Grrrr Hoot

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
homunculus-argument
homunculus-argument

The dichtonomy between "wet" and "creepy" is artifical and bizarre. The two are not mutually exclusive. There is significant overlap between them. Creepy is 100% water soluble. But it sure does not seem to be soluble with oils. Fat and creepy do not mix together even if you try to mix them together. Can't draw a fat bitch and make it creepy. Or I can't, anyway. Always turns out just sunshine and rainbows. Uncanny valley just slides off 'em.

homunculus-argument

No wait I figured out the mistake. I drew a fat bitch and tried to make her creepy, when I should have started with drawing a creepy bitch and then make her fat.

homunculus-argument

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iwilleatyourenglish

i think it's actually really horrifying and detrimental that it's considered socially unacceptable to tell parents when they are making mistakes while raising their kids

iwilleatyourenglish

"don't tell me how to raise my kids" is seen as a good defense and it's so disturbing to me.

children are not your property that you can do whatever you like with.

giving birth or impregnating someone or adopting doesn't give you some inherent wisdom that means you can never fuck up.

and you shouldn't have the right to abuse or neglect or misinform a child just because you have legal guardianship of them.

they deserve to have others speak up on their behalf. i don't care if it hurts your ego.

iwilleatyourenglish

the vast majority of the time, it is all about ego and control btw.

a staggering amount of parents view their children as their property and see advice as someone trying to take away their "deserved" control.

a ton of them are more concerned with being perceived as a good parent over actually being one.

iwilleatyourenglish

fundamentally awful shit like corporal punishment, anti vaxxing, poor homeschooling, parentification, child stars, kids being kicked out of their homes or forced into cults... all of that is possible because:

  • parents are allowed to have legal and social domain over their children,
  • parents are seen as suddenly being imbued with innate childrearing knowledge just by virtue of having a child, and
  • it's socially stigmatized to voice concern over a child that isn't "yours."

so much of the world's suffering is caused by this shit it's crazy.

prokopetz
prokopetz

The OSR movement may have its issues, but ultimately we've got to reckon with the fact that, to a large extent, it's merely reacting to the broader indie tabletop roleplaying sphere's tendency to lose sight of why many people take up the hobby in the first place: for a safe and budget-friendly way to satisfy the natural human impulse to put one's friends in some kind of fucked up labyrinth.

assumptionprime
tpwrtrmnky

Worst semantic drift in trans discourse by far is how "transmed" got butchered.

Transmedicalism used to refer to people who were fully complicit with the idea that transness should be decided by medical institutions, and that only a few true transsexuals should get to access any form of medical transition. It referred to the types who genuinely believe that, for instance, lesbian trans women in general are just fetishists.

Nowadays, "transmed" gets thrown at people who advocate for accessing care without relying on these institutions, or even just suggest that medical transition can be good for someone.

It's effectively been co-opted entirely from a criticism of people who advocate for compliance with power structures, to an accusation thrown at people directly opposed to those same structures.

tpwrtrmnky

Like please understand that the people encouraging medical transition also support broadening access to medical transition for everyone, and aren't attacking you for having a hard time getting it.

tpwrtrmnky

#i thought it also referred to people who believe youre not really trans if you dont seek gender affirming care#or if you dont seek the full package i.e. hormones but no surgeries

This is sort of downstream from the "medical institutions are the ultimate authority on transness" foundation. Historically, gender clinics operated on a prescriptive "full package or nothing, trans people don't exist until they show up at the clinic" model of transness, and transmedicalists, being bootlickers, fall in line with that.

talenlee
redstonedust

hey 90s kids remember THESE nostalgia bombs? prepare to feel OLD! [tv show only aired in north america] [toy only sold in north america] [beverage only sold in north america] [snack only produced in north america-]

moss-wizard

If you don't remember all of these you're not a true 90s kid.

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passerkirbius

You know, I try to describe these things to people, they don't believe me!

talenlee

What'll really fuck with them is how many of these shows are non-commercial TV, made literally just to entertain and inform kids.

derinthescarletpescatarian
beardedmrbean

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toastycyborg

I scrolled past this without second thought. Paused. Thought, wait, I've never seen a crane on the road. Scrolled back up. No answers. Typed this response, then noticed the book's author. What a whirlwind

orcboxer

Basically they bring it in piece by piece and assemble it on-site, using a smaller mobile crane (trucks with crane attachments) and once the crane itself is assembled, the top part can use hydraulics to climb up and down its own mast, so it builds itself taller like this

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There is however no explanation for BJ Nomnom