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...what is the "sex is just rock climbing" category

It was kind of a joke between me and a friend ("you wouldn't judge someone for having gone rock climbing with a bunch of different people") but honestly the more I thought about it the more I bought into it unironically because:

It is a physical activity done with one or more partners

You should only go rock climbing with people you trust to not let you fall

You should not go rock climbing with someone who is drunk or currently incapable of rational decision-making

Some people get super super super into rock climbing and do not shut up about all the places they have climbed and how many are left on their bucket list and these people are usually men between the ages of 20 and 35 and like it's fine dude I'm glad you're happy but I don't know what most of those mountains even are

While many consider it a fun activity, pressuring someone into climbing when they don't want to (or ignoring their feelings and just dangling them off a cliff,) could cause both psychological and physical trauma

There is no moral value to it whatsoever. Who you have gone rock climbing with (or whether you have rock climbed at all) has no bearing on who you are as a person. Imagine telling someone "it's not that heights make you nauseous, it's just that you haven't found the right person to belay you!" or "you need to save your first time rock climbing for someone special." That would be absurd.

For some people it is a deep and moving personal experience.

historically I have not asked myself "will this aggravate my hip flexor injury" before participating when perhaps I should have 😔

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Add another one to the list of hilarious examples of why generative AI doesn't produce correct answers, just statistically likely ones.

(Customers asked for how-to videos, which the company doesn't have. The AI chatbot decided that a million internet users linking to this video after similar requests couldn't be wrong.)

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Alternate possibility: I never reveal what the questions are for other than to generate data to populate graphs. Then, at the end of the year, we play a bunch of family feud. It would have been long enough that even if the groups had heard each other's questions, they wouldn't have thought about the possible answers in a long time.

Ooh, I just came up with a really fun game for the next time I teach grade 7 or 8 math.

Okay so, each group of 4 or 5 kids gets two (kid-friendly) family feud questions. One would be a number based question and one more fill-in-the-blank. They have to visit other classes in the school to interview 100 people to collect their answers, but keep those answers secret from their classmates.

I'm not quite sure of the order of this next part. My first thought was that the next step would be to use that data to make graphs with (and calculate mean, median, and mode for the number based question), but I think it might be difficult to continue to keep the answers secret from their classmates like that.

Now, I initially thought they could play family feud themselves as a way to wrap up the stats unit, but for the aforementioned secrecy problems. Anyways, two groups would compete against each other to answer the questions for a small prize, while another couple of groups would supply the questions. Whichever group supplied the current question would get to make the sound-effects.

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Ooh, I just came up with a really fun game for the next time I teach grade 7 or 8 math.

Okay so, each group of 4 or 5 kids gets two (kid-friendly) family feud questions. One would be a number based question and one more fill-in-the-blank. They have to visit other classes in the school to interview 100 people to collect their answers, but keep those answers secret from their classmates.

I'm not quite sure of the order of this next part. My first thought was that the next step would be to use that data to make graphs with (and calculate mean, median, and mode for the number based question), but I think it might be difficult to continue to keep the answers secret from their classmates like that.

Now, I initially thought they could play family feud themselves as a way to wrap up the stats unit, but for the aforementioned secrecy problems. Anyways, two groups would compete against each other to answer the questions for a small prize, while another couple of groups would supply the questions. Whichever group supplied the current question would get to make the sound-effects.

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i cannot do another round of "is shaving feminist?" discourse again, i simply cannot do it. is shaving feminist? no! do feminists shave their bodies? yes! is this a deep betrayal of principles? not really! do some women actually shave for the mythical "sensory reasons"? well, considering that my number one reason for shaving my legs in the summer is because my ceiling fan blows on the hair and i'm constantly having mini freakouts that i've got a bug crawling on me, i'd imagine some do! is it okay for a woman to say to herself "i realize i'm mostly doing this because i don't want to be treated worse by people in the world who find my unshaven legs disgusting, but i'm still going to do it because i don't think suffering for no reason is virtuous" and shave? yes! will yelling at her to "think critically about her choices" until she agrees with you actually work? no! does any of this make it any easier to get an abortion in this country? nope! have we replaced the "is this pop star a feminist?" discourse of the 2010s with "are your personal choices antithetical to the tenets of feminism?" discourse in the 2020s, none of which is conveniently focused on the actual loci of power?? hahahahahahaaaaa

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Ahh. Lovelace's challenge to Hera to count to 10 without glitching is so much more painful when you already know that behind every glitch is a voice in her head saying, "I can't do it. I'm not good enough."

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I don't have personal experience, but yes, people with wanted pregnancies are dying because they start miscarrying/going into preterm labour and the doctors hesitate to help them. Because quite often in those cases what the pregnant person needs to survive is to end the pregnancy, which is illegal. The exceptions don't help because where is the line between life in danger and not? So doctors wait too long and they end up dying of infection or blood loss.

Just saw the wildest take... People who want to be pregnant, who are making the active choice to remain so, should be the center of the abortion debate. Why? They won't be having one. Anyway, nothing and no one has the right to use my body with out my ongoing consent. Same goes for you.

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The one feature of Ao3 I wish existed is the ability to sort your marked for later list

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the way Susan kept appearing in the doctor's mind while he was lashing out and torturing that guy cause she's the one (with Ian and Barbara) who taught him kindness I'm bawling my eyes out

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This year for pride month I want trans people to be alive. Thank you.

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there are many here among us / who feel that life is but a joke

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I just started listening to Wolf 359 and can’t handle the brilliance, the fun is too much!

from season 1, episode 3: Discomforts, Pains and Irregularities

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I'm listening to Wolf 359 again, and I still love that what Minkowki tells the plant monster (after two weeks of hunting it) is exactly how she takes down Cutter in the end:

"You want to play with me, huh? You want to run rings around me? The joyless, boring, predictable, old Minkowski. She can't stop you, right? Not someone as smart and powerful as you. You've got her pegged. Good. Get complacent. Get smug. That's right when you'll find me waiting for you: with a goddamned harpoon!"

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Rose!?!

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Wild to look back at the Hunger Games trilogy now and know that at any given moment there's like a 70% chance that Haymitch is reciting "The Raven" in his head.

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the other day I saw a reddit post like damn I found out my Internet friend is a minor and I'm like 20 something what do I do

fellas. you are all so stupid. I turned 13 in 2005. I had 3 rl friends my age and they were slowly shutting me out of the group (and I had got them all together in the first place). By 2006 via livejournal and and bbs boards I had a great deal of friends mostly in their 20s and 30s, some in their 40s; I am still friends with a solid 80% of them and have lived with several of them; my life matters more to me with them in it. also, at one point I mostly hung out with elderly church people. I used to get weekly coffee with three friends in their 70s. i have also definitely had sex with people in their 60s. people are all just people, with different things to teach and learn from each other. they stay people their whole lives im afraid.

minor is a legal term and holds no meaning outside of courtrooms.

if you can't comfortably have friends at all ages the problem is you.