I’ve always known and used them interchangeably, my health teacher had to update the ancient health textbooks through her lectures. This meant that when it came to the sex ed portion, we stopped using the 40 year old textbook almost entirely and used a modern bookless curriculum.

I suppose that’s a matter of perspective. Using inches for measurement and a total ignorance of sex education screams US to me

Planned Parenthood provides STD testing. Go see them. Set an appointment here

I like to find news sources that analyze the story as well as explains where it fits into the ongoing situation, why it’s relevant, and has a reasonably accurate history of predictions based on their analysis. Since this is rare, I try to find a source that has 3 of the 4 to make it part of my news consumption. So this tends to include Democracy Now!, Some More News, Last Week Tonight, Beau of the Fifth Column, AP, and the like. A lot of the sources shared on lemmy, bar the NYT, are in that category

Still a drop in the bucket, but these are fine numbers I can get behind

I know some of the union leaders at UPW, including one of the Paizo writers that may have worked on the starter adventure (I don’t know for certain). They’re incredibly passionate about their work, and honestly would understand your frustrations about capitalism. They likely pushed to make as much as possible free, so folks in your position would still be able to share the joy of their work even if they can’t afford the starter adventure.

I know none of this will make your frustration go away, but I hope you know that they didn’t do it out of malice.

It’s not a failure of anything. Billionaires are an inevitably of capitalism.

If you truly want to help him, give him a list of post-carceral support resources, a note stating that you’re only willing to help more if he truly wants to change, and a small amount of money to get started.

Make it clear in the letter that you don’t want to see him in prison and that you know he’s a better person than that. Do not bring up the falling out just yet in case he’s willing to contact you for a real life change.

I prefer Parenti’s quote on democracy

Democracy is a wonderful invention by the people over history to protect themselves from the power of wealth. That’s what democracy was in Greece, that’s what democracy has been ever since. It’s an invention of the people, nobody else but the people. There’s no great philosopher that invented democracy, there’s no great political theorist that thought about it and put it together, there’s no great intellectual or writer or artist who created democracy! It was the mass of people! Anonymous, ordinary working people, working women and working men, people trying to survive, they’re the ones that fought for it and they’re the ones that gained whatever modicum of decency and security we might have in this inhumane capitalist system throughout history.

My DM in college asked us if we were ok with a tpk so she could start a campaign she’d done world building on for over a year. Of course we agreed, and she learned that it’s just as fun to die as survive while playing

There is no paradox of tolerance. It’s the social contract of tolerance. Break the social contract, receive the consequences.

Edit: I promise I understand the concept as a paradox as well. I chose to frame it the way I did because the paradox is solved by reframing the situation.

I think QA engineering needs to become more widespread. The “extra pair of eyes” can’t compare to a department of people dedicated to code review and testing.