Those articles hit close to home as someone hard of hearing. So much of disability activism is trying to get able people to respect what is comfortable for us to do rather than what is comfortable for able bystanders to see us do.

Like assistive devices are awesome, but they exist for the people they are used by. We consistently want comfortable independent function without being othered for it. Some will prefer subtle devices, others will ask for a fully controllable rgb option on devices that could be hidden easily.

So my mom asked if I was gay, I told her I’m only attracted to women. She kept trying to figure out what was up (she was nosy and I was trying to leave a coming out letter so I was acting sus af). Anyways eventually she said “well I know you aren’t trans” and I said “about that…” and came out. Lots of crying on both our parts later she was incredibly supportive, but I wasn’t worried as she had already been a vocal trans ally.

My father on the other hand attempted to talk me out of it then hasn’t really spoken to me since. That includes years of living together. Which, points for stubbornness I suppose.

The chaos star is an old anarchist symbol too

Yeah if you don’t like the bill of rights fucking leave. And take your cronies with you. We’ve got ammendments other than the second

Guns and Republicans

“Attempted murder? What next? The Nobel prize in attempted physics?”

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I liked it because it’s a journey with a traumatized teenager. As a teenager who didnt realize I had cptsd it hit hard for me

I’m from around the same place as him and idk either

Yeah I was really hoping for an androgynous murderbot. This is a character that’s disgusted by the implication that it might have sex characteristics

Im probably too sick to continue my day

I was a mod who decided fuck spez when he killed my app

It makes me wish my government actually fucking governed and didn’t just agree with whatever businesses told them

They’re not real beans unfortunately. Remember, confections are only lemmy approved if they contain genuine legumes

Very explicitly no, but it’s the closest thing so we use it as though it were. It’s supposed to be your identifier for our national pension program and nothing more. But any time we propose a national id for benefits and general ease of use purposes people lose their shit, despite often not being the people protesting the existence of the nsa or the patriot act.

I was going for a specific type of nerd with fascist sympathies ans a very different specific type of nerd with antifascist sympathies. But also yes

I swear there really are two types of people who learn latin…

Yeah after spending my adulthood on reddit and lemmy markdown is second nature and I don’t like it not being maintained in notesnook thr way it is in Obsidian. I’d prefer a foss solution though and notesnook looks like otherwise it’s better

Kids need trust. They don’t mature without room to fuck up or succeed

Yeah one of the things about an engineering degree is that the base knowledge of an engineering degree often means you’re eligible as a low choice for any engineering field. I know mechanicals working in aerospace for example (and personally I regret going industrial instead of mechanical but it’s just not worth getting a second bs in engineering for that reason).

And yeah, the location thing is hard. I’ve seen some people stack courses like crazy to get in and out fast, but it’s generally understood that that’s unwise with engineering courses. If you don’t mind doing a few semesters in person you could reduce that time by finding a college thats credits transfer there with good online courses and doing all the non-engineering classes. At my university it was extremely common for engis to take math at the local community college because our university math department was notoriously bad for anyone that wasn’t a math major.

And yeah large power systems are cool as hell.