TeaDrunk

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by TeaDrunk 6y ago
It's inappropriate to make a pass at autism as the reason why the person may be responding in a manner one disagrees with towards a piece of art. For one thing, autistic poets and authors exist and can exist successfully, often with th
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by TeaDrunk 6y ago
Paul Beatty's essay was actually about his inability to appreciate Maya Angelou, and subsequently his inability to appreciate Black literature the way it's been framed in the white educational system. "My journey to black lit
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by TeaDrunk 6y ago
And I think presuming it's nothing more than a swipe makes no sense, occam's razor style. There's no reason why she would put that much effort (a several minutes long poem, plus the practice of recital).
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by TeaDrunk 6y ago
Politely, who the heck would write, much less put in the practice of reciting, a several minutes-long poem for a thinly veiled swipe at a political figure? Amanda could've just spat out a hot take on twitter if she wanted that, same as
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by TeaDrunk 6y ago
You can likely tweet or email her directly to request a merchandise store. She may already be close to opening one and can share the good news with you!
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This sounds silly but as an author myself it's extremely important that I know what the story looks like to a final reader while I write it. It's like dogfooding my own prose. Too many short paragraphs, or too many long ones, or s
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by TeaDrunk 6y ago
Scrivener does in fact have competition. (Highland 2 for screenwriting for example.)
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This is now significantly more steps than downloading Scrivener.
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How is a copyeditor supposed to manage a PDF? PDFs are generally a huge no-no in submissions. (Source: I write short fiction & my short fiction has been published.)
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This is a tweet thread covering the risks of a tech startup that has raised money in the effort to disrupt rape kits, most specifically having previously called itself MeToo Kits and rebranding to Leda Health. The tweet thread explains that
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Almost 60% of projected spending is not on all health and social services, but only 3 specific programs, 2 of which primarily benefit the elderly. It can still be true that if a program to support the success of foster children increased by
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by TeaDrunk 6y ago
A person who has such high levels of distress or lack of emotional regulation that they cannot manage by themselves the level of emotional turmoil they experience sounds... like PTSD, which uh, yeah, she has PTSD and this was a known behavi
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This is indicative only of specific personality disorders. There are several other personality disorders that don't behave this way and are defined by other actions entirely, eg. schizotypal personality disorder is mostly being defined
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This doesn't apply to all personality disorders. Schizotypal and paranoid personality disorders do not have this behavior at all.
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IME Society rarely notices people with schizoid personality disorder- most people with schizoid don't even go to a doctor and never get formally diagnosed. This is especially true compared to schizoid's siblings in the personali
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> The Intercept’s claim that an independent investigation was conducted is false. The so-called “independent” review was done by the same lawyer who worked on the NSA/Winner story. The Intercept should correct the record and apologi
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by TeaDrunk 6y ago
Usually what ends up happening is that various treaties will be set up such that the Oklahoma state government and the relevant indigenous nation would collaborate on the governance of the area.
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I've heard of half of Oklahoma being declared Indian country but I haven't at all heard that public services were revoked and casinos were set up. We'd also hella hear about it because it would mean Tulsa would've been f
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If I had to name a life form that has immense survivability in multiple environments and also causes hallucinations or other toxic-like effects in brains, I'd definitely point to fungi. Fungi is nature wilding.
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"hate speech" is not a recent term unless you mean that it was developed in the past century. In the united states, hate speech was determined as a limitation on the first amendment in 1942.
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The rules were changed months in advance. Due to this, suing only after a loss was heavily disfavored by the courts.
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The voting system was audited, repeatedly. Biden even gained votes because the auditing system discovered that some votes weren't being counted. It was brought to multiple courts repeatedly and the only thing done was that elector
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I don't doubt gardening clubs can and will pressure politicians concerning relevant issues such as local politics about community gardening. A small group of 12-15 people can have large swings on public space usages or lobby a low-paid
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You should be able to identify that a nazi takeover is happening and change your moderation systems accordingly. Any product person who is claiming to own the product should have eagle eyes on how their product is working or not working.
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I highly recommend playing the final episode. Interestingly I recall the devs mentioned Trump's win and the subsequent political tension caused a big change in the way the game was developed and the themes they wanted to include. So I
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Deplatforming from what I understand works in deradicalization at the population level. That is, if you want a smaller population of radicals, you deplatform them. If you want less radical behavior, you deplatform them. (NOTE: the following
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From what I understand, deplatforming actually works to deradicalize people because every time you deplatform, the actual radicalized group lessens. For example, randos from twitter who went to parler to follow their favorite alt-right opin
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Yes, by abolishing policing, you can reappropriate those funds for other projects. This is literally what he's saying. It is literally reappropriating the funds.
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The second hashtag in question says: 'reappropriatefundsfromthepolicetosocialservicesbetterabletohandlenonviolentissues' which is about what Colin is literally saying in that quote.
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It has been, and its enforcement is then passed on to some activists working for Big Tech or outsourced moderators working for $1 an hour. If people don't like how a specific person enforces this or interpreted a judge's rule, the

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