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What fucks me up is we used to interact with other, different talking apes and now they’re all gone.

wut

I feel like you’re posting your homework questions on here

Not to be dramatic but I would kill for Pepper if she asked

I’m always surprised by the hate for the first episode, or people telling folks to skip it/start with a different one. It feels like the most Black Mirrory episode they ever made imo. It’s horrifying and grotesque. The visceral disgust we have to the beastiality with relatively little acknowledgment of the fact that the PM is not only being raped, but having to actively participate in it, in front of an audience. The joking disregard it’s treated with as it escalates, and then everyone watches it against the request of the victim. The fact that it was all ultimately pointless anyway. And that after it was over, people just expect things to go back to normal. That it even raised his approval rating. While his psyche and marriage will never recover.

That brief moment of regret everyone has when watching, when it actually happens and the collective realization hits. When they realize they don’t actually want to watch this and it is not a joke. You turn off the screen but that person you are is staring right back at you, ready to consume the next dehumanizing thing to distract. That’s the show, man.

It’s really actually the same theme as White Bear, which I also liked, but imo sadly more plausible.

What behaviors or experiences caused you to explore the idea of it being disordered rather than just atypical? How was it disrupting your life?

The pros/cons seem stacked because they are. This is coming from my perspective of someone who has chosen not to have children, but has friends who have.

It’s not something you can really pro/con to make the “right” choice. You have to want to do it in spite of it changing your relationship, your body, your lifestyle, your everything. In some ways better, some worse. Some changes will evolve or ebb and flow with the seasons of life, and some will just be permanent.

I know that I can’t handle all that uncertainty, all that change. And while I also never really had the desire to raise and shape a child, as I’ve gotten older I’ve realized that I get to have those moments. In doses I can handle and without sacrifices, because they are not my kids. I’m an auntie (biological and chosen). I have plenty of friends with kids (and plenty without). I feel like I get the best of both worlds.

Imagine your life in both scenarios. What brings you the most joy?

I hope you recover from your carbrain

The target needs to be capitalism. Not Walmart, not Target, not Amazon. Just quitting the sheer amount of shit we buy that is not necessary. Reassessing our understanding of the word necessary. And for the things that are truly necessary, buying from companies who don’t race to the bottom with the most low-quality instant garbage they want to break so we’ll but another one.

I’m not talking about boycotting shitty companies, though. Just like, boycotting capitalism. To the degree that’s even possible. We need food, shelter, and utilities.

But clothes? Repair, swap, thrift.

Entertainment? Cancel streaming services, stop going out to movies. Don’t use social media sites that make money by showing you ads. Play cards or board games, read or listen to books from the library. Trade things with friends when you get bored of what you have instead of just buying new stuff. Touch grass.

I’m not saying I do all of this stuff or that it would be easy, but lots of people doing this consistently would make a much bigger difference than boycotting shitty companies piecemeal.

Opting out of consumerism. Not that it’s legal disobedience, but it’s certainly social disobedience that would get the attention of and take power from the corporations who control our politicians. Yes we can’t stop buying everything completely, going to a barter system for everything is not feasible. But we can at least stop buying so much crap.

I’ve been actively suicidal before and it sucks, so I’m not gonna give you any “permanent solution to a temporary problem” bullshit. But what I learned in my extensive research is that it’s really hard to effectively kill yourself. If anything goes sideways, it’s pretty likely that you not only won’t die but your life will be way way worse. You think you’re unhirable now, just wait until you have a hypoxic brain injury.

As the kids on tiktok were saying for a bit: suicide is cringe, don’t kill yourself

Do you have anyone in your life you trust to talk to about this?

What kinda of things get them banned arbitrarily?

Grow your tooth into an eye while it’s implanted in your cheek. Totally normal

Why is rice being stockpiled but not cycled out?

Actually not joking, six or seven years ago I stopped apologizing for "delayed replies. Maybe if it’s really heinous, but if it’s a week or less (or I was on vacation!), it’s “thank you for your patience!” I’m not going to apologize for not busting my ass above my pay grade. Also how many things at most jobs actually need an immediate reply?

I got a 5/5 on my annual review this year, I’m good at my job, but I’m not going to apologize for not replying to every email every day when I’m actually trying to get work done.

Look at those l o o o o o o o o o n g whiskers

How did the diagnosis process work? How did your doctor assess you to make the diagnosis? Do you take meds for it?

Yep, which is why of you ever want to strip and re-season cast iron, you use a lye bath with some electrolysis magic. Do that once and you’ll see why back in the lye soap days, you want weren’t supposed to wash them.