Public Transport to the Stars

containment site for the predatory gambling game i have become invested in

[ngkhyn]

[roomwithavoid]

wow its really interesting how you can look up literally any condition and it'll say that one of the things you should do to treat it is lose weight. like oh really? always? for every single disorder? that's really interesting, such an interesting coincidence! every condition in the world is caused by being fat? you're sure?

[fatphobiabusters]

And then you look into the research and find out that fatness is actually just a symptom of the health condition, so weight loss has done jackshit to improve the condition from the beginning.

You learn that fatness is "correlated" with the condition but has no proof of being the cause, like how being poor is "correlated" with ill health because of oppression and lack of healthcare. The number on your bank account doesnt actually cause the ill health, it's the oppression and how society treats poor people that is the cause.

You do even more research and learn that turning a fat person into a thin person is as scientifically possible as climbing mount everest without dying, without a sherpa, and without thousands of dollars. And that constant yo-yo dieting and abusing your body into temporary thinness damages your health. Chasing thinness for 80 years is causing the ill health itself.

You learn how fat people endure a wage gap, starvation, medical abuse and medical neglect that leads to death, are refused access to anorexia recovery resources. You realize how fatphobia intersects with all other forms of oppression and that numerous oppressed groups have high numbers of fat people. You learn how fat people's healthy digestive organs are mutilated by doctors to try to force thinness and only result in vitamin deficiencies, alcoholism, suicide, and other unhealthy shit. You read about the fat people whose deaths are blamed on fatness but actually died by police brutality, by a nurse killing them during Hurricane Katrina to not have to deal with the fat patient during evacuations, by a doctor refusing basic tests and telling the fat person to just lose weight until finally a different doctor five years later does that basic test and has to tell the fat person they had cancer all this time and now only have a week left to live. And yes, all of these examples have happened, are documented, and are just a fraction of the deaths caused by fatphobia.

You keep searching and look at study after study that shows the extreme biases that doctors have against fat patients, biases that affect the healthcare they provide the fat person. You see how sports equipment and exercise clothes are intentionally only made for thin bodies. You learn that fat people are ostracized from sports as early as childhood no matter the fat person's skill level.

You keep digging. You find how fatness is extremely tied to genetics. You read about how the sciences actively refuse to study fat bodies even when fat bodies are donated to science. You look at vaccine trials and realize that not a single fat person was included. You google Plan B and learn that the drug doesnt work well for most fat people because only thin people get considered when making drugs safe for society.

After a while, you go directly to the source and look at weight science research. You realize that almost every single study begins with the conclusion that fatness must be "bad" and "unhealthy," which severely affects the validity and credibility of the study, as well as affecting the results. You find out how every weight loss "success" study is extremely flawed, paid for by weight loss corporations, and intentionally ended after a short amount of time and with a miniscule number of participants because that's the only way to make the study a "success." You find tons of studies that actually show how impossible longterm weight loss is, how there's an "ob*sity paradox" where fat people can actually have better health and longer lifespans than thin people, how dieting is severely damaging to the human body. And yet every study still ends with reassurance that this won't stop weight loss attempts. We just need to find successful ways to lose weight. Surely that's possible. Surely that's helpful. Surely thinness must always be healthy and fatness unhealthy. Both fat and thin people get this health condition that we said is caused by fatness? Doesn't matter, fatness is still the cause!

After all, fatphobia doesnt exist, right?

-Mod Worthy

[eliseliedl]

Blade (*/ω＼*)

[bina-binrays]

[archive5-61]

Sunday...

[sviteer]

Despite everything, it's still you

[sublimated-mother]

[hawberries]

harumasa and the sword of damocles

[lowkeyren]

HELP NOT BOOTHILL AND AVENTURINE FIGHTING OVER THE BILL LMFAO 😭😭🙏🏻

aventurine's voiceline:

boothill's voiceline:

THE WAY THERE'S AN ACHIEVEMENT FOR THIS BSHDJSIAHSKSK i love this game pls.

guys they're so silly.... 😛😋

pspspsss

[121231212i]

[ruebird]

mydeeeeeeeiiiii

[yukinayee]

HSR 3.4 "That's not a wish.."

