@AlexSmith90014@Sorelle_Arduino people aren’t disabled-like when we have to sleep every day or have a weekend. periods occur regularly and could be considered more (maybe in the vein of your suggestions). imagine the discrimination if only half the population needed to sleep
@AlexSmith90014@Sorelle_Arduino *speculation
“menstruation - we were too weak. Women have fought to be taken seriously”. this is what i’m getting at too. we don’t have to take this route anymore. we don’t have to be as close to male as possible to not be 2nd class. they’re not the default setting of human
@AlexSmith90014@nixmao suffering through is possible but not ideal. what if the whole species experienced periods? accommodations would probably be baked into how we think about work then (like how we do most work in the daytime when our eyes can see)
@nixmao 100%. not confident that it’s practical, but i like that it’s being contemplated. men being the default people (and women being resilient to be treated like them) doesn’t have to be forever if we can think in new ways
@Be_like_legend green to the extent that it even tastes sour-green. using this chart, pearish, limeish, parakeetish. i don’t know. what feels weird and interesting is that it’s clearly not shamrock
@mudscryer@prerat i wouldnt reject that being a tree feels like something🌳, but most of our bodily processes aren’t experienced: blood vessels narrowing to manage temperature&blood pressure, neurons firing, livers filtering, enzymes, hormone messages.. local, separate consciousnesses inside us?🫧
@Dallocles it’s nowhere close😵 i’m still wearing socks. maybe thai winter. i lived in a village near Ayutthaya for a year, and the air was 3D there. oppressive heat .. wooden house on stilts didn’t save me
@RichardDawkins disliking something has been everything for survival as we know it (so far). being discerning is the substrate that pushes us to explore. instincts only thrive in their niches and can’t outcompete 💭 when conditions change
“why?” is non-passive
what calls claudia to action?
@SCHIZO_FREQ why would that be stupid of nature? it sounds interesting? our “nature” may still be responding to environmental pressures that no longer exist (the longevity bottleneck hypothesis: 100 million years of predation of early mammals by dinosaurs pressured them to reproduce rapidly)
@DionysianAgent connection to an other. a future other. something. an “i want to live forever”-drive, that can only be obtained by relation to other-after-other (seeing as i’m mortal). 😢. something to transcend for me😣 i do welcome there being more potentialities/ ideas now though 4
@DionysianAgent i guess i’d always thought that their existence itself was enough to prove that my mind had lived. somewhere. i’ve always known myself to be internally validated and this whole situation makes me face that there’s actually a part of me that did want 3