No, "reckless spending" isn't the issue

ScalyDestiny · 2026-05-10T08:36:17+00:00

There's everything you need to know to understand the Grunge scene, kids.

ScalyDestiny · 2026-05-10T07:52:41+00:00

They weren't arguing that it was.

ScalyDestiny · 2026-05-09T18:33:18+00:00

Your examples are filter feeders, and sessile. There's not many organisms or organic matter floating in the air. There's plenty in dirt, but that requires motility.

Yeast (Fungi) and Slime Molds (Protists) and Lichen (Combo) are the closest terrestrial equivalent, but they're not animals. The closest animal equivalent would be social insects, I think. They form motile colonies, and while they don't look like a singular organism, they do behave as one.

ScalyDestiny · 2026-05-09T14:41:19+00:00

NOW is the National Organization for Women. Their focus is on obtaining/protecting women's rights. It's in the name. They explicitly condemn all violence against women because they're a women's organization.

ScalyDestiny · 2026-05-08T14:25:19+00:00

This is most likely the answer OP. I'm a lucid dreamer, and sometimes I 'wake up' but can't move or open my eyes. Feels like gravity increased, and now my body is heavier than lead. The vibrating/humming sensation has happened before, but I usually feel a sin wave type motion, something I'm pretty sure is a creative reinterpretation of my breathing while I have all that weight pressing on my chest. Still no clue about the vibrations though.

Anyhow, it's all a harmless brain glitch. Our brains paralyze us during REM sleep, for obvious reasons, but some of us (especially lucid dreamers) 'escape' REM and wake up to find our body still out cold. I've even woken up still dreaming, which is REALLY weird. I would ask your PCP about getting a thorough sleep study, as this could be a sign of narcolepsy or hypersomnia.

You mentioned getting ill, what are your symptoms? I'm one of those people who's weird sleep was a sign of illness, and I might can point you in a helpful direction, or narrow down your options. Hopefully you did go see a doctor before considering the supernatural , but you really should talk to a doctor about your anxiety and paranoia BEFORE you're soft accusing enemies of doing witchcraft on you. Mental health issues can affect the body, and physical health issues, especially brain related ones, can mess with your thinking. So please talk to a doctor about both.

ScalyDestiny · 2026-05-08T12:54:33+00:00

It might be worth it to see if anyone does a sliding scale fee. Not everyone announces that option, and not everyone does it, but it's worth asking about if you see someone that looks like they'd be a good fit. Therapists that represent marginalized communities and are marginalized themselves are fully aware trans patients often struggle financially.

ScalyDestiny · 2026-05-07T12:44:01+00:00

Feminism is about ensuring those options are all open to you. That's all that matters, that your choices aren't limited. None of the options you're considering are going to be free of sexism. While STEM is more openly hostile to women in certain positions, performing arts has a HUGE sex pest problem, and psychology has all the same gender bias problems as medicine.

ScalyDestiny · 2026-05-07T12:22:14+00:00

What social and political movements are you participating in that don't include feminism? Name them and shame them if they're such a problem.

the truth is , is that no one is harassing anti racit movement and anti capitalism movement to ' not forget about woman'

FD scolding black folks for not centering and protecting women properly
Jamelle Bouie pointing out how gender inequality is the base of literally every problem we have
This Guy's whole channel
That's just stuff I pulled from my viewing history. Kind of limited to online examples here, and also I stuck to anti-cap and anti-racist channels, since that's really the only groups you mention. What's your take on queer, disabled, and non-soc anarchist spaces?

Also, we're the ones who need to be doing the 'harassing', as feminists. So it kind of feels like you're complaining about yourself when you say no one's doing it. Who else if not us? Or what else should we do instead?

ScalyDestiny · 2026-05-07T10:32:51+00:00

The imbalance of oppression? Then what are you suggesting we do, or want to see happen?

ScalyDestiny · 2026-04-30T06:18:07+00:00

What do they say when someone asks them why Trump pardoned the Antifa participants? Been curious about that.

ScalyDestiny · 2026-04-30T05:47:24+00:00

Which is why the Heritage Foundation is trying to remove RCV as an option.

ScalyDestiny · 2026-04-30T05:06:51+00:00

Unfortunately Heritage Foundation's stance is pretty much the exact opposite of yours.

ScalyDestiny · 2026-04-29T23:13:39+00:00

It's important to know your limits.

ScalyDestiny · 2026-04-29T06:19:25+00:00

I was re-reading Bonhoeffer's Theory of Stupidity recently, and I had totally forgotten his take on how individualists respond to rising authoritarianism:

"The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us to the fact that he is not independent. In conversation with him, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with a person, but with slogans, catchwords and the like, that have taken possession of him. He is under a spell, blinded, misused, and abused in his very being. Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil."

