eat trash be free

if you are pure of heart and strong of spirit, grocery shopping takes just half an hour and only hurts a little bit

Green heron (Butorides virescens)

If your system doesn't account for the fact that Parents Are Going To Be Abusive/Neglectful/Insufficient then it objectively sucks I'm sorry I don't make the rules

Monitored bank accounts for those under 18. Requiring parental consent for medical procedures. Parental controls on personal devices. "We won't teach this at school because parents are supposed to address it at home." Anything that puts all of the child's power onto the parents' hand, anything that assumes parents are going to inherently do enough of a good job no one else needs to interfer, every single one of these IS going to be used by controlling, neglectful or unprepared parents and already are, and if the system did not account for that very real, tangible, dangerous tendency, then it's not worth fucking anything. You shouldn't make things "for the youth"/with children in mind if you are going to overlook this painfully common aspect of their lives u_u

when they say "for the children", almost universally they in fact actually mean "for [controlling] the children"

The Clarifier would like to make just one more comment

our idiotic ancestors used to believe stuff that's not true but luckily we've now figured out all the true things to believe in

pain is a sensation just like any other and one that you shouldn't be so eager to deny yourself which is why i will not be taking the ibuprofen oh is that a tuna treat for me how considerate

im so sorry that you're doomed by the narrative but i really need you to answer my message on Microsoft Teams

efforts towards a "positive vision of masculinity" or whatever are so funny because what these guys are trying to figure out is literally "what's a way of being a good person that's Not For Girls™"

I have a headache because I'm a bad person