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You should because it’s something you want to do. I could argue that it’s literally always dope as hell because it’s either really attractive or really badass or both, but never none, but that’s all really irrelevant because my main point is do it for you. Fuck everyone else. If they don’t like it they can die mad about it. (They’ll probably like it tho.)

Optimist: Glass half full.

Pessimist: Glass half empty.

Engineer: There’s twice as much glass as there needs to be for it to be ‘within tolerance’.

Anybody checked on Extractions&Ire ?

It’s the Minotaur guy.

Poseidon gifted a white bull to Minos to be used a sacrifice, but Minos thought it was dope as hell so he sacrificed a different bull and kept the white one.

Poseidon then got Aphrodite to help him make Minos’ wife, Pasiphaë, to lust for the bull as revenge for Minos not sacrificing it like he wanted him to.

Pasiphaë, desperate to get railed by said bull, gets Daedalus the inventor (and Icarus’ dad) to build her a fake hollow bull she can get in in order to get her high speed rail desires sated.

Pasiphaë then gives birth to a half man half bull.

Minos makes Daedalus build him a big ass labyrinth to trap the half man half bull (Minotaur) in, and then Daedalus later gets imprisoned in there himself with Icarus.

He makes wings for them to escape from feathers and bees wax and warns his son not to fly too close to the sea or the mist will soak the wings and they’ll be too heavy, nor too close to the sun, or the wax will melt and the wings will fall apart, Icarus dies.

Literally any time I get confronted for wearing a mask I just tell people (while slipping in small clearing of throat sounds) that I am currently positive for COVID, but we can’t live in fear any more so I’m just trying to infect as few people as possible while getting back to normal.

As soon as they start freaking out at you because they now are able to conceptualize a hypothetical because it involves them personally, start repeating their disingenuous questions with the same tone that insinuates that they’re a hypochondriac like “What are you so worried about? It’s way less serious now.” etc (it will 100% actually make them madder because now the hypothetical person whose safety is being dismissed is them) and once they’re pissed about it you can start shaming them for their anger and ask why the fuck they mask shame people trying to make (literally any, even if only token) effort to protect themselves and others if they’re so fucking mad about it when it personally involves them.

I bounce between that and making extremely belittling jokes about 9/11 (it helps that I’m a non American in America) only to completely dismiss their indignation and tone policing afterward by comparing the months where we losing more people per day than 9/11 because dipshits like them were too selfish to literally sit on their fucking hands and wait for the situation to slowly be brought back into control instead of making it worse, and asking why they can dismiss dozens of 9/11s and I can’t dismiss the ONE that convinced them all to go a on a 20 year mass murder spree.

So I guess tl;dr: extreme hostility.

The rock seems like an asshole with a good PR team but I mostly base that on him being a whiny baby about Vin Diesel who seems kinda ok with a bad PR team, as well as crying about Dave Bautista daring to want more out of life than “Big angry dumb man used to wrestle but now same movie over and over”.

John Cena seems like the best bet for us tbh. Filmed himself shopping in Chinese markets during the beginning of COVID to show “Wet markets” and the hysteria around them is literally just xenophobia for what we’d call a butcher or deli or fish market or whatever, and how it’s nothing but harmful to whip ourselves up into frenzies over shit we don’t understand.

That being said he also continued to put his foot on his mouth over and over again during that time by accidentally repeating silly shit or referring to Taiwan as a country, but also seemed genuine when apologizing and honest about it being a matter of him phrasing things indelicately or generalizing with terms that only made the situation worse for everyone. I dunno, this is all shit I’m pulling from several years ago memory and it seems like a fever dream. It’s possible I just made it all up on the spot from delusions/dreams.

I re-watch this at least once a year religiously just because it’s the best worst best good bad movie, and is so ridiculous and weirdly not all at the same time.

Almost worth the risk of unmasking near these people.

My favorite strategy for when people ask why I’m wearing a mask is to cough (fake obv, but I try to make it somewhat believable) and tell them I currently have covid but felt like going out anyway.

It’s great because people you’re not forced to keep interacting with try to get away from you ASAP with a (hopefully) newly rediscovered and more appropriate fear of covid, and people you’re forced to keep interacting with will get indignant or angry and then you can clarify that you’re fucking with them and if they think covid is that fucking serious that they’re now mad at you, WHICH IT IS, then they should STOP FUCKING MASK SHAMING PEOPLE AND MAYBE WEAR ONE.

Also raised a Catholic in religious group homes (essentially orphanages, group foster homes for kids who are never getting fostered) in Australia, and I agree with your entire wall of text and thank you for posting it so I didn’t have to post something similar.

I also used to piss off several of the “staff” whose official position to “the children” was babies didn’t go to hell until insert catholic goalpost but that whole concept of purgatory as a placeholder until we accept god or whatever, which always led to me arguing that I should remain unbaptized and as ignorant of the churches teachings as possible then until I go to purgatory and don’t have to make the decision based on faith. (Not how it “works” but is an incredibly frustrating topic for any Catholics trying to keep things “kid friendly”.)

