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6 months agoyou might need to provide more context, what do you mean by mythology?
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I think the comic was supposed to inspire you to initiate a communist revolution 😄 for the cool shoes we will make, of course
oo, this reminds me of one of my favorite Existential Comics!
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/263
click to see the comic
Honestly, desire is a justification on its own. If you have limited resources, then it’s really about whether you can afford to prioritize those desires or not. For those with enough money, desire is enough of a reason to justify a purchase.
Without enough money, the question is whether the desire outweighs other more practical ways that money could be spent. When I was depressed sometimes I would make irrational spending choices because it helped me feel good and even helped me pretend I was not as poor as I actually was, by spending the money irrationally I could create the illusion of having more money than I had. This was a dangerous game, though.
What do you already have on hand? What tools and materials?
If you had a cinderblock, log, car-jack, or other heavy / sturdy item, you could use that to rest the sofa on temporarily while you work on it. Since it’s a sofa, you could even just tip the sofa on one of its sides (if there is room). Even a stack of books could work, assuming nobody sits on the sofa or uses it (which is a good idea while it’s being repaired). Either way, you probably don’t need to buy something to rest the sofa on.
In terms of re-attaching the leg to the sofa, it depends on what you are working with, whether there is a way to screw something into the leg. Imagining a wooden leg, I could imagine drilling a hole into the leg and into the sofa, then driving a wooden dowel into the leg and putting wood glue into the hole and around the dowel and then softly tapping the leg into the hole you made into the sofa - the dowel going in the hole, I mean. Sometimes screws can be driven in at angles, or you can make or use brackets that screw into both.
I guess the stageists were right, liberalism always does come next. (\s)
24·9 months agois there a way to de-paywall 404media.co?
3·9 months agothat’s high praise 😳‼️🙈
2·9 months agonot debunked, just made more complicated - the evidence still points to gender identity being biological, fixed (not subject to social or psychological influences), and the result of the early development of the brain, but … it’s not like we have some clear “gender essence” in the way that some people wrongly assume, that is there are no clear “female” and “male” brains, instead all people (cis and trans) seem to have complex sexually dimorphic brain structures that don’t fit neatly into that kind of categorization.
maybe read this: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31509086/
The autopsy studies were done by Dick Swaab, and repeated, here’s one of his articles from 2008 (I’m sure you can find the rest on your own):
for a video overview on the science I recommend this overview by Julia Serano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZymYiwoRoC0
This video overview on the variability of sex is also highly recommended: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVQplt7Chos
there were some MRI studies by Joel et al. that disrupted the overly simple findings of the autopsy studies:
and for a more up to date article with a collab between Joel & Swaab, I would check-out:
also worth reading:
Ainsworth, C. Sex redefined. Nature 518, 288–291 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/518288a
and finally this systematic literature review on the clinical outcomes of trans gender-affirming healthcare:
and fuck company towns