* takes notes *

“1. treat other people like humans”

“2. where to find dungeons? is near dragons???”

If you find places where those people hang out, you’ll do a lot better.

Fortunately where I live the queer spaces, anarchist spaces, and vegan spaces feature heavy overlap. So it’s not as hard as it might seem. (Still a very small pool though!)

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Last time I used Fetlife it seemed pretty dead. But maybe I could give it another try?

Or maybe I’ll finally meet some people irl 🤣

Where does one find one of these? Asking for a friend

In my case, it’s more like 3 criteria that each would invalidate 98% of the world :(

Fortunately the overlap is pretty high, but still

My long term partners, especially partners I live with, have to be vegan. (And a whole lot of other things too, like being poly and antiauthoritarian leftists.)

I’m a lot less strict about hookups and casual relationships, both because I think sex is more normal that people tend to treat it as, and because my dating pool is incredibly small as-is and I’m too horny to just not fuck.

I feel that :(

Nah it’s not that rare.

Only as bad as stepping on people’s toes

Well, only as bad as someone who cares whether or not they step on some people’s toes, and doesn’t notice/doesn’t care if they step on other people’s toes.

At the time, there were too many standards. But looking back from today, we see that standardization does eventually occur, it just takes time.

From what I understand, the “set point” for the hormonal triggers that decide whether someone stores fat or burns it are out of whack.

So someone might be so calorie-deficient that it becomes a serious issue, and yet their body is still trying to store fat instead of burning it.

This makes losing weight a lot harder and it’s a lot more miserable for them, as opposed to someone who can just eat a little less and their body will smoothly transition over to burning fat to make up the difference.

That’s a great point, but I don’t see how that would justify using this specific word.

Only those three? That’s easy enough. I expected a few more

I know where to find zines, friend. 😅

Imeant more like a list of the exact ones referenced in the court case.

It’s a more effective at building awareness if I can narrow it down to the specific materials being censored.

I think it’s more about the idea that it’s shameful to be less able than someone else. The core idea here is that there’s nothing wrong with being less intelligent than average, and calling out people’s choice of words is only one part of that.

It’s like when people make fun of Trump’s weight/diet or RFK Jr.'s voice. I dislike those two just as much as the next person, but there’s nothing immoral or shameful about having a vocal condition, being overweight, or having a monotonous diet. And any health concerns (e.g. weight) should be left between a person and their doctor.

If you choose to make those things a subject of your ridicule, all it does is mark you as a shallow person, and I’m probably going to tune you out as someone who doesn’t have anything of substance to say.

People with cognitive delays are just as human and just as valuable as anyone else

Precisely! 100% agree.

I also want to add that I don’t disagree with people who say that there’s a cyclical pattern with words becoming taboo and being replaced. That’s obviously a fact. But the fact that language evolves doesn’t give us license to be assholes.

Ultimately, the only thing that will improve things is educating the average person about the topic. But calling out ableist language - whether the person using such language intends that meaning or not - is often a good starting point for education (for those willing to learn.)

Also, what most people don’t understand is that developmental delays and cognitive deficiencies are a spectrum and can occur across different types of cognition. For example, I’m what today you might call “doubly special” - I was far ahead in some areas but far behind in others. I still am, to a degree.

So should people use the names for people like me to refer to assholes who intentionally hurt other people’s feelings? I certainly wouldn’t like it if they did. Regardless of how much I might accidentally piss people off or hurt their feelings, it’s rarely my intention to make people feel that way and and I’d rather not have someone else’s moral failing conflated with my struggle to communicate in ways most people understand.

I use adblockers… but I also donate montly. Wikipedia is good for humanity, and it needs to stay free from corporate money as long as possible.

I can’t think of any better way to showcase the erosion of our so-called ‘freedoms’ than distributing banned zines. Anyone have copies I can print?

There is also a weird 3d pretzel pyramid type thing it could be. The two points in the middle would be pointed upward out of the plane, with the outer hexagon being the base of the “pyramid.”