Something that really pisses me off about this is that empathy can absolutely be exploited by bad actors. Empathizing with the wrong people can be harmful. But they’ve defined “wrong people” as “minorities” and that’s the fucked up part.
Unnecessarily doing it especially to a newborn should absolutely be illegal. Sometimes it might be medically necessary, like my son opted to have it done years ago because he was entirely non-retractile and it was causing him a great deal of pain. But outside of instances like that? Shouldn’t be done.
Universe be like: “Oh babygirl, you thought you had a personality? Sike! It was all just trauma responses and undiagnosed neurodivergence the whole time!”
He’s pretending to hack away at foliage while deliberately leading people away from their destination and charging them for his pathfinding services.
As someone who due to dealing with chronic pain and having to pick my grooming battles often looks like the most neckbearded, “tips fedora” ass reddit mod MF that ever lived. I can imagine at least a little bit.
Like I’m not out here neglecting basic hygiene which is a step up from some of the people I’ve met. But shaving is definitely the first thing that gets dropped when my pain starts flaring up and then I start looking more and more like the kind of person that’s had a few too many “actually she’s a 3,000 year old vampire so it’s fine,” conversations.
I used to not like when people would shitpost about bigots being Secret Transes. But I’m not gonna lie, with how often these fuck knuckles have accused my cisgender wife of being trans because she’s 5’10" and rather butch looking? Or the piece of shit lady who transvestigated my at the time 2 year old daughter? I can’t bring myself to care about it happening to this “Behold, the Master Race” looking headass.
Can’t be Charlie Kirk’s, face is too big. Gotta be some unfortunate look alike’s love child instead.
Doesn’t a calzone require the fold in the dough where a ravioli is two “sheets” of cough pinched together? Or am I misremembering sandwich classifications?
Oh don’t worry. They don’t understand how eyes work either.
What they’re saying best I can decipher is that seeing that bolt of lightning or that arc from a wire isn’t you setting the “electricity” itself. It’s you seeing something that it’s doing. Like the arc is a shadow puppet and “electricity” as they define it is the hand casting the shadow.
What they essentially want is for you to be able to take a picture of a lightning bolt and zoom in to see the individual electrons moving through the air. Fundamentally entirely misunderstanding how science says electricity works.
“That’s not you observing electricity, that’s just seeing something electricity does heathen.”
Those guys probably.
Their argument seems to be that since you can’t actually see it, as in you can’t pump electricity into a clear pipe and see flowing through the pipe like water. That “science” must just be lying to you.
It was apparently first printed in 1976 according to this page I found discussing it.
Those pesky pixies do have a penchant for producing pain.
To be fair, she was more disgusted by him responding that way to the “I’m married” thing than anything else.
This reminds me of a burn my wife gave to a random guy that decided to hit on her one day she was out running errands while I was taking care of the kids.
Deadass just first thing out of her mouth after he hit her with the “I won’t tell if you won’t,” to her saying she’s married. “Ew, I’m gonna need you to tell me what about any of this (gesturing to her entire Butch Lesbian look) made you believe I was straight so I can immediately remedy it.” I almost felt bad for the guy for a second. Almost.
When bro is such a bro you completely forget he’s trans.
My wife’s got a friend this happens with all the time. She’ll be talking to him and something about our oldest will come up. She’ll make some remark to him thinking he’ll relate, entirely forgetting that he had to transition so he didn’t experience whatever it was the same way.
Nah he had a foundation too.
It absolutely can be if you let it get out of control. I still struggle with it in fact. It can cause emotional burnout, wreck your mental health, things like that. To be fair, even the “good” version of this gets weaponized to ignore causes that someone might not want to care about without “being a bad person” all the time. Think the “I have to prioritize my own mental health” types who only seem to have energy for issues that directly affect them. Again having limited emotional energy isn’t the issue, being disingenuous about it is.
But that’s not what this freak is talking about. What this freak is talking about amounts to “Empathy is reserved for the in-group. If it impedes our efforts or contradicts our dogma, then it’s toxic empathy,” basically.
This is how I die. Floofed to death by a Floof Monster.
So what you’re saying is they’re painting it black in the hopes that the entire wall becomes too hot to touch during the day to keep people from simply scaling it?