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They are altering the deal. Pray they don’t alter it any further.

One box to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.

Hi, just letting you know intersex people exist. Sometimes when you're wrong, that's an opportunity to grow as a person.

In the US, the science courses for lower grades, like grades k through 6, are usually sort of like survey courses. So there might be one unit of biology, one unit of some really basic physics stuff, one about space, etc. Once you get into higher grades it will change over to a whole course on biology followed by chemistry the next year or whatever.

In the US, the science courses for lower grades, like grades k through 6, are usually sort of like survey courses. So there might be one unit of biology, one unit of some really basic physics stuff, one about space, etc. Once you get into higher grades it will change over to a whole course on biology followed by chemistry the next year or whatever.

What sources lead you to believe the totals given by western countries aren’t factual?

Not in normal Sprite, no. Are you talking about Lemon+?

“Also, you hear stories about groomers.” Here’s the thing: grooming is a real thing, and it has nothing to do with being trans or letting kids know that trans people exist.

The sad part about all of this groomer talk from the right is: now this language is politically coded and no longer useful for discussing real grooming like high school teachers doing sketchy stuff with their students.

Not that anyone using this language cares about the well-being of actual children, but if they did you’d think they might consider something like this.

If conversations with this one person are frequently reaching the point where things like that are being said, it seems pretty clear cut: you should honestly just avoid any of the topics that have resulted in debates with this person.

It doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t talk to them about other things or that you can’t be friends (although it might).

Not every relationship has to allow for talking about all topics.

Sometimes being right isn’t actually important and can actually be counterproductive with certain people/topics.

Celebrate “us labor day” like normal and then “international labor day” in May. Easy.

No one wants fewer days off anyway. What could be more in the spirit of celebrating workers?

I suspect Vangelis’s work on BladeRunner had a big part to play in this

In Vietnam, if it’s a café they’d ask you hot or cold.

Normal restaurants you’d get iced tea, usually very strong unsweetened Lipton yellow label.

This one for me. Having a service job doesn’t make you a slave ffs. You can really read a person’s character when you see how they treat those that are less than. I’d also add animals to that list but that’s just my personal axe to grind.

Yeah, don’t expect funding for AAA games!

Wait…

LGBTQ+ issues are kind of a warzone right now, because conservatives see trans rights issues especially as a wedge issue they can use to pull in people who might support gay marriage but still feel confused or grossed out by things like trans women using women’s bathrooms.

This conversation eats up a lot of the space that could be used to talk about things that would (should?) actually be less controversial, like accessibility.

Conservatives don’t want to talk about it because it would be a straightforward loser for them. Lots of progressives don’t have time to talk about it because they’re circling the wagons to fight for trans people having the right to… (checks notes) exist.

This isn’t to say disability issues aren’t as important. The point of intersectional activism is for many disparate groups to fight together against the kinds of people who want to separate them. A rising tide that helps everyone.

It sucks because it’s slow and painful and people get increasingly tribal when they feel under threat.

Because they’re socially liberal, opposed to most forms of social conservatism. The term rose to prominence in its current US meaning in the 1920s and 30s.

It was first used (in this sense) to identify a more moderate economic approach as compared to movements that were perceived as more radical like progressivism, socialism, communism, etc.

I think glorifying the grind has come naturally along with most people not being able to afford all of the previous generation’s big landmark goals like homes and things.

Kind of like how the move towards more employment options for women naturally came with the death of the single-earner household.

Everything else here 100% deserves the credit but I didn’t see anyone mention Divinity: Original Sin 2, which is also amazing.

Tons of little songs I found myself idly humming for days/weeks after playing and a thoroughly epic main theme.

The finale of the game where time slows down and the music swells is one of my favorite gaming moments.

I still haven’t grown the fuck up