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Half of new games

I’m sure trans people care about being able to use bathrooms, join recreational group activities, and have correct government documentation. And we should stand with them, loud and steadfast, until we’ve made sure they can do that.

Ah yes, “the buzz”. A sacred technique.

Whistling is great, I whistle tunes all the time.

What’s also interesting is when songs use whistling as an instrument: see The Bee Song (Annie and the Beekeepers) or Easy Does It (Supertramp) for some good examples.

(Those are Spotify links, but you can look them up on YT too-- you’ll have to be very specific with the first one).

If you can reason yourself out of therapy, you can reason yourself into it. Trust me, I have experience. Treat it like a problem you have to find a solution for, and try to look at it “from the outside”. Observe what different situations and thought patterns make you feel, and develop a system for choosing healthier ones. Not easy, but it works sometimes.

Denial - President Veto

Acceptance - I’ll work with the dems

Anger - This

A bit out of order, but…

I mean you can use them if you want to but I meant like, in general your mind is changeable

Nothing about the mind is truly immutable, though that change isn’t certain either. You may or may not become hopeful once again; or, most likely, a realist of some sort rather than a cynic. That is why we simply hope that it can happen for you.

You say this as if there is a conspiracy to control the outcome of the vote?

I don’t think they misinterpreted you at all then. They were saying that if they can enact meaningful change, your cynical worldview may become more hopeful in light of real progress.

Berniebros were right all along. Imagine the world where he won…

In Alabama? Against an incumbent??

Zamn congrats gg

Holy shit

An example might be helpful.

In the 1800s, aluminum was more valuable than gold. It was very difficult to produce and it was valued very highly. Then someone figured out a way to extract it from the ore much more efficiently, making it much easier to obtain and much more common. If you had owned a $500 chunk of aluminum, it had that value because of its rarity; other people recognized it as being more valuable because it was more difficult to get. When it became more common, its value could have dropped to $50 (I don’t know how much the price actually dropped, but it was a lot).

Where did the $450 go? Nowhere, because monetary value is based on how much people are willing to pay, and unlike a physical substance it is not necessarily conserved; it can be created or destroyed. This is also how stocks work.

You can also create monetary value by transforming materials into a worked product (think knitting a sweater) or destroying something that took work to make (burning that same sweater). Unlike the stock market though, the price of physical goods is often based on their usefulness rather than speculation, so it tends to be more stable.

I don’t make new friends on forums. If I were to try, I’d probably find people who post things I’m interested in and DM them.

Wow thanks for the advice

Into the Breach

Who am I to argue with Charles Darwin?