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Comment on LGBTQ folks check-in thread - how're you all doing? in ~lgbt
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Comment on LGBTQ folks check-in thread - how're you all doing? in ~lgbt
Moonchild Link Parenttestosterone is much safer to get illicitly than estrogen because the market is orders of magnitude largertestosterone is much safer to get illicitly than estrogen because the market is orders of magnitude larger
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Comment on LGBTQ folks check-in thread - how're you all doing? in ~lgbt
Moonchild Link Parentfwiw, drugs of all stripes can be gotten easily, cheaply, and safely from the internetfwiw, drugs of all stripes can be gotten easily, cheaply, and safely from the internet
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Comment on Thoughts on Donald Trump, America and what this all means in ~society
Moonchild Linkthere was never any justice (or injustice), nor fundamental human nature. these are abstractions. but the state of the world is much, much worse than i thought it was, and it is heading in a...we don't live in a just world. When my partner was crying last night, I think that's what she was feeling the loss of most of all. The idea that despite the imperfections of the world, somewhere underneath there is some form of justice based in the fundamentally good nature of human beings
there was never any justice (or injustice), nor fundamental human nature. these are abstractions. but the state of the world is much, much worse than i thought it was, and it is heading in a direction that is much worse than the one i thought it would go (which was already quite bad), with material implications for many, many people, including me. at least, that's what had me crying
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Comment on Mel Manuel, trans candidate for US House, injected testosterone on camera in a campaign ad in ~lgbt
Moonchild Link.oO( based based based based based based based based based based based ).oO( based based based based based based based based based based based )
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Comment on Non-college educated White men used to be ahead in the American economy. Now they’ve fallen behind. in ~finance
Moonchild Link Parentthis confuses me. assuming most people are straight, neither gender should be disproportionately single—they should be single at the same rate. if young men are single and young women are not,...Young men are also now much more likely to be be unmarried or without a partner, something that has been increasing for all genders over the years, but has disproportionately affected young men
this confuses me. assuming most people are straight, neither gender should be disproportionately single—they should be single at the same rate. if young men are single and young women are not, then it must be because the young women must be with older men, and so the older women must also be disproportionately single. but i haven't heard anybody talk about that. i suspect 'young men are disproportionately single' is a cover for a slightly different problem, but i'm not sure
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Comment on Non-college educated White men used to be ahead in the American economy. Now they’ve fallen behind. in ~finance
Moonchild Link Parenti found the comments on those youtube videos somewhat illuminating. also these videos (from a conservative woman) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhvJ-4xqx4A...i found the comments on those youtube videos somewhat illuminating. also these videos (from a conservative woman) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhvJ-4xqx4A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n3kEXR2boM. i think it is not so much direct criticism as perceived condescension, which reads indirectly as criticism but also profound disconnect
second one
the main thing i find gross about that one is the implication that you should compromise on your political beliefs in exchange for sexual validation. and i think that might be why that ad didn't land. either way, even if that could improve turnout in the short term, it is not how you solve the problem
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Comment on US Senate investigation into Medicare and Medicaid insurance providers finds they are using "AI" to deny care in ~society
Moonchild (edited )Link Parentindeed, but traditionally the predictions were interpretable (it's pretty easy to see why smoking might raise your health insurance premiums). not so for an opaque matrix of weightsindeed, but traditionally the predictions were interpretable (it's pretty easy to see why smoking might raise your health insurance premiums). not so for an opaque matrix of weights
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Comment on Community Check-In: How is everyone doing? in ~life
Moonchild LinkAbsolutely horrid. I am a pit that things fall into—i'm falling apart, i'm deteriorating, i'm dying. very volatile. so confusing. no energy. So strong but at the same time so delicate. On the...Absolutely horrid. I am a pit that things fall into—i'm falling apart, i'm deteriorating, i'm dying. very volatile. so confusing. no energy. So strong but at the same time so delicate. On the other hand I become very reckless which is to the good (normally I am much too risk averse and guarded)
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Uber almost got me killed!
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Comment on What small questions do you have that aren’t worth a full topic on their own? in ~talk
Moonchild Linkwhat do i need to do to pretend to live in the united states for health insurance reasons (i have us citizenship but do not live there)?what do i need to do to pretend to live in the united states for health insurance reasons (i have us citizenship but do not live there)?
