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I have so many questions
In the name of everything decent in this world, you have got to turn the sound on.
The thing I hate most about transhumanism discourse are the appeals to "humanity". Like, "are you less human if you have cybernetics?" and "does it affect your humanity if you change your genes?"
And I just.. Look man, I'm trans, disabled, and autistic. Half the world already barely considers me human, on a good day.
So I don't think it makes sense to get mad at me for wanting fangs and a gender you can pick up on a Geiger counter.
You're yelling about this being a slippery slope, and meanwhile you pushed me down it. You can't justify annoyance at me deciding to go "weeee" all the way down.
Vitali kept cutting and cutting and cutting, tears dripping down onto his tank top and into the sink. He accidentally scraped one of the scissor blades past his finger- and his tears rapidly mixed with a few drops of deep red blood. He loved his hair. He had always done so- but his mother too. She had been obsessed with it, and when he had decided to bleach it she had been livid. But for some reason she had still allowed him to do it as many times as he wanted, as if she believed it would at least stop him from cutting it short, even after he had come out as transgender. And it had worked, somehow. He had never even dared to think about picking up a pair of scissors. Vitali let a single scream leave his lips as he threw the scissors down into the sink, gripping the edge tightly again as he nearly lost his balance. He was out of breath; shaky, shallow inhales providing him with just enough oxygen to not pass out, and he slowly looked back up at his reflection. And in that split second of realization, he regretted it. All of it. A sudden clarity washed over him and his sobs faltered, deafening silence washing over the bathroom as he carefully brushed his now neck-length hair out of his face. It was uneven; some strands barely even reached his chin. He looked different, now. Could barely recognize himself. — From Chapter 12: The Mother; read the full fic here
This bus company in my area has taken to giving its vehicles names. This one could have used a bit more constructive criticism.
I had the privilege of riding bussy once
an honerable mention: my chariot oh my chariot, bussy galore
in 20 years this post will be totally incomprehensible
I REFUSE to let that happen
mountain goats litany for survival: I am gonna make it through this year it it kills me
mountain goats litany for divorce: hand in unlovable hand
mountain goats litany for justice: I’m gonna bribe the officials, I’m gonna kill all the judges
mountain goats litany for revenge: I am personally going to stab you in the eye with a foreign object
mountain goats litany for weird kid pride: wearing my lizard suit to the party
mountain goats litany for meeting word count: the most remarkable thing about you standing in the doorway is that it’s you and you are standing in the doorway
mountain goats litany against nonsense and also handball: I did not come to play handball
mountain goats litany against anti-intellectualism: I use the term advisedly according to Webster's 9th New Collegiate, definition 4b
amen
mountain goats litany for pretending everything is fine when it is, categorically, not fine in the slightest: hi diddle dee dee goddamn the pirate’s life for me!
mountain goats litany for self confidence: I can write C++ as good as anyone
mountain goats litany for sorely misplaced self confidence: the Chicago Cubs will beat every team in the league
mountain goats litany against your friends’ bullshit: where did the monkey come from?????
amen
this post has broken containment so I feel obligated to inform you all that the mountain goats are a band and these are song lyrics
yessss.
I don't think this is possible????
Hello Ryan I am here to help. So the first step is pretty easy: Three cheeseburgers are worth 18, so each one is worth 6. If these are dollars, that's a steal!
From the second equation we get that cheeseburger plus fries-squared is five. Subtracting cheeseburger, which is six, from both sides, we get that fries-squared is negative-one. Math fans will know that there are two solutions to this; either fries are the "imaginary unit" 𝒾 or they are its negative, -𝒾. We'll do the rest of the problem with 𝒾, keeping in mind that at the end we should also take the complex conjugates as solutions.
Finally, we have that cup to the power of fries, minus cup, equals three. Replacing fries with 𝒾, and moving a cup to the other side, we get that cup-to-the-𝒾 is equal to cup-plus-three.
Now, the weird part about this is the cup-to-the-i. The problem with this is that complex exponentiation is technically not a thing. That is to say, there is no one function which is mathematically equal to "input-to-the-power-of-𝒾". In fact, there are infinitely many such functions.
Fortunately, due to reasons that take about six pages to explain (trust me I've done it), there is one particular function that many people have agreed is "the most reasonable one". This is not a mathematical notion, but a human preference. Seeing as this question was presumably written by a human, I am comfortable with using this function.
So, what function is this? Well, given a complex number r∠θ written in polar form (if you don't know what that means don't worry), where -π < θ ≤ π, then (r∠θ)^𝒾 = e^(-θ)∠ln(r).
