Brainsploosh

I happen to share your perspective, but I find it hard to argue that their stupid reasons are better or worse than our stupid reasons for our accepted suffering.

My take is that humans have solved for stability and safety for many thousands of years and found several good enough solutions, typically well adapted to a slightly out of date situation.

All culture is peer pressure.

It's just that our culture has laxer consequences for unacceptable behaviour and less expectations of personal responsibility.

What constitutes worse is a matter of opinion (a.k.a. norm), in US culture women can have their rights and access to healthcare taken away without consequence to the oppressor.

Even in matters of personal honor, the rapist-in-chief famously has little to no consequences for besmirching his own and others' honor, exemplifying many other such cases.

Harakiri and shunning can be argued as better mechanisms to protect women.

It's just different solutions optimising for different outcomes. And many solutions differing from our own have shown success for certain goals, be it US, China, Islam, Catholicism, Roman or Aztec.

I was expecting Slavic Superman to sweep the table when the shots came out.

There's definite anti-intellectualism, but what you're describing is the loss of qualified/high innovation industry in the US.

The previous generation of higher education graduates cannot find gainful employment offsetting their student loans, not to mention qualified work at all. There isn't enough employment or market to make use of that knowledge (there's also a discussion to be had about the quality of that knowledge, but with the rest of the world managing – let's set that aside for now), whereas there's high demand for the trades.

The last few centuries have shown that economic growth is greatly accelerated with higher education, and that access to an educated workforce has been key to post-world-war growth. Meaning it might get rough for the next US generation...

Very cool map I haven't seen before, thank you!

It's so strange to me that the Romans went through central Europe, were they just taking the land route to the sea nations up north?

It's also a super common ND thing, you might have utility of looking up their strategies for dealing with it?

But from my own experience, I have those two weeks to find something satisfying to do with the hobby, as well as figure out where it will fit in my life for the next 6 weeks or so, before I get bored with it and can't pick it up again for at least a year. I've had to become very proficient in finding just enough materials, as well as getting rid of them, to not ruin me or drown in hoarded materials.

I'm also prone to taking on too many projects at once, having a two week quarantine period saves me an embarassing lot of times.

Is it an apology though?

Somewhere there's a line where an apology feels disingenuous because it is ignorant enough to be indistinguishable from insult.

We wouldn't accept an unsolicited dickpic, even when motivated with something like "Oh, I just assumed since you ticked Woman that you'd leave the negotiation to your father, and I just wanted to show you don't have to worry about the outcome. I'm raised traditional like that."

It is technically an apology, but also even more insulting.

Break a project down into two week sprints?

And/or adjust your tempo to account for making stuff sustainable in both amount of novelty, intensity and progression.

Finding ways to get past the two week inspiration high is much of what makes an interest different from a hobby.

I'm more interested in knowing if this leads to any difference in treatment and reception in the correctional facility. I don't care if they think they're making some kind of point going out in drag, it's functionally indistinguishable from being trans and an excellent point in favor of the law treating people equally, as well as gender being a construct.

I'm guessing being disingenuous is rather going to bite them in corrections, and hope she'll find a constructive way to approach themselves and society in corrections.

The Divine Dungeon series scratched much of the same itch for me!