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Cake day: 2023年6月12日

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  • Symbolism was the point of the paper straw thing to begin with. We won’t see a reduction in single-use plastics until we get rid of the entire mindset of convenience culture. Plastics make it possible get the exact flavor of corn chips you like from gas station a state away from where you live at 2am. Plastics mean that flavor that only 2% of that local population like or would ever buy can wait on that shelf for 3 months until you’re craving it on a road trip. That entire way of thinking would have to be dismantled, and they need to fight us on this one little symbol to keep us from having that discussion.

    Also to add: there are a bunch of applications we should be using plastics for. It’s a great material with some very unique properties that make it indispensable for certain applications. A great example a lot of people use actually specifically on the topic of straws is people with reduced mobility. Plastic bendable straws can give them a lot of independence in the process of feeding themselves and staying hydrated. Personally in my nursing practice, I specialize in the management of patients at high risk of violent behavior, and every time I show up to a code on another floor one of the first things I check for is that the patient’s meals are getting served on a “safety tray” which is where everything is made of flimsy plastic and Styrofoam so they can’t stab their care staff, wallop them over the head with the tray, or use the bowls as projectile weapons. Plastics are actually super handy, but getting rid of convenience culture would allow us to reserve them for the things they’re actually needed for.



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    no such thing when you grow up fundie, LOL. So glad I knew what birth control was and a sketchy man looked like on my own from internet research. I went full blown HOE the second I got the chance and that could’ve gone a lot worse if I hadn’t had the knowledge to keep myself safe because my parents sure as hell weren’t gonna teach me.









  • As someone who has had to learn and grow through maladaptively relationship-hopping my way between a bunch of very intensely intimate situations (bad idea, but I did technically speaking still learn a LOT), not telling basic information to the person you trust most in the world for dumb reasons is actually super common, particularly in unhealthy relationships, which are a dime a dozen in the real world. I’ve also noticed that sometimes even an otherwise healthy couple will avoid telling each other important information under extreme duress, it just takes a lot more to get them there.

    The biggest difference between media and reality I would argue is just the increased frequency of toxic relationships and / or high-stress situations (which, as stated, can introduce toxicity into an otherwise healthy relationship). For the most part people don’t want to watch a couple make pancakes with their kids followed by a light morning walk in the woods on a Saturday morning, and when they do, it’s usually a secondary experience as a contrasting leadup or resolution to the more dramatic situation.

    My worry right now is producers attempting to introduce a strong sexual component to this show. I say this even as someone with my own hypersexual tendencies and typical enjoyment of lascivious media. The asexuality on top of the agendered nature of the protagonist is fairly central to the story, and I’m LIVING for their interrelationship with the spaceship bot that is extremely similar to a “like an old married couple” / “belligerent sexual tension” trope just without the sexual component. An ace couple with that much chemistry is just amazing in ways I don’t have words for but I can absolutely see some media exec trying to say it won’t sell as well without a sexual aspect and I’m crossing my fingers they’ll get told where to stuff it.