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Comment on Hezbollah is hit by a wave of exploding pagers that killed at least nine people and injured thousands in ~news
Moonchild Link Parentthis sort of thing is very cute and flashy, but it doesn't really scale. in my opinion, as citizens, we should primarily be worried about things that scalethis sort of thing is very cute and flashy, but it doesn't really scale. in my opinion, as citizens, we should primarily be worried about things that scale
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Comment on The growing gender divide, three minutes at a time. Sabrina Carpenter tackles the exasperation of being young, female, straight, and single in 2024. in ~music
Moonchild (edited )Link Parent'sabrina carpenter' is the name of a cultural institution. to a first approximation, no one knows the woman personally; she might as well not exist (even if she did write everything herself, it...'sabrina carpenter' is the name of a cultural institution. to a first approximation, no one knows the woman personally; she might as well not exist (even if she did write everything herself, it would make no difference), and in any event is a distinct phenomenon. nothing anybody writes is really claiming to be about the person; the implication that it might be is a linguistic and cognitive sleight-of-hand
(this is a slight overcorrection—there is room for at least a bit of nuance the other way—but i think it is a much better starting point)
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Comment on The growing gender divide, three minutes at a time. Sabrina Carpenter tackles the exasperation of being young, female, straight, and single in 2024. in ~music
Moonchild Link Parentit is a cheap trick, but masterfully executed and not devoid of substance. you may not be the target audienceit is a cheap trick, but masterfully executed and not devoid of substance. you may not be the target audience
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Comment on Ok seriously what the fuck do I do in ~life
Moonchild Link Parenti suppose. but the outcome is uncertain (so i can't count on it to do anything in particular), and either way i have to do something in the mean timei suppose. but the outcome is uncertain (so i can't count on it to do anything in particular), and either way i have to do something in the mean time
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Ok seriously what the fuck do I do
if i chart my life happiness, fulfilment, success over the past four years, the trend is clearly downwards. some clear wins and stretches of improvement, some quite significant, which i am proud...
if i chart my life happiness, fulfilment, success over the past four years, the trend is clearly downwards. some clear wins and stretches of improvement, some quite significant, which i am proud of, but overall, i am getting worse and worse and worse. i attribute my problems mostly to two things: severe social isolation, and an extreme deficit of executive function. however i got here, i'm stuck with the fallout
my memory is bad, and my attention shot, so i kind of don't know what's happened emotionally. i know some focal points, though
this past march, i had a major depressive episode, and it feels like i spent most of a week doing nothing but crying, for no reason at all. i'm not sure how i fed myself
at the beginning of 2022, i quit my (very cushy and chill) job, which i had had for a little over a year at that point, because i felt like i was unmotivated and not actually doing work. (the facts are a bit more subtle; it was partly that the work itself was uninteresting to me, and they wanted to work with me to find something for me to do that i would find more interesting. i was going along with that, until a new opportunity appeared, which i jumped for because i wanted to be able to make a clean break. that opportunity immediately fell through.) i had been living with my parents until shortly before, so i had a lot of savings
now, i find myself in a similar situation, only much more dire. a friend got me a job working with smart people on interesting problems. i have not been doing well. i have been extremely uncommunicative. the pattern is clear: i talk to people, flex my technical chops; they are impressed and like me a lot. then i'm not very productive, and my output slowly deteriorates to nil. i think i just can't do wfh tech work. last week was a blur. i don't know what happened at all. i don't think i've checked slack in close to two weeks, and atp i'm a little bit afraid to. two weeks ago, i asked my friend/coworker to poke me every day to make sure i was doing something. it seemed and still seems like a good strategy. and then a day or two after i asked him that i just dropped off the map again
i'm not addicted to drugs or video games. it seems like i ought to be. i am a bit drunk right now, but that is quite irregular
recently, i thought i'd finally made a close friend. this morning, she broke up with me and blocked me for a really really stupid reason. i am really hurt by that, and it makes me feel a bit hopeless about the whole thing. spent the afternoon crying about it and now just feel a bit numb. i give it decent odds she comes back, but. i know one problem i have is putting my eggs in too few baskets. but there are so few baskets that seem worth investing in, and investment is so hard
