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Character who is shown to be a strategic and analytical mastermind in every scene cannot figure out that the two lesbians sitting next to each other are very madly in love

"Autistic characters in popular media are always robots or aliens" I mean, that's just not true. Autistic characters in popular media in fact span a wide range of backgrounds, including (but not limited to):

I’ve met most of these people and they are autistic. By the way

You know, when I saw this poll had been made I fully expected "morbid little girl" to win by a landslide, but evidently I'd badly underestimated the number of Tumblr user who have been harmed by the Wizard.

I thought Tech Support was gonna win

In fiction, "talking animal" is usually a completely separate character from "tech support", but in real life these groups have a large overlap.

The assholes are loosing their mind

At this point people must be playing dumb on purpose.

In my experience, a mohawk has never been anything other than a rare, vaguely counter-cultural genderless hairstyle.

Calling it masculine in the first place is what's getting me, way more than someone being scandalized by it.

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A boop cat to live on your blog!!!!!

God sending his silliest soldier:

yikes

I heard some negative things about this movie and I was expecting a train wreck.

It was just a moderately campy adventure movie, not unlike The Lost City(2022) which was another movie where an author is forced to use her experience to navigate an adventure scenario like the ones from her books.

I'll admit that it wasn't revolutionary, but it was just a neat little movie.

I don't trust anyone who hasn't acknowledged their capacity for evil.

"I'm just a smol bean uwu" No sir, what you are is someone who is so habituated to thinking of yourself as innocent that you will continue to do so even when you're guilty.

Now say this about the left-handed.

The Mormons used to believe that if someone became a Mormon then they would become White.

Born again as it were.

It's funny how often "born again" is misinterpreted and then misused to mean "become what I want you to become".

These are not requests from God, they are desperate pleas on the behalf of your fears.

I don't understand how left handed people are relevant to this post; left handed people aren't even born that way, they are taught to use that hand just like right handed people, as well as ambidextrous handed people.

Mormonism is not of Christianity firstly, and secondly that belief that if somebody becomes a Mormon they'd become a different colour is basically racist if you consider it. People are created by God in the colours that they are, people are not animals of camouflage nor chameleons. If the Mormons have that belief knowing full well that changing the colour of your skin naturally is impossible (unless God Himself does it) then there's something fundamentally wrong in the understanding of skin colours in relation to the human body.

Unless you believe in Jesus Christ, you won't have reverence or obey His Word nor would you consider that what He says is truth. So when Jesus Christ Himself says to be born again or you won't enter into the kingdom of God it is not an option to those who want to follow Him. It means exactly that, those who choose to follow Him and believe in Him have to deny themselves daily, and pick up their cross.

Since Jesus Christ is God and God created humanity, since God knew you before you were born and knitted you in your mother's womb and considering that homosexuality is an abomination to God one should be honest enough to acknowledge and accept that God didn't make anybody gay nor is anybody born that way.

People who identify as a gay Christian can't be such, you cannot identify as both if you are truly following Christ. You can't identify as gay and say "I was born this way" but then also identify as a Christian of which you have to be born again as part of following Jesus Christ and once you are born again your old self and that includes your old identifications/labels of the world falls away/dies.

So to be born again is a request from God, it is His standard as being part of His kingdom. Please don't be ignorant or obstinate in your thinking, reconsider and ask God to reveal the truth to you. To reveal Jesus Christ to you, if that's His will.

Well, being left-handed, like being Queer, is a harmless difference, one historically condemned by the church.

But you can agree that their belief was prejudiced and incorrect right?

Yes. Just like the belief that someone who becomes Christian will acquire a different gender or orientation is homophobic.

Yes. Mormons no longer believe hold this exact belief if my sources are correct.

So my question is why do you have the belief that Queer people will become straight?

Because if you ask me, If you have that belief knowing full well that changing sexual orientation naturally is impossible...then there's something fundamentally wrong in the understanding of sexual orientation in relation to the human body."

That's not what I was talking about.

The entire point of what I was saying is what makes you think that you know what can or should change about a person?

Telling people that they should be "born again" is fine and good until someone uses that as premise to tell people to change to their own liking.

