clinical. A technical term. Sure, its not incorrect, but it doesn't properly convey the emotional and psychological impact homelessness has on you.
You say "house", I think of a structure.
You say "home", I think of stability.
!!!UPDATE!!!
I have been given new and important information on the distinction between “homeless” and “unhoused”!
The term “unhoused” is useful for those in social work when they have to make the distinction between someone who is say, couchsurfing but still has a roof over their head, and someone who’s sleeping in a tent beneath an underpass. Both are homeless, but one is unhoused.
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it's always "did you really need to burn down your workplace to prove a point" and never "how was the revenge arson? did you have fun doing revenge arson? were the flames pretty?"
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Context for other users:
On the morning of April 7, 2026, a fire was started at the Kimberly-Clark Distribution Center in Ontario, California. It escalated to a six-alarm fire and took nearly twelve hours to extinguish. The facility was completely destroyed and declared a "total loss". There were no injuries or deaths. An employee who was working in the warehouse is accused of arson.
Authorities stated that the employee had shared videos of himself starting the fire on Facebook, saying "all you had to do was pay us enough to live" and "there goes your inventory" while lighting pallets of toilet paper ablaze.
ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS PAY US ENOUGH TO LIVE
No injuries. No deaths. This was a protest fire. This is why unions are important, to prevent frustrations like these, to ensure people are paid enough to live.
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why does every story dealing with transhumanism feel like it has to come up with a whole new kind of discrimination against augmented humans that's always a metaphor for racism, when like. there is very much already a pre-existing stigma against augmented humans and very much already an ideological infrastructure that any systemic oppression would be scaffolded on. And it is called ableism.
transhumanist stories are about disability. they're fundamentally about the limitations of the human body and what it means to change, subvert, and redirect those limitations. they're very much about the blurred line between body and tool and the embodiment of tools as a part of our self-image (a fundamentally disabled topic). people who get bodily augmentations that challenge the line between tool and user exist right now, and are disabled, and any further developments in that tech field are going to develop in a disability context.
but every time someone writes something in this genre they're like "uhhh, waow, i guess i need to come up with Brand-New Cyborg Racism!! wouldn't it be craaaaazy if we lived in a world where people were, like, racist, except instead of race it's about, like, being a cyborg????"
also i hate what the word "incurious" has become among judgemental cunts on tumblr dot edu but like. it does, to be honest, show a deep-seated ignorance on the topic you are writing about when a story shows zero awareness of the ways augmented humans are right the fuck nowwww being oppressed on a systemic level. like a lot of early cyberpunk has a very real awareness of the ways disabled people are vulnerable in corporate contexts; "this corporation owns a Literal Part Of My Body that i am, technically, only renting" is a real! thing! a way that cyborgs, who do actually exist in our current reality, are marginalized on a systemic level! if you're not interested in extrapolating that out into your transhumanist videos games narrative i can't, like, make you, but i do think it shows a fundamental problem where you are uninterested in The Entirety Of The Topic You Are Writing About to the extent that you can't even look at how it operates in the real world and can only rotate it around as a two-dimensional hypothetical in your brain.
A lot of people still don’t understand me when I say that reversing desertification is a good thing. They think I hate deserts
Let me put it this way. I really like the ocean. However I don’t think it’s a good thing for the ocean to flood inland destroying ecosystems and villages because some of the natural hills that kept it at bay have been mined away. Me building a dam to keep the ocean away to bring back some of the natural barrier that was lost isn’t me trying to destroy the ocean. It’s me keeping the ocean out of my goddamned ecosystem where it isn’t meant to be anyways.
People planting new trees and grasslands on the edge of the Sahara desert aren’t trying to get rid of the entire desert. They’re replacing the natural root systems that kept the soil from blowing away that have been eaten away by overgrazing. They’re replacing the natural barrier that keeps the desert in its goddamned place.