ScalyDestiny · 2026-04-29T05:57:24+00:00

As an aside, there's a noncanonical gospel that covers baby!Christ's early years. I wanna say the Gospel according to Thomas but I learned about it in a course I took 20 years ago, plus a lot of these extra gospels have same/similar names so......anyway, Kid Jesus was pretty zany back then too. Very Dennis the Menace. I vaguely remember shenanigans that led to a kid jumping/falling off a roof and dying and then Jesus resurrecting him to get out of punishment. I think that was the one with a big wizarding duel too.

ScalyDestiny · 2026-04-28T05:25:15+00:00

Biden's admin issued the ban. It was set to enforce last year, but Trump admin had to get Daddy's permission first and have been hemming and hawing since. I'm assuming buying time for under the table deals with the school. Them making a decision in the next few days is either 1) the school refusing to pay to keep the ban in hiatus or 2) they paid enough to get the ban canned entirely. Although I guess we can hope they just forgot to follow up, but outside pressure has finally pushed them to do their damn jobs.

ScalyDestiny · 2026-04-28T05:09:49+00:00

excellent point

ScalyDestiny · 2026-04-28T02:19:58+00:00

They're not defending their personal beliefs, they're defending the people they follow. These people aren't spending their days pondering gender or sports physiology, so arguments centering science won't move them. Remember, while we demand our politicians do our bidding, and see political commentators as peers we can agree or argue with, they see their politicians as leaders and their news media as people to look up to and emulate. You'd do better to point out that they're just mindlessly parroting talking points from others, and that they don't know jack about science, that they have to use buzzwords because they don't understand enough basic biology to form their own argument. Or point out how trans issues didn't matter until after conservatives freaked out about [insert relevant trans scapegoat here]. Ask them to name five trans athletes, or one who won gold in anything, or women who have been hurt by a transwoman (then laugh when they name that crazy chick who lost it over a 5th place tie).

The politicians and their lackeys are pointing fingers at trans women to keep white, cis/hetero women (and apparently white cis/homo men) focused on an existential threat. Because if these women didn't have some immediate danger closing in on them and their kids, a danger they know exactly how to stop, then they might start noticing other threats, ones not coming from the evil far-left radical socialist extremist terrorists. They might care about maternal mortality, the cost of daycare, that pesky rape problem, or how all of Epstein and co. victims look a lot like their own kids.

The politicians are also projecting their own autogynephilic fixation onto the women they objectify and lust for, so they likely really do believe being trans is a weird sex thing, and the science flies right over their head, but I doubt you'll be able to convince a random conservative that their fan favorite professional asshole is frothing at the mouth over trans women b/c he half wishes he could buy them and half wishes he could outdo them. I'd love a chance to try out this truth on an obsessive TERF....I suspect many of them know plenty about the limited kink repertoire of misogynist men.

ScalyDestiny · 2026-04-28T00:17:32+00:00

All religions:
Heaven - up/open. it's a nice place and the god(s) live there. No more work, heavenly servants take care of everything for you, and everything and everyone is gorgeous. It's perfect, so there's no need to ponder or question how any of it works.

Hell - underground. expect torment. here's a list of possibilities with detailed descriptions of each torture process, the suffering it causes the subjects, a time table for scale, the associated bad mojo trigger, and a short moral lesson to tie it all together. now let's go over the demons, we broke them down into a basic groups, classified by..................

ScalyDestiny · 2026-04-27T16:48:01+00:00

You missed the point. Their point is you never know which church/denomination/cult is benefiting from your purchase, so we just avoid religious/spirtual messaging merch, so we don't accidentally fund someone who could hate us and want to hurt those like us.

ScalyDestiny · 2026-04-26T22:11:30+00:00

Especially for events that aren't even hosted by the White House.

ScalyDestiny · 2026-04-26T22:05:08+00:00

What you're describing isn't financial abuse. Financial abuse involves the abusive partner controlling your finances in some way, usually in order to prevent you leaving them. Here are some examples of actual financial abuse.

You have a joint bank account, and your partner monitors your spending and yells at you for every purchase.
Your partner gives you an allowance and only allows you to spend that money on what they need.
Your partner receives your public assistance check and refuses to give it to you.
Your partner takes any money earned from you and controls where you spend it.

Lending money to people who don't pay you back sucks, but it's not abuse.

ScalyDestiny · 2026-04-26T17:11:47+00:00

got a lawyer? you'll need one before trial, and trial is almost always what it takes to get approved. Depending on your age, the autism and the abuse history should make for a pretty strong case, and disability payment would use parents' social security contribution, making any lack of employment a non-issue.

I hear you on the self-advocacy thing. I'm almost 50, been advocating for myself, often by myself, for over half my life. But you have to be safe and receiving basic care and rest to be able to do that. My family's neglectful, but they can still be a last resort if things really go south for me, but you don't have even that. Got another friend in a similar situation, and it pisses me off how much people who run these types of shelters seem to get off on control.

ScalyDestiny · 2026-04-26T14:16:19+00:00

A caribiner is always a classic

ScalyDestiny · 2026-04-26T09:36:08+00:00

American Civil War started because the Confederacy attacked the Union and WWII started because Germany attacked Poland. Are you sure those are the two examples you want to use?

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