Normalcy during novelty, inability to direct what you do, abnormal circadian rhythm, and going for easy dopamine hits. This sounds like ADHD to me. Take a look at some symptoms and see what you recognize. If it fits, get diagnosed and medicated.

Just going to leave this here:

Of course! They’re made of catosis after all.

Yep, the opposition to it is right on Greenpeace’s website. Was interesting to read elsewhere about just how much of an outlier golden rice is when it comes to the usual objections to GMOs of patents/corporate evils, the consequences of the modification (e.g. pesticide resistance in plants leading to overuse and resistance in pests), and purpose (alleviate malnutrition as opposed to increase profits). Thanks for pointing me at something new to learn today.

Thanks! Fixed.

DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said Biden-era deportation numbers appeared “artificially high” because of higher levels of illegal immigration.

I’m reading that as Trump has made a dent in illegal immigration by making the US so shit in two months that it’s much less desirable to come to.

Thanks for giving me some room to explore this a bit.

Humor is such an interesting topic that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me. I giggle at the dumbest things but also find jokes requiring specialized knowledge funny, too.

Two distinctions I’d make when it comes to what I find “acceptable”: using humor to cope with ones own trauma vs humor about other people’s trauma and what the audience is.

One thing that sticks in my head as an example is Lindsay Ellis’s rap; it may have been cathartic for her to have made it, but it’s not something that I’d encourage for public exhibition (regardless of her intent to publish it or not or all the rest of the drama surrounding it). Disempowering trauma through absurdity is very different than making light of a serious topic that too many people experience.

Audience: people are mind numbingly dumb. For every person that notices Carlin’s commentary on rape culture, there’s a dozen people that think a celebrity saying rape jokes are funny means they can make them and everybody else just doesn’t get it, etc. That’s the usual context I see Carlin referenced in, defending what he was saying “Doesn’t seem right.”

I’d say humor to cope with trauma is best reserved for the people you would also feel safe having a serious conversation about it with, taking into account their boundaries as well. That almost never includes the general public.

I’m interested in some more details about that. Got a link to recommend?

Can’t they just take a play out of the corporate playbook and come back as Greeenpeace, a legally distinct entity, after transferring assets to the new entity indirectly while the old entity becomes insolvent?

Redlining in neutral is how I like to describe it.

I tried once and got a horrible headache and generally felt like crap the next day. That’s dissuaded my from trying again.

Dryers aren’t working; they’re still dripping.

Picture Porky Pig…

Based on my experience with sexual assault victims (and we all know far too many), I see Elmer crying, traumatized, cut off from support (true for any victim, but especially so for cis men and transgender people), having to deal with a screwed up sense of self worth, and having to worry about if Porky has any STDs. Small mercy that he doesn’t have to worry about getting pregnant, especially in the current political climate in the US.

See?

I do not.

I see somebody that’s bringing up traumatic experiences that a large portion of the population has experienced and saying it can be funny regardless of him lambasting rape culture in the same breath. “Sorry that happened to you, Alex, that’s awful, how it changes how people view you is awful, but you have to admit it’s a little funny if you think about it.” It’s not the logic that you have to follow, it’s the empathy.

Eh, Carlin also famously defended jokes about sexual assault, so maybe he’s not the best role model for comedians punching up…

Ryan Reynolds

He’s independent but caucuses with the Ds.

Isn’t worrying the defining feature of rustaceans? “Memory safe!”

It’s all these small, fragile things that are going to be irreversible damage to the US. If recovery is possible, it will take generations.

I only recognized 9/28.

I was thinking of how I found some of the ones I’ve really enjoyed recently. Mangadex has a decent filter system that can have inclusion and exclusion criteria, like must have ninjas but can’t have lolis. And the most important criteria of all: only showing ones that are completed. Some of us aren’t made to read things as they trickle out only to have them suddenly cancelled (looking at you, Dress up Darling).

I just use it to describe what I’m looking for and then sort the results by rating. That’s how I came across Alice-san Chi no Iroribata (others have mentioned it) and Ao no hana.

For ones not mentioned elsewhere:

Sono Koi wa Ichigo no Youni - Strawberries and farming and romance.

Insomniacs after school - I usually can’t stand a school setting, but really enjoyed this. Astronomy themed.