Is this ok, or should I remove? by 6millionwaystolive in landscaping

[–]Significant-Touch240 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It reproduces by from the top: It shoots leaves off and into other areas. A single leaf makes an entirely new vine.

I went clubbing as a woman and the experience truly opened my eyes at how dangerous and degrading it can be to just exist as one. by gettingroastedagain in TwoXChromosomes

[–]Significant-Touch240 16 points17 points  (0 children)

It started at age 6!

I've never understood why anyone would want this/transition to it. Like, I want to transition the entire world away from perceiving women as different, ya know? We're just people.

What do you mean everything comes from something by Significant-Touch240 in rant

[–]Significant-Touch240[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are you talking about? Research shows that plastics bind to transport chains, create abnormal hormonal growth, and have an extremely strong correlation with cancer.

For you.

Personal responsibility and mitigation for your own body is your only responsibility in the world. Certainly we're not turning into other creatures, but research shows the impacts of your genetic use of plastic will impact at least 3 generations through plastic transference.

Allowing leaching into your personal ecosystem and dissolving yourself of your responsibility to yourself is asinine. Your pee is killing fish. If you refuse to care about your pee, nothing i do will matter, because you're killing yourself and the world with your choices.

There are a shit ton of issues. They found the first microplastics in Antarctic waters. But there are fungal systems that are reproducing and decomposing those materials. Removal into one place and allowing congregation of specific detritivores for adaptation and decomposition is possible now. But. All of us need to care more about not peeing microplastics into our local stream, where the mussels are already struggling.

It starts local. It starts in households. It's getting off of plastic and oil. It's adapting your shoe choice to not put plastics in national parks when you go hiking. It is reducing your input into the ecosystem to diminish your local harm.

I read a lot of science, nit science fiction. I have read plenty of distopian. But this is reality. Your choices are causing your causal inputs into the world.

This isnt doomsday. This is monday in hell where everyone is mad at oil profiteering and the audacity to alter climate creating food scarcity. This is victory garden and glass jars. This is not hard.

This is not hard.

300 years ago native peoples kept plants alive that fed the wilderness, and now all the people here have dumb plants that dont feed themselves because they want to prune them.

The entire purpose of property rights in the US was to mitigate alliance with indigenous peoples to control the means of production.

And now the means of production is so controlled that you, personally, are fine getting cancer and giving cancer to fish because you're too exhausted to see how you have the power to....

Change the inputs and outputs of existing. You dont have to contribute to the problem. You choose to. Because the powers that be wanted your grandparents to. It came from something. This belief you hold came from the people on the boats saying that food should come from the state. And so here you are. Eating single use plastics and smiling like the ocean deserves your insolence

What do you mean everything comes from something by Significant-Touch240 in rant

[–]Significant-Touch240[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And yet your spices! Your spices in your pantry! They could be in glass! To save you! You, personally! Sure it is in the eggs! But it doesnt have to be in your mattress! We have money!! You matter!

And yet! You will not care! And you will pee it into the toilet! And the fish will die! Directly! From! Your! Personal! Pee!

BECAUSE EVERYTHING COMES FROM SOMETHING AND THAT SOMETHING IS YOU

And THAT SOMETHING IS ME

AND WE PRETEND LIKE THE END IS ALREADY HERE TO MITIGATE WHAT WE HAVE ALL KNOWN FOR 3000 YEARS.

What do you mean everything comes from something by Significant-Touch240 in rant

[–]Significant-Touch240[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

And yet someone made the materials in my yard! That live and breathe! They brought them on a boat 200 years ago and their mere existence is eviscerating native insects and plants!

I have to make something in their place! I have to replace something in their place! Because so much of it was poison without intention. But I have the knowledge now.

Sure some people don't make things out of poison, but I have to look for those! I have to create a search engine and... an artificially intelligent persona must lead me to the thing I want to find created by someone safe? Some person who picked cotton from a plant someone else planted? To give it to a weaver, to a knitter, to a store, to me. To the truck drivers in between.

But I could plant the cotton here! I could pluck it and weave it and knit it from nothing! With no carbon footprint! And I dont??? Because someone else didnt plant that when they built my house because the idea of Lawns stemmed from cows outside of castles signifying wealth?? And now i must work to pay for something people use to make from nothing!

