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ur future nurse is using chapgpt to glide thru school u better take care of urself

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LIFE HACK: you can hit a strawberry with a hammer and you won't BELIEVE what happens next!

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my friend took in a stray and she’s the cutest kitty ever but he named her oil so whenever he sends a picture of her me and my other friends look like we’re roleplaying as the US military

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look at my new carabiner coming

butch wetdream

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Not only are any sentiments along the lines of “it’s the responsibility of a marginalised group to be nice to their oppressor” just outright inhumane, there’s no truth to it at all. The beginnings of this wave of online, radicalised men were in response to some of the tamest feminism I’ve seen. The concerns of the early 2010s were, in my experience, “hey could you not take away our right to abortion and blame us for our own sexual assault” and women were being called feminazis for that, women who self identified as feminist were bending over backwards to assure they didn’t hate men, they cared about men’s issues too, and men in turn remained violently misogynistic. Anita Sarkeesian made a simple YouTube video stating that there were misogynistic archetypes in video games - something THAT simple - and men still made flash games about beating her to a pulp. It’s never been about women not being nice enough to men.

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i bet there were guys in the 1800s who were super fucking Reddit about everything, but no one had the right word yet for why those guys were so annoying. so they just had to wonder

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this may be shocking to some of you but human rights > capitalism/the economy

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Sometimes I think about how and why some people had such a *bad* reaction to the end of Steven Universe, specifically in regards to the Diamonds living.

Even though they no longer are causing harm to others and are able to actually undo some of their previous harm by living, some folks reacted as though this ending was somehow morally suspect. Morally bankrupt, even.

And I think it might be because so many of us were raised on a very specific kind of kids media trope:

They all fall to their deaths.

Disney loves chucking their bad guys off cliffs. And it makes sense- in a moral framework where villains *must* be punished (regardless of whether their death will actually prevent further harm or not), but killing of any kind is morally bad for the hero, the narrative must find a way to kill the villain without the protagonists doing a murder.

It's a moral assumption that a person can *deserve* to die, that it is cosmically just for them to die, that them dying is evidence that the story itself is morally good and correct. Scar *deserves* to die, but it would be bad for Simba to kill him. So....cliff.

Steven Universe, whatever else it's faults, took at step back and said "but if killing people is bad, then people dying is bad", and instead of dropping White Diamond off a cliff, asked "what would actual *restorative*, not punitive, justice look like? What would actual reparations mean here? If the goal is to heal, not just to punish, how do we handle those who have done harm?" And then did that.

Which I think is interesting, and that there was pushback against it is interesting.

It also reminds me of the folks who get very weird about Aang not killing Ozai at the end of Avatar. And like, Ozai still gets chucked in prison, so it doesn't even push back on our cultural ideas of punitive justice *that much.* and still, I've seen people get real mad that the child monk who is the last survivor of a genocide that wiped out his entire pacifist culture didn't do a murder.

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Randomly remembered how as a kid my mom would always fast forward through the beginning of 'Finding Nemo' because she thought Coral's death was too violent, so for years I never knew why Nemo was raised by a single father and assumed Nemo's parents had gotten fish divorced and Marlin had won custody of Nemo. My dad's biological parents divorced when my dad was young, so I always knew what divorce was and I knew my Grandma had gotten primary custody of my dad, so I just assumed that's what happened with Nemo. It wasn't until years later when I watched Finding Nemo with my grandparents without my mom and they didn't know to fast forward through the beginning that I finally knew what happened to Coral and I was *devastated*.

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A princess is locked in a tower and its your job to find out why she doesn't want to come out.

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A psychological trick my therapist taught me, that I in turn have taught my kids, is time gating.

Sometimes, the unbounded infinity of the future is too overwhelming to deal with without spiraling into anxiety/depression/etc. So, bind it. Tie that sucker down and don't let it drown you.

If 2028 is too far away to know you'll be okay, how about next year? Still too far? Next month? Next week? Tomorrow? How about an hour from now? Five minutes, or even one, isn't too short to make a difference.

Once you've got your gate endpoint decided, you're set, and you're not allowed to worry about anything that happens or needs to happen past the end of your gate. Nothing past the end of the gate exists until the clock gets you to the gate, so go find something to occupy you.

When you arrive at the gate, re-evaluate how you're doing. Do you need to set a new gate? Do that. For how long? Up to you! Could be the same amount of time, more, or less. Whatever suits your needs.

Repeat as necessary until you don't feel like you're in crisis anymore.