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Me: I’m having such a hard time, can y’all please go easy on me?
According to this meme I made in 2016, 2018 is the last year in a barrage of terrible years. In 2019, the suffering will end and good things will come to us once again
Reblog for a good 2019, because goddamnit we all need it.
I hope this is everyone else too!
“My body, my choice” only makes sense when someone else’s life isn’t at stake.
Fun fact: If my younger sister was in a car accident and desperately needed a blood transfusion to live, and I was the only person on Earth who could donate blood to save her, and even though donating blood is a relatively easy, safe, and quick procedure no one can force me to give blood. Yes, even to save the life of a fully grown person, it would be ILLEGAL to FORCE me to donate blood if I didn’t want to.
See, we have this concept called “bodily autonomy.” It’s this….cultural notion that a person’s control over their own body is above all important and must not be infringed upon.
Like, we can’t even take LIFE SAVING organs from CORPSES unless the person whose corpse it is gave consent before their death. Even corpses get bodily autonomy.
To tell people that they MUST sacrifice their bodily autonomy for 9 months against their will in an incredibly expensive, invasive, difficult process to save what YOU view as another human life (a debatable claim in the early stages of pregnancy when the VAST majority of abortions are performed) is desperately unethical. You can’t even ask people to sacrifice bodily autonomy to give up organs they aren’t using anymore after they have died.
You’re asking people who can become pregnant to accept less bodily autonomy than we grant to dead bodies.
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But, assuming the mother wasn’t raped, the choice to HAVE a baby and risk sacrificing their “bodily autonomy” is a choice that the mother made. YOu don’t have to have sex with someone. Cases of rape aside, it isn’t ethical to say abortion is justified. The unborn baby has rights, too.
First point: Bodily autonomy can be preserved, even if another life is dependent on it. See again the example about the blood donation.
And here’s another point: When you say that “rape is the exception” you betray something FUNDAMENTALLY BROKEN about your own argument.
Because a fetus produced from sexual assault is biologically NO DIFFERENT than a fetus produced from consensual sex. No difference at all.
If one is alive, so is the other. If one is a person, so is the other. If one has a soul, then so does the other. If one is a little blessing that happened for a reason and must be protected, then so is the other.
When you say that “Rape is the exception” what you betray is this: It isn’t about a life. This isn’t about the little soul sitting inside some person’s womb, because if it was you wouldn’t care about HOW it got there, only that it is a little life that needs protecting.
When you say “rape is the exception” what you say is this: You are treating pregnancy as a punishment. You are PUNISHING people who have had CONSENSUAL SEX but don’t want to go through a pregnancy. People who DARED to have consensual sex without the goal of procreation in mind, and this is their “consequence.”
And that is gross.
^ THIS. This is this this THIS THIS THIS. THIS!!!!!
This is probably the strongest and well worded/supported argument for abortion that I have ever read.
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I'm curious about your collective knowledge of time travel, enlighten me? 🌙
!!!!!!!!!!!Okay okay okay, so there are a bunch of different depictions of time travel in the media, right? But there are a few things to know that might make it easier.
You know how you’re three-dimensional, right? Everything around you is in the third dimension, even paper. So long as it has height, depth, and width, no matter how thin, it has three dimensions. A cube is an example of a 3D object. They can move over, beside, or under each other. That’s how your physical world works.
Now, the second dimension is way simpler. If something has a height and a width, but no depth, it’s two dimensional. A square is the 2D equivalent of a cube. It’s a bit difficult to explain what it is in a more… Kinetic sense? Imagine a flat table covered in flat paper shapes, and the shapes can only slide around each other, never above or behind. They can only go to the left or right. That’s 2D existence. It’s… Sort of how vision works.
The first dimension is just width. You could imagine it as a flat line, with just a point A and a point B. Practically, though, it’s… I guess kind of more like a point in space. If 2D is what you draw on a paper, then 1D is the place you choose to draw it, like a location. The difference between one point and another- the bit between A and B.
So, you know how you can draw a cube and make it look 3D, even though the picture is flat and 2D? That’s kind of how it is to describe the fourth dimension to someone existing in the third one. You can kind of sort of get the idea across, but it’s not something we’re designed to understand.
I like to think of it like a flipbook. You know how stop-frame animation works one frame at a time, and once you flip frame to frame really fast it looks like it’s moving? That’s my three-dimensional drawing of that four-dimensional cube. We experience our lives in moments that disappear behind us just as fast as they appear in front of us, and as we go from moment to moment we speed through each frozen frame of our lives so fast it looks like it’s moving forwards. We don’t get to see it all at once, the same way a drawing of a cube can’t be twirled around like it can be in real space, but it’s about as close as it can be represented.
To take it a step further, the fifth dimension could sort of be semi-explained as… As if you could see two different endings in the flipbook. Like if something different happened part way through where the path separated and became two different stories with the same beginning.