she suggested i try to get prescribed add medication for my work problems, and was going to give me some illicitly to see if it helped. the latter is not happening anymore, of course. and i cannot stomach the medical system (already i have other things i have been putting off talking to my doctor about for a while), not to mention that it would take forever to do anything for me
i don't know what to do in the short to medium term. i don't know what to say to my work that i haven't said already, other than: clearly, i am just incapable of doing this. i am not super financially stable right now, and being without a job seems like a bad idea
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Comment on Ode to the cute boy I met from Surrey in ~creative
Moonchild Link Parentcursory analysis i wrote last night (i.e., some stuff i noticed, including some auctorialism, for which i hope i can be forgiven): The first two lines of the second stanza you expect to be 'I...cursory analysis i wrote last night (i.e., some stuff i noticed, including some auctorialism, for which i hope i can be forgiven):
The first two lines of the second stanza you expect to be 'I think I'll try. No, no, I won't. / This happens all the time.' 'Sometimes' throws you off (not enough syllables!), but it's all right because we return to normalcy and finish out the line the way we expected. This also establishes the syntactic structure of the stanza: similar to the first, but different; two sentences per line, rather than three clauses offset by semicolons. Then the second+third and fourth lines seem to form a nice couplet (pseudo-enjambment?), which is almost very nice rhythmically, except that the 'couplet' starts on an even numbered line (syncopation?). At the same time, though, it's not just the release of suspense at the end of the second line, and not just the line structure (which you could almost ignore if you wanted to), but also the syntactic structure and in particular the pauses at the sentence breaks which seem to say that it is in fact lines three and four that are the (slant) rhyming couplet and this really is just an ordinary quartet.
Originally, I meant 'getting on' in the sense of 'getting on in years' (and originally the first two lines rhymed: 'tears' / 'years', I think; I changed that because I didn't like it, but they seem to have ended up in slant-rhyme anyway. nice chiasmus, I guess). Getting old is of course like getting on. 'Getting off' can be a double entendre (now 'getting on' can be 'mounting' and also perhaps 'getting it on'; and then are you getting old because I'm sucking the youth out of you?), but for the straight line, summon a train or similar for you to disembark from (which feels like a metaphor for dying given the talk of aging), and for the triple entendre let me embark on the train in the first clause. @metoosalem now you see how I got here—I think I actually didn't notice the straight throughline at all until I read your response! :s it is really nice that it's there though
I don't yet have much that's useful to say about the rest of the first stanza or about the piece as a whole.
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Comment on Ode to the cute boy I met from Surrey in ~creative
Moonchild (edited )Linkincoherent, unedited, and probably incomplete, but it's not bad and the first time i've been inspired to write in forever so i'm taking it also i thought i got rid of the slant rhyme on the second...incoherent, unedited, and probably incomplete, but it's not bad and the first time i've been inspired to write in forever so i'm taking it
also i thought i got rid of the slant rhyme on the second line but it seems to have come back lol call it a chiasmus i guess. also i really like the metric structure of the second stanza it's pleasantly weird. kinda like a [(]) kinda thing or something (except probably three of them? ed- yeah at least 3 lol i love it so much) i haven't tried to tease it apart yet
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Ode to the cute boy I met from Surrey
Pork bun; pot belly; spare me the tears; I'm getting on; you're getting old; you're getting off here. I can't quite tell; it's hard to see; you're somewhere in my mind; Or is it me? It's hard to...
Pork bun; pot belly; spare me the tears;
I'm getting on; you're getting old; you're getting off here.
I can't quite tell; it's hard to see; you're somewhere in my mind;
Or is it me? It's hard to see; you're losing—I think I'll try. No, no, I won't.
This happens sometimes. All the time.
I think. Do I forget?
A half forgotten memory. Still vaguely tinged with some regret31 votes -
Comment on How trans autistic people are using joy as political resistance in ~lgbt
Moonchild Link Parenti have no objection to somebody's saying 'i experience happiness thus'i have no objection to somebody's saying 'i experience happiness thus'
legal angle is a wash, since you can almost certainly get it domestically, so the chance of its getting discovered is essentially nil. leaving aside the chance of seeing legal consequences if it does get discovered, which is also essentially nil. but don't let me decide your risk tolerance for you
how long till you can get pr? is the immigration process where you are (de, right?) as much of a pain as it is here in canada? :p