Assuming a degree will get you a solid job.

Haha... hahaha... no.

I've always carried around a backpack even with pants pockets. I've always had so much stuff with me.

I wonder if I should stick to the backpack or get a purse once I've visibly transitioned. Backpack has even more room... but has always been dorky of me to carry around and I've always been aware of that. And purses are cool.

Fuck it, maybe I'll carry both lol.

Competitive games are good when you can measure your improvement through W/L tracking. The moment you start seeing your skill grow plateau its just a stress fest.

Friendships are hard in adulthood because of a myriad of reasons but its primarily that adults have a higher bar of trust needed so you need to build rapport slowly over time.

Its made extra bad today because everyone is working all the time but is too broke to visit social places weekly or more which is largely required for that rapport.

Can you be friendly by offering someone some gum and make them like you more in that moment? Sure. But try getting their contact information at the end of your social encounter and you'll find its more of a crapshoot if you get any, and even if you do whether you actually stay in regular contact anyway.

GURPS 4th is my favorite system.

Though I feel like we are due a refresh, and preferably an open source system. Seeing as the owners of GURPS are so finicky about their IP.

I don't visit the rightwingers of my family and the leftwingers of my family don't really intermix with them so I'm spared even having to talk to them.

Actually, there is one "both sides bad" centrist that I get along great with, my brother. I think his politics are very dumb but he is genuinely a well intentioned person. I feel like a hypocrite for tolerating him though considering my lack of patience for anyone else with similar politics.

I suppose maybe I'll really see once he finds out I'm trans. Don't know if I'm coming out this Thanksgiving though. It wont be obvious by then so I likely will fall under the radar.

They're hated among the electorate outside their own districts, but Jefferies and Schumer are not even generally liked among elected democratic officials. Something is keeping them from being removed and its not their popularity even within the elected officials in the party.

ttrpg is too cumbersome I just say P&P (pen and paper)

Also I'd be content with a monolithic game system I just wish it wasn't D&D or really any D20 system.

I've had that interaction. Though not with those specific words.

This is why the vast majority of people don’t give a shit about democracy in the US.

I promise you, that is not the reason. Do you get out much? Talk to most people? They aren't paying attention. And most people are not paying attention because they are extremely incurious about anything that doesn't directly effect them.

EDIT: Actually, they are extremely incurious about anything at all, even if it does directly effect them. People are completely braindead about paying attention to politics.

Trouble saying "socially constructive lies" instead of either uncomfortable silence or even just saying the uncouth thing out loud, avoiding talking over people and vocal volume control, hang ups relating to autistic perfectionism, obsessive behavior in general.

Like, these aren't really things I can avoid doing. I know because I've tried. I mean, I can temporarily stop but that just usually leads to becoming incredibly burnt out, alienated, or depressed.

On a meta level, I don't believe in free will anyway.

Well, I'm not a vegetarian anyway.

If I was would I eat beef from a cow that was euthanized just before dying painfully and feel ethically consistent? Sure. If someone wants to argue that would make me not a vegetarian in that case I'm not going to give a shit. That's just arguing about definitions.