To me, a crush requires a certain element of self-destruction that other kinds of attraction don’t. A crush is also very selfish, it kind of objectifies the other person, and doesn’t make them an active part of the relationship building process. I have friends to whom i’m attracted to/admire greatly, but at the same time wouldn’t want to actually be in a relationship with, and I just try not to make my attraction everything about interacting with this person, there’s the shaky ground imo. I’ve had some pretty bad crushes, and it ends up pretty badly for both of us, often with the relationship being poisoned by me allowing it to go unchecked.

Then, if you’re using crush in a much more lighthearted way like some of my queer friends do, all power to you. Be histrionic and express your love/adoration as loud as you want and to the degree others consent to.

I don’t know. There was more of an idea that things could change for the better, that the reactionary wave was a headwind in the road to progress (can you tell I wasn’t a marxist back then). Covid and the 2020s kind of took care of that in most young people I know. The past few years have at the same time created a sense of urgency and a feeling of powerlessness in younger people. There is very little room for grander narratives, and most people I know are focusing in protecting the small scale and the local in the face of the overwhelming power of reaction.

Or the matrix. It’s a relatively popular idea for how incredibly stupid and dangerous it is.

These kinds of MOBA are largely inscrutable to people who haven’t played them for a while. Like 10 years ago or more the Dota 2 International had a “beginner friendly stream” where they explained everything and it managed to get some friends into the game, but it was a rarity.

Don’t do this, you’re gonna make me want to go back to Dota

I work at an university and I’m involved with student activism. There’s plenty of kids who are cool and radical, even if a bit hopeless/nihilistic. They don’t complain that their cohort are reactionary though, they mostly complain that their classmates/friends are largely apathetic or cynical, materialistic and a bit callous.

I gotta get up extra early tomorrow :( so I’ll pass this time. Hope y’all have a fun time though!

We used to watch this in days where the teacher couldn’t do class for some reason. It rules.

That kinda has to do more with brain plasticity than the old acronyms being better or worse though. We don’t learn as easily as we used to when we were younger so we forget what the acronyms mean.

The federation is what most European colonial projects used to justify themselves taken to its more idealistic extreme, handwaving the material emiseration and genocide inherent in colonialism with vague notions of ‘post-scarcity’.

As far as I know there are no indigenous civilizations in the star trek universe who look at the federation and think “nah I’m good, leave us alone please”. Because to the liberal mind sovereignty of their ‘inferiors’ is a foreign concept, so they must be in awe and reverence at the federstion and there can be no differences that can’t be reconciled by assimilation into the dominant culture.

To me, personally, reading Unmasking Autism was a good starting point to understand why self-id is valid, and even desirable in certain circumstances.

That being said, the person assessing me for ADHD had similar suspicions about autism, too. When I brought this up with my therapist they agreed, but they told me to wait till I’ve tried my adhd meds, because depending on the medication, the autistic traits might exacerbate or be mitigated, and it would provide a more complete diagnostic landscape for you, than just doing it pre-treatment.

I personally thought it made a lot of sense, so I put the autism assessment on hold, and now I’m on the road to get meds as well, considering an autism assessment in the future (which tbh I don’t really need so if I don’t go through it, it won’t make me any less understanding of the ways I function, and the accommodations I need)

Subtly influencing now means making empty promises about space colonization every 6 months and being one of the most notorious human beings on earth.

Of course, it’s reddit, they know nothing about subtlety

Anyone who thought he was a leftist should look into his time as archbishop in Argentina. He had good leftist-adjacent takes, but he was not a leftist by any measure.

Lmao exactly. They’re going to have literal millions of loans be purchased by collection agencies, have them default, while unemployment is low and it’s really hard to get jobs. I’m sure this won’t do anything to the economy.

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I feel like we’re witnessing the public breakdown of a very mentally ill person, who’s also surrounded by people who enable him because it’s in their own interest.

Ye is a horrible person, mental illness or not, but he’s really taken a turn for the concerning the last like 5 years.

Argie hot pot, then! Sounds dope, even if a bit rich. Anchovies in it too?

How is Argie bagna cauda different from the piedmontese one? i’ve only had the latter.

Francis was white (Argentine of Italian ancestry), I can’t imagine what apoplexy will hit tradcaths if a non-white pope gets elected.

My biggest problem with Xavier is that he seems to be obsessed with respectability politics.