You shouldn’t date or become serious friends/partners with someone if you can’t stomach the thought of being stuck in a car or train with them for 16 hours.
Here’s my logic:
You should be able to work together to solve unexpected problems like fixing a flat tire or getting lost in an unfamiliar station
You should feel comfortable and safe enough around this person that you can sit in comfortable silence
You should be able to keep each other interested and deal with each others boredom in a healthy way
If you’re gonna form a long term partnership with someone you should probably be able to tolerate each other while locked in a small box for a few hours
These tags are hilarious even though I don’t think you intended them to be.
*pulls European closer* The most populous countries in the world are China, India, the United States, Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria, and Brazil in that order, with these seven nations alone making up 48.16% of the world population. You may note with the aid of a map that many of these nations are quite large, and would take several days of travel to go across either in cars or on boats. Almost half of the world’s population lives in places where you can travel in a cramped vehicle for days and still be within the country. Your worldview is limited and Europe is a tiny outlier in travel time and standards for international relations.
Europeans: GASP! You don’t have a passport?
Americans: My country is literally 98% the size of Europe. My drivers’ license fills that role.
You can drive for 46 hours from San Diego, in the SW corner of the US and you can’t reach every American state in that time (leaving out Hawaii, which you can’t drive to.)
I feel like J.K. Rowling did a real double whammy of incalculable damage to the discourse by becoming a vocal TERF. On the more obvious side, she introduced a bunch of her followers to TERFism, and has served as a prominent (if often inarticulate and self-important) voice for transphobia. On the other, she’s created the perfect storm of “actually what media you consume and enjoy is the most important determinant of your moral standing, much more so than how you treat the people around you or who you vote for”-flavor magical thinking among her opponents. I feel like we were just getting over all the consumption-as-morality shitstorms of the mid-20teens and then we relapsed hard over her bullshit.
I don’t even like Harry Potter and it still creeps me out.
Also, as a point of clarification, since tumblr’s vaunted reading comprehension skills tend to fizzle out a bit around statements about the morally permissible and the morally obligatory: I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with people getting soured on Rowling’s writing because of her politics. Frankly, I think that’s pretty reasonable. What I’m saying is that regarding disliking her work as a moral obligation incumbent on every decent person is creepy and fucked up.
There’s also an amount of weird hypocrisy involved.
Like, I have encountered “giving money to Rowling makes you complicit in her transphobia” arguments from people who are giving fairly large amounts of money to Disney, which continues to funnel money to some of the vilest transphobes on the planet.
Is it because Rowling has a face and is a person? Does that make “giving money to Warner Brothers, which gives it to Rowling” hit different than “giving money to Disney, which gives it to a diffuse collection of Republican transphobes you’ve never heard of?”
It’s much easier to boycott a single writer, whose work you probably already consumed before she went off a cliff, than one of the biggest sources of entertainment in the US.
It’s the same reason most pro-lifers are people who either will never need an abortion or think they never will; it allows an endorphin hit at no cost to themselves, unlike doing things God actually commanded.
But also, Disney is 3000 times better at PR than Rowling, who basically responds to all criticism by becoming worse and very loudly so.
Oct 27 (Reuters) - Striking Hollywood actors have made a comprehensive counteroffer to the major studios, the SAG-AFTRA performers’ union said in a post on social media platform X.
Negotiators for the union and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), the group representing Walt Disney (DIS.N) Netflix (NFLX.O) and other major media companies, meet again on Friday, the actors union said.
Ahead of Friday’s talks, a group of SAG-AFTRA members published an open letter to the union leadership, urging the negotiating committee to continue fighting for improved compensation, royalties and workplace protections.
“We have not come all this way to cave now,” wrote the group calling itself Members In Solidarity. “We have not gone without work, without pay, and walked picket lines for months just to give up on everything we’ve been fighting for.”
The latest counteroffer submitted by the actors union on Thursday comes after media companies and the union representing striking U.S. actors returned to the bargaining table on Tuesday.
Hey guess what bitches Poland had a general election last Sunday and we said “fuck you” to the current fascist Orban-wannabes en masse, in a record-breaking historic turnout of 74% (that’s a better turnout than the 1989 election which toppled the Soviet regime), with people of all ages standing in lines till 3 am to vote, young people actually outnumbering the elderly for the first time ever; and the result is that the progressive pro-EU coalition won and will form the next government. Been in in a stunned-but-celebratory mood since Sunday night.
Being an ADHD adult is fun when people seem to get… personally offended when you are aware that you’ve failed, forgotten, or neglected something before, and plan your life with that awareness in mind. Like how does that work, that being able to plan and prepare for things not working out as intended is mature and responsible, acknowledging your own faults and flaws is mature and responsible, but somehow it’s childish and immature to acknowledge that you are the liability in every situation, and prepare accordingly?
Like they’ll look at you like you just called their dog a slur and just go “don’t just already assume that you’re going to [have a symptom], just don’t [have the symptom] in the first place!” Like oh shit right damn. Titanic only sank because of the lifeboats. If there had been zero lifeboats on the ship, the crew would have been more motivated to do their jobs perfectly and everything would have been fine. Failsafe plans are demons that summon failure, the only sensible thing is to only plan for perfection and naturally assume that everything can only go flawlessly.
Like bruh.
Tbh I assume it’s bcs deep down most people can’t wrap their heads around the idea that sometimes failure isn’t a personal choice.
Any sane adult should know that failure is usually not a choice.
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