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No one thinks they’re a bad person, but bad people exist.

Person is singular and people is plural.

Humanity is many concurrent experiments.

Yes, a rather important collection of them have rotted.

The old world is refusing to gracefully build for the new one to grow into its place.

What do we want to build after this wildfire?

Vishnu’s defense against the rage of Shiva takes priority now. Vishnu must think and plan to defend what resources to preserve for Brahma to start growing something new.

I’d say that caring for our planet, our planetary neighbors, and our people are more important than any profits, petroleum, plastics, wars, or mass surveillance spyware systems with giant data centers chugging our freshwater to inefficiently do things we had solutions for in the 90s.

I had to fill out an outlook form on my phone for a job fair. Slowed down my phone so much I had to wait for the letters to appear after typing. Scrolling and moving between text fields was also a pain. Crashed once and I had to refresh the page and start over. Why isn’t this a simple html webpage? Submitting forms with text fields is basic html. Lightweight, low power use, works everywhere. The page needed nothing else.

Web2.0 (e.g. Twitter, Facebook, Amazon Web Services) was a scam takeover of a free technology system by oligarchs just as the general public started to use it writ large thanks to smartphones. Everything since has been them using their oligarchic control over our societal brain to take over society itself.

Free Mike Gravel for life!

I tried googling about the rule but only got pictures of couches with their cushions parted and covers unzipped.

And then it’s right back to What’s New Pussycat!

I don’t disagree.

I’ve already been thrown out of society, and since then society has been lit on fire by our new government, so that’s not really an option.

You’ve gotta play the hand you’re dealt, and I’m out of cards other than bitch on the internet until I run out of food, but maybe if I can actually get a deer I can extend that runway a little.

Ok, but our bodies and brains are pretty well adapted to the hunting part.

The other day I was out in the woods because I was depressed and suicidal and I found a trail with some hoofprints and started following it on a whim kinda hoping I’d get lost. It’s surprisingly easy to just follow a trail, very instinctual. I just kinda kept autopiloting along even past sunset and after a few hours… there were three deer just lying there! I got excited and tried to slowly/quietly approach and pet them, but touching one just woke them all up and they bolted. If I had brought a club or other weapon with me (hell, even just grabbed a stick…) and used that instead of going for love, I could have brought home a deer with basically zero effort, just autopilot and letting my body do what it wanted to do when it didn’t want to deal with the human world anymore. I’ve never hunted anything before but it’s apparently just a super easy and human thing to do if you just go out in the woods and let instinct take over.

So, yeah, I’m now convinced that ordering a pizza on the phone (and the societal labor required to procure the money for that) is absolutely harder than persistence hunting a deer. Although maybe I should try reproducing that experiment before I rely on it for survival.

But yeah, just go out in the woods and there are deer. Way easier than picking up a phone. Assuming the humans that came before you didn’t kill the forest before you got there.

Not allowed to be green in Trump’s America.

If it’s been long enough, you forget.

But some of us have certainly stoked it

Or the flame war

Love and tolerate the hell out of people.

At least people online are kinder than people irl, and this strategy can actually work.

Looks like the kind of Ministry of Peace poster Fluttershy would have plastered everywhere and would wind up littering the equestrian wasteland.

That’s a fuzzy number based on perspective.

Geologists usually argue for a morphology-based definition of planet over the current IAU dynamics-based one. The definitions that I’m presenting are an extension of the geological/morphological framing. This reflects my background as a planetary scientist vs an astrophysicist.

Dynamicists and astrophysicists still tend to prefer the existing definitions. They are concerned about angular momentum budgets, orbital dynamics, and interstellar consequences. To them, Jupiter isn’t a star because it isn’t hot enough to impact interstellar space and it isn’t massive enough to cause the sun to do much more than wobble. On a galactic scale, Jupiter doesn’t matter compared to the sun. To them, Pluto isn’t a planet because it’s too tiny and part of a larger debris cloud that damps its dynamical influence on the solar system. They are concerned with bigger things, and prefer to downgrade classifications to justify neglecting the influences of smaller bodies to make their math easier and less compute intensive. I want to be clear that this is still a valid and justifiable approach.

Geologists tend to prefer classifying objects based on what they are on the inside. Astrophysicists tend to prefer classifying objects based on their interactions in a larger system. As a result, geologists still usually refer to Pluto as a planet, and astrophysicists still usually refer to Jupiter as a planet.

“How many planets are in the solar system” is a question with a subjective answer based on your perspective, the story you’re trying to tell, and the problem you are trying to solve.

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I don’t see a demand to discuss these issues.

I see violent repression of discussing these issues.

So I respond by demanding that others discuss these issues.

Women and men are the majority sexes, and as a marginalized sex I demand that they be willing to start talking instead of being so dismissive.

To respond more directly to your edit:

This marginalized person thinks that a conversation on these topics is the only way to keep the tensions from continuing to rise into violence.

A debate is better than violence. I demand we become willing to talk it out.

I’m starting to do the demanding, and I think we all should.

I do think that society owes ALL victims of rape and sexual abuse and sexism and harassment a god damn conversation (but maybe a different format than a debate) that everyone needs to be a part of if we want a productive solution.

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