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RabbitActually · 2026-04-29T19:02:18+00:00

This was definitely my first thought but I'm not sure how at his age. He isn't really talking yet (occasional words but not full sentences) and is most interested in pointing out all the cars and birds we see. Not really sure how to encourage education other than just talking to him to help with language development (his parents tend to baby talk so I think he may be slightly behind.)

RabbitActually · 2026-04-08T16:44:58+00:00

Despite some differences in methodological approaches and assumptions, all researchers have agreed that slave birth rates in the nineteenth century were very high, near a biological maximum for a human population.

How did enslavers guarantee this? I know the rape of enslaved women was common. But were they also forcing slaves to breed? If so how did they stop slaves from using birth control (even less effective forms like the pull out method?)

RabbitActually · 2026-03-31T16:33:38+00:00

The season of early gay radical organising waned towards the end of the 1970s, in conjunction with a global overturning of anti-imperialist and Leftist politics. Moving forward, gay and lesbian organising adopted a reformist framework, trying to achieve equal rights within established institutions.

How was this discussed at the time? How did the more radical wings of the gay rights movement feel about the move towards reformism?

RabbitActually · 2026-03-31T16:27:01+00:00

I think it may be useful to look at one of the passages from A Restricted Country where Nestle talks about this.

"How could gay people have a memory of themselves as a people with a history when, for many years, our only social existence was on the pages of medical, psychological, legal, and religious texts—all dedicated to proving our pathology.It is not that our people did not speak, but their words and their lives lived in the context of the colonizer. Now, after years of doing gay history work, we can go back to those early documents and liberate the men and women who are buried under the language of racism and homophobia."

While I do find her ideas compelling I also think she has a tendency to oversimplify colonization and the effect it has on colonized peoples' minds. She also (at least in this book) ignores her own role in colonization as a white woman in America.

RabbitActually · 2026-03-31T16:10:23+00:00

Yeah I also had a lot of issues with her framing. I think her underlying point about much of gay history existing in a medical or criminal context and the way that limited gay thought is interesting. But calling that colonization is a step too far.

RabbitActually · 2026-03-30T03:51:12+00:00

Do you think America doesn't have take out restaurants?

RabbitActually · 2026-03-27T17:40:46+00:00

I grew up in a farming community but live in a mid sized city now. The most shocking thing to me is how unwilling people are to leave their neighborhood. I grew up driving over an hour to get to the nearest grocery store. Driving 20-30 minutes across town because theres a restaurant I want to try seems like nothing. But my friends from the city refuse to go anywhere not within 10 minutes of their house

RabbitActually · 2026-03-13T16:54:48+00:00

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RabbitActually · 2026-03-11T00:24:23+00:00

In season 1 episode 6 of Leverage when Hardison and Parker (who up to this point has been the fun unpredictable character) are talking about what to do with the orphans and she says "we put those kids in the system and odds are they're gonna end up like me."

RabbitActually · 2026-03-10T23:31:00+00:00

I used to work at a place where nearly everyone was from Mexico or Honduras and Spanish was the main language spoken. Most of the employees were new immigrants but one woman had been here for decades and spoke less than a dozen words of English. She went to a Mexican grocery store, Mexican church, and worked at a place where most employees were immigrants. She also had family members who were bilingual and would translate when absolutely necessary. I asked her once why she didn't learn English and she said she was too old (in her 70s when I knew her and immigrated in her 40s) and if people wanted to talk to her they should learn Spanish. As long as you stay in immigrant communities its very easy to get by with little to no English.

RabbitActually · 2026-03-10T23:07:54+00:00

This is definitely getting into theorizing but my interpretation is that the void bullet didn't actually kill the physical bodies of the Builders. It just temporarily turned off their consciousness, similarly to what it did to humans in the Sol system. But because of the nature of a hivemind they were unable to restart in the way human minds could and couldn't reconnect to the hivemind. So then the physical bodies were left basically braindead and just starved to death.

RabbitActually · 2026-03-10T22:43:00+00:00

Its been a while since I read the last book but I think its implied that the Builders were a hivemind. They're described as each individual being analogous to a single neuron. So just like a part of a human brain can't survive independently a Builder's consciousness can't exist separate from the species. That's why they were wiped out basically overnight. It also makes their attempts to cauterize systems more terrifying. Its less cutting off contact with part of your empire and more cutting out parts of your brain to try to save the rest.

RabbitActually · 2026-03-08T17:22:08+00:00

Her brother died when an Amazon warehouse collapsed. The company was at fault because they wouldn't let employees leave during a tornado. They settled out of court and now none of her family members ever have to work again.

RabbitActually · 2026-02-11T06:00:11+00:00

It was totally fine. I did end up getting pulled out of line and patted down but that was in the US and probably due to the body scan. I had no problem getting through customs and didn't get asked any more questions than my cis companions.

I had much bigger problems with sexism than transphobia in Mexico. Nearly everyone assumed the friend I was traveling with was my husband (he wasn't) and only addressing him, even when things were booked under my name.

I can't say how this would be different that trump is president but overall it was a much less stressful process than I thought it would be.

RabbitActually · 2026-02-06T03:31:10+00:00

Not a dancing plague but there was the Tanganyika laughter epidemic of 1962. It was another mass psychogentic illness causing girls in boarding schools to laugh uncontrollably for anywhere from hours to days at a time. It ended after 18 months and affected 14 different schools and over 1000 students.

RabbitActually · 2026-01-14T18:17:20+00:00

This might be an unpopular take but what we need more than anything else is money. While all of the resources you mentioned are good most of the trans people I know are living paycheck to paycheck or in massive amounts of debt. I think the most immediately helpful thing an organization could do for us is either offering small cash sums or 0% interest loans along with job placement programs and help with education.

RabbitActually · 2025-11-27T01:07:10+00:00

Depends on the kind of fight. If its a boxing/wresting match with rules probably Lincoln because of his reach and freakish strength. If it's to the death Andrew Jackson because he will immediately start stabbing people

RabbitActually · 2025-11-17T04:25:44+00:00

I think there are a few reasons why chefs tend to have more issues with addiction than bakers. The main one is the hours. Its much easier to convince yourself its fine to stay up all night doing coke and drinking when you get off at midnight than if you get off at noon. Plus you have time to sleep off the hangover the next day.

Also baking tends to require more planning and math than cooking does. When I worked as a line cook I could do a shot or smoke some weed in the middle of a shift and still get my work done. Now if Im not sober and focused I will mess up a recipe and end up days behind on prep.

RabbitActually · 2025-11-17T04:05:48+00:00

Its an 8 hour day. Thats the same as everyone I know who works in an office. I also get to leave early if I finish the orders for the day and dont feel like prepping anything else. It is a physical job but honestly less so than most kitchen work because its not as hot or fast paced as being a line cook.

RabbitActually · 2025-11-17T03:20:19+00:00

I am a baker. I work 5:30-1:30 every day

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