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Please support the writers strike

You can go to

https://entertainmentcommunity.org/

>Donate

>Film and TV workers

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If I could not get a post test anxiety attack that would be great

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The probably with being an older student studying in college is meeting people who've taken psychology courses who are complete pessimistic narcissists. Ah yes Gary who managed to get through an entire degree focused on psychology and didn't retain any of it. The sheer unadulterated gaul of these guys who have this massive superiority complex, like studying psychology makes you an expert on the human condition. Most of them are openly hostile and unsympathetic assholes and here I am autism and all trying not to strangle them because they somehow. completely. Missed. The. POINT.

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Anything required by law should be free. Like if you're required to have an ID, it should be free. Same goes for specific certifications for certain career fields, why does the individual have to shoulder the costs of certifications that are required by an industry? You go through all the effort of school and paying for that then you have to she'll out another couple thousand dollars for hyper-specific certifications? That sometimes don't even transfer it you were to move state or country?

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Ethically, I feel like it's wrong to consider scamming white supremacists by selling dumb shit on Etsy with their favorite talking points, but that seems to be a very lucrative market and using their money to donate to the Trevor Project would make me so giddy

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I think I would rather vote for a random Target employee at this point

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The emotional flip flopping that the news is making me do nowadays is exhausting

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There's very few prominent female leftist commentators, that should change

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I want to thank everyone who engaged for updating me on this issue in the sloppiest possible ☺️❤️

No faster way to dredge up the most niche of opinions than to kick the hornets nest 💖

Enjoy the game or don't, no one cares 😘

This whole boycotting the Hogwarts legacy game is beyond dumb. JKR is problematic, but the amount of royalties she gets from the game is insignificant. She doesn't even own the creative rights to the wizarding world in the US. Warner Brothers does. Avalanche worked their asses off to make a gorgeous game and now assholes are boycotting it because JKR is problematic. Everything is problematic if that's how you're going about it. Why don't we boycott the Witcher? The creator of that universe is problematic. It was decided years ago by the community around HP that JKR doesn't speak for HP anymore. We collectively decided that spiritually she is not the embodiment of the HP universe. I have a ten year old who loves and I mean LOVES Harry Potter. Do you think she's going to boycott HP because JKR is problematic? No. She's going to enjoy what she enjoys because she enjoys it. This whole splitting hairs nonsense is so ten years ago.

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Boredom makes me a shithead

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Green spaces are also a key part of walkable city's, trees are often employed as barriers between car lanes and bike/pedestrian paths. This also provides better thermoregulation for sidewalk/cities as well as acting as noise buffers.

Walkable cities also reduce crime and green spaces can factor in as well in crime reduction. It's also no surprise that green spaces improve mental wellbeing.

"Walkable city" is not "City where to have to walk everywhere."

"Walkable city" is.

Sidewalks big enough to fit you, your stroller, your wheelchair, your guide dog, or anything else you need when you're getting from one place to another.

Safe crosswalks frequent enough so you don't need to walk in traffic.

Bike lanes to keep bikes out of foot traffic and car traffic.

Accessible and affordable public transit.

Cities where the essentials are close enough you can travel on foot (or in wheelchair)

Cities where it's reasonable to be able to get from point a to point b without requiring you, yourself, to drive

People get so caught up in the "Walkable" part of the term and like to spout "Walkable cities are abelist because not everyone can walk".

Bitch. The modern city structure is abelist because not everyone can drive. And classist because not everyone can afford a car and it's pretty damn impossible to get a job if you don't have a car.

Walkable cities are cities where people can reasonably get from pointA to pointB without requiring a motor vehicle.

"But fae. Disabled people have issues using the paths in modern cities." Bitch abled people can barely use the paths in modern cities. That's kind of the fucking problem.

Also walkable cities have fucking benches. Not only for disabled people. But sometimes you just twist your ankle and need to sit for a moment.

"Put fae. If you have benches, homeless people will sleep on them."

Then get fucking housing for the homeless. Problem solved. They'll sleep in their nice warm homes instead of on the benches.

-fae

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I'm still discovering the simple amazement of being able to make food I enjoy, like garlic butter, I regularly make it now, it's near effortless, I can have garlic bread whenever I want

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I've figured it out. I've been racking my brain trying to figure out why my feed has been getting angry again, like back in 2017 when I was a novice SJW and I wanted to fight every cause and I was just angry all the time. This type of toxic SJWness is a direct result of the overturn of Roe v Wade and the rise in facism (thus the rise in antisemitic language.)

