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They’ll get rid of it.

A gun? In this country? It’s got more rights than most of us.

Ive actually thought about this a lot, specifically since 2020, but for the past 15 years as a white LGBT person.

I think the reason millennials are the ones to make fucked up depression jokes is in part because of the crisis after crisis being shoved in our faces through social media at an extent never really seen before compared to newspaper and TV. But the other part is how we could learn about all the atrocities that have happened. Like, in WWII’s Pacific theater, a lot of that never got discussed in school. Or how Korean war or Vietnam war or even civil rights were all just a footnote after the WWII section which took the bulk of my history class’s time.

I feel the Internet wasn’t mainstream as a kid, at least not in today’s sense. My whole family didn’t get a Facebook till the 10s. And I think millennials got to see past a lot of the propaganda because even the gov hadn’t figured out how to monopolize on the idea. Which I think is why GenZ is turning more fascist. Since the powers that be have figured out how to reach out through YouTube shorts and insta reels or whatever. It’s like it skipped millennials for a minute and swung full force once it figured out how to target a generation who grew up on iPads instead of IRC or AIM chats.

To add to that, the black loves matters movement and civil rights in the 2020 era, is the first time there was an awakening to white folks like me at a deeper level to start researching heavily into what civil rights even meant beyond who MLKJr was and who the Black Panthers even were beside ‘militant black people.’

I feel like the 2020 era was when white millennials as a whole, but also Gen X and Z to a degree, started to really see how much systemic injustice really effects us all, but especially POC and native Americans. I only had a vague awareness of anything up until I was in my 20s.

Now, the more I learn of the struggles, the more I can see how easy it is to be buried by propaganda. So when I hear “make America great again” all I can think is how it was finally starting to be truly great with progressive movements and that my definition of ‘great’ hasn’t even existed before.

And as a final note, that making America great again, to the standards of those who tout that concept as a banner, is to revert to where everyone who’s in the struggle together just goes back into silence and submission.

And that ain’t too great, imo.

We have a weird placement for our apartment. We don’t really have the sun direct in the winter. And no window in the restrooms, unfortunately. I’ve got her at the best window I can try for. Plus, our cat constantly tries to eat her if I place her in any other window. It’s so frustrating.

Noted. We have some orchid food… is that the same as what you mentioned? Google it’s not too helpful with the term ‘orchid dung,’ sorry.

We had trimmed at the dead stalk section. I think my wife threw the brown stalks away. I just did some reading on that word, keiki. Seems you are right with the roots and hopefully we can grow something out of this. It’s heartbreaking. We are trying really hard to keep her alive but we suck at plants and green thumbing. Thank you for your advice though!

Mhm! The bad leaf popped off without issue for my wife. I snipped the stalks down. Hopefully she can recover… The plant, I mean. Not my wife. We both don’t have green thumbs but really want to.

Thank you for the advice!

It popped off on it’s own for my wife 🤦‍♀️

Thank you for your advice!

Thank you for your response.

Would you recommend removing the dead leaf…? It seems to be growing new greenery.

I was laughing. Now I feel personally attacked. 😅

You’re not wrong tho

There’s actually some studies starting up that are trying to confirm a theory on if the restless leg and other hyperactive movements are a means of self treatment for ADHD. Seems plausible to me, tbh.

They think lactic acid might play a role in the brain, and ADHD people are lacking as a symptom of ADHD. And since lactic acid can be produced in the muscles through exercise/movement, the theory is that by being hyper active, it creates the lactic acid which gets transported to the brain as a type of subconscious self treatment.

Kinda fascinating, tbh. Especially so, given that my body is currently twitching/bouncing from restless legs in my chair as I type this. Lol The best I’ve ever felt in my brain (and body) was when I used to heavily workout 6 days a week and was constantly sore from the lactic acid buildup. I think these kinds of studies are an interesting premise.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30550949/

I’m actually on my own path and trying to figure out a means to sorta deal with how my thoughts have been turning dark over current politics, in a way. I have yet to read your full post, as I’m at work, but I’ll circle back to it after work if I can.

I quite literally just had a 50min phonecall with a priest this afternoon to discuss attending an episcopal church. Which, turns out, is super chill with a lot of stuff and don’t take things so literal in a lot of cases. In my case, the church I would attend is very affirming and accepting. Some episcopal churches might not be on an individual basis, but the stance of episcopal as a while, far as I have seen, is LGBT accepting.

It’s an offshoot of Catholic, kinda born out of the church of England and Lutheran? I guess. How he explained it to me is that they sorta take the things that make sense and leave the rest. He even said he had no issues with piercings or tattoos, and I’d be welcome as a pierced, tatted trans woman.

As for the biblical sense, there’s a passage I read recently, Galatians 3:28, that felt good enough for me as a tatted up, many pierced trans woman. It reads: Edit: I see you had used this in an argument. My bad. It still seems valid for my overall comment.

28: There is no Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male or female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus. 29: And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to the promise.

I dunno if I even believe in any of it, tbh, as I’m agnostic. But lately agnostic and figuring out my place in the world and internally hasn’t been enough on my own and I’ve been furious at the world for being awful and furious at myself for being furious at the world. It’s been a weird sort of place for me.

I dunno if this helps you any, but episcopal is gearing up to maybe be where I need to go to just figure some stuff out. At the very least, it’s a church that has a lot of volunteering and that’s important to me as someone who has a hard time leaving the house.

Well, it worked tho! Lol

Oh, and I agree. I understand that. It’s also the first film to piss me off, in my formative years.

Still fkn hate it! ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Agreed. Still hate it.

I’m not your buddy, pal! (⁠╯⁠°⁠□⁠°⁠）⁠╯

(⁠ﾉﾟ⁠0ﾟ⁠)⁠ﾉ Oh no! A ghost!

I said what I said! ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ

I respect it, appreciate it even. But my God, I hate that film.

Oh valid, my bad. I saw it in passing when I googled him and put two and two together to make eight lol

Hmm, I did some quick googles. Wiki didn’t have much on his finances, just his work. But from few sites, it seems he definitely was blacklisted but made a return throughout the 70s and 80s but nothing big took off and he still ended up broke doing commercials because he lived too loud with his money. So it seems it started with being blacklisted but he also was spending too much money? I dunno. I’d have to read more, but sounds about right from what I remember of a film appreciation course I took a decade ago that started with fkn citizen cane.

At least you had the common courtesy not to comment with the panic (⁠๑⁠•⁠﹏⁠•⁠)

Thank you thank you! I panic commented because it was driving me nuts. Then realized I could Google old man wine commercial and got the answer.

But I appreciate you! Thank you!