“Oh great computer, how do we solve the climate crisis?”

“Use your brains and stop wasting tons of electricity and water on useless shit.”

Ughh, don’t make me switch my browser again…

Oh that’s great. Which ones? I doubt that Pride and Prejudice or The Very Hungry Caterpillar are very helpful here.

If you can’t even recommend any book on this topic, then your comment really doesn’t help OP at all.

Really off topic, but can you tell what happened with the shoe situation afterwards? What did you do then?

Opening anyone’s door without knocking is just being a dick and violating another person’s privacy.

This is utter nonsense. Condoms work 99% of the time, and most women aren’t horrible people.

People buy usernames???

On console you can’t do that. Also worlds and addons. (most of them suck and are just cash grabs.)

Under-microwaved burritos??

While you could try to deradicalize him, you absolutely don’t owe anything to someone who not only has failed his duty as a parent to support you, but also actively opposes your rights.

(also, reminder that there is no such thing as a ‘Roman’ salute)

Don’t. No matter how stupid you look, remember that it’s what makes you happy and that is a hundred more times important that people judging you. Don’t stop being a beacon of light surrounded by darkness.

Because ‘protecting the children’ is really effective, as most people want to protect children, especially their own.

Here’s how I think it goes for a lot of people:

1: never have actually interacted with trans people

2: the first time you are introduced to trans people is a transphobic friend or pastor or podcast host or whoever. I believe it’s most effective if the person is someone you trust, especially in a position of authority.

3: they tell you trans people are evil wicked perverts, and since you trust this person and have never heard of this before, you believe it. And besides, who doesn’t want to protect children? Evil wicked perverts, that’s who, and you are not an evil wicked pervert are you? (Personally, I theorise that people are most likely to believe and keep believing whoever happens to be the first person to tell them about a certain subject.)

4: chances are, this leads to you isolating yourself from anyone who could prove you this isn’t true. If you somehow became friends with a trans person, you might understand that maybe they are not evil wicked perverts, but since your first reaction to learning someone is trans would be aggression, this is very unlikely to happen. (You could compare this to how cults isolate their members from people outside the cult to prevent them from encountering different perspectives that could change their mind.)

So, long story short: propaganda.

There’s a long road waiting for him, but seems like he is walking in the right direction now.

You don’t try to make everyone happy?

I’m not familiar with Star Wars, but I remember hearing something about the original movies being intended as commentary/allegory for the Vietnam war?

made this quickly

Wait what? Is this only an American thing or do they have that dye in EU too?

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Also if you’re wondering why any person turned out the way they are, looking at their childhood explains a lot. Hitler, in this case, had a violently abusive father and IIRC a few of his siblings died (I think from unrelated causes?) when he was a child.

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