It might be something the people I grew up around did, and plus that I’m translating a very local word for crush with a whole set of connotations into English, which isn’t my first language. You’re right, thanks!

To me, a crush requires a certain element of self-destruction that other kinds of attraction don’t. A crush is also very selfish, it kind of objectifies the other person, and doesn’t make them an active part of the relationship building process. I have friends to whom i’m attracted to/admire greatly, but at the same time wouldn’t want to actually be in a relationship with, and I just try not to make my attraction everything about interacting with this person, there’s the shaky ground imo. I’ve had some pretty bad crushes, and it ends up pretty badly for both of us, often with the relationship being poisoned by me allowing it to go unchecked.

Then, if you’re using crush in a much more lighthearted way like some of my queer friends do, all power to you. Be histrionic and express your love/adoration as loud as you want and to the degree others consent to.

I don’t know. There was more of an idea that things could change for the better, that the reactionary wave was a headwind in the road to progress (can you tell I wasn’t a marxist back then). Covid and the 2020s kind of took care of that in most young people I know. The past few years have at the same time created a sense of urgency and a feeling of powerlessness in younger people. There is very little room for grander narratives, and most people I know are focusing in protecting the small scale and the local in the face of the overwhelming power of reaction.

These kinds of MOBA are largely inscrutable to people who haven’t played them for a while. Like 10 years ago or more the Dota 2 International had a “beginner friendly stream” where they explained everything and it managed to get some friends into the game, but it was a rarity.

Don’t do this, you’re gonna make me want to go back to Dota

I work at an university and I’m involved with student activism. There’s plenty of kids who are cool and radical, even if a bit hopeless/nihilistic. They don’t complain that their cohort are reactionary though, they mostly complain that their classmates/friends are largely apathetic or cynical, materialistic and a bit callous.

That kinda has to do more with brain plasticity than the old acronyms being better or worse though. We don’t learn as easily as we used to when we were younger so we forget what the acronyms mean.

Anyone who thought he was a leftist should look into his time as archbishop in Argentina. He had good leftist-adjacent takes, but he was not a leftist by any measure.

Extremely detailed Alto Wine model for 60GB

Francis was white (Argentine of Italian ancestry), I can’t imagine what apoplexy will hit tradcaths if a non-white pope gets elected.

My biggest problem with Xavier is that he seems to be obsessed with respectability politics.

Change Christianity for capitalism and patriarchy and you have the non-fiction book ‘caliban and the witch’

I already studied abroad for my masters, so I’m familiar with the process for grad school abroad. It’s a bit of a pain, but doable.

Most of them you can, as far as I know. You will have to time your application with the immigration procedure (which can take months depending on the country), but it’s definitely doable.

I’m looking for a PhD program to enroll in, and I was already iffy about even considering US universities. Now? No way.

Read what Twitter thinks about it before playing it. If they hate it it’s going to nag at you while you’re playing, and if Twitter people like it, you’re really gonna hate it.

burning out for a little bit

There’s no such thing as “burning out for a little bit” though. Burn out takes about 4 years to recover from.

I’m not holding my breath for the rest of India though. There seems to be a serious hyper capitalist tech bro cult with a lot of political and cultural sway, and that’s leaving the BJP and Modi aside (which we shouldn’t)

Ww3 speedrun any%