Applying this to our problem a value r∠θ will be a possible solution for cup if e^(-θ)∠ln(r) = r∠θ + 3. Splitting this into real and imaginary parts, we get two equations: e^(-θ) cos(ln(r)) = r cos(θ) + 3 and e^(-θ) sin(ln(r)) = r sin(θ). We can graph these equations on Desmos:
The possible values of cup are the intersections between the red, green, and purple. There are infinitely many of these which have an angle of around -π/3, and there are two weirdos: One which is a complex number very close to -2.98, and one which is somewhere around -25. The possible values for cup are all of these infinitely many solutions, and also all of their complex conjugates.
A bit on the expensive side for cup tho innit?
-25 means they're paying you $25 to take it
Friend of mine was dealing with a therapist's office and got frustrated with their actions, wrote out a letter to them, and this was part of their reply. I'm fucking livid.
The last line shows a fundamental misunderstanding of who the people who have those things are, who we actually are as a community. The idea that someone with ADHD or ASD cannot be eloquent is fucking absurd. The absolute condescension and blatant display of medical ignore is just infuriating.
Hay OP!! This is illegal!! Have ur friend report this office to the local board of healthcare, or ur insurance company!!
That's been done, the full write up of the story is Here.
Belphie has the too-fast movements of a bird or a bug
Demonstrators and artists have taken the steps of the met museum unfurling an ENORMOUS (30 x 50 foot) quilt created by artists around the world in solidarity with Palestine.
The quilt was collectively created by 64 artists from around the world and shipped to New York City.
They're demanding the met museum:
(1) cut ties with board members profiting from Israeli bombardment + occupation of Palestine
(2) support an immediate + permanent ceasefire
(3) aid the preservation of Palestinian cultural heritage sites being destroyed by Israel
In addition to the quilt, demonstrators reclaimed and redistributed Met flyers, stickered with movement messaging and demands.
Three years back, I created 13 alternate accounts on Discord and inserted them into my friend group over the course of a few months, pretending each of them was a new person. They have their own personality and typing / grammar distinctions, and their own fake life events and stories that I've had to keep meticulous track of. Some of them even engaged romantically with real people, though none in the present day. Nowadays the original friend group is split up, with some fake people being present in about each server that still has some kind of connection to the former group. One active group chat even has six alts and one real person. I literally have to keep this up like a puppetmaster because these pretend people have real, important connections to people I still care about. It's hard but I literally don't know how to resolve or change the situation without causing a wave of dispair and destruction in one way or another.
hey, what the fuck? are you okay prev? prev? hello?????
Shared from SILive.
A rabies-infected stray cat recently attacked at least one person in Travis, and city officials now want residents to be on the lookout for other possibly-infected animals, a Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) spokesman said Friday.
A flyer being circulated by the Health Department shows a picture of the male brown tabby domestic shorthair cat that officials believe was living near Travis Avenue and Victory Boulevard for over a year.
The flyer recommends that anyone who may have come in contact with the cat before May 2 seek medical attention. Additionally, there may be other infected cats or wildlife in the area, so anyone scratched or bitten by a wild animal should also seek medical attention. People with pets who were bitten should also contact their veterinarian.
After authorities located the cat with the confirmed rabies infection, they caught it before later euthanizing the animal, according to the Health Department. Animals cannot be tested for rabies while alive, so the cat’s euthanasia was a necessary step.
The attacked individual received treatment after the exposure, and a human case of rabies hasn’t been reported in the five boroughs since 1947, according to the Health Department.
According to DOHMH, rabies is a fatal virus transmitted to people and other mammals through the bite of an infected animal. The virus can also be transmitted if a rabid animal’s saliva or nerve tissue gets directly into another animal’s eyes, nose, mouth or an open wound.
Most commonly found in raccoons in the five boroughs, only 600 animals have tested positive for the virus since the city began conducting surveillance in 1992, according the Health Department. Last year, only four raccoons and a cat tested positive for the virus, the Advance/SILive.com reported.
The city set up bait stations with rabies vaccines multiple times last year in the Island’s wooded and marshy areas.
Symptoms of rabies usually start to appear one to three months after exposure, but in rare cases, symptoms have not shown up for several years, according to the Health Department.
Modern post-exposure treatments for rabies using vaccines and antibodies have been almost universally effective in preventing death among humans in the Western Hemisphere.
According to a March 2023 report from the Infectious Disease Society of America, an 84-year-old Minnesota man became the first person to die in the U.S. from rabies in 2021 despite receiving those treatments. Scientists concluded that the failure of those treatments was most likely due to an unknown impaired immunity in the man.
This is why TNR does more harm than good, if this cat was euthanised when trapped it wouldn't have caught rabies. Now it's going to die anyways, but also who knows where it has spread rabies? More animals will die now, potentially people too if they're not able to get treatment.
whenever people look down on me for not being a fully “functional” human being by society’s standards i try to remind myself that if they were in my shoes they would have shot themselves in the head by now
