crosswind [they/them]

From the most recent shaun video, which keeps being applicable

… which turned their fake victory into a real defeat. They built this imaginary woke straw man that was trying to censor [thing] and then it won. So I’ll claim that victory, then, on behalf of the woke mob. Well done everyone! We won that one and we didn’t even have to do anything. Congratulations.

Giving it 2/5 because they missed that the manifesto is an allegorical guide to proper farm animal handling. So clueless

Shouldn’t be but it’s happening a lot and taking me out of it. Probably just need more practice.

sleep more

There’s already like ten other reasons I should do that but I’ll try.

I started doing voice training exercises, and it feels really good and I’m already seeing changes and I’m crying a bunch.

Does anyone have tips for not having to keep stopping to yawn?

English said he left his phone at home in order to evade surveillance and that he had bought an atlas with cash a month earlier in order to find his way to D.C., the affidavit said. He also said he wore clothes that would conceal his appearance when purchasing the atlas, it said.

This is 100% a “I know what I’m doing, I saw it on TV” guy

malcomist third middleist

The method was inspired by the hunting behaviour of whales, which work together in vast waters to channel small fish into their mouths, while ensuring the process takes the shortest amount of time to conserve energy.

Does this imply they expect the starlinks to run from the hunter satellites? Or was this an analogy that only made sense as part of a technical explanation that got copied out of context.

I was hanging on to this idea where we were playing a game together, and we all put on a show of keeping up this strained, distant, fake relationship while we took time to heal and grow as people, until one day we would come together and share what we’d learned and build a real relationship. Now I’m realizing I was a fool who was playing that game by themself the whole time.

Hurts, but I guess I can’t really say all that personal growth was a waste.

I think I’m letting go of the idea that I’m going to have a good relationship with my parents someday. I’ve been starting to feel secure enough in other areas of my life that I think I can face that.

I had assumed I was going to see at least a flash of compassion this week, but it just hasn’t been there. That really made me rethink the other assumptions I was making.

Whenever biden said a number he would put however many zeros felt right at the end of it, and that was never a sign of a problem. I remember him saying in a debate that gun violence kills seven million americans a year, and getting no pushback for it.

The populations of those six states increased by 1.6% in that time. In proportion to that, Harris effectively lost ~257,000 votes, while Trump effectively gained ~634,000 votes. Trump’s gains were greater, but not by a factor of 10.

China’s planned “grab and go” architecture “does not give you the comprehensive look for the science community,” Nelson said today.
“Will people say that there’s a race?” he added. “Well, of course, people will say that. But it’s two totally different missions.”

Doesn’t count unless you get samples from multiple locations apparently.

Either way it can easily be turned into 1,001.00 or 1.001,00. That’s why there’s a written out form of the number.

How do we get Trump to believe that the Falkland Islands are a critically important asset that rightfully belongs to the US?

This is a political maneuver, not an accident. If there was a fund to cover important expenses during a shutdown, then the leverage wouldn’t kick in until the fund was about to run out, and that’s when the negotiations would start happening. We’d be in the same position.

This post keeps getting struck by lightning.

This shit sucks. It’s railroading the intended use of content warnings into something impossible, and then dismissing that people can or do use them in any other way. It assumes the purpose of avoiding triggers is to be therapeutic treatment for those triggers, and then calls content warnings pointless when they can’t deliver that on their own. It’s ignoring the use of content warnings to lessen the harmful impact of triggers, or their use together with other therapeutic treatment.

She cites studies comparing the reaction to triggering content with or without a warning and says it isn’t helpful, but what about when they actually serve their purpose? When people choose not to view content based on the warnings? She says she doesn’t do that, and then dismisses that anyone ever would. I do that all the time. I’m pretty sure other people on this site do as well. That’s not her experience, and it doesn’t support her point, so she doesn’t care. The study she cites on avoidance seems to be treating the total number of eyes on a graphic image as a measure of the effectiveness of warnings, and assuming the images would be equally distressing to all people. From what she presented, it doesn’t consider that the people can have vastly different reactions to the content, and the ones who opted out of seeing the images could be extremely affected by them, while the ones who opted in may be unaffected.

She assumes that the goal of content warnings is to avoid 100% of exposure to triggering content, which is obviously impossible and she uses that makes them sound ridiculous and naive. Then she assumes that warnings will be successful in blocking out 100% of content, and is concerned that people won’t be able to get better at responding to their triggers without exposure, ignoring that people can be selective about when it would be helpful to engage with triggering content.

Her viewpoint sounds nice when she frames it as “the importance of radical acceptance”. When that becomes “in real life, staying away from triggering things is only going to make you very fragile” and then she spends much of the video talking about virtue signaling and cancel culture, it’s clear this is just the classic conservative “toughen up, snowflake” driving a misrepresentation of content warnings.

Edit: This video is basically equivalent to claiming that labeling foods that contain peanuts doesn’t work because

1. Warnings don’t make allergic reactions less severe
2. Warnings have never cured anyone’s allergies
3. Chocolate bar sales have not been hurt by peanut warnings

If he had been killed by the cops like we expected, I’d be in favor of putting up statues of our flawed, confused, and confusing hero. But since he’s alive, I won’t be surprised if his reaction to fame is to get really deranged, and start trying to leverage his public support into something shitty. He did something great, and his reasons or other actions won’t change that, but I’m hesitant to sing his praises at the moment. Hopefully he’s happy with letting his actions speak for themselves.