I heavily relate to this. Shitty childhood from constantly moving, being different from everyone around me and being bullied to the point I was pulled out of multiple schools, and the subsequent lack of being socialized properly. Probably not autistic, but definitely borderline.

It really does feel (sometimes) that I’ve missed the last boat, but something that helps me and might help you is not losing sight of that people do find love later in life. We can fix things and find somebody. It’s just going to take a lot of work. What that entails exactly is going to require somebody else who’s actually figured it out. We can get there though.

Congrats on being the favorite uncle! You’re doing something right for sure. I have not seen big hero six, so I hope that saying your family loving you isn’t diminishing the point you were getting at. I apologize if so.

If you have any ideas on turning this comm into a positive space please share them!

I saw that, it _was _ open. Probably a needs more moderators thing or something. Above my pay grade.

let’s talk about that. Let us find how we are broken and find a fix. Where to start?

Get accelerated, read comrades go faster

The only comment that should be here (read the body): the essay rules. Read it (please)!

Choice quotes for anyone who doubts the value of reading it and needs a lil push:

So where does gender’s material base lie? Gender is produced primarily by the division of reproductive labor. Reproductive labor is any labor that helps to produce the next generation, including sex, birth, childcare, and homemaking, and gender is defined by how this labor is divided up, with the different genders being distinct classes which are expected to perform specific sorts of tasks regarding reproductive labor.

Since gender is an expression of these relations of production and not of biology, where does that leave sex? Some pseudomarxists claim sex forms the material base of gender, but this is a laughable understanding of historical materialism which centers biology before relations of production. Biology influences our reality, but our social systems find their basis in our material conditions.

Gender is the earliest class systems and, as a result, it precedes the state, even in its earliest most basic form. This means that, unlike capitalism, race, neuronormativity, and the various other class systems, the state is not the primary means by which gender is imposed upon people.

Sexual violence fills the role among women and queer people that police violence fills among many others.

But these are systems, not a system, and the modern gender binary has been enforced on almost the whole world. Some different gender class systems still exist, but, by and large, the advent of the liberal social order as a global social order rather than a regional one has produced a single gender system which all other systems are seen as perversions of. Other gender systems today serve as hold outs within a larger global system.

These are but a small amount of the really important bits that serve as a preface for the larger point. Trust me, trust ZL, and the trust the Hexbear that believes in you: read the whole thing. It's educational. Eat those veggies.

Can’t get Deadhouse Gates out of my head since the IOF response started.

Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.

The phrase is directly lifted from Malazan, so that’s my guess. Basically cultists who fucked dying soldiers.

https://malazan.fandom.com/wiki/Children_of_the_Dead_Seed

Wait, are the things our moms craved likely things we enjoy? That’s wild, but also kinda makes sense.

Ah yes, the poor people who couldn’t achieve enough enlightenment to choose their incarnation are totally to blame for being born in Florida.

Fuck off with this goofy shit. Sins of the father is dumb as fuck and even the monotheists realized this a long time ago.

Thank you for explaining and providing a link.

The best crop, the most nutritionally complete, can be used as a battery, vodka, the best friend of garlic… I could go on for many paragraphs, but the potato is our best crop. Nothing comes close,

Main Maine mane

They’ll never achieve sapience, chairman Daou is the exception that proves the rule.

Anyone remember the heel-face turn and what caused it? I just vaguely recall that something happened and the shitlib started being cool.

::: spoiler They admit it’s for profit Roblox is compromising child safety in order to report growth to investors, per our interview with a former senior product designer: “If you’re limiting users’ engagement, it’s hurting your metrics…in a lot of cases, the leadership doesn’t want that.” :::

“Nancy Reagan bit my dog” fucking lost it.

The music in this game was incredible, both the original and licensed. I’m really curious about the pending trainwreck sequel and how it’s going to try and capture the sound of the current zeitgeist.

Thanks for the correction

Unfortunately 9/11 was/still is a day of mourning before the farce version where the towers just did that.

For anyone who doesn’t know this fun fact yet: Ned Kelly built a metal suit of armor so he could shoot cops better. Wearing plate armor in the Australian heat is peak dedication to ACAB.