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Cake day: January 13th, 2024

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  • Speaking as a woman who has been assaulted and harassed on multiple occasions by more than one man, I’d just interject that bears can at least be pretty predictable. If you don’t bother it, it very probably won’t bother you. The men who have assaulted and/or harassed me were people that (I thought) I knew and had been normal up to that point.

    This is a hyperbole, and if push comes to shove, I would rather be dropped in a forest with another human… but if that human is a man that is a stranger, then I’m going to have a different kind of guard up than I would for a bear.

    TL;DR: It’s easier to predict animal behavior than human behavior, and the bear won’t lie about being a friend before attacking you.


  • Then you and the people that agree with you on what constitutes the beginning of human life need to be fighting tooth and nail for social services and social welfare programs to support people before, during, and after pregnancy/birth. “Life begins at conception” and “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” are fundamentally opposing ideals unless they are only backed by cruelty, cognitive dissonance, and hate.

    If you truly believe that all life is sacred, and that life begins with conception, you need to be turning around and fighting the people beside you on the importance of supporting the humans that are outside the womb.


  • Adoption is not the silver bullet people seem to think it is. If the baby isn’t white, or has health problems, there’s a much higher chance they’ll end up in the foster care system.

    Separately, carrying a pregnancy and giving birth are extremely dangerous. Depending on which state you look at, American women face the highest maternal death rate in the developed world. Also, the leading cause of death of pregnant women in America is intimate partner homicide, and intimate partner violence frequently escalates during pregnancy. How does adoption fix those problems?


  • What the above commenter said is generally good advice, but I would add on limiting your social media intake. Finding an online community to interact with (with voice or video chat kinds of things involved) is a better use of online time. For the coding, you could try moving that to the morning, and socialize in the afternoon/evening, and that will help you get on a more normalized schedule. If your leisure time is spent mostly with other people, it’s a lot easier to sign off and go to bed when everyone else does as well.

    Edit: Also throw in a multivitamin and 2000-5000IU of Vitamin D3 because nutritional deficiencies can cause psych problems as well as exacerbate or prolong said psych problems.




  • Sounds like some damn good reasons to go to the locally-owned restaurant and try to ensure that they get to stay in business. It always sucks when the mom-and-pop/family-owned local places go out of business because people just go to the chains all the time.


  • In Second Gig (the second season of the anime) they do go over her past more and it reveals that she was a little girl that survived a plane crash (?) and was one of the first children to have a fully cybernetic body. That season explores a lot about her relationship with her past and present identities, motivations, and principles. It is one of my favorite pieces of media.



  • Lt. Riza Hawkeye (Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood)

    Major Motoko Kusanagi (Ghost in the Shell - the 80’s movie and the anime series. Live action one needs to die in a fire)

    Jo Lupo (Eureka)

    Domino (Deadpool 2)

    Go-go Tamago (Big Hero 6)

    Mako Mori (Pacific Rim)

    Golden Sparrow (Forbidden Kingdom)

    Gamora and Nebula (Guardians of the Galaxy)

    Evie (V for Vendetta)

    Hela (Thor: Ragnarok)

    Valkyrie (Thor: Ragnarok)

    Molotov Girl/Millie (Free Guy)

    Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel)

    Cherri Bomb (Hazbin Hotel)

    Carmilla Carmine (Hazbin Hotel)

    Sypha Belnades (Castlevania)

    Lisa Tepes (Castlevania)

    Princess Mononoke

    Sophie (Howl’s Moving Castle)

    Kitty Pryde, Rogue, Storm, Jean Grey (X-men)

    I could keep going all day. These are just the ones that come to mind without having to dig around my watched media for ideas.