themes of autonomy

like a grapefruit in a bucket of lemonade or sweet tea I am but an ominous cloud looming over the school system peer-reviewed teen grandma she/her ✡️

[talmud-babely]

when I’m 38. Then you will realize

[strictlygamee-deactivated201407]

Charlie Day doppelganger: NBA player Josh McRoberts

[proletariangf]

I refuse to believe that isn’t charlie day

[hotbully-deactivated20170419]

The gang infiltrates the nba.

[gaymaul-archive]

dear god charlie is 5′7″ and this man is 6′10″. this is uncomfortably stretched out charlie, and i am straight up TERRIFIED by that concept

[airframeextender]

[talmud-babely]

drowzee? 10/10 incredible design

hypno? who is this guy

[kittycouch]

The dream team ༘⋆₊˚

[scribefindegil]

everyone who is not currently in the process of moving please pause and take a moment to be grateful that you're not currently in the process of moving

[paxamericana]

[aritany]

[hunter-rodrigez]

[64mpg]

they just invented bipolar 3 just for me

[mildmayfoxe]

1) any stretching is better than no stretching

2) any vegetable is better than no vegetable

3) statistically you will never be the worst person at anything, there is always someone in the world who is worse at stuff than you are

[fellator]

this fetish stuff is getting out of hand what the fuck is word play

[mockiatoh]

I think it’s important to be able to recognize the different between our emotional response, our moral response, and what we believe should be our legal response.

For example, emotionally, I genuinely think less of someone who buys into stupid conspiracies about organ donation. I think that morally, if you are unwilling (unwilling, not medically unable) to donate organs, you should not be an organ candidate. I don’t think you should be able to say ‘If I’m dead I want all of my organs to rot, even if they could save lives. But I also want to benefit from other people’s sacrifice.’ Fuck you.

But I do not believe it would be ethical (or practical) to legislate that. I think it would be a horrible ethical violation and medical coercion. I recognize that, even as I’m disgusted by people who would let someone die when saving lives would cost them nothing.

Legal codes and ethical guidelines shouldn’t be based around our feelings.

[mockiatoh]

Not long ago, there was an attempt to pass a law where if a baby was born sick and addicted to drugs, the mother could face child abuse charges and have parental rights terminated. Stepping back from any emotional response—either to the criminalization of addiction or to the suffering of newborns—is extremely difficult. I don’t know if it’s a subject that I could have that level of clarity on because it’s such an emotional topic. 

But what I want to highlight is the political bloc who were most effective against the law, and led to its defeat: community healthcare workers who were on the frontlines, whose careers very often were at that intersection of drug abuse and child suffering. 

Their argument wasn’t primarily about the parental rights of the mothers, or about the criminalization of substance use disorders. Instead, it was about what public health policies work in the real world, and what policies cause more harm. They argued these women would be afraid to access resources for harm reduction during pregnancy. This would result in heavier drug usage during pregnancy than if they were able to access harm reduction strategies and resources. There would also be an increase in abandoned infants, babies who are very sick and need immediate medical help. Fear of punishment wouldn’t help anyone. 

In a practical manner, this legislation would likely do more harm while not addressing the actual problems. Several different policies were instituted instead, ones that had been proven effective in practice. I think that there are some situations that we can only find solutions if we can step away from our immediate emotional response to think, or understand that we aren't the right person to try to fix this problem, and focus on where we can make a positive impact instead.

[talmud-babely]

johto was such an insane region

let’s have the wild pokemon in the mid 20s by the last gym

the ghost type gym leader? yeah a bunch of the gastly line, no why would we give him the single new ghost?

and on that note, let’s have a dragon gym after introducing one (1) new dragon to go with the one other dragon

oh yeah and you can’t catch several johto pokemon until you beat the elite 4. because they only live in the kanto region

[talmud-babely]

also the dragon type champion does not have the new dragon

[baddywronglegs]

We're gonna have a hard time convincing future generations the phrase "Trumped-up charges" is etymologically unrelated.

[talmud-babely]

in my current soulsilver playthrough I decided to use pokemon who’s designs I’ve always loved but never used bc their stats were garbage and it’s been a blast so far. leveling drowzee to 43 so it could learn learn psychic and nasty plot early was awful tho. stantler? shit movepool but calm mind dominates. also I love status. paralysis and confusion is so annoying when it happens to you and now I get it. it’s because it can buy enough time for your little weaklings to chip away at their foes

[talmud-babely]

13 hour road trip tomorrow

we played it really cool by going to bed super late last night and waking up at 7

early bedtime for sure tonight

[fairycosmos]

I WISH THINGS HAD TURNED OUT DIFFERENTLY!!!!!!!!! goes to the supermarket

[throathole]

“Lol” hasn’t meant “laughing out loud” in like 15 years… it’s just a word now and more importantly it’s the perfect way to end a sentence lol

[throathole]

So true… I have never gained anything useful from tone indicators except for learning that some sentences suddenly end in a handjob

[yesornopolls]

have you ever listened to a song that moved you so deeply it brought you to tears?

Have you ever listened to a song that moved you so deeply it brought you to tears?

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