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Honestly I think it's worse when it's a language I understand since it makes the sing-talking a lot more frustrating to listen to for me

It sounds kind of paradoxical but being around strangers can help

the times in my life when a random passerby offered me something I needed were very powerful experiences for me

When I found out that leech saliva was antimicrobial I decided leeches are good and that disliking them is lookism

Even without a centralized brain, jellyfish can both learn from past events and change their behavior to preempt expected events.

No need to look for aliens in space when we've got plenty of them to make contact with underwater

People said nice things to me and I desired more

EMBRACE DISCO ELYSIAN THOUGHT

SOMEWHERE IN A SAD LITTLE CHURCH THE FUTURE IS DEFEATING THE PAST

Love that one, George starts that episode out unemployed and is like "I'm a college grad, there has to be something unique I can offer the world" and instead of something that comes from his personal expertise or experience, he discovers that what he has is his hands lol

I have very few resources to offer anyone in need, as it's really only by my basic unfair privileges as a cis white man that I even have a place to sleep, but I'm just trying to make it clear to the people I know that I have the space to house them/feed them if they are in crisis. Without much else to support them with it feels like the best I can do.

I think I've done too much generational analysis, everywhere I look I see generations. I think it's a millennial thing to do so much generational analysis. Everything feels enveloped in another generation to me. Now I can't tell gen alpha from gen Renaissance, it's all just gen post-agrarian to me now, and I find myself hating those boomer-gatherers for fucking it all up

Oh I didn't mean to imply that it would be advice from veteran trans people over 30, just that since they are suffering from the worries and uncertainty that is youth on top of being trans, someone a little older might just have something to say with more personal maturity behind it

It kills me when all I can say back to them is "yeah that would be hard, damn"

I just got a gym routine going for the last couple months and I think now is a good time to get really focused on it so I can be an antifa supersoldier at some point

I'm hope I'm not breaking any rules fouling up the trans mega thread with cissitude but I have a bunch of trans and otherwise queer people in my life who all are in really bad headspace right now, and they've all been venting to me because I am apparently the Politics Understander for them

Is there any boilerplate advice I should be giving them? Any insights from people a bit older than their 20s for the trans youngins who are terrified? It's becoming a real emotional burden for me to hear how scared some of these friends are and I'd like to have something to say to them from the experts

Very interesting site. A lot of the descriptions about terms becoming incorrectly "associated" (the example I got was the word "hammer" conjuring the image of a screwdriver) sounds a lot like schizophrenia symptoms, but apparently they have very different mechanisms.

Really makes me feel bad for Matt, anyone who rants often is someone who thinks in paragraphs, so the aphasia must really be frustrating. Glad to see he's doing better

You'd get FEATHERS on dinosaur HRT anyway

Yeah the reveal of the linguistic imperialism theme was pretty cool and it just makes me sad that the game was so undercooked, it's right in line with the rest of kojima's style of "I just read some good shit and I'm gonna use it"

anyone who tries to claim there was any absolute standard of behavior for pre-industrial tribes like that is just doing fantasy worldbuilding

Every social organization you can think of was probably the way of life for someone out there, from patriarchy to matriarchy, communal to hierarchical

Okay this is a very earnest examination of a little joke I was making but I will say that I agree, it's just that kids at like 5 simply can't really conceive of a "social contract" for the most part

There are some cool chimp studies though that showcase how infant humans and infant chimps, when presented with a little "play" involving a shape atop a hill that pushes another shape down whenever it climbs up, have very different priorities. When presented with physical toys that match the shapes from the play, infant humans usually chose the shape that was getting pushed down, while the infant chimps chose the "dominant" shape

It's not super conclusive tbh but it's cute that kids seemingly want to console the bullied actor

I have a niece who keeps biting people

I am afraid of her