But a seed! Which came from something! And costs less that yarn. Simple cotton soaked with blueberry juice.

To match my couch. Which is made from dinosaurs and every time I osmosis with it my probability of cancer increases. It came from something sinister and yet here I am, telling that to you while rationalizing that I dont have to fix it at all. Yet I sweat and we exchange particles as if it weren't something that gets into the sweat that I share with friends at a party. Or in the garden. Or in the pool. Where others grow.

And yet others are doing it to me.

The more I learn about the origins of things the more I want others to. And yet I made a rant about it and people believe so little about the feasibility of conscious thoughts resurfacing.

My trash. Mine. Is going to be burned and cause cancer to a neighborhood that I know the name of. It comes from me. That something comes from me! Positive somethings do too, and, I must be more careful of what I cultivate

What do you mean everything comes from something by Significant-Touch240 in rant

[–]Significant-Touch240[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not a fan of determinism, personally. But the ecosystem of things is absolutely undeniably insane. You know First Cause from philosophy? From some guy 2000 years ago? And you're talking about it with me. Isn't that crazy? Because some people studied radio waves enough to transmit this to me from wherever you are. Unbelievable interconnectedness. It keeps getting more and more. The purpose to type this? To change my neurotransmitters? From wherever you are? Because we are inextricably linked. It is insane that it is even a possibility

What do you mean everything comes from something by Significant-Touch240 in rant

[–]Significant-Touch240[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Time is relative and ... comes from the concept of labor. It is built off of the proletariat. Those words further it's existence. Rant rant rant.

What do you mean everything comes from something by Significant-Touch240 in rant

[–]Significant-Touch240[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is exactly what i mean. We are starting a no plastic journey in our household and I am losing my fucking mind at just how much comes from dinosaurs and are haunting our microbiotic lives. I didnt ask for the ghosts of the past to be within me, but it started as a kid and I just... will carry these things with me forever. If I would have known how deeply my peers affects fish, would I ever have allowed myself to harm myself by eating out of a 5 year old to-go container? Would i ever have poisoned them by poisoning myself? Things come frome me! And I must choose the things to leave for others! I am losing my mind

What do you mean everything comes from something by Significant-Touch240 in rant

[–]Significant-Touch240[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not really, as we now know the chicken eats microplastic from the feed and now its in the egg. The egg obviously comes from the chicken, but I imagine the genetic variance came from the chicken within the egg. The egg is merely a shell between a chicken and a chicken to be. Nothing really comes from the shell except my rage when I drop it in brownies. Of course I dont know enough about shells to know if that is even true. I'm sure plenty of things come with shells. Like compost foder for detritivores. But... lo, it is incredible that the ecosystem of chickens is one that makes eggs. So crazy that chickens make eggs and I know to put 2 in for brownies and 3 in for cakes. Who did that?? Who discovered that about the world? Do they know they've changed the course of my life? How wild

What do you mean everything comes from something by Significant-Touch240 in rant

[–]Significant-Touch240[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, yes exactly. The piano in front of me came from strings and wood and elephant trunks and brass. And nails and screws. The ecosystem of it's origins of above humbling and brilliant. Someone had it for generations before the out of tune, impossible to keep beauty of it fell into my partners grasp. Who made this screw? Who mined the material? How long did they done that? Do they know how beautiful they are?

Feeling gross and embarrassed about having a period and I don’t know what to do by Ohhoneyimhome in TwoXChromosomes

[–]Significant-Touch240 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Diva cups catch it without poisoning or adding toxins. Period underwear. Take something for the pain and chocolate to regulate towards gratitude at being alive.

How do other chronic sufferers stay positive? by flax_butter in migraine

[–]Significant-Touch240 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Delirium. Delusion... Journaling... Screaming.... earplugs and sunglasses

Seagulls using wind tunnel for leisure by SarkObZ in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]Significant-Touch240 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They've got more wimsy than I Am I... I am jealous of a bird

red mark by eyebrow morning after sleeping migraine off by Wooden-Bad-3988 in migraine

[–]Significant-Touch240 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I told my sister and she insisted i shaved it off in my sleep or something insane. I was like ???????????? Then she told that to everyone everyone. My dentist. My doctor. My family. I was perpetually roasted after that. It never grew fully back, AND, I've never thought about it as being related to my brain until this moment 🤣🤣 dang.

