I’m firmly left and have started to see your perspective a bit more recently. I think we tend to generalize groups of people by their bad examples, which is also done to and by centrists.

I’m thankful for the perspective of reasonable centrists, who are able to look at the reality of a situation and judge fairly, to add nuance and build bridges. What affirmed me in my group think for a long time was radicalized centrists, who are more interested in equating left and right regardless of circumstance, than in grasping problems with an open mind.

But I think I understand how that happens. It’s frustrating for many leftists to have to choose between two options they don’t agree with, center and right, so some become blind to their differences and fall into group-think. Maybe it is the same for centrists, some of which also start to portray all left and right as dumb ideologues and themselves as above criticism from other worldviews.

So I agree with you. We should think about singular choices more than about sides. And frankly, I really enjoy finding common ground with people from different walks of life recently.

Someone explained this to me as:

It’s not that people don’t want solutions, talking about their problems IS the solution. In fact “talking about it” is so effective that some people successfully earn their living with it.

The wikipedia article on humans is written like this and fun to read:

“Humans’ thinner body hair and more productive sweat glands help avoid heat exhaustion while running for long distances.”

“During sleep humans dream, where they experience sensory images and sounds”

“Humans commit violence on other humans at a rate comparable to other primates, but have an increased preference for killing adults, infanticide being more common among other primates.”

In the UK, the average terrorist is a white woman in her 50s for having expressed syympathy with Palestine Action by holding up a piece of paper.

Ich nenne die Koalition aus unchristlicher CDU und unsozialer SPD auch gerne DUPD. Wie duped! Betrogen!

Perhaps Briar? I keep wanting to try it, but don’t have contacts that also do. It runs offline through Bluetooth and WiFi direct as well as online through TOR.

I used to feel like shit because I thought I was broken for not finding bareable jobs. Turns out, I dont hate labour, just wage labour.

One of my formative experiences here was regularly commenting on a new and small, but active Stardew Valley community. I also got like 11 upvotes for my comments, but those upvotes and the few responses felt so much more qualitative than those on Reddit. It actually felt like a community where you recognize the people after a while.

In Germany, the far-right launched Stolzmonat (literal translation of Pride Month) to drown out queer pride with national pride. A queer influencer managed to have it trademarked and take it from them. Now queer people celebrate Stolzmonat.

Stonetoss is a nazi

Kind of like how Newsome and Trump called each other communists.

That’s not revealed, but I would think it just targets the last person who pushed the button. If you don’t, you succeed the test and get skipped. .

That’s the premise of the Twilight Zone episode “Button, Button”. After she pressed it, the man making the deal said he’d go to “a random person on Earth” offering the same to them (implying that the person being killed will be the one who pushed the button earlier in the chain)

I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.

Berlin of the 20s was probably the most liberal place for queer people in the west. Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld founded the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft and wrote the first paper on trans identities, gave people counseling, hormones and recommended surgeons.

He was able to decriminalise homosexuality and have trans people allowed to present “sex non-conforming” in public if they had a slip from him.

The Nazis used this for culture wars and promise a return to the golden time of tradition and morality.

His institute was raided in the first book burning, thousand of scientific papers are lost forever, his patients hunted down. He managed to flee to France.

It’s important to treat his persona critically though, because as a scientist of his time, he also adopted some problematic stances on eugenics and racial teachings. On the other hand, he was also one of the few that criticised the rigor of the science behind those teachings from time to time.

Did you have an ideas of what it would look like before you had the surgery? Maybe there’s pictures elsewhere on the interrnet.

The author is Daniele Turturici who posted the illustration on his subreddit. One post before, he stated that all of his work is done without AI.

You can also find it in the solarpunk story seed library, also saying no AI.

https://storyseedlibrary.org/art/

German environmentalist Robinga Schnögelrögel recently talked about the shifting baseline syndrom, and he gave an example of how bad it is. He read a primary source from 1858 that talked about the biodiversity back then: Butterflys were described as “everywhere”, hundreds on every meadow. A type of mayfly (ephoron virgo) hatched in rivers and congregated above, making it look like a snow flurry. The next day their dead bodies would cover the river banks, which farmers picked up by the wheelbarrow to use as fertilizer and feed to their pigs. Hence ephoron virgo’s German name “Uferaas”, meaning shore carrion.

Seh ich ähnlich.

Sowohl der aktuelle als auch alte Papst kritisierten häufiger den Kapitalismus als menschenfeindlich und betonen, dass wir die Umwelt besser schützen müssen. Papst Franziskus sagte ausdrücklich er respektiert die Wissenschaft in dem Bereich und empfahl ihrem Rat zu folgen.

Wenn es in der Politik um Migration geht, wird häufig dazu aufgerufen Menschlichkeit und Bescheidenheit walten zu lassen.

Papst Leo sagte vor einer Woche, die Welt würde von einer handvoll Tyrannen zerstört. Es wird sich gegen Kriege ausgesprochen.

Bei Trumps Amtsantritt sprach Bischöfin Budde eine virale Rede, wo sie ihn um Erbarmung bat und Minderheiten in Schutz nahm. Nachdem Kirk erschossen wurde und der rechte Propagandaapparat im vollen Gange war, sprach die Pastorin Annette Behnken in der Rede zum Sonntag Klartext zu dem Revisionimus und dass er kein guter Mensch war.

Ich bin Atheistin, und natürlich machen Papst, Kirche und Menschen in ihrem Namen auch sehr viel furchtbares. Aber gerade bei Erzkonservativen und Rechten genießt sie hohes Ansehen, obwohl sie sie manchmal für woke oder marxistisch halten. Ich glaube die Wirkung davon kann nicht unterschätzt werden