Yeah, I know and knew, hence not following that path. Went for teaching where I did 80 hour weeks for a little more than minimum wage instead. But we’re talking about “perfect” lives here - which for me, would be being a professor of Chinese history or math at a small liberal arts university in a small town where no one gave a shit I was trans.

I really would have liked to have become a history or math professor at a small university. Living close enough to campus to walk, getting to go to my colleagues lectures and learn new things, keeping a dozens of books checked out from the library at the same time…

The Fog of War is a damn good documentary. I watched it in a college class about the Vietnam War, and that class absolutely radicalized me. There was zero reason for the US to be there.

I used to travel a lot in eastern Oklahoma, and left a lot of stickers at gas stations in the middle of bumble fuck nowhere towns. Probably less smiles and more anger honestly, but fuck them. Also did some on a trip to Missouri, where I’m pretty sure it was illegal for me to piss.

“A trans person peed here” stickers in gas station bathrooms/other public bathrooms.

The Giant’s Drink from Ender’s Game always seemed really compelling to me. The emergent gameplay reacted to your state of mind and serving as some sort of arcane test of your mind.

The Facebook post I got this from had an AI description. I have met some who genuinely had a religious world view based on god being a Shrek made out of flubber (the Trinity manifest in the fact that flubber is solid, liquid, and gas at the same time.)

There’s a more horrifying story that no one talks about that parallels Sodom and Gomorrah - the story of Levite’s concubine.

The parallelism there suggests that the issue is more with hospitality than homosexuality in particular. In this story, it is heterosexual rape that leads to the destruction of a city. Also kinda suggests that the people would have fucked the angels to death, like the poor concubine.

You are incorrect when it comes to the United Stares. There is a varying period of time you have to go without seizures, but you are not permanently barred from driving.

When I had seizures several years ago, I was told to wait for six months by the doctor. They didn’t report anything to any regulatory authority, it really just worked on the honor system. My seizures were controlled, and I drive regularly now.

It’s state by state. Some states don’t make physicians report, so there’s not necessarily enforcement. I waited the six months my state requires after my seizures, but there wasn’t really any mechanism by which a cop would have known if I hadn’t.

I really need things to be habeñero level at least. Sometimes I’ve gotten a grinder of dried ghost chiles to get things up to snuff.

They kinda be in charge of a lot of things lately. Hard to avoid talking about them.

“I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.”

“The three children of Paddy’s sister Margaret were there at the time, Maire (18), … Seamus (16) and Barbara (12) … Despite her dirty nails, Barbara was a beautiful child and Erwin became infatuated with her. She was the third instance of his ‘Lolita complex’, taking her place along with ‘Weibi’ Rella and ‘Ithi’ Junger.

Nah, I think it’s pretty important for people to know that Schrödinger was a pedophile rapist and virulent misogynist.

Iirc, this is kinda how mitochondria might have become a thing. A living thing eating another living thing, and it become an organ

It looks like a common issue is for blackmailers/thieves to find men on Grindr to extort, attack and/or rob - knowing the police will do nothing to investigate.

Your comic isn’t funny or even trying to be funny. It’s didactic, and really boring tbh.

The exaggerated arch suggests getting in position to be taken from behind. The man’s a bottom.

I’m certified in special education and spent two hours of my day today teaching an adult how to do subtraction. I’ve worked with kids with Down syndrome. I entirely believe that it would be possible for 95% of students, if given the appropriate support, to learn how to take a simple derivative and have some vague understanding of what they did. It just takes visuals, good use of real world examples and metaphor, and patience.

It’s not uncommon to have a sneeze reflex when aroused.