TheLepidopterists [he/him]

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Cake day: June 20th, 2021

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  • It’s important to note that to an American, they’re middle class almost completely irrespective of their circumstances. Single parent living in subsidized housing, working for near minimum wage? Middle class. Lower middle class, maybe, if we’re not feeling defensive. McMansion, dual income family with one doctor and one lawyer? Driving expensive European cars (one for each adult, plus one for the teenager), vacationing abroad yearly, middle class, maybe, maybe, upper middle class if they’re feeling embarrassed about their wealth.

    Your family owns the only plumbing company in town and you have several houses a small fleet of vehicles and dozens of employees. Your surname is a local household name. The highschool gym is named after your grandpa. Sure you’re prosperous but upper class? Idk, I mean listen you have to go to work, sometimes, at the sinecure your dad got you at said plumbing company. Real rich people don’t have to pretend to work, right?

    Everyone pretends to be middle class.



  • I feel like organ transplants are (and I know this isn’t 100% true, there are like, compatibility issues), kind of fungible.

    Like if there are 1500 people waiting for X organ, and I donate mine, changing the number of people who get one from 1000 to 1001, then literally my organ saved whichever person got it, but without it they were getting the next available one anyways. At some point someone deserving would miss out if we all just decided not to donate and I don’t think that’s worth it.

    Sorry if that’s not really clear, had an exhausting day (not bad, just tiring, took my kids to the non-doxxable family activity location, one of them is an infant) and I’m not exactly a philosopher on the best day.

    I guess if I’m able to just guarantee that Cheney doesn’t get a heart at all that’s my preferred choice, but I feel like it’s more like “Cheney gets my heart and Susie gets Mark’s heart, and if I don’t donate Cheney gets Mark’s heart and Susie keeps waiting for another one and maybe dies waiting.”



  • can see you have came here with your instance-issued portable public opinion influence brigade. will you bitch and moan again when you get defederated from another instance?

    brigading

    Look, I originally came in here to look at dunks on my-hero and then I saw it back in my feed with like, quadruple the number of comments it had when I originally saw it.

    We’re not brigading just because we’re all in agreement that someone calling for regime change in some of the only countries and organizations who are resisting a modern Holocaust is a bad person undeserving of respect. I just wanted to read some Elon Musk hate and you decided to talk about how the Arabs should have their leaders chosen by the enlightened white Westerners.