Now we've had the facism for a while, but antisemitism is the new hot buzz word, like gaslighting when everyone learned what that was. We've also had feminism for a while, but the toxic wave that came through duked it out with the trans movement and both of those groups have been relatively quiet. Then we had the BLM major sweep and the protests all throughout the country. A bunch of misinformation about Antifa around the same time.

But NOW, now I understand why my feed, which hasn't really been plugged into SJW streams because it was unhealthy for me to be so worked up all the time and I had to turn it off, but now the anger is back. The outrage is back. All of it justifiable mind you. But I think it's important to remember, a couple things.

1) if you go looking for bad things, you will find them

Ex. Your favorite cereal was made by a racist, the only pair of jeans that fit you are from a company that employs slave labor

2) we can waste all day going back and forth on the finer points of why something is or is not bad and at the end of the day no one has won

Our fights need ground rules. I've been an observer for years and the fastest responders, the keyboard warriors are generally the least informed and the most emotion driven. We can keep doing this where we spend hours debating whether something is or is not a problem, especially if it's on the behalf of communities we're not apart of.

We can't keep doing this, the online outrage that leads no where except to bedrooms where people are worked up to the point of tears because they can't figure out why no one cares about these issues like they do.

Tumblr is the messiest long standing platform. We bare knuckle brawl here, it gets ugly, but we turn over issues faster than the other censored platforms. For once I'd like to see consensus lead to somewhere other than bruised egos and sore fingers.

I wish we'd just fucking set some cars on fire and get shit done like the French. For fucks sake I'm so tired of issues being confined to outrage posts on three platforms. Let's actually burn something down for once.

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A lot of us with ADHD are familiar with the concept of time blindness, but for anyone who isn't: it's a neurological inability to have a consistent sense of the passage of time. If you put me in an empty room, gave me a button and told me to press it when I think it's been 15 minutes, I might press it after..... idk, anywhere between 3 minutes and 2 hours? And if we repeated it the next day the result would probably be wildly different!

But something I've only seen mentioned in one (1) Reddit post, which took some extensive digging to find, is the same effect extending to ALL things measured in numbers. Distance, weight, length, height, amount, space, volume, percentage... For me, small numbers are a bit easier, I could approximate a centimetre probably, but a metre would be much harder and 10 or 100 would likely miss the mark by a lot. Also, anything that can't be easily measured with a ruler or a measuring tape (like weight or volume) is even harder since I don't encounter reference points (like a 1kg hand weight) for those as frequently as I see visual representations of specific lengths.

It's not dyscalculia or anything like that, I'm decent at math (and the OP of the Reddit post was a math major) and I have no other difficulties with numbers, it's just a disconnect in translating real life experiences like sensory input into numbers (and possibly also inconsistent processing of sensory input? Like how the same sound volume is okay one day but hurts my ears the next?), which I think is basically the same thing as what happens with time blindness. For now I've been calling it "measurement blindness" since I've never seen a name for it anywhere, but maybe "quantity blindness" could also work?

I've talked to other people with time blindness to see if they experience this too, but so far none of them have known what I'm talking about. I'd really like to know how many of us are out there and if anyone knows literally anything actually scientific about this very inconvenient phenomenon!

Tl;dr: bc I am wordy:

It's like time blindness but for all things measured in numbers

Not dyscalculia or caused by it

Pretty much never seen it talked about anywhere

Please tell me if it sounds familiar and/or you know something about it, thank

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also let's ppl as young as 14 drive the death machines we call cars to and from their job late at night

let me re-emphasize this part:

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I gotta say, so much queer intra-community horseshit dropped off my shoulders when I decided to adopt a firm policy that everyone is the expert in their own identity, the single most knowledgeable person about what it's like to live life in their own skin, and that if someone describes their experience in ways I find contradictory or paradoxical I should do them the courtesy of presuming that they are striving to express something very specific and nuanced, rather than leaping to the conclusion that they're just dumb and using words wrong.

Sure, there are some combinations of identity terms that I look at and go "hmm, I don't get how that works." I'm still a human being. But there's a big difference between not getting how something works versus insisting that it doesn't.

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Took my dog on a long walk down and up a steep hill and I am paying for it, sore as hell