If I had known when I was rather younger, I probably could have done much better in school, and would likely have been a bit more successful--in many ways--than I have been.
HelixDab2
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But what if I don't want credit in the Play store? What if I want to use the Graphene OS, and side load everything?
I have considered getting a burner phone that I pay for in cash only, having it utterly unconnected from my real life, and turned off and stored in a Faraday wallet when not in use just so I can use the 'digital coupons' that food retailers keep pushing. I use a loyalty card because all they get from that is my buying habits--groceries--plus an address. But access to my phone? Absolutely not.
I would suggest reading some Ian Banks.
Really? They read pretty straightforward to me. THe only real issue I have is that I can't hear a distinction between a thorn and an eth, so the usage seems arbitrary to me. I know that Icelandic people say there's a difference, and at least one has tried to explain it, but I can't hear it.
Verhoeven's Starship Troopers specifically, not Heinlein's.
You ever go to a beach? See people with children? Men and women holding hands, or being affectionate in public? Because when you're straight, every day is straight pride day. No one thinks twice about people being straight.
What about a Mardi Gras or Carnivale parade? Straight people absolutely do that shit.
...But people freak the fuck out over gay people doing exactly the same things that straight people do.
Gay Pride is about acceptance. You don't have to go to Pride, but not wanting to support it because you think it's "weird" that they want to be accepted? Yeah, that's absolutely bad. I don't like the Folsom Street Fair, but I absolutely support the right of the people to do that, as long as everyone involved is consenting.
That I have moderately severe to severely severe ADHD and I'm on the autism spectrum.
Makes functioning as an adult quite difficult.
Depends. When I was in art school, I regularly worked for 36 hours straight, and at least once for 72 hours straight. But it's studio work, where you're actually making a <>; it never would have worked to have been trying to read Marx/Engels or Hegel and expect to have any kind of comprehension.
On Sunday at MSG, Donald Trump engineered what will be seen by political analysts and later by historians as the coup de grâce that killed forever his prospects of being president and may well have set him on a post-election course on which he finally may be held accountable for his actions.
That is wishful thinking.
Yeah, I want this to be the end of Trump and his cult. But I don't think that it will be.
Like Emperor Palpatine, I don't think he'll actually die or stay dead..
In short:
Yes.
I just do not want to support the lgbt community
Flip this around: do you want to support the straight community? Do you want to watch men and women parading around together in skimpy outfits on beaches, or showing off their sex-trophies in public? Do you want to constantly be seeing straight people slobber all over each other in public, or any of that bullshit?
You want gay people to hide, to not be out in public; that's the first step towards pushing them back in the closet, and criminalizing their conduct. We're not that far removed from the days when it was illegal to be gay in public.
I did great in art school, because everything was working with my hands, and still required a high degree of thought/creativity. I did terribly when I was in school for engineering (prior to art school) because I just couldn't focus on calculus and physics, even though it shouldn't have been that difficult.