But anyways, taking it back.
A huge load of media treats time travel as a closed loop- one single reality, one single flipbook, where you can pull yourself out of one page and plop yourself down in an earlier one. The problem is, it’s only one reality, so if you took a time machine and went to the past, then destroyed the original time machine before you could get inside, how would you get to the future where you were able to go back in the first place?
This is a fun way to go about time travel stories because it gives the opportunity for unexpected twists, like in Harry Potter: The Prisoner Of Azkaban, where Hermoine realized she had to throw the rock that hit Harry in Hagrid’s cottage because that was what had happened to an earlier version of them. A circle is created where you are constantly both followed and following an endless line of yourself, always doing things and about to do things, and it must not be tampered with because the future might be horribly changed by your own small, nigh-unnoticeable desicions. You kill the mouse that was going to survive the death of the dinosaurs, and humans never evolve from it’s unconceived offspring. Fun times.
Now, I personally prefer the version that acknowledged the fifth dimension- that split-ending flipbook. This can be recognized in books and movies as a ‘paralell dimension’- a separate version of the reality you live in right now, except something small has changed that makes it different. Maybe you ate a sandwich at 3pm today, but the timeline split because there’s another possibility where you chose to save it for later. Here, when you travel to a different point in time, you don’t appear in your OWN past or future, because every opportunity for a new thing branches off into another parallel. When you get into your time machine and disappear, you create a reality where you never come back. When you appear again, you create a reality where you did come back. The place you arrive is defined as the reality where you didn’t vanish forever, but in the reality you left behind, your friends and family are mourning your loss. Even if you saw them five seconds ago, and the people cheerfully greeting you now are entirely identical in every conceivable way. EVERY way, except the ways you created from instant you reappeared on out.
You can see this version in Star Trek, the rebooted/continued new movies, where Old Spock from the earlier universe meets the Jim whose father died on the Kelvin. He tells him not to inform New Spock of his existence, because it could destroy the universe in an unstoppable paradox.
Which is kind of hilarious actually, since Old Spock knows DAMNED WELL that paradoxes can’t happen in the two-ended flipbook. Paradoxes aren’t possible because from the second something new appears, it becomes an integrated trait.
Here, if you go back in time and kill the mouse that was going to create human life, you haven’t doomed anything, because this is the universe where someone was going to spontaneously pop out of nowhere and prevent that. This is the universe where that wasn’t going to happen.
The cool thing about that is, everything you DO is a defining trait of your universe. This is the universe where you had meatloaf for dinner instead of spaghetti, so you didn’t get botulism from that bad can of tomato paste and end up in the hospital, sneezing loud enough to distract the doctor from her paperwork and accidentally write in the wrong date on a woman’s medical certificate of death, delaying the insurance claim her family needs and stressing out her son, which interferes with his relationship, which shuts down that two hour window at 8-10 PM where the inventor of the hovercar was going to be conceived.
Or you could order take-out instead, and John Smith shoots his fiancé six months early.
Men in Black 3 handled this concept extremely well, and from an angle that is rarely pointed out with such eloquence. I truly love how they portrayed 5-6th dimensional reality so beautifully.
Anyhow, I can go on and on. But if you REALLY want to get into parallel dimensions and the whole 'why does anything we do matter’, 'why do people matter if there are a million iterations of them’, 'what makes this version of us different from any other’, 'what is real’ type discussion…..
I’m sorry, but Rick and Morty is a fantastic series for that. Which is funny, since they had a whole episode making a point of WHY they never do time travel. It really does an excellent job of digging deep into the nitty-gritty of choice and ethics and apathy and purpose and I just. Really love that it seems to *get* that.
All being said, though, if you haven’t seen it, it can be a bit obnoxious and crude here and there. There’s also some pretty thick themes of self-hatred and depression. And I wouldn’t recommend getting too deep into the fandom, either.
But anyhow, thanks for asking!!!! I gotta cut myself off now or I’ll go on forever.
This made my WHOLE NIGHT!!! :D :D
i don’t want to achieve equality by sinking to men’s level, i want them to get on ours! why should i have to unlearn the conversational art of waiting my turn, unlearn sexual self-restraint, unlearn trust in others’ good intentions, unlearn the impulse to cater to others’ needs, just to have a chance at success among savages? why can’t the men learn some fucking manners so we can all conduct our affairs in a civilized manner? i shouldn’t have to stop saying sorry, you say sorry!
In the 80s when I was in my freshman year in college, they still had entirely separate mens and women’s dorms. I was in class waiting for a final to start and one of the guys was telling someone about how he had had to go into a women’s dorm to drop something off, and he was startled to see posters on the walls, flowers, curtains, etc. He said his men’s dorm had holes in the walls, things on fire, fights, guys walking around with open wounds and he just didn’t understand why they had to live like this. He said, “I want to live with the women, in civilization.”
