Re-reading this, maybe your standards for “content” you consume are too high. The people around you tend to be average or uninteresting and that’s normal. Get better friends or be better as a friend and have something to do or talk about.

I’m curious to hear this about what someone may be doing alone that strictly isn’t “social interaction”. Normally I would think that they are doing something that only requires one active participant – maybe reading a book, watching shows, browsing the Internet, even something like taking a bath and enjoying a candle.

I might consider each of these to actually involve other people outside of that moment who you are experiencing asynchronously. The media is written, the candle is made, they were bought from a store. Not sure if I would count the bath water yet, but there was some work done before even laying the pipe and collecting the materials.

Unless you are literally making everything from raw natural materials, other people are deeply involved in our lives and I don’t think we appreciate that enough about society. So while you would be at least arm’s distance from anybody in your room, I don’t think you are ever really alone.

The reference you listed makes it sound like angels can actually have a gender (as in a social identification as man and/or woman) but not a sex (as in male and/or female biology, presumable about having genitals).

What isn’t? Everything is growing, decaying, or changing in some way, honestly.

The context as far as this meme goes is that he’s mad and showing it physically. Whatever the reason is doesn’t matter because we subvert it with the other text.

This is the narrative being established: We say he’s chosen to be on a healing journey, and he might be learning the hard way what that looks like, going through the stages of healing, where anger is one of them. But that’s not it yet, we also say he thought the process would be predictable, so he’s actually either mad that isn’t or is mad that we are noticing him having trouble with this. He would be even more mad to learn that this is a meme being shared on the internet and madder still that this whole narrative came up around it that could be true or entirely made up.

My sources say you can in all 50 states by listing a park, shelter, or other place where you spend time as your residence and shelter, church, etc as your mailing address. You should be able to go to a polling location and get a ballot even if you don’t receive one in the mail.

Just saying that I think there are options for you next time if you find yourself in the same situation. You are not without some power.

I think many people today make an exception if gay is used to insult anti-gay people

Are you a boss at work of some kind? Maybe your perspective is tied up with some problem you have with your work culture. People are just complicating things when this is actually just so simple, right?

“Seat time” is literally what you are giving them in that situation. You can say that it’s not “time” but I can say that it is because there is nuance and we are doing many things at same time. Being present physically, mentally, paying attention to your surroundings, putting in effort, etc, can in many ways be counted separately. Who’s to say if your way of accounting for time is the “correct” one or whether somebody else’s is?

I think you’re being too strict with your definition of an identity because it is not just one thing. Identities are multi-faceted and fluid. I think that you ignore an important part of the picture when you ignore perceptions of you as part of your identity. They add to a conceptual cloud around you that is you and how you come across to others. I rather like to avoid oversimplification which I feel you are falling for, although I still do believe that one’s own identity is most important of those and ought to be respected by others.

Have you seen the Clayton Biggsby sketch on the Chappelle show with the blind black white supremacist? He had no knowledge of being black, but I think most people would still argue that it formed a major part of his identity regardless of his own concept of himself.

To nuance your previous point, being misgendered is a negative experience because that person’s “concept of you” does not agree with yours, becoming a point of conflict between you two and even inside yourself, not necessarily because they are wrong (although you are free to have that opinion). Sometimes people close to you will know you better than you know yourself.

I think you could say part of one’s identity exists outside of the person. Their self-identity should be respected and often will align with what they project outwards, but that’s where people get confused about a person and then stubborn ones get fed up with the whole idea.

Anyway, in this case since the tree lacks sentience, it wouldn’t have an internalized gender that we could know, but we can see that its sexual characteristics have changed and give it a transexual label. The trans label can cover both.

Yes dude you figured it out. Please wait patiently while they work on the sequel which will certainly fill us in more on what the hell is going on regarding these plot holes.

Whatever. If you can’t tell, a “need for excitement” really means “unwilling to follow along if something happens along the way that I disagree with”.

Really, how can those voters who did not vote for Kamala but generally support the left be so short-sighted not to see the consequences? They wanted to punish Democrats but ended up punishing the country and the world. They let perfect be the enemy of good.

As bad as the party is, I do place a lot of blame on fickle voters, who were so offended by the undemocratic process that led to the candidate change that they abstained or voted for somebody else instead of rejecting the “evil” guy in the only effective way we have.

Voting should be a duty we perform every election instead of something we need to get “excited” about in order to follow through with it.

I had only heard about the preggo fetish characteristics of this and could not believe it, but now I see it

I think they are saying they would rather depend on software and hardware that they can more or less control rather than cloud services

Any finger could be a good shit post if you use it right

Resigning is a way to call attention to the problem while you still have most of your credibility. There would be a smear campaign against you, but the alternative situation might be after getting fired for cause, where it would be easier to believe that you are just making excuses to save face. Especially if you are already demoralized and don’t have the energy to make a stand, you may start feeding the idea that you are just unfit for the job and lose support internally.

It also adds a bit of chaos into the organization that needs to replace you and may not have somebody prepared to step into a position haunted by this politicized issue and rocky transition. It does happen because organizations are made of limited and discrete people, but it is easy to be afraid of the infinite number of sycophants that must be ready to take their place.

It might be a tactic that is useful in limited situations, but I agree in general that we want rusty cogs slowing down the fascist machine.

But that would also mean “you can do x at the cost of y”. Ambiguous consequences here mean that they could impose a cost that would be too great when doing mental risk/reward calculation.

Get ready for the No Bell Piece Prize Battle Royale. “You want a piece of me?”