aphlamingphoenix

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

White Pony is accessible and everyone knows it. Around the Fur has the best snare I've ever heard recorded.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

With polyamory, Brokeback Mountain is a light hearted comedy about some queer friends who like to escape to the woods sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

Exactly this. It also lacks the gravity of an entire concept album preceding it and two minutes of static death sounds at the end. It's a sanitized cover of a song that shouldn't be sanitized.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

You are born into a family that practices that religion. The people closest to you insist the religion is true. Every week they take you to a stage performance where the audience all insists the religion is true and they performers not only insist it's true but are treated as a great authority on the truth of the religion.

You are put into youth groups and formal education programs where additional authorities instill in you the constant insistence that the religion is true. You join the local Boy Scout troop and they all insist it's true. You go to a school run by the church. The entire class of students collectively insist the religion is true.

Some religions, like the Jehovah's Witnesses, send church members and their families to canvas neighborhoods, knocking on doors, delivering the "good news," failing to convince anyone, and coming to the conclusion over time that the rest of the world just doesn't want to see the truth that you've become convinced of because literally everyone in your life constantly reaffirms that the religion is true.

The most successful indoctrination runs deep and is pervasive.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Baron d'Holbach was writing about it in the... 1600s? And it had been going on for a while at that point, too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

They can't be above this rumor because their position on drag and trans issues are beneath it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Sometimes the couch wants to top.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

This is such a long odds parlay that I almost want to take you up on it.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I would call it auto-cannibalism. I think it is a form of cannibalism.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

"I'm a bitch, I'm a lover, I'm a child, I'm a mother" might play better than just acceptance of the term.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

On top of that, an autism diagnosis rarely gets you any support that isn't Applied Behavioral Analysis therapy. That's essentially dog training for your autist (designed by the same B. F. Skinner of "Skinner box" fame using the same principals), and people who have been through it have described it as torture. The ADA doesn't make many accommodations for folks with non-physical disabilities, and cops have no idea how to interact with folks with communication barriers and an inability to control their bodily movements. It's tough being autistic in public. It's tough trying to navigate our society as a parent of autistic people. With or without insurance, it's hard. The problems are not purely financial.

I recommend some books on the subject, particularly Neurotribes by Steve Silberman and Unmasking Autism by Dr. Devon Price.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

If you add a section to eviscerate those erroneous commas, I will sign that petition.

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