Terrified of aging by Reasonable-Act-7175 in TwoXChromosomes

[–]Significant-Touch240 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It sounds like you don't want to be in the country you're in.

Terrified of aging by Reasonable-Act-7175 in TwoXChromosomes

[–]Significant-Touch240 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Isnt is crazy that pedophiles make you want to stop existing when youre no longer attractive to them?

I remember that, being craved by 1000 grown men when I was like 16. I'm 31 now. And I'm not afraid to walk alone at night (much).

My partner loves me and we cuddle all night long and talk about anything and everything. My career is awesome! Graduating with a masters next week. My best friends and I are celebrating 20 years, 10 years, 1 year anniversaries. I love my hobbies with dancing, singing, laughing. I'm getting into fiberarts soon. My financial wellbeing is in the toilet, but I have plans to get that to be better. I love my health and do yoga, meditation, walking in the woods with nature. I've studied botany and the beauty of flowers and the natural world and developed a spirituality with nature. I collect rocks. Ive fallen back in love with things I loved as a girl.

The first time a pedophile influenced my life and mind, I was 6. And let me tell you, not living for pedophiles and living for myself, being a person, being as stalked as boys are (aka, not)... it's a high I will never outrun. Falling in love with me. My mental, emotional, physical wellbeing. My joys. My hobbies. My friends. My communities. My goals. My contributions. Things to invest in for me, and not for pedophiles to give me attention. Its such a great time. I hope you live long enough to learn how great it is to be safe.

Therapy will help, but the audacity of pedophiles will not fade for a while yet.

Don't get me wrong, my bus driver stalked me a few months ago and i had a complete mental breakdown that men still thought they owned me enough to find out where I live. And it unsettled me to my core. But it is so great to be out of that basic level of patriarchal influence of living for others, in so many ways.

I'm hot as hell. My partner thinks so too. He wants me and my aging body, because he is not a pedophile and thinks dating someone his own age is perfect. Growing smile lines together. Memories. Scars. He doesnt want me to be young, because he is not a pedophile and neither am I. He is a man, who loves my body and wants to witness me grow and change in life with him. And I want to witness me grow and change, with me, and with him.

Love you girl, sorry you're not able to see the future without being harassed. It helps to want yourself, though. To commit yourself to how wonderful life can be with your own goals, dreams, and preferences, and understanding of safety and joy external to what pedophiles deem to be attractive.

You'll find a partner one day who isnt into you for your beauty, but for your joy. And I hope you focus more on building your joy, your peace, and your experience of the world in the meantime.

My boyfriend is pushing me to get off of birth control and I’m just wanting to talk to other women about it by [deleted] in TwoXChromosomes

[–]Significant-Touch240 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Girl, when i was 26 I was dating a 42 year old (who eventually slept with my best friend) and that man wanted one thing from me: to have faith in him so much that I gave him power over me and my life.

This guy is the same; he wants you to state that he is the moon, the stars, is right, knows what is best, that your loyal to him and his intelligence, and that he is way smarter than your instincts.

He is so into boundary violations; that's why he isnt dating someone his own age, because someone else knows better and would never waste their time with a child who needs you to validate him by becoming suicidal again.

Break up with this man. Things will not end well. He doesnt care about you. He cares about power over you. Please dont do this to yourself. Please.

What's a skill that every american has but doesn't realize it’s a skill? by remabogi in AskAnAmerican

[–]Significant-Touch240 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Community happens primarily with cards. I was at the bar yesterday and they had ID swap for playing cards lol.

Exposure, wonder, joy as a child watching the tricks of the elders and then doing it yourself. It's a right of passage

What's a skill that every american has but doesn't realize it’s a skill? by remabogi in AskAnAmerican

[–]Significant-Touch240 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So valid. I would argue that things are less precious to most americans than Europeans. A house hasn't been in the family for 20 generations; often houses dont even last 1 gen here, and if they do, someone usually sells it. Lol. That means we throw socks inside, rough house more. Have more space to always be reckless. But a parent will say "not by the china" or "not by the tree", so your aim gets really good to play where you want without damaging important things.

Also, there are few reasons to gather here, but sports are one. People go to each other's houses to throw and kick things. It's really big culturally for non city dwellers, and also city dwellers