every time I join a server and want to do something cool (with the owner's permission), paper says no
Why can't the therapist just be a gay [opposite gender] then too, hmm?
which one?
make it count
play it gay
don't look back
don't vacate
Perhaps necessary, but how necessary? And how much is necessary?
If the alternative is nothing then I guess yeah. I'd rather they get the subway as shelter until a proper solution is in place than them being condemned to die.
What if you're wrong? No really, what would happen? Not much, probably. The stakes for being wrong are pretty low if you're anything like me. You can always go back to before if you want. You can deal with that if and when it happens, it's not a huge deal, so don't let that stop you. Also yes, that worry is very common.
In some ways I was wrong about my transition. I've changed in ways I couldn't have predicted before (e.g. being less binary trans than I initially was going for), but I couldn't have known that without the journey and I don't regret it. What got me started was reframing it from "am I right?" to "what can I do to make myself happier?", which made transition suddenly an obvious move.
If Heaven is real it would indeed forbid that.
We're all in this box together <3
The plan is making money and gaining power, everything else is just a side effect. Despite how concentrated wealth is, it's still too decentralized to have unified plans. The closest you'll see is the rich and powerful mostly independently coming up with the same ideas, usually just whatever leads to more wealth and power.
At the end of the day they're, like us, also driven by the systems we find ourselves in, just in a better position than us.
Polyamory ≠ unicorn hunting. It's always bothered me that people think of polyamory in such a heteronormative framing.
Shit of Theseus
Sometimes, I dream about cheese
A guide for US government employees for the next 4 years, the CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual
Some more ideas:
I've seen many people take absolutists stances and throw accusations or insults at others who don't. While I applaud that they recognized serious problems, I want everyone to understand why I might take actions that seem to ignore or even worsen those problems: I only have so much power and so many options, none of which are ideal, so I do the best I can with what I have. I might prioritize stopping one bad thing over stopping another; that's not me excusing the other bad thing, that's me playing the cards I have to get the least bad outcome.
Personally, I base my moral decisions on expected outcomes. I would pull the lever in the trolley problem. I understand some people think me a monster for that, and I certainly wouldn't feel good pulling it, but I see it as me net saving people. I disagree with people that wouldn't pull it, but I see where they're coming from and I'm not mad at them (disappointed, maybe). Of course, as well as pulling the lever, there may be options to try helping the one person on the tracks, and we should definitely attempt such a rescue.
This whole topic can be applied to the do-i-vote-for-biden thing that this community seems divided over, but it's much more broadly applicable too.
Anyway, this is just me saying that I don't think the absolutist all-or-nothing approach some people take is a good idea, and I also don't like when some of them call me a bad person for not doing the same.
A diagram of a "bottom meson" (composed of an unknown quark "q" and an antibottom quark) with an arrow labeled ":3" pointing to a "double bottom Baryon" (composed of an unknown quark "q" and 2 bottom quarks).
Image taken from figure 1 of this article
Two (presumably) girls lying in bed holding hands and looking at each other. The one on the left, labeled "Me" has shoulder-length hair, an uncomfortable :| expression, and is wearing a black hoodie, grey jeans, and sneakers. The one on the right, labeled "Also me" has longer hair, a subtle smile, a blush, and is wearing a dress and high heels.
Edited from this post, on which I commented "I wanna be both".
Half Life 2: Episode 1, Direct Intervention
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