mezzie2

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by mezzie2 1y ago
Setting aside that the others are right and it's pretty easy: Don't need the average kid to be able to, you just need the average kid to have access to a peer who can do so for them. Which is quite reasonable.
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by mezzie2 1y ago
I do think it's harder for women, though being gay also makes evaluating that weird in my case. I find I get more static for not having a partner, as even the queer community expects women will make romantic love their life's true
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by mezzie2 1y ago
I'm neutral on them, but I have MS so I think being a mother would be irresponsible given the lack of additional support I would have. I have always been interested in fostering, though, and plan to pursue that in my 40s if I'm le
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by mezzie2 1y ago
I'm 37 and still very intellectually driven (no children). I do think in general you're correct, though, because it's harder to find people like this as I age.
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by mezzie2 1y ago
Music I like is a huge dissociative trigger for me. I definitely am 'better' the less I listen to it. Luckily, I'm not usually that fond of music of the type that plays in public areas.
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by mezzie2 1y ago
I had an interesting reaction to this piece in that I agree with some of what she's saying but I think she makes a lot of fundamental errors in her assumptions and her approach is wrong. Some of my thoughts have been mentioned in other
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by mezzie2 1y ago
It's mostly about the service's audience. Discord is a huge trans/queer/etc. hub. If Discord were X or Instagram etc. it wouldn't matter. Users of Discord are, as a group, more likely to be antagonistic to anything
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by mezzie2 1y ago
It's not even edge cases - I was a pretty young looking woman and was mistaken for a minor until I was about 24-25. My mother had her first child (me) at 27 and tells me about how she and my father would get dirty looks because they
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by mezzie2 2y ago
Yes, this. And I don't have a PhD, I have a Master's. I'm not saying the wall doesn't exist - that's why I specified I chose an 'easy' path. I'm just saying in my case the wall wasn't intellectua
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by mezzie2 2y ago
I'm curious how old you are? Mostly because a lot of my personal interests/ability to self-develop was related to Internet access. (My parents made VERY QUESTIONABLE financial choices and opted to pay for Internet access instead o
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by mezzie2 2y ago
You get away with so much , it's a terrible adjustment to be 'normal' after that. I still struggle frequently, and have to take a lot of steps not to come off as an arrogant prick. Luckily, I have a fair amount of charisma,
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by mezzie2 2y ago
If you're 'good' enough/identified a certain way as a kid, they'll bend over backwards to get you in things like that even if you're not well off. I wasn't from a well-off family, but test scores in the to
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by mezzie2 2y ago
Small children and 2 weeks of groceries for a family of 4-5? For 10ish miles one way? On the low end? The healthcare point is because it means that a lot of elderly Americans have medical conditions that are unattended to, injuries that n
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by mezzie2 2y ago
Or by people who are disabled/elderly. I have MS, cycling isn't really going to work on a regular basis because between heat intolerance and cold making my leg spasticity worse, I'm not going to have a good time. I can drive
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by mezzie2 2y ago
There are plenty of businesses that aren't concerned with failing, particularly post 2008 and post COVID, and this is more likely the larger they are. Furthermore, there is little correlation between the business failing and adverse im
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by mezzie2 2y ago
I think it'd be best to start with getting people to run for local, non-partisan offices. School board, etc. You're right that trying for anything higher than that is going to run into life ruining amounts of interference from exi
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by mezzie2 2y ago
I agree. Especially since we don't exist in a vacuum. Speaking from an American perspective, if we don't change and innovate, we're going to have our lunch eaten by cultures that do . The rest of the world isn't going t
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by mezzie2 2y ago
I've been wondering for a while now why we aren't pushing for more technologists in office. I know most of us don't feel ourselves to be temperamentally suited, but it seems sorely needed. Maybe some of the recent grads who f
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by mezzie2 2y ago
I think one thinking error that people like the author make is that they assume these problems are inherent to and limited to government rather than being inherent to any organization of a certain size and complexity. (Big Tech is an inte
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by mezzie2 2y ago
Yup. I'm introducing my sister to the masterpiece that is Chrono Trigger by playing an emulated version on my Mac streamed to our Roku TV. Works great. Video is even easier.
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by mezzie2 2y ago
Yeah, we're talking within the general Overton window. Views that are outside of that (and particularly outside a binary) aren't going to do well with the algorithm. (It's interesting to me that you instinctually divide the v
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by mezzie2 2y ago
> For more anecdotal context, my other interests lean into a demographic/stereotype of an upper middle class pilates/health/cleangirl girliepop. Which from my experience they centrist/ambivalent maybe skew left but no
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by mezzie2 2y ago
I'd be inclined to think it's because trans people are more likely to engage with anti-trans posts. I'm a cis lesbian and I only get pro-trans content, BUT I do get a lot of 'random bisexuals shitting on lesbians' c
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by mezzie2 2y ago
I find this interesting as one of the individualist characteristics of our society is 'my children > everyone else'. I don't see the emphasis on having children as anti-individualist at all. Many parents are completely unw
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by mezzie2 2y ago
You don't even need newspapers or debates, sometimes existing leads children to politics. I'm a similar age to you, and social media didn't exist yet but I had political opinions. My first independent political opinion (if
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by mezzie2 2y ago
There's also a certain amount of tolerated variance in generic drug manufacture. Sometimes this isn't a big deal, but other times it can be a problem. For example, if my generic tizanidine (muscle relaxant) is 10-20% less or more
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by mezzie2 2y ago
I found it a great way to relax when life was hectic. Back when I was sober most days, I lucid dreamed a lot (~80% of nights) and I could remember the dreams well. I have/had numerous calm spaces in which I spent time and felt safe. Gi
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by mezzie2 2y ago
ASL (and sign language generally) and tactile sign are two different languages, and language types that are at least as different as verbal languages and seen/sign languages - an American deafblind person who uses tactile sign and meet
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by mezzie2 2y ago
Or if you have to talk to a visually impaired person. My vision impairments are on the very mild end of the spectrum, but they're still enough to prevent any effective use of or learning of sign.
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by mezzie2 2y ago
I have one primary worry about this. Do you spend much time on college campuses or around military bases? If so, you know that credit card companies and shady car dealerships loooove the newly 18 year old adults. I think that introducing

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