#anoneiricism

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I'm making a difference in the world :)

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The day you give up on yourself, you give up on everyone who loves you. Never stop trying to be a better you.

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Bravery is not the lack of fear, but the willingness to act despite being afraid. One may appear brave if they simply are not afraid, but it is what they do when they finally experience fear of a needed act that truly determines their bravery.

Tolerance is not the lack of discomfort, but the willingness to accept others despite your discomfort. One may appear tolerant if they simply are comfortable with a wider range of people, but it is what they do when they finally experience discomfort with a person doing no harm that truly determines their tolerance.

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Fun facts from actual research!

- The idea that your brain "stops developing at 25" is a complete myth! The claim originally came from a study that only looked at people up to age 25, and saw the brain still developing. The more accurate correction is that your brain keeps developing through your whole life, which is how you learn new skills and grow as a person!

- The closest we have to an actual "age of adulthood" when looking at neural development is actually around the age of ten to fourteen! Around that time, brain development peaks before leveling off to the more steady long-term growth you'll see through the rest of your life.

You'll note that this age matches up vaguely with when puberty starts, signaling the body physically reaching maturity. This also matches up quite well with the age of adulthood in many ancient societies and hunter-gatherer cultures. Generally by the age of 14, a human is able to function as a productive member in their community.

One thing that sociologists have noticed is that, with the delay and removal of most of our cultural "coming-of-age" rituals, we've introduced an awkward middle stage between childhood and adulthood that was not present before perhaps a few hundred years ago. This blurring of boundaries is shown both in young adults having fewer rights and less respect, and also in preteens being marketed to as adults in many cases (such as makeup for 11-year-old girls). It's been theorized as a major cause of harm since essentially their introduction to adulthood is gaining all the responsibilities (and losing all the excuses of childhood), without gaining the respect and rights to self-determination that should come with it.

seeing ppl put "21+" in their bio/pinned makes me so mad lol. especially when they're like. 25 or whatever. idc even if I like your posts that shit is cringe enough to drive me away.

"oooo 18-20 year olds are basically still children 🤢" first of all did you appreciate being talked to/about when you were 18-20? I know I sure as shit didn't, and I was pretty much the same person then as I am now in all the relevant ways. second of all I bet your opinions on kids SUCK why are you talking like the US government rn

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random thought: someone pre-transition getting isekai'd into the pokemon universe, registering as a trainer, and having the lovely non-judgemental gender affirmation of being asked "are you a boy, or a girl?" in the process, with no one commenting on the person's choice beyond noting it down on their trainer's ID.

ironically, being nonbinary, this scenario would be a bit more awkward for me personally! XD

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So I was reading a Star Wars fic and the character (an imperial commander) made the *brilliant* decision to add shield generators to all his TIE fighters to improve their survivability...

...and this is just the stupidest thing I'd read. Like, first off, even assuming this is helpful, you can't just slap new core components on the outside of a ship like nothing. Whatever engineer they forced to do that was crying. The TIE fighter is quite compact, literally stripped down to its barest components, so just connecting the wiring is going to be a helluva job, and opening the hull to run the connections is going to create a glaring weakpoint that could probably be damaged just by shrapnel or blasters the second those shields go down. The shields themselves will be incredibly weak because the TIE fighters do not have anything in the way of spare reactor power, and any power they do get will be taken directly from engines and weapons - the only two advantages the TIE has.

TIEs are faster and more agile than pretty much any rebel fighter except maybe the A-wing, which itself is outclassed by the TIE interceptor. Their weapons are enough to usually destroy a rebel fighter in a single on-target salvo, or at least cripple their fighting ability and force a withdrawal.

The rebel fighters' shields do not keep the vehicle in the fight longer in most cases - they merely sometimes give a chance to retreat. Watch the original trilogy if you don't believe me. Though, to be fair, this could be contradicted in other sources, I myself will be holding the original trilogy as the key source.

Shields can be useful, but rarely will they determine the outcome of a dogfight. They can even hinder pilots who put too much faith in them. TIEs are already some of the most effective fighters out there in terms of actually winning battles, despite their higher rates of fatality rather than limping away. Also, TIE pilots could eject to be recovered after the battle, being equipped with a full vacuum suit (a side benefit of the TIE lacking life support).

In short, the best way to modify a TIE fighter to make it more effective in combat? Build on its strengths. Which is exactly what the TIE interceptor did, and why the interceptors were intended as the fighters' replacement.

If you want a TIE fighter with shields and hyperdrives and whatnot, TIE defenders were developed eventually. They were useful for long-range deployments without dedicated hangars on hand, but the significant increase in costs combined with the lower maneuverability meant that they were outright worse than TIE interceptors as complements for stations and star destroyers.

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She ponder the Orb

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Of course you don't want the people you're driving to suicide to have guns! If they're not allowed to defend themselves, it'll be so much easier and safer to drive them to suicide!

trans people are going to be targeted and disarmed for the specific purpose of making it easier for them to be targeted for violence and idiot libs will clap along like the moronic circus seals they are because "yaaaay gun control 🤤"