It was probably more than just one kid being rowdy and that was just the last straw. Could be just a shitty teacher though.

I have a hard barrier around expressing anything like that, online or off. The inherent hetero power dynamics make it creepy even if it’s not a sexual impulse.

My friend turned to me after we watched that and said, “was that the most reddit movie ever made?”

The horniness was whatever. Bill fucking Hader as “Chief Firewater” pissed me off to no end.

The real answer for a black bear is make yourself look as big as possible, back away slowly, and tell it to fuck off in a deep voice. If it charges you it’s hopefully feinting, but if not whack it right in the snout with whatever you have.

Premade chili, or a thick lentil curry, will be your best bet if you’re doing anything active on this camping trip. Cook it ahead of time, throw it in the cooler, and heat it up. You may want to add a grain if you don’t want to do rice before or after on the same burner (minute rice will be easy though).

I personally love to dehydrate the above but that tends to be for backcountry canoe camping and hiking, where weight and volume matter a lot.

A radical anti-porn activist, upset at his affair with Stormy Daniels, who was completely juiced up on a 93-day nofap streak.

That or a YIMBY who felt betrayed that a developer president never deregulated zoning via executive order.

Contrapoints

I really do sincerely appreciate this sentiment, especially as a vegan, but I’m always curious about the ecological environment it can exist in. It’s practically impossible to spend time in the Canadian wilderness in the spring or summer without murdering a few mosquitoes, ticks, horseflies, blackflies, deerflies, etc.

RIP to a legit organizer. I took one of her courses a few years back. Super solid info and strategy.

Joey need drinky.

Not really a movement, but what I’ve noticed is that within liberal religious traditions that have a bit of a history of social justice and mutual aid, the younger generations (who are mostly not active churchgoers at this point) have taken very kindly to radical literature and ideas.

Wanna send me the epub? I’d love to put this on my reading list.

Not nearly so detailed, but Sing For the Coming of the Longest Night is a great little fantasy story about two metamours that have to go rescue their mutual partner from a magical realm.

I can’t understand how anyone remotely progressive actually liked Kingsman for the reasons you listed. It also just reeks of traditionalist masculinity, especially with the princess at the end 🤢. The only redeeming quality is the villain’s silliness and Samuel Jackson’s performance in that role.

Iron Widow is decent for this too if you like YA fantasy. Bonus for a Chinese setting.

Lol I love how Varn has been ranting about MMTers for a while but each time with a bigger disclaimer that he agrees with their fundamental analysis, up to the point where he has the founder on. I’ll have to give it a listen.

Volunteer work is great as you’ll have something to keep you occupied if you’re struggling to initiate a conversation, and also you’ll have to talk to people just a bit to get some instruction or collaborate on the work. You’ll start off on a good fit since people will like that you’re helping out with their favourite cause, and they’ll be naturally a bit curious about you and why you joined.

Maybe OP identifies with some kind of nihilism and doesn’t like seeing it criticized in broad strokes?

It’s so stupid because there’s such a simple gotchya response. You think there are too many people for the resources we have, and some need to go one way or another? Then it makes sense to start with the people that use the most resources, right?

In fact we probably don’t even need to get rid of that many - let’s just off the 5000 or so richest people on the planet, expropriate their stuff, and that will free up far more fuel, land, water, energy, money, whatever than you could possibly hope to get from letting millions in the global south perish.