Bonnie, 74, is on the brink of giving up on the dance classes that she has taught since sophomore year, but not on Trump. “I have total confidence in President Trump. The [federal] cuts will be tough for a little while but there’s a lot of waste, so it will level out,” said Bonnie, who is angry about not qualifying for Fema assistance.

“We used all our life savings fixing the studio. But I cannot shovel any more mud, not even for the kids. I am done. I have PTSD, we are scared to death,” she said breaking down in tears several times.

This is just sad. This woman is clearly broken and just cannot fathom that trump might actually just not care about what’s happening to here. It almost seems like she deified him to a god-like “he always has a plan” level.

And the world just watches. Or, more accurately, stopped watching. The conflict apparently passed our collective attention span. It’s now just part of the dystopian background imagery of the world we are living in

Maybe they are playing for gazans to finally ask for Gaza to be absorbed by Israel so they can claim it wasn’t genocide?

It might surprise you but animals too show social interactions. They also sometimes hoard resources to the detriment of others. This too is a socially constructed shortage of a resource not a natural one.

But just like we (mostly) stopped just punching each other to resolve conflicts we could probably benefit from behaving differently, i.e. using different social strategies than animals to distribute natural resources

Then there is the other one: mad adlibs

I didn’t say they aren’t increasing it at all, just that they aren’t doing it for all their needs.

Well, yeah, but because they don’t want to increase monetary supply to keep inflation in check they need to tax you to fund their programs

You’re missing the point. It’s not the administration taking the money that’s the problem. That’s money (ideally) used to benefit everyone. The problem is the owner of the company taking a big share of the value you are producing with your labour.

And I don’t think Greenland ever thanked Trump for being such a good partner. Very disrespectful!

I promise you that’s not it. But I guess you won’t believe me so …

Friend, you are not getting what is happening here. We are in agreement that there are topics that might need some checking in if anyone is uncomfortable with it. That includes sex, that includes war, it includes health, it includes childhood stories.

I am aware of that, you are aware of that, you are just being unnecessarily confrontational. To which I say: sodd off.

That’s not the issue and you are failing to understand that. I agree with you. But the first comment said that that is the same form and level of consent needed that is needed for sex and that’s just not true.

You are actually asking me if there are other topics that might trigger people besides sex? Sod off

No. I reacted to someone claiming that hearing about sex needs the hearing parties consent, the same as sex needs consent which I don’t agree with.

Talking about sex needs to be done with some caution to not upset others, like many other topics. It’s different from the consent needed for engaging in sexual activities with someone.

That includes triggering survivors who may not have expected you to violate social norms and who would have told you, “hey, I don’t like talking about sex in front of people because I get panic attacks.”

That’s true but that’s also true for any number of topics. This is a general “how/when do I talk about potentially triggering topics” issue and has nothing to do with sexual consent.

The foundation of every activity people do together is consent. That doesn’t mean I need the consent of everyone in the room to talk about something.

The second paragraph has my full support, the first one seems weird to me.

Well we’re currently in a win lose situation. Making it a lose lose isn’t really better but it feels more fair

Pretty provocative existence you’re doing over there

As a concept it’s a person that’s trans but hasn’t realised yet. Sometimes there are signs, which is where you might run into the mentioned situation of calling someone an egg. Experimenting with clothing made for women is a common/obvious one, but it doesn’t always mean they’re an egg. They might just like the clothing but still identify as a man.

The etymology? I dunno.

I’m imagining my grandpa trying to decode what it means to call an ftm femboy an egg and just losing his mind