[lotus-pear]

is this tuff in the ipc? 😂✌🏼

[miniemizu]

full cover of my phaidei artbook dropping tomorrow!! 😋☀️🍷

[tbposting]

The whole point of power levels in Dragon Ball is that they are wrong and stupid and an expression of an evil mind.

They are introduced in the Saiyan saga with Raditz, representing the true intrusion of sci-fi into the general fantasy vibe of the series. DB always had tech elements, but this is when shit gets space and biotechy for a long time until the Boo saga.

Anyway, Raditz reads power levels and he's like "okay this immutable number means I'm stronger and I win" but then whoops turns out the Dragon Ball protagonists cannot be quantified because their power is not a scientific measure, it is an expression of their passion, heart, determination; their heroic qualities. Get Special Beam Cannon'd about it, idiot.

Second verse same as the first, Vegeta shows up and he's like "blah blah superior elite Saiyan warrior, Kakarot" and now power levels are an expression of a repressive hierarchical class system that proscribes inferiority and superiority, a genetic destiny that can never be overcome.

But oops turns out Dragon Ball protagonists cannot be quantified etc, and also class hierarchies are bullshit, get Kaioken'd about it, loser!

Third verse: Namek Saga. Frieza's intergalactic empire runs on hierarchical oppression codified in power levels, and in Vegeta's confrontation with Kiwi, Kiwi is confident that Vegeta is not a real threat because they have the same power level of 10.000. But oops Vegeta has been to earth and he has been touched by the fantasy, and now it turns out he is a protagonist who cannot be quantified, get energy blasted about it, numbnuts.

This is also how Vegeta begins to transition from villain into a heroic figure: he begins to give up on obsessing over quantified power levels and embraces his passions, heart, determination as sources of his strength.

Anyway yadda yadda Frieza is space Napoleon-Hitler, etc etc avatar of inherent superiority and hierarchy encoded in power level, blah blah get Super Saiyan'd about it, dipshit.

The Super Saiyan is a power that is accessed by deeply caring, it is a power of myth and legends, it is fantasy overcoming and destroying sci-fi, as literalised by the progressive destruction of quantifiable "power levels" as a construct.

So the story is saying:

Power levels are dumb bullshit invented by evil minded people to enforce shitty hierarchies. They suck and everyone who believes in them sucks and trying to measure the power of a hero with a number is an attempt to destroy fantasy as a genre.

...

On an entirely unrelated note, huge portions of the anime community are obsessed with measuring the power of heroes with numbers.

[aeonising]

Not looking forward to it

Man the Dahlia storyline between Amphoreus and Planarcadia was an absolute slog for me to get through.

I was not a fan of the writing in Penacony, even though I loved Sunday and Aventurine, so much of it was written in a way where characters would be talking about things that weren't explained or introduced beforehand. To where a twist would happen and you wouldn't even understand the implications because you didn't have the context.

Amph was like a breath of fresh air in that regard. If weird stuff was happening the other characters were also surprised by it so you were learning at the same time as everyone else.

The worst of it all though is Firefly. I'm sorry girl but I'm just not that into you. This was like the writers were panicking because we didn't like their OC and thought "Oh you didn't like her? Let me show you more of her so you will!" Like.... Please stop. Not everyone is going to click with a character and sometimes you just can't undo first impressions. At best the only time I find Firefly interesting is when it has NOTHING to do with the Trailblazer because as soon as they show up it's this forced romance and girl. GIRL. I don't want to go on a date I don't want to reminisce about cloying "Normal everyday girl date things"

I'm painfully aromantic and not into girls. I don't think I've skim read while clicking through what is meant to be an emotional scene so fast before.

Now I've finally gotten through it and am dreading the next planet knowing the writer is the same. Is it going to be more of this? I miss Amphoreus so much already. I miss Phainon and Mydei and Anaxa gdi

[ikimaru]

golden lights ✨