“Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?”

As you can see, they never will. You must seize the wig.

I only have the one tone and it’s apparently the wrong one…

Gotta go fast!

-Ancient Middle Eastern Philosopher, probably

And now I want to know the deep meaning behind all of those Chinese knockoff tee shirts that I thought were just poorly translated.

Who doesn’t like a nice, sudden, startle?

No no no, we need to dig down to the magma to release the pressure!

Technically, it is very much linear. It’s just it doesn’t always go the way we feel like it should.

The overlap between autism traits and PTSD symptoms has always struck me strangely. I can only imagine the amount of people with autism who don’t realize they have some form of stress disorder just because nothing that happened to them was “that bad”. Not to even get into more subtle trauma like having to hide who you are (masking) every day of your life. And that sort of lack of known diagnosis would be really hard to control for in studies if neither party is even aware of it.

Everything I know about Barbados involves limbo competitions in the year 3,000…

“Many people have some traits that are also common among autistic people” just doesn’t roll of the tongue as well…

Those student loans are no joke.

I check on the calculator I have with me at all times. It’s $24.50

AI is going to destroy art the same way Photoshop, or photography, or pre-made tubes of paints, destroyed art. It’s a tool, it helps people take the idea in their head and put it in the world. And it lowers the barrier to entry, now you don’t need years of practice in drawing technique to bring your ideas to life, you just need ideas.

If AI gets to a point that it can give us creative, original, art that sparks emotion in novel ways…well we probably also made a super intelligent AI and our list of problems is much different than today.

This is also, from what I understand, a symptom of “complex trauma”…which can be caused by living in a world that is not designed for you and forces you to mask yourself at all times for years/decades at a time.

Edit: And based on your other comment it could certainly be a cause of the trauma that your therapist is apparently sensing.

The people not voting against Trump.

And supporting Trump is like lighting the rest of the ship on fire so people will start paying attention to the problem.

What’s your suggestion to make them listen to their base instead of chasing voters who have never voted D and just straight ticket vote R?

Split ticket voting. Local elections, local primaries, down ballot votes. We need a generational shift in party leadership. Party leaders generally start as smaller/more local candidates. If you have a strong roster of “up and coming” progressives winning primaries and elections those progressives get more power and sway in the party as they win bigger offices.

I think it would send largely the same message you want without the global harm to have Biden stuck with a Republican legislature. They are still bad, but Trump is the cult leader and the actual danger.

Very much disagree. It seems you’re suggesting that the fallout from another Trump presidency will lead to better long term results than a second Biden presidency?

What happens to Ukraine after you stick it to the man and support Trump? Nobody is learning the lesson you want them to. You’re supporting a dictatorship through cynicism. You can be mad at more than one group. DNC could be doing more. Biden could be doing more. Normal voters acting like helping a literal traitor back into office is the better alternative could be doing better.

Like it or not (I don’t), we are stuck with the two choices. Helping the guy who literally says he wants to be a dictator is illogical in every context. If you actually care, volunteer in local elections and donate to candidates that support your views, help create a strong next generation of progressive democrat candidates.

You already did that with Hillary, really worked out great for everyone, huh? I do not understand how anyone can consider a second Trump presidency preferable to Biden just not doing as much as they would like.

What exactly do you think Trump would be doing in any way better in this situation?

Being bitter about your choices so letting others make the choice for you is way more spineless.