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I mean, I can't remember the last time a governor said they wanted to pardon someone of the outright murder of a political protestor?

This particular shitty reason is actually kinda' remarkably shitty even among shitty reasons.

And outright rejecting Old Testament... let's say not that many people will agree that you are a Christian after that.

Eh... huge swaths of protestantism does that to varying degrees, at a minimum? There's actually a lot (like, probably multiple hundreds of millions) of people that call themselves christian that reject some or all of the old testament's laws and strictures, and other parts of it to varying degrees as well.* Something something new covenant something.

Can't even say I blame 'em, with all due respect to judaism the old testament is incredibly fucked up on a lot of levels. Yeeting those writings (get rid of revelations while you're at it, it'll do you good) from your metaphysics drops a ton of really nasty baggage.

* ... not necessarily consistently, mind, but if you're expecting consistency from christianity (or any religion, for that matter) you haven't been paying attention, heh.

Lot more than dementia, some of it as simple as poor lighting and a similar build, never mind actual cognitive impairment of some sort due to intoxication or something neurological, or eye problems of some sort. Human sensory interpretation just... flat fabricates a lot, we've found, even when it's in otherwise good shape.

I've mistaken random people for folks I lived with for well over a decade, just due to not being particularly close yet -- probably only three or four times in my life between them all, but it's happened more than once.

It's understandable how much trust folks put in their own senses -- you kinda' have to, to some degree, just to live -- but... past a certain point, that trust is probably unwarranted. It's definitely something I've internalized as true after hallucinating nonstop for the last 30+ years, heh, but it's just as true for folks that don't have conditions causing outright hallucinations. Just not as easy for them to notice.

Dorohedoro is a great show. Same sort of feel of Chainsaw Man in that joyful irreverent sense of mayhem and choppy action. The first episode jumps straight into the action of an alligator-man and a chef waging a two-man war against sorcerers, who as we all know, wizards have no sense of right and wrong.

... that blurb reminds me quite a lot of Keyman. It's been a while since something reminded me of that manga.

Can... can't really ever recommend it because the loli fanservice is pretty strong, but on the same hand basically everything outside of that was pretty bloody amazing. Has one of the best skullman character designs I've ever seen. Lots of just amazing design work.

Maybe truncate/summarize it, too. Iirc there's actually legal issues with just pasting a whole news article elsewhere, though I don't quite remember the details -- couple of other places I loiter have a 200 word limit or thereabouts, if it helps any. Probably safer to not unless the org that's putting it out explicitly allows it.

only 9,900 to go

you'll get there, keep fighting

Nobody ever told me growing up that the biggest thing I'd be dealing with as an adult with my parents wouldn't be them being infirm, but their mental states.

For what it's worth, the separation between those two is often pretty blurry, where it exists at all. Aging, especially if there's previous issues, often just kinda' compounds cognitive issues, with progressively degenerating physical capability making it all the worse.

100% fucking no one talks about it, though. Lots of aspects of elder care are just not goddamn spoken of in many societies, so when that shit comes down like a ton of bricks for whoever's close to the person in question everyone involved basically flounders. Don't help one damn bit in a lot of places there's just functionally goddamn zero societal assistance for older folks or whatever family or friends they might have trying assist

There's just not many people willing to tell folks ahead of time it's probably going to be fucking miserable trying to take care of your older family. One of those things not talked about on the health front that just makes everything worse for basically everyone, bleh.

The use of white crowds is because a lot of older people are racist uncomfortable around people who don't look like them, at least in the abstract, so using white people in the photos helps reassure them and make them more likely to actually follow through on a holiday.

Trust me, I'm 100% aware of why the company's doing it. The decision making involved is pretty well trod if you've been paying much attention any time in the last, uh. Century? Plus? It ain't new, anyway. It's just persistently offputting ever since I started noticing that nonsense. One of the more irritating parts of processing kids books/anything graphical at my job, especially older stuff, tbh. It's hard to miss once you realize what's happening.

Like I said, tell me you have problems (intentionally catering to racist demographics, with all that's likely to entail) without telling me you have problems, heh.