When I looked through the list of lemm.ee communities I was subbed to, my first thought was: omg I hope JohnnyEnzyme takes this ok…

Ship Sun of Theseus.

I didn’t say anything about gender, and I agree with everything in your comment. In addition, I maintain that the original post’s divide-and-conquer victim-blaming is one of the worst possible takes on the fact that accessing mental health care (in the US) is harder than performing esoteric medieval alchemy.

All right, either:

• try to decide what kind of therapist is needed (difficult)
• figure out what kind of therapy/therapists are covered by insurance (time-consuming and stressful, sometimes impossible)
• provide a bunch of private information (time-consuming, difficult, and stressful)
• look through a list of relevant therapists nearby (usually easy)
• try to identify one that you might relate to or at least be able to deal with (very difficult, sometimes impossible)
• call them up one at a time to see if they’re really accepting new patients (time-consuming and stressful)
• try to find a regular time that works in your schedule for the new therapist and for other obligations (difficult)
• again provide a bunch of private information (time-consuming, difficult, and stressful)
• go meet with the therapist. try to get along with them because if you don’t it’s your fault and you have to start all over (difficulty varies, sometimes impossible)
• do all this while dealing with whatever problem you need therapy for (difficulty varies, sometimes impossible)

Or:

• access Paracelsus: https://paracelsus-project.org/ (easy)
• translate: https://translate.google.com/ (easy)
• distill potions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrrbGRIOhCw (easy)

I know the wording’s a meme, but the hell with whoever made the original post. Fuckem.

I love the thought of all the original Olympians wearing diapers.

oh, sorry, I just added a warning.

If you have male genitalia, at least wear a kynodesmē (NSFW educational link) to stop your junk from flapping.

oh yeah I remembered that character design. I like the purple color scheme, glad they weren’t lazy and just gave her all black clothes. Dunno if those red contacts match well, but… “crazy kids”. Glad she has sensible footwear!

woah by complete coincidence I just posted this on [email protected]. Must be zeitgeist or something.

@[email protected] to be specific, [email protected] is “A place to discuss problems of car centric infrastructure or how it hurts us all.” The key word there is “infrastructure”.

Cars are amazing technological achievements, but many places have very poor infrastructure that is too focused on ONLY supporting cars (often single-passenger). This causes a variety of problems as discussed in that community. In fact, if we had better infrastructure you’d be able to enjoy driving even more because there’d be less traffic.

“Fuck cars” is a bit of a misleading name, but I guess it’s catchier than “hooray infrastructure”.

Upvoted. I disagree, and I think we need fewer cars and more public transportation, but if you don’t like that community by all means block it.

He begged for life!

I’m mixed-race but it wasn’t just seeing a mixed-race person sent to the death chamber. What really got to me was the way the character just wanted to get their work done but they were dragged away in a cold and bureaucratic way. They whimpered like a child being dragged from their parents. The kid was terrified but they still wanted to be obedient. It wasn’t that they were hoping to be saved by obedience, it’s that they were just an obedient kid, even when scared. The way when they begged to go on living, everyone else just stared and didn’t even move or react. They never really cared for that person anyway, the character’s kinda funny-looking anyways. If they made a fuss there might have been trouble. It’s not like any of them is some kind of hero. The only one to object was that holographic doctor, who was always treated as a joke. Because only a crazy person or a clown would go against the group. I looked it up online and the situation is never referenced again in any series. It was not an issue to anyone. All those people, the whole organization, the whole perspective of the show, to me is repulsive.

But I was kind of a nervous kid, so I recognize it’s just my point of view.

I saw some other stuff they changed too.

I bought some as a gift a while back. I kinda liked these new characters: https://archiecomics.com/meet-the-new-kids/ Don’t know if they kept them around tho.

I used to love Star Trek until I hit that Tuvix episode. That triggered some things in my personal background. I tried to get over it but I can’t.

it’s true… time does move slower the deeper you go…

Yes, and I also think everybody should read more history. There are a lot of lessons in Latin American history for US citizens as well.

Yeah it could be like your friends know you like em so they give you bumper stickers as presents.

oooh nice I was going to say Neil Armstrong but obv. the module in orbit was flying further away than the surface of the moon.

Plus, it’s well-known that Armstrong’s first words on stepping on the barren surface of the moon were: “Looks like Cleveland on a Saturday night.” lmao gottem.

(shifts glasses on nose)

This is only true if everyone reading the image has problems moving material from short-term to long-term memory.

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