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I still think the tech or at least the idea of the tech to be really interesting. That said, I’ve basically written it off as a scam and bad for the environment at this point.

I played and beat Metal Gear Rising. I have decided that I don’t have time anymore for trying to hard mode everything so I played it on easy and it still really fun. I was quite surprised to see that the achievement for beating the game was done by 42% globally. That seems really high which is cool.

I'm sorry for that... I'm sure there are many who feel the same as you. But is it worth enforcing school uniforms to protect these kids while stifling the identity of others? Is it worth normalising steep authoritarianism for this?

Society already imposes a dress code. Even without laws, a person that goes against the grain will be ostracized to varying degrees. People will refuse to interact with you or refuse to provide services or prohibit you from working for them. Even the amount of clothes is enforced as you can’t even just walk around naked without consequences in most locations.

Exactly. All of which is wrong. School uniforms normalise bs like this, which is why they shouldn't exist.

I don’t think what you’re saying is necessarily incorrect as it can be very easily used to reinforce authoritarian ideals. But most US schools don’t have uniforms but they have you say the pledge of allegiance which is way weirder in my opinion. Now, most kids mumble through and legally they can’t make you say it. But like I was saying above, if you outright refuse then you could be ostracized by your peers or leadership which is traumatizing too.

Did you wear no clothes in the evening or on the weekend? I have a lot of residual shame from dressing “poor” in comparison to peers at school. Also, there’s going to be dress codes regardless, which is also stifling individuality. That is usually packaged in sexism as well.

I thought you were going to link this.

Ya, I ran out of nicotine right after the ban and hadn’t paid attention to the news to know the ban was coming. Luckily found some site and bought enough to last me like 5 years.

I finished A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge about two weeks ago. I couldn’t find anywhere to rent the 3rd book, I haven’t heard the best things about it so I don’t want to buy.

So, I started Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks and am about 3/4ths of the way through. I’m reading before I fall asleep and sometimes the perspective shift makes think I dozed off and missed a key switch. But nope it’s just an instant complete perspective switch to another character/time. I’m still enjoying it but sometimes it gives me whiplash that I’m not a fan of here.

Oh my god that looks so comfy

That’s what I always thought too.

I have to imagine some engineer moving their dog’s nose around with their thumb and being like “wait a minute…”

Also, commonly a sign of iron deficiency. Which is more common amongst women.

Y’all organizing at a local and national level? I have major major issues with the current system but unless there’s clear actionable things to do now, then all this post does is discourage change and voting against actual fascists.