Am reading Sisterhood of Spies, about women working for the OSS during WWII. One of the stories mentions that the women in London had a male visitor who would eat in their mess hall once a month. He was married and wasn’t interested in hitting on any of the women; he just wanted to eat in an atmosphere where people said “Please pass the butter,” instead of “PASS THE GODDAMNED GREASE”
I dated a guy who brought me along on group activities (movies, video game night, etc.) with four or five other male friends. Once I mentioned to one of the other guys that I hoped I wasn’t intruding on their “guy time” or some such. He got this sort of rueful look and said, “The truth is, I really like it when you’re here because it gives us a reason to act better. When it’s just guys, we all have to try to outdo each other with how vile we are.”
So the moral of these stories are men don’t even treat each other like human beings.
Me to my 6-year-old son: “You seem to like playing with the girls at school more than the boys. Why do you think that is?”
6-year-old son: “Sometimes I just don’t want to be pushed. It hurts and is mean. And the girls always pretend to be princesses or fun animals and stuff when they have tea parties. The boys just dump the tea all over the place. That’s just stupid and I don’t like wasting all that tea. It takes forever to make.”
Me: “Wow, I can understand why you’d rather play with the girls. The boys seem like they’re kind of rough.”
6-year-old son: “And when I play with the girls they make me the king because none of the other boys want to play tea party.”
Me: “Do you like being the king?”
6-year-old son: “Not really – I’d rather be a wizard, but it makes Georgia and Vivian happy.”
May the 10 of Pentacles bless your account with more money than you can spend. 💵✨
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Omg this actually works!!! Thank you 10 of Pentacles!!!
I could seriously use this money right now….
Please give me my refund of 400$ soon…
I feel obligated to reblog this every time it shows up in my dash
No bragging, just 100% floored and grateful. Work hard, maintain a positive attitude, and believe that anything can happen.
Need.
Good things come to those who are willing to work for them. I am a firm believer in taking what you want and not letting things like doubt or insecurities stand in your way. That said, I will reblog this in a damn heartbeat.
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He a little confused, but he got the spirit
How much longer until the utopic Solarpunk future where Capitalism is dead and we all live in ecologically sustainable high-tech forest cities? Asking for a friend.
Until we make those ecologically sustainable high-tech forest cities ourselves. It’s going to take a lot of us to do it though, so best to spread the word (and gather native tree seeds).
And, like, get started now. Then our “weirdo houses” will be the only thing functioning when everything falls apart!
The only reason why we don’t live in a solarpunk world right now is because no one has bothered to make it yet.
We’ll have to make it ourselves, and we’ll have to help each other make it. That’s why it is solarpunk.
Some resources to consider creating or joining or doing:
Repair cafes - create or join your local repair cafe! Repair stuff, learn how to repair stuff, teach others how to repair stuff.
Map of Makerspaces - make some things! learn how to make some things! teach others how to make some things!
Community Garden Map (note that this is US-only, and not a complete list) - join a local community garden
Support your local farmers / local economy (US only link)
Support or create a local Food Not Bombs chapter
Support or create a local Food Not Lawns chapter
Grow food in 5 gallon buckets
Volunteer for Habitat for Humanity (as a bonus you can learn extremely practical skills)
Volunteer via 350.org to help the environment / the planet / the place we live and depend on
Excellent-and-still-growing wiki from reddit’s awesome r/zerowaste community - great resource to learn how to live more lightly on the earth
Spread the word about solarpunk, especially to engineering students. Show them projects like Open Source Ecology - Global Village Construction Set and Bridges for Prosperity
Learn how to Patch a Hole, Mend a Seam, and Fix a Hem
Learn how to repair a hole in the sole of a shoe
Learn some basics on passive solar design - clever use of the sun can create extremely energy efficient homes and buildings. You can use these principles to save on energy bills, even if you’re renting.
Free USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning, 2015 revision - cut down on personal food waste! Learn how to safely preserve food. Very useful if you suddenly harvest / purchase for crazy cheap in season / dumpster dive a ton of perishable food.
Donate to One Acre Fund, which provides training and capital to farmers (making them more productive and pulling them out of poverty) in various east African countries
Donate to Bridges to Prosperity, which provides technical expertise, money, and volunteers, to help local people build and maintain their own footbridges in extremely isolated rural areas
joining r/solarpunk, and sharing links/ideas/art/music with the community. Also, upvoting stuff for greater visibility. There’s over 900 members!
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This is fantastic! Give me more!!!!
#2 did not come to play with you hoes
OH MY FUCKING GOD
What A Thrill
Okay, real talk. I fully support Firefighters doing this kind of race. This is great training for rescue missions, and encourages Firefighters to give it their all.
dude fucking pogo jumps his ladder to get a headstart legend absolute legend
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She’s doing great
How??
I want my husband to have this accent
alright, that’s fine, that’s pretty con-fucking-venient