Edit: They really REALLY didn’t like you saying that spreading the churches teachings to, for instance, pacific islands people’s etc, was (knowing they’re imperfect humans) condemning souls to hell when ignorance covered them 100%.

And to whatever portion is actually asking: The dissonance is an important part of American evangelicalism or whatever you like to call it. End result is that God’s plan gets to be whatever an authority in your life decides it is

I would expand this to say not just an important part of American Evangelicalism but the entire core necessary and defining component in my mind of the power structure part of “The American Civic Religion™” and the principle piece from which control structures that allow American Protestantism (at least since Jerry Falwell) to operate with the same purpose that Catholicism did in Rome, that is, to functionally reign in all dissent from “Conservative Christian Doctrine” and ensure that this vital conservative political power structure can never again be divorced from the specific beliefs of their target “audience’s” faith.

Most Christians will talk about “Gods Plan”.

Nah that was Drake.

Nah nah, a better way to put it is “”“Holding both the contradictory beliefs and screaming endlessly in a time loop forever about how you’re going to make them face the fucking wall for their crimes but also in this one instance of a completely different situation that is unrelated in almost every fuckin way they aren’t automagically the enemy (any more than usual for being capitalist fascist pieces of shit just like yesterday when we weren’t currently at ‘active’ war) because our even worse capitalist institutions say so while the entire world gaslights you into pretending a country that was shooting LGBT people in the street for being “removed” or whatever during their most recent coup/revolution/fascist takeover is actually the “Pro-LGBT war ‘team’ that you need to support by sending direct military aid today by calling the number on your screen now, that’s 1800-RATHEOMARTIN” (despite all the articles and videos of their 2014-2020ish journalism literally being living proof against their current talking point and even popping up in the related articles for modern puff pieces about the new heroes-in-swastikas until you’re convinced you’re living in a simulation where you just loop the previous wars arguments over and over and over again every day forever.”“” is what half of being a leftist actually is.

As a former STEM lord who quit Aero eng in their third year because I didn’t wanna make weapons for capitalists, they’re 100000000% a symptom of our society (but one we will still have to eliminate in a socialist one, but not nearly the same way/magnitude) rather than a something endemic to all societies.

STEM lords as we have them are a result of the same shit that makes incels, that makes reply guys, that makes debate bros, that makes twitter wine moms, etc.

There’s a reason most of those things have huge overlaps with each other, and it’s the crossroads of what America enshrines as it’s values. Ignorance coupled with arrogance. These are problems every society faces but America in particular goes out of it’s way to nourish them in it’s population in order to fuel it’s culture war and consumerism, and as a result it’s uniquely effective at educating those traits into it’s population, especially in unison.

It’s also why even the most educated of them feels confident enough to “share it’s expertise” on shit it has absolutely no education or involvement with, etc etc. It’s not just the ignorance, it’s not just the arrogance, it’s the combination and the fact that we naturally select FOR it. It’s even celebrated when it fits in the current cultural product, like twitch “celebs” and blue check marks opinions somehow being relevant, conducting interviews, the existence of youtubers, etc etc. The audacity to think that anyone even should hear their take let alone anyone actually wanting to.

It’s a uniquely individualist mindset fostered by generations of imperial core cultural reform, as you alluded to in the education/general literacy points.

If you keep those things in mind and look back at scientists like Carl Sagan(a socialist) and listen to the way speak about our society, or look at how soviet scientists and astronauts etc were treated and treated their accomplishments (as done by and for the people, etc) even when they were being celebrated they always fostered the view that it was an accomplishment struggled for by all, that it was shared by them all, and that they were all responsible for it’s risks and rewards. That a rich society had to be rich in huge and varying fields and specialties and that the same was true of people to understand each other, even (perhaps even especially) when they hyper-specialized in the thing they did best or enjoyed or did the most good for “the team”.

I went through the absolute fucking song and dance and being the literal luckiest person in the world to actually get diagnosed with ADHD at roughly 30 (no dox no dox), only to find out I was diagnosed while I was in foster care as a child and they just never treated it or told me when I got kicked out into the world upon hitting the magical “we no longer care lol” age. So that was neat. Got my childhood medical records to confirm (different country, never part of the country I was diagnosed in as adult records), literally wanted to stab EVERYONE.

I cannot fathom how much harder it’d be if I was AFAB or wasn’t exceptionally lucky or had more complexity than ‘just’ ADHD.

I still drive 3 hours to see that doctor twice a year and do phone health visits the rest of the time specifically just because every other doctor I’ve met sees medication as “only necessary to make you more productive for your employer lol” and not maintaining your quality of life, gym and cooking habits, personal hygiene and social norms vs hyperfocus binges sessions, sleep routine, social interactions, etc. and I am fucking terrified of having to start from scratch.