growsomethinggood

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Not a Scam 😂:’ Caitlyn Jenner Is Being Sued For Memecoin Securities Fraud⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  All you’re doing is telling other trans people that their gender recognition is conditionally valid only on their good behavior, and that it can be revoked if they piss you off. Maybe consider why this would make trans people feel unsafe with you, even if they are on your side politically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨have you ever had to confront a female mob at the workplace?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there a reason you have characterized this incident as a gender issue?

  Was the poor work the work of the nurse who heard you and chewed you out? Do you often criticize the work of your coworkers in a nonproductive manner, expletives or no?

  Did you say anything else before saying “fuck” to your coworker, or before she chewed you out? Do you think you were on good terms with her before this incident?

  Are you listening to the specifics of your coworkers’ complaints? What are they asking you to do differently?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stardew Valley 1.6 is Coming November 4th.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d hesitate to call it a replacement but it is very fun! Top of the Stardew-likes imo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Outer Wilds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re particularly clever, you might see something before the event that makes you go, huh, that seems weird, I wonder why that is. And then the event happens and you’re like, ohh, it was the event! It was telling me the whole time!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨my humps⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good news! Artists have already covered this one, please enjoy The Bone Game by Drawfee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RIMJOBS⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re thinking of Mpox, ie monkeypox

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨autoreply⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How to Get Investigated as a Communist in One Easy Step!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I lick it? Yes you can.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Physics clubs always pull out the liquid nitrogen ice cream, so licking is an option!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exception implies deficiency. Am I the only one who sees this?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you have identified some small truth, but have made an error in narrowing the scope of where the deficiency actually lies to the individual/group. Exceptions can imply deficiency (among other things) but I would argue that said deficiencies often are in how these groups are treated by society and not inherent to the groups or individuals themselves.

  I’m going to use calculus as an example, since there are plenty of reasons you’d expect someone to not be able to do calculus. If you’re sufficiently young, maybe you don’t have the complex reasoning skills to understand calculus (deficiency, but not permanent). If you’re an adult without a math education, would your inability to do calculus be considered a deficiency, or just a lack of opportunity which can be fixed through assistance? If you have been told your kind of person would suck at doing calculus but you really want to learn, and are performing worse than your peers who are told they are good at this naturally, is that a deficiency in the individual or the system they live in? If you have to work more than one job to keep your family housed and don’t have time for calculus, if you are targeted for police violence, if you’re discriminated against by even the most well-meaning people with authority over you, you could be the most brilliant mathematician and it wouldn’t matter- society at large is failing you.

  When you’re talking about “exception” here, I think what is really happening is people taking measures to level the playing field for people who have experienced discrimination. In a perfect world with no individual or systemic discrimination, current or historical, these sorts of “exceptions” wouldn’t be necessary! But that’s not the world we live in. The first step to making a more equitable society is recognizing where people got shafted historically and what affect that still has on society today. Getting the short end of the historical stick does not imply immutable qualities about a group of people today.

  So, no, I don’t think that giving exceptions to people who need them most inherently implies that they are individually or categorically deficit.