У кошки девять жизней, так что две добыть — пустяк!

Cotton soaks up all the water.

Rapists being targeted first often occupy prominent cultural/economic positions and replacing them all in a big wave is expensive and and inefficient and creates chaos.

Not to mention that the chilling and balkanization of social networks in the wake of “drama” can lead to repeated crises of their own.

A metoo movement has good intentions by trying to get us to address our highly problematic sexual relations. It can be rather sexist (refuses to grapple with problematic women), and it often leaves behind a cratered and broken social environment that is a breeding ground for misinformation, bigotry, abuse, ostracism, and violence.

A metoo movement responds to our pervasive and severely problematic sexual norms by elevating them to a crisis level. The crisis causes action to take place, which is seen to some as a relief because finally something is being done! But this crisis mentality is punitive, destructive, and only serves to exacerbate the root causes of sexual misconduct.

So, yeah. A metoo movement is absolutely a crisis caused by poor sexual norms bubbling up into a problem with serious impacts and wide reach across a society.

But some of us have certainly stoked it

Or the flame war

New perspectives and ideas and life experiences to draw from when a creative solution is needed. Diversity of experience yields creative solution-space possibilities. The more diverse your input space, the more potentially diverse your output space, depending on the function.

NASA is an organization whose activities push the boundaries of possible future technologies. We need people from all parts of society dreaming of and contributing to the future if we want a future society that is considerate of the needs of all parts of society. NASA’s wonder changes the world. The more people who are different and who are wondering in different directions, the more possibilities can unfold for the future.

Maybe short-term productivity benefits from a monoculture of people who are currently “the best” and all know how to work together seamlessly because they come from the same culture. Such a monoculture will not be adaptable as the landscape of technology changes the metrics by which “the best” get measured. It will not have the diverse foundation required for creative solutions. Being adaptable to a changing world requires creative solutions. Diversity is an investment of current productivity into future resilience. Diversity is extending the promise of contributing to grand societal projects like space travel to anyone who is capable. Diversity is building a future that can support all of us.

Prior to Trump’s orders, NASA was named as one of the best employees in the U.S. for diversity in 2023. NASA’s workforce is composed of approximately 35% women and 30% minorities, according to a 2021 report by NASA’s Office of Inspector General. Still, the agency had more work to do to improve inclusion amongst its workforce. A 2024 report concluded that “despite support from Agency leaders and multiple initiatives to increase diversity, we found NASA has made little progress in increasing the representation of women and minorities in its civilian workforce or leadership ranks,” NASA’s Office of Inspector General wrote. “Specifically, over the past decade NASA’s overall workforce demographics have stayed roughly the same, with small increases (1 or 2 percent) for some groups.”

After decades of improvement, our strategies were stalling and starting to either hit diminishing returns or backfire. Instead of reflecting and listening and learning how to bridge the final gaps, we are going to forget and eliminate all progress made so we have to do it again and start from scratch.

Prior to Trump’s orders, NASA was named as one of the best employees in the U.S. for diversity in 2023. NASA’s workforce is composed of approximately 35% women and 30% minorities, according to a 2021 report by NASA’s Office of Inspector General. Still, the agency had more work to do to improve inclusion amongst its workforce. A 2024 report concluded that “despite support from Agency leaders and multiple initiatives to increase diversity, we found NASA has made little progress in increasing the representation of women and minorities in its civilian workforce or leadership ranks,” NASA’s Office of Inspector General wrote. “Specifically, over the past decade NASA’s overall workforce demographics have stayed roughly the same, with small increases (1 or 2 percent) for some groups.”

After decades of improvement, our strategies were stalling and starting to either hit diminishing returns or backfire. Instead of reflecting and listening and learning how to bridge the final gaps, we are going to forget and eliminate all progress made so we have to do it again and start from scratch.

Thank you for commenting, friend.

All of the talk of civil rights being America’s priority has fallen short in the face of our economic priorities and our proclivity to agitate for war.

We have designed a society where empathy is scarce. A society overworked and without the bandwidth for most to process how their actions impact people on the other side of the globe.

Sometimes you’ve gotta skip out on the bullshit to live life and learn for yourself. All of these increases in productivity, and yet we have less and less time to be human and stitch together our society.

Muslims were a key swing vote in key swing states like Michigan and Wisconsin.

More importantly, the dems might have actually won if they had taken this opportunity to show that they were capable of listening to and learning from their constituents.

Trump demonstrated that he could grow and adapt from his previous term while the dems insisted on dictating terms and asserting that everything was fine without room for criticism or growth.

Improve and grow.

Listen and adapt.

Do better.

Dangerous advice.

Women are fucking strong and violent and need to be aware of their strength.

Size matters and isn’t always correlated with gender. Size and strength need to be considered independently from gender. For most comparisons between any two people, there are usually several better indicators than gender.

Gender differences in strength exist at the tails of the distribution, but for average encounters gender is immaterial compared to several other traits including size and training.

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With the loss of our major cotton fields and high tariffs on imports, clothing will be hard to come by.

Q-tips. Medical gauze.

We need a better relationship with clothing.

Death to fashion. Let’s build something new.d

EDIT: yeah, there’s other cotton fields, but it was late and I was high and felt melodramatic.

Only Trump can get away with ruining the land of the cotton barons (wealthy elite) to restore the natural ecosystem. I may not agree with how it’s being done, but this one had the right spirit. I hope he keeps it up and gives the great central swamp of California some time to recover. That would help wildfire resilience, and probably improve groundwater stores for the future. No human alive knows this ecosystem, they’ve just been living in its grave. As the husk dries, it’s prone to burning. Let’s regrow the wetlands.

Tulare county?

Good.

That should be a lake, not cotton fields.

Used to be one of the biggest lakes in the US.

In the 1862 flood it was bigger than lake ontario.

Then the cotton farmer arrived post civil war.

Flood 'em and rebuild the natural ecology.

Best thing he could have done for long-term stability of the region.

Gotta give props when he does the right thing.

Refill the swamp!

Luigi Got Big Titties

They learned from the best.

No one is forcing you to say anything.

But I’m happy to listen.

What could you do that you don’t wanna?

Clarifying boundaries is important.

What does anything that I was talking about have to do with making people do what they don’t want to?

That’s the magic thing about words: you have the freedom to say what you want and not say what you don’t want. What you say is entirely up to you!

The more you practice, the better you’ll be.

I’m always here to listen.

Then why did you bring it up?

It seems like you just wanted to say that you had something to share without sharing.

We all have plenty more to explain than is physically possible.

If you want to share, share! I’m listening.

Sounds like Natalia is busy and having fun with friends.

You should be supportive!

if I “dared” to do so, she would slander me and call me an abuser/bad person for that just like last time.

This part is scary. Evaluate that a bit more.

Enjoy Karl while Natalia explores more with her friends. Maybe she’ll come back to play at some point and you can share what you’ve learned!