I’m not trans, but I’m a parent of a trans kid, and I have to say this post breaks my heart to read. You deserve to be seen and accepted for who you are. I know you’re a grown adult but if you’d let me offer some parental advice I’d say you should find community - I think connecting in person or online with folks who are navigating these same complicated feelings would go a long way towards providing that validation that you 100% deserve.
I play most things from a physical copy but I get them from GameFly. I probably only buy one or two games a year but I borrow like two dozen.
Great, now we’ll never be rid of these assholes…
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2057760/Esoteric_Ebb/
It’s so good! Inspired by Disco Elysium but in a fantasy setting.
I thought this was an Onion story when I saw the first headline.
Just as one example of how stupid these policies are: Corpus Christi is facing a generational water crisis mostly because the oil and gas industry has been expanding so rapidly there.
https://www.texasobserver.org/corpus-christi-water-crisis-climate-projections/
What is machine learning “art” even for? It doesn’t feel good to create; it’s a mechanical process without any of the satisfaction that comes from actually making anything. And I’ve not seen or read much that was made by a generative process that was a pleasure to consume. To me it seems like it’s mostly about creating content that you can sell. Comparing a tool like the Roland TR-808 that has been used by generations of musicians to make endlessly creative work to the boring churn of an automated process seems like a stretch, to say the least.
The total population will be rapidly aging; I.e. a larger portion of that population will be over 65
The current trend on world population has us hitting 10.3 billion in 2080, and then it starts to recede. The idea of an overpopulated world comes from a book written in 1968 called “The Population Bomb”. The actual problem we’re facing in the west is a rapidly aging population, and birth rates that are falling off a cliff.
Lots of things about American political discourse are infuriating, but this is def one of the worst. Republic administrations are so much worse for inflation that it’s almost laughable to see this opinion shared around. Kind of wild how politics is all vibes and memes I guess.
You just listed like eight examples of minority languages being protected in Europe. What is the threshold you’re searching for here to prove that minority language and culture are, at least sometimes, treated differently in Europe? I’m in no way suggesting that these issues are being dealt with perfectly anywhere in the world, or that Europe doesn’t have plenty of examples of minority populations being mistreated, but I think it’s kind of strange to argue that China isn’t engaging in some form of ethnic cleansing. Especially when it comes to Tibet and the Uyghur people. The Chinese government is using policies like this to intentionally suppress the culture and language of minority populations.
Both things can be true; Europe has an imperfect record when it comes to treatment of ethnic minorities, and China is targeting certain ethnic minority populations under the guise of “assimilation”.
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