That’s also good to know. Because I definitely haven’t “always known.” Not even in the slightest. So it’s confusing when I try to look up info and every blog post written by a trans person has a story where they always kinda knew.

you could try having people refer to you with she/her pronouns and descriptions

Honestly this hit me like a ton of bricks. Just last night I laid in bed going “he him she her he him she her” trying to figure out what I vibed with and felt like I was getting nowhere. But reading this and realizing that I can ask other people to refer to me with she/her had my hear beating fast and tears welling up and I felt super giddy.

I think you’re right. I think I might not have negative male thoughts, but positive female thoughts.

I have a safe and anonymous discord server I’m in and yeah I think I’m going to try experimenting. Wish me luck

Now this I did not know

Oh god they have a Bible translation?

Don’t make me call you human. Because I will if you tempt me.

You aren’t devastated?

It was me. I killed the masculinity in video games. I’m sorry guys 😥

My first job was at a coffee shop and it was so impressively ass that it turned me communist

Genuinely. After making the switch a few years ago, I genuinely can’t fathom using chrome again

Don’t take this to be me defending them; they deserve to be dunked on.

However, they didn’t make this claim. They claimed the converse.

he can have power of people in a business context, which is always morally good

What universe does this man live in?

This is a good-ass shitpost

I think the moral “dilemma” is supposed to be

1. You pull the lever and now you’ve now actively killed someone or,
2. You don’t pull the lever and 4 people died, but you weren’t the one to kill them so you’re basically clean

It’s stupid, but I think that’s the idea

Damn, that’s deep

After doing some searching, it appears that period life expectancy is a perfectly reasonable metric for life expectancy. It looks to be a clever way of capturing a sort of “instantaneous” life expectancy for a given year. In a given year, you can track how many people of each age range die, but that only tells you death rates, not life expectancy. And you can’t just average the ages of everyone living because you don’t know when they’ll die. So what they do is they take the death rates for age ranges within a given year and they calculate the expected value of an infant’s death age, assuming that infant would live through the same death rates that were tracked that year. In my opinion, this seems like a natural choice.

That said, there’s definitely other bullshittery going on.

Ah! I recently just finished Pedagogy of the Oppressed! I heard about it on a podcast and decided to pick it up. I haven’t heard of the other one, so I’ll for sure give it a read. Thanks for the recs, comrade.

I’m teaching a college class, and I mostly have freshmen. I’ve never heard of the love and logic framework (the only reason I’m teaching right now is because it’s part of my responsibilities as a graduate assistant while I’m getting a Master’s, so I know very very little about the education world).

My bosses have both said that students don’t know what they need to be able to learn and all they want to do is minimize the amount of work they gave to do (they have stereotyped the students who end up in remedial math as being generally bad students, which I hate. It’s a really toxic way of looking at the students you teach, and it’s just plain wrong. These students want to succeed. They have just been left behind by a broken system). But that’s not been my experience in the slightest. I got so much genuine constructive feedback just by being open to student concerns, and I would have never grown as an instructor if I hadn’t taken the time to listen to them. I can’t even imagine having the mentality that I just simply know better about what students need to learn than the actual students.

Oh I love Phil Ochs and Woody Guthrie. I’ll definitely check out the new stuff

My asexual ass can certainly get enough of that 😂