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met a celebrity today :>
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There's always a moment of intense cultural whiplash whenever I realize I'm talking to someone who thinks "legal" and "illegal" are meaningful categories and ascribes innate goodness to following the law. It's like meeting a space alien.
It's disappointing to me that we're a few days into Pride Month, and I've only seen one post about Intersex folks which got zero engagement when I reblogged it. A handful of links I threw together just now:
InterAct youth advocacy and education group.
Intersex Justice Project intersectional activism group.
Thisisintersex education site (with knowledge quiz).
I've seen people confusing and using the intersex flag to mean perisex nonbinary so here's history on 'intergender' so you don't do that. Intergender has a history of being used by both intersex and perisex people but the intersex flag does not. See also: InterNon.
Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”
So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”
Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.
Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.
i think one of the worst things the left wing internet ever did was push the idea that oppression is basically a virtue, and being oppressed is a sign of your morality. it has made it like…impossible for some of you to hold the idea that most people are privileged in some ways and oppressed in others. AND a lot of you seem to have it in your mind that terrible people cannot be oppressed, and that oppressed people cannot do terrible things, which is a dangerous rhetoric to hold imo.
OH, YOU WOULDN'T WANNA SEE ME HEALTHY.
The energy-efficient desalination system produces fresh water without chemical additives and transforms leftover salts into useful materials
Desalination is the process of generating freshwater from brackish or saltwater, usually through the process of reverse osmosis. While this can be a very useful tool in water shortages, it also has some pretty huge drawbacks--reverse osmosis requires a lot of energy, requires chemical treatment of the water, and produces concentrated brine as a waste product which can be harmful to aquatic ecosystems.
Researchers have recently discovered a new way to perform desalination using solar energy, which doesn't require chemical inputs and collects waste salt instead of producing brine. Concentrating the waste salt in a solid form instead of brine means that it can later be processed to extract valuable minerals like lithium.
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But... Stochastic Parrots.
Everyone say thank you sanitation workers we owe you our lives sanitation workers
Yo I heard they taking your freedom of speech in Canada. Is that just propaganda? idk anyone IRL that's Canadian so I'm asking u.
yeah they're sending a guy door to door with a big burlap sack and he's gonna take it all back to the factory
mystery novel but the author has no clue whats happening either and is getting increasingly more upset
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I feel like a lot of people get "All Art is Political" confused with "All Art is made with Political Intentions" which is not the same.