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[tirsynni]

Every now and then I'm reminded of the insane American, Puritan desire to add moral weight to all sorts of things which are, by nature, absolutely unrelated to morals. Then politicians take advantage of those deep-seated prejudices to enact laws making it harder for innocent people to get aid or to punish innocent people, and supposedly "woke" people nod and go, "Well, I guess that makes sense."

Being overweight isn't evil or morally questionable. Being overweight shouldn't open someone to judgement or prevent them from good healthcare.

Someone falling sick just means they fell sick. That's it. Can we please get over the ancient perspective of illness (including covid!) being a sign of moral wrongdoing and people deserving their fate? "Well, this person got sick because they were stupid, and they deserve what they got." Everyone deserves good medical care. Once you start putting people in "deserving" and "undeserving" boxes, you're opening the door to you one day being shoved into the "undeserving" box.

Someone being homeless. Holy fuck. Most of the people in the United States are horrifyingly vulnerable to becoming homeless, but when it happens to someone? They deserved it. They did something wrong. Why should we help them? Homelessness isn't an individual, moral issue: it is a fucking systematic issue.

The list keeps going. This mentality just opens the door for people to merrily judge others while dismissing their own behaviors and actions, because the other person is morally impure and they are "Good people." That's not how it works. This stuff doesn't come with a moral weight. You're just being a self-righteous dick.

[nedcaratacus]

[alivingtypo]

you can pry starting sentences with 'and' or 'but' out of my cold, dead hands

[suzypfonne]

Before January 2025:

If you are a USAmerican in a relationship that might be affected by legislation that dissolves same-sex marriages, who may no longer be recognized as next-of-kin, especially if you have children, get your rights in writing!

Your marriage certificate may not be enough to prove you have rights to make medical decisions for non-biological children or for a same-sex spouse or partner.

Go to a lawyer, get it spelled out as clearly as possible that you have a voice in emergency medical and legal situations.

[sreegs]

[animentality]

[some-pers0n]

I hate how people will look at popular indie artists who had one or two songs go viral on TikTok and start making fun of anybody who listens to them. "Oh you listen to Lemon Demon, Will Wood, Jack Stauber, Glass Animals, and Mother Mother? Tsk, don't you know that is stupid TikTok neurodivergent white transmasc preteen music? It's so mid and bad you should listen to real music–" you are a pit of misery

[noodles-and-tea]

[faeriekit]

"This fic was ai generated—" Cool, so lemme block you real quick

[gnusnoteunuchs]

ME: ah, fuck! these allergies are going crazy!

THE PERFIDIOUS POLLEN PARTICLE:

[politijohn]

Source

This entire article is worth the read. Fuck Gilead

[banrionceallach]

You know, that Mythbusters post legitimately changed my life. Before seeing it, I had exponentially more guilt and stress about not being able to sleep, which of course, further exacerbated my inability to sleep.

Now, every time I wake up about three am, knowing I have to get up at 6.45, instead of stressing and panicking about how my day is going to be sleep deprived and miserable, I just tell myself 'Time to activate Mythbusters Protocol' and lie there with my eyes closed safe in the knowledge that I am measurably reducing later feelings of exhaustion.

And when this happens, about 70% of the time the reduction of guilt and stress means I actually do fall back asleep, so all in all instead of getting only three or four hours sleep, I get five to six and a half.

Which y'know, major improvement in health and energy.

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

Just in case you've never seen a monkey run …… （a monkey in qianling mountain黔灵山 in china)

[vamprisms]

i feel like a lot of the 'i hate kids' crowd would be more tolerant if they understood that due to a kid's limited experience of the world that 4 hour flight might just be the longest they've ever had to sit still for or that trapped finger might literally be the most pain they've ever felt in their short life or they might not have ever seen a person with pink hair ever so of course they want to touch it or nobody's told them yet that they can't run around the museum and they only just learned cheetahs are the fastest animals so of course they want to put that to the test. how were they supposed to know etc etc.

[archi-pelago]

maybe never forgive. but things are different now. so we'll use maybe.