Let's begin with something that I do not understand fully, and may not ever understand fully. With control comes accountability. You are not to blame for things you do not have control over. What constitutes control is a hard thing to determine, however. Do we have control in a situation where, in theory, we could stop something if enough of us were inclined to do so? A didactic and boring game supposedly about rounding up Jewish families and taking on the role of National Socialists exposes the way that we are all often caught in systems whose rules are harmful, and yet, we live in a society, and there are incentives to go along with those rules, and so sometimes we participate in things that hurt others because it's more convenient to do so. Do we have control there? Do we have control there if it's the only option we have that allows us to fight on some other front? Is a single vote in millions gaining control? In a system where five people can usurp the will of millions, either for ethical and moral purposes or their opposites? Where lies the boundary between control and a lack of control?
( More on control and the rest of the post's materials. )
Last for tonight, various concepts that take a single word in other languages that take significantly more words in English. And Setting your mobile AO3 experience to work better and be easier on the eyes through the magic of site skinning CSS.
Additionally, The Gender Survey, for all those folks who do not fit fully and comfortably into the boxes of "man" or "woman" (whether cis or trans) and a very happy International Non-Binary Individuals' Day, planted squarely at the halfway point between International Men's Day and International Women's Day.
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( More on control and the rest of the post's materials. )
Last for tonight, various concepts that take a single word in other languages that take significantly more words in English. And Setting your mobile AO3 experience to work better and be easier on the eyes through the magic of site skinning CSS.
Additionally, The Gender Survey, for all those folks who do not fit fully and comfortably into the boxes of "man" or "woman" (whether cis or trans) and a very happy International Non-Binary Individuals' Day, planted squarely at the halfway point between International Men's Day and International Women's Day.
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