🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦 @ ZDL @ttrpg.network Posts 24Comments 709Joined 2 yr. ago
Where's the emoji of Chief pinching the bridge of his nose after 86 speaks when you need it?
Did you not read?
One or two of those downvotes come from the people who automatically do knee-jerk downvotes of anything that has Chinese in it. Like my username. (I use that username in that form specifically to find the sinophobes, see.)
The rest come from people who don't understand consent. You know: wannabe rapists.
I think that way about the '80s.
So what's the album? Asking ... uh ... for a friend.
Authoritarian states hate social media that doesn't kowtow to them.
Well, robbery. Armed robbery requires, you know, arms. As in armaments. (And all forms of robbery are stealing.)
The absolute first non-food thing I ever bought in China was a jade "bi" pendant. This is what they look like:
(To be clear, this is not mine for reasons which will become obvious in a moment.)
I was told by the seller that you should never take it off as she strung it on red silk for me, because it's to "protect your health".
Since 2001 I've taken this off only five times, all but one of which was because the string frayed through and it had to be restrung. I don't believe in the slightest that it has any impact on my health, but as a minor, neurotic superstition it stays on. (Which is why I couldn't share a photograph of mine: I'd have to take it off.)
What proportion of Texan's incarcerated population is forced to labour for next to no salary again? There's at least one US state—Virginia (312)—whose official title for prisoners is "Slave of the State". Do you think the other southern states are much more progressive in their attitudes?
Hint: no. Alabama (390), Arkansas (574), Florida (377), Georgia (435), Mississippi (661), South Carolina (302), and Texas (452) also have de facto slavery of their prisoners: defined as mandatory labour for negligible to no wage, with strict penalties for non-participation.
So what are those numbers I've put after all the state names? Those are the incarceration rates per 100,000. Compare and contrast these with the US national average (which, remember, includes the high-rate states): 355. Isn't it mysterious that of the eight states with de facto incarcerated slavery six are over the national average, and three (Mississippi, Arkansas, and Texas) have the highest incarceration rates in the country?
Slavery is alive and well in the USA, and Texas is one of its largest users thereof now. So yes, I think the average modern Texan secessionist would be pro-slavery … because they already are.
Don't take "no" for an answer!
There is some implicit notion that when a woman becomes more masculinity it is good, and trans men somehow embody the ultimate apotheosis of a woman (i.e. a woman who achieves manhood), it all just reeks of misogyny and transphobia to me. This thinking seems to hate femininity and it negates the male gender identity of trans men.
It's certainly not a notion I hold.
My own stance on this is strictly from the "harm done" angle. Transitioning is already incredibly tough to do. You're probably losing friends. You're probably losing family. Everybody around you is looking at you with different eyes, many of which are hostile.
To suddenly lose an entire community that was supportive (presumably) as well? That would be nasty!
I … think that's what I actually said?
… if you're a trans-man who doesn’t (yet?) pass, it would be cruel to be forced out of connections …
Yes. Yes it is. I'm saying that if you're in transition to manhood, being told "you can't hang with us anymore because you're of the icky gender" from previous friends and allies is cruel.
Oh, I'm all for including them. I was just surprised, no worries!
And yes, if you're a trans man who doesn't (yet?) pass, it would be cruel to be forced out of connections without commensurate connections being formed on the other side of the transition.
Huh. I didn't know trans-men were also on the list. (Not objecting, just news to me.)
I'm friendly to anybody but Nazis. And friends of Nazis. And people expressing ideas with passing resemblance to Nazis. And ...
Well, you can see the pattern!
I love Chongqing hot pot going in.
I loathe it coming out.
"My" argument. Yes.
So we'll add "literacy" to your list entitled "things I cannot do right".
I find some of the best introduction to the whole jazz ethos is to go old-school with Big Band and '20s jazz in general. You can get people started down the path to radical improvisation by the tighter, more constrained forms of that era and then guide them toward the more ... ah ... challenging stuff.
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