Dewey was a sex pest. Like, got #metoo’d in his day.

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Can’t diagnose borderline in teenagers. Personality is not set, hormones are wild, personality disorders aren’t really appropriate models. Hearing voices could be borderline, early schizophrenia (not common in teens, but drug use might play into this), lies for attention… We don’t have enough to suggest that with more evidence (which is always true when we’re weirdos on the internet).

It tends to be thrown around too freely (like how everyone has NPD now) and misdiagnosed in women too imho. I suspect it’s often actually PTSD (sexual trauma) or ASD.

I’m not a psych, but I’ll happily be called out by one.

I think the key is not to think of drawing as a like a skill you can cap out. It’s more that it’s an art form which if it’s really for you, you’ll spend time interrogating and exploring it and finding your own “level.”

Like, if it’s just because you want a medium for story telling because of the comic - if it’s a barrier - a lot of really good webcomics shine because they use other techniques. Or sometimes writers and artists work together.

Something that helped me go from stick figures to things recognizable as animals and my environment was a drawing course from the Smithsonian (online during Covid - I think they still have regular courses though). That kind of formal instruction helps you focus on what is is essential and gives you opportunities for specific feedback. Being encouraged to invest in things like charcoal, pencils, the right kind of paper - these things aren’t necessary but then sometimes part of learning to enjoy a hobby is spending $5 on a pencil.

We all got our verbal tics. Also an attempt to add some more complexity to our communication, since we’re missing things like facial expressions or body language or environmental cues.

Argentine ants are an invasive species, and are harmful because they are displacing native ants. (The danger with Argentine ants is that they all recognize each other as part of the “same colony” and so team up as an invading force.)

Ant species are pretty good markers of biodiversity - you can use the number of different species in a square meter as a kind of measurement tool. As far as the roles they play - complicated as shit and depends on the species. Some have complicated interactions with aphids, some do things like farm different kinds of fungus which might make different nutrients available at the micro biome level. It really depends on the ecosystem we are looking at - when I worked in an ant lab we were looking at their interactions with the prairie and micronutrients. Kurzegaszt’s ant series is a pretty awesome exploration of the ways a bunch of different species wage wars, impact the environment…

Argentine ants are wrecking all of this.

You should make some dimensional analysis/unit conversion worksheets and sell them on Teachers Pay Teachers.

I’d really like to see more bug conservation in general. There’s a lot of good to be done in saving bees, but wasps are also critical pollinators. I get that paper wasps are jerks and it can hurt, but social wasps are just trying to protect their families.

We are in a mass extinction event when it comes to insect populations. I get liking the (not indigenous to the US) honey bees because they make tasty stuff, but we also need to work on protecting ants, beetles… it can’t all be focused on monarchs and the cuter bee species…

You can’t even get a 6-inch for $5 I don’t think.

Most deep sea animals are glowy! Makes sense I think, there’s not a lot of light down there.

Fun fact - the first forms of photosynthesis were by red colored algaes and plankton - not green, because different colors of light penetrate the ocean to different levels.

I was thinking about this guy at Eurovision.

I just get a little paranoid that I’ll forget to put my phone on silent and the little old ladies at the thrift will sniff me out.

I prefer sucking dick for free. When guys pay, they get a bit entitled about it and it’s less fun (can’t take a TMJ break).

By definition a primary source is not “re-written”.

Then you are ruling out most ancient primary sources. I don’t think you understand ancient or medieval concepts of authorship, or document transmission.

What time periods/places are you interested in? I am able to and would be happy to give you a detailed list of primary and secondary sources for a good chunk of concepts.

That’s the big thing - historians tend to focus. Even the university “western history from 1500” or whatever are going to vary a lot by what the professor is interested in and focused on. Behind just focusing on like a whole country or time period, they get super specific and do shit like figure out that whole undocumented kingdoms existed based on numismatic work (coins) or look at things like architectural influences that the crusaders brought back and can be seen in their classes (I had a prof who had a whole feminist interpretation of medieval castle architecture)

Your comment alludes to the history of religion, which is definitely a complicated topic and has its own complexities in historiography (the study of history and techniques). Religion has interactions with so many other spheres, and so you also often have to dive deeply into the culture and history of the specific people who practiced it to understand the why - which is hard, because religious interpretations that are common now tend to get read backwards into the text.

I’d be happy to give you a list of sources for any religion as well. (Do you feel most comfortable with texts for popular audiences, or would you like to explore academic material?)

My idea as a transgender man who struggles with mental illness - if I am safe, than health cis men are also safe.

Maybe it’s not “use people as a buffer” but the start fighting now.

I know I am in danger and there is nothing I can do about it. Many cis men can do things now, that would improve my life and help push up against this rising tide of fascism.

They probably won’t come for you (unless you’re very politically vocal) until after they’re done with immigrants, LGBTQ folks, the mentally ill…

So if you don’t want them to come for you, help make sure they don’t get to wrap up those groups first. Maybe advocate on behalf of some of those folks - your voice has more clout.

Which contemporary philosophers demonstrate this supposed shift in thinking?

Post-modernism laid the groundwork for an ‘I have my facts and you have yours’ culture.

I feel like this is a common regressive take. The Right/anti intellectualist movement understood postmodernism as giving them the right to claim that facts don’t matter.

Post modernism itself is a way of interrogating frameworks we take for granted. It’s not saying “facts don’t matter,” it’s saying “how do we know those are facts”? There are valid questions to ask about science as a way of knowing - which epistemological frameworks we take at face value, and if we really can. Lolita is a postmodernist work, because it’s asking you to interrogate what a novel means (in the context of an unreliable narrator - HH is lying to you, but he isn’t real. what does that mean about what is being described in a novel? Is a novel a window into a different universe which has a reality to be described?)

The Right’s unreality is more of a Romantic one - none of those fuckers are reading Derrida or Deleuze. It’s more related to sexual insecurities and the death drive. I’m not a Freudian but I look at anti intellectuals and see deep sexual confusion and fear. If “male” and “female” are permeable categories, how does someone who defines their existence solely by their white masculinity going to police the boundaries of their own identity?

Dont forget the failure of the Business Plot. Which side of the war would those fuckers be on?

(Fun fact: Prescott Bush, Dubya’s grandfather might have been involved too - it’s debatable but the argument against it is that he was too busy with Nazis abroad to be helping them here….)

A single tesla on fire needs a response similar to a house fire.

How the fuck are these things legal