Stop.

Your second premise is wrong.

Homosexuality, is a modern concept, it did not appear in scripture.

And the word "abomination" has been removed from most modern English translations.

There is no scripture that calls homosexuality an abomination because neither of those terms or concepts existin the scripture.

How would you know?

Genuine question.

What expertise do you have on this subject?

Because unless you have some thing more than your word, I'm probably going to trust Queer people more when it comes to what it's like to be a Queer person.

Well the millions of Queer Christians in America alone would seem to contradict you.

Says who?

Why are you the arbiter in this discussion?

You've already made a claim citing multiple mistranslations of the Bible and if I've noticed a problem that you haven't, then why should I trust you to know something that I and other people don't?

Yes and to join the Mormon church you would be born again as White.

Hence the comparison.

I find this idea equally as ludicrous.

Not really.

You're still just as American as you were before you were a Christian, and nationality is something far more arbitrary and malleable than orientation.

By framing this as a question of labels you've missed the point.

You're not asking for a shift in terminology, you're asking for a shift in being.

Then why are you the one trying to decide how it must be done and by whom?

That to me, seems like arrogance.

Once upon a century being right-handed was a standard of being a follower of God too.

So I'm not inclined add human exceptions to God's unconditional grace.

From my perspective you've just ignored all my comments and been very condescending. That seems obstinate.

I'm not being obstinate, I just don't have a single reason to believe you; and it doesn't seem like you even know why I should.

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Raising kids in a walkable town really underscores the inconvenience and dependence of cars as well. The reality really is completely opposite from the belief. It’s hard to really get across that using a car is a barrier/limiting factor when you have babies and small children. And it’s hard to get across what a much higher quality of life you have when the stuff you access most often - daycare, school, train station, coffee shops, toddler groups - is within a ten-minute walk, so you just wrap the baby in a carrier, fall into step with a friend and go do it. I think that car-centered parents in America are living a much harder and more isolated life, and I’m sure it ripples outward from there. I think that the children in turn have more independence, more relationships, more control, more feeling of ownership of the spaces they move through.

the car-cucked american cope in the replies and reblogs to this is absolutely unreal. i will never ever ever go back to a car-dependent lifestyle. it is so much harder, more expensive, dangerous, soul-sucking, and inconvenient. i’ll take a walkable quality of life thanks!

How to say "I'm too lazy for a real job" without saying it.

i feel like a lot of these walkable city folks ignore one of the glaring reasons that normal americans like cars

which is that it separates you from the subhuman trash that almost every walkable city fag refuse to do anything about

no one wants to walk when you've got thousands of drug addicted mentally ill hobos and violent criminals on the street

Ultimately yes, a car is freedom, I drove to 34 states and saw so much stuff that you'd miss on a plane or even a train, I hate cities, I don't want to live in a "walkable city" because I don't even want to live in a city at all, cities are the ultimate symbol of a cage, it's a wave slave cage.

I remember when I used to go on road trips, which in the US can be hours of driving between cities, my longest drive (in one go) was 22 from Dallas to San Diego, but I can always just pull off and go camping in the desert if I wanted to because cars enable you to do that. You're not walking from Texas to Cali, so just shut the fuck up you commie walking bastards.

I don't think that anyone denies that a personal vehicles is going to give you more personal control. I think that the point is that designing our infrastructure around car dependency makes our urban environments, and therefore the lives of many people, worse.

A secondary point is that having a car requires a web of support, which isn't infallible.

Well that is your opinion, and I have no problem with your preference.

But I'm sure why you could see why urban planning is focused on the wants and needs of people who actually live in the area.

Cities are a part of our world, I don't see any reason not to make them better.

No.

But I don't think that's accurate reflection of what's being proposed.

I don't think, plan or want to be able to walk across a third of a continent in ten minutes.

But I would like to be able to get groceries in under an hour, I would like to walk to a dentist appointment.

And I don't think that that's an impossible task, because I already live in a place like that.

A disastrous turn during date night

One of the best shot of Total Solar Eclipse from 08-04-2024.

Via @nasa-official