EponymousBosh

joined 7 months ago
[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 4 points 7 months ago

Check Caitlin Doughty's "Ask A Mortician" videos, in addition to some of the other suggestions.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 9 points 7 months ago (16 children)

Wow, the 200m freestyle, the 500m freestyle, and the 1650m freestyle, huh? Did she ever compete in anything else, or were those numbers perhaps cherry-picked to make the situation look more dramatic than it actually is? Because if you look at her results holistically, she's a very good swimmer, but she's clearly not dominating 100% of the time the way she's been portrayed.

At the NCAA competition where Thomas won one (1) race that conservatives cried and shit their pants over, a cis woman named Kate Douglass set 18 new records. Lia Thomas set zero new records. And crunching the rest of the numbers bears this out: she was a good swimmer before and after transition, but she's not some unbeatable powerhouse that cis women have no chance at winning against.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 2 points 7 months ago

Eight, but this account is only a couple weeks old.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Game no one's mentioned yet: Look Outside

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 2 points 7 months ago

I didn't but I knew a guy who did.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 2 points 7 months ago

I've used EyeBuyDirect before and they were alright. It's been a couple years tho.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 4 points 7 months ago

Also: you might like Caitlin Doughty/Ask A Mortician's videos and/or books. A lot of discussion about different cultures' approaches to death and how people's attitudes have evolved over time.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 4 points 7 months ago

I've been pondering this myself. We had to have one of my cats (the one in my profile pic) put down last month, and we got a fur clipping, as well as her ashes. I'd like a piece of memorial jewelry or glass and I'm finding I'm OK with stuff that includes the fur, but not OK with cremation jewelry/cremation glass, and I don't really know how to articulate why. I think part of it is that fur and hair are shed throughout a lifetime anyway, but dividing up someone's bones or ashes almost feels like commodification to me.

(To be clear: I'm not judging other people who do this with their loved ones' remains, be they human or animal; this is just, like, my opinion, man.)

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 4 points 7 months ago

It's considered taboo according to some religions, but there's not really any practical or medical reasons, other than the ones already mentioned.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 2 points 7 months ago

Ianthe from The Locked Tomb. She grated on me at first but somewhere into the second book I was just delighted at her terribleness.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 2 points 7 months ago

Like others have said, you didn't do anything wrong. Maybe say a prayer or light a candle for the person and their family if you're the praying type, but otherwise, don't worry about it too much.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 24 points 7 months ago

"Should you" as in "is it morally/ethically wrong?" No, it's not. "Should you" as in "is it a good idea?" No, it's a terrible idea. And I think you know that on some level.

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