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I grew up with that fear and don’t think it was acceptable. I understand why others do, and I won’t invalidate the feelings behind why. I live with chronic health issues that I don’t have insurance or money to see a doctor for, and I desperately want change for everyone else suffering, as well. I don’t think compounding that through vigilante justice is the answer. I can’t change that it happened or that others sympathize with it, but I can continue to listen and advocate for systemic change moving forward where and when I can.
Richard Dawkins, the esteemed biologist that coined the term “meme,” suffered a stroke and started going hard on “there are only two sexes.” Setting aside that gender =/= sex, how does a biologist not remember bimodal models are not clear dichotomies
So how many images would need to be generated at once to take down a city 👀
If the follow up to you saying you’re done is them demanding to keep going, that is coercive and fucked up. I wouldn’t suggest lying in response unless you never plan to see them again, though, or if you feel safe and plan to address it later. It’s just as fucked up to keep up with the lie afterwards as it is to be coercive, imo. Both play coercive, indirect ways of refusing respect, and the tit-for-tat dynamic risks setting up a breeding grounds of resentment for at least the person maintaining a lie. It also denies the coercive person the opportunity for growth.
The fact that you’re registered is wild to me. One of the few things my state has right is having open primaries imo
This gave me a weird reminder of an elementary teacher I had that wore this animal print often (not like leopard print, but actual leopards on it?)
In hindsight, your question is spot on. I was an extremely miserable child to even take note enough to still remember that in a critical way. Not that I’m critical of it now, and I never said it to the teacher or anything. I gave her trouble enough in other ways
I wish I remembered her name now. Poor lady. She was nice
This really depends long-term. Not everyone that experiences trauma develops PTSD, but at least speaking for myself, I’ve had a few decades of hopelessness, helplessness, and a lot of general emotional immaturity for my age. Particularly since so much of it occurred when I was a kid and heard the line about being mature…I regress to that childish mindset often in my 30s still. It’s taken a lot of effort to develop the social support I’ve needed in conjunction with therapy and education to even start the process of actively healing rather than just surviving.
I remember thinking she had dropped it on accident and felt bad for her when I first saw it as a kid. She made a little “oh!” with a look of what I thought was surprise
Lmfao I had to start using the covers for litter boxes since one of mine does this. I feel bad, like I know it’s not great for them to feel confined but…I am not letting that continue
My state is trying to constitutionally ban the use of ranked choice systems 🫠 fingers crossed the muppets just drew enough awareness to implement it after we reject this amendment
Certainly shouldn’t mean people are less than for being amused by it either… O.o
I need to ask my parents, cuz last I heard around June my dad had snapped out enough to at least to say he was considering not voting for the first time ever in a national election. There’s an ironic push for ranked choice style options moving forward now thanks to our state Republicans trying to revert back to caucuses and pissing a bunch of constituents off by having us vote to ban other options
Honestly I wonder how much reading comprehension they struggle with. Like the average reading level is 8th grade, if that iirc. I swear they drop out as soon as there are big words cuz they get pissed they can’t understand. People that lean left are clinically shown to be more* (not not) open minded, and I imagine are the ones going and googling when they don’t know or have someone right there they trust to explain.
Well it’s mostly been kinda both for a while hasn’t it? I wonder how my dad’s dad would feel about Trump, though. Never got to meet him but he was a POW in the Bataan Death March
Actual fact: abortion is a life saving medical procedure
There’s a Netflix doc titled something like “the staircase” where a guy got tried for murder because his wife fell down some stairs. Regulations are written in blood, as they say
Good example for why journaling can be useful:)
What do you call a doctor that graduated last in their class? Doctor