Cop ticketing him even though he "likes feeding the homeless" is exactly why "ACAB". It doesn't matter how good a person you are, as a cop if you do your job perfectly and follow the rules of the system, you're still harming people.
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Social and conversational engines (think Stardew Valley or Animal Crossing) tend to make me feel a lot lonelier than straight NPC dialogue. I think it's because NPCs are shallow enough that I don't see them as people, just people-shaped quest dispensers, but when you add social systems on top they're inevitably going to fall short and that friend-shape turns into an NPC and my brain realizes I was playing alone the whole time. I'm really looking forward to the integration of language models into games so I can actually socialize with these characters, even when they're more shallow than real people.
Weapon durability becomes a lot more bearable when you streamline the decision-making process to "do I want this stick" and "which stick do I want the least to make room for this new stick" and/or treat it as an exercise in zen. Leave your burdens at the shore of the dao, dear Bandicoot.
With issues like global warming, they're ultimately the ones stuck footing the bill while their grandparent's generation pours gasoline on the fire.
I went from trans-tolerant ("do what you want it's none of my business") to trans-supportive largely because of parasocial relationships with trans creators: PhilophyTube, ContraPoints, JessieGender, Jimquisition, Chipflake, Jammidodger, and NOAHFINCE. Then there's nonbinary and trans-adjacent creators like Thought Slime (some kind of nonbinary?), CJ the X (nonbinary presentation?), Mother's Basement (gf is Yazzie, trans woman), and Shaun (has entire hour long campaign videos about the BBC's transphobia). Point being, knowing a trans person IRL is much less of barrier than you'd think since parasociality seems to cover it, and trans and trans-supportive creators have gotten a lot more open about being on the internet.
(yes NB is considered trans but 1. people don't generally think of it that way and 2. I'm an AMAB demiboy and feel like that me being "trans" would appropriate the struggles of "real" trans people when my own identity is a "rounding error", and to a large degree feel like gender nonconformity is less stigmatized than out-and-out binary trans people. I'm not transmedicalist, NB are still valid and may or may not want their own gender confirmation stuff, but feel like "trans" as a label is too broad an umbrella, since it basically covers all gender nonconformity)
Biphobia is a pretty big turn-off ngl
I guess "checks and balances" means nothing, then. What happens when congress passes laws to regulate them and they just say "nuh uh that's unconstitutional" when it's obviously and demonstrably not?
Mad World in Donnie Darko, the original has a very different vibe because they slowed it down quite a bit in the movie.
I would rather they slashed politician's tires than let out the air in random people's tires.
Biden has been such a confusing figure for me. On the one hand he's supported some horrible things ("fund the police", continued border camps/deportation, strike breaking, etc) but on the other hand he's managed to organize some enormous, desperately needed legislation that's both boring and rarely reported and I only heard about when my sister (a senator's aid) told us about it:
- Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act - $1T bill to be rolled out over 10 years
- Inflation Reduction Act - $369B climate investment bill
- Student loan forgiveness (blocked by DOJ)
But all I ever hear about is "sleepy Joe" being incompetent and tripping over his words. Dude needs to fire his PR team, because as much as I disagree with him he's actually really successful at the sort of boring political and financial administration that politics needs to be. Meanwhile, Trump's been building his cult and will probably win 2024, roll back all that progress, start a mini-holocaust for LGBTQIA+, and become "benevolent" dictator-president for life because Biden isn't "sexy" enough.
We can't patch the holes in the boat, let alone stop the weirdos drilling the holes. We're too busy scooping the water out by the bucketful
That is valid, thank you for your response. I want to offer a sincere apology for causing any discomfort; I misunderstood GNC as an umbrella term under which NB falls, similar to how "queer" is an umbrella term for LGBTQIA+ in general. Now I understand that GNC is more a lifestyle rather than an identity, and not a superset as I initially thought.
Regarding my own identity, I don't outwardly present as GNC, but despite having masc pronouns, being referred to as a "man" makes my skin crawl, and I'm not fond of having facial hair. I don't feel comfortable identifying as "trans", and as a counterexample, that would suggest not all NB are trans and thus it isn't a strict superset. However, this is just my personal experience and understanding, and I acknowledge that others might feel and experience their identities differently. I know there's a diverse range of experiences and identities within the NB and trans communities, and it isn't my place to define who should or should not identify as trans.
Also for what it's worth, I'm not deeply engaged with NB communities, so my knowledge is lacking. Please correct me when I've used inappropriate language or expressed misunderstandings. I am here to learn and understand better. I appreciate your patience and willingness to correct my misunderstanding, and am glad I can be more sensitive and informed moving forward.