I did, and I mean every word I said.

Lowk it being so good kind of helped me put on the road to radicalization

Yeah, but not most of them try to ape media literacy while not engaging with the text the way anime fans do.

Superman but raised in the soviet union of course

I’m not saying to disregard the author’s intent, I’m saying that there are ways to come to interpretations that don’t align with what the author has explicitly said. Most people nowadays will read the author’s statements and be done with it, and that’s why I think it’s surface level and frankly a bit worthless criticism, refusing to engage critically with the text beyond what’s being spelled out directly.

I remember reading an interview where Anno explained that, but with some nuance: he said that Christian imagery was used as something foreign and mysterious to a Japanese audience, but that it was chosen for a purpose within the show. I don’t understand how someone can watch NGE and think anything in that show was left to chance.

And I feel obligated to say that even if it was chosen for cool factor, literary criticism doesn’t have to concern itself with authorial intent: there’s a reason a Japanese author thought the Kabbalah was fun to include in his introspective giant robot show, and that in itself warrants investigation.

Thinking that the author’s statements and intention is the last word on the meaning of a work of fiction is in itself a symptom of why many modern nerds can’t read or intuit meaning for shit except at the surface level.

Biblically accurate Heidi Lee

They’re also so angry all the time. Lead and the cushy life of empire really fucked their minds up

This isn’t at all a unique take. I’m old enough to remember in the 90s/2000s hippie parents of low support autistic children came up with the name “indigo child” to paint their needs snd struggles as being particularly sentitive/attuned to the supernatural.

It was awfully convenient for them, made them feel special while they ignored their child’s needs.

I think there’s plenty of reason to be wary about. My experience with psychiatrists is that there’s not a good way to know beforehand if meds are going to work well or give nasty side effects, you just have to try and see.

That being said, ever since I’m on my current adhd medication and antidepressants i am able to think about the future, and to work on building my own happiness, rather than trying to put out so many fires I couldn’t help to be terrified and paralyzed by everyday life.

I think it’s fair to demand that psych meds aren’t prescribed like what feels like throwing shit at the wall snd see what sticks, while acknowledging that when the right dosage and medication is found, they make it possible for many of us to actually live rather than just surviving.

I have a boox and I’m really happy with it.

And that is why you should do emergency drills. Drilling largely removes the thinking element

My partner sees me checking hexbear and she asks how my terminally online friends are doing. That’s like parasociality one time removed.

Social media is a cancer that is at the root of so many brsinworms and the hegemony of the worst ideology in decades, but it’s also responsible for me knowing the Arctic Monkeys and them making it big, so who’s to say if it’s good or bad.

I think it’s hilarious that I stopped posting on social media around the same time I came out and started transitioning, so the AI clone would be someone I don’t even recognize and that my loved ones would think is a stranger.

It’s a terrifying concept, to be digitally detransitioned like that. But it feels so absurd and foreign it just makes it funny to me.

Visual novels. He wouldn’t like anything with brevity.

And mixed spaces are notoriously toxic for female athletes, too. In chess, women masters fought to keep the women’s divisions and tournaments just because they’re safe spaces for them.

They would dance on our Graves if it gave them the faint hope they could win the right. All the triangulation has won them literally zero voters

Supermarkets offering interest free loans is pretty prevalent all over latam. But most people use them for large purchases, like a TV or a fridge. Using them for necessities just shows how dire things are

They want us to engage with “all the tools it offers”

That just sounds like management overpaid for a piece of software they don’t really understand and want people to spend their day throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks, no matter how difficult it makes simple tasks. If you want to implement a piece of tech in a process, you have to very specifically define which parts of that software will be used and how, otherwise it’s a headache for everyone involved. It’s like giving a set of knives to someone who mostly chops vegetables, and asking them to engage with the knives it offers, even though they have no use for a jamón slicing knife.

Idk much about Salesforce tbh but what you describe does sound like one of those legacy ways of doing something that has worked the same way for 25 years even though it makes no sense, but it would be a disaster if someone changed it to make sense. Now you just put a chatbot in charge of it, and blame the user for not being able to prompt it right.