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Sir, you are employing a double negative.

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Julie, 35. I'm a good writer, an average musician and a bad dancer. Historically, I have been mostly about sterek and hockey; these days I am just a random grab bag. If you need something consistently tagged, just ask!
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Good afternoon everyone. We’re flying at 26,000 feet moving up to 30,000 feet and we’ve got clear skies all the way to Las Vegas. And right now we’re bringing you some in-flight entertainment. One of our first class passengers would like to sing you a song inspired by one of our coach passengers. And since we let our first class passengers do … pretty much whatever they want. Here he is. 

I wanna make you smile, whenever you’re sad. Carry you around when your arthritis is bad. Oh, all I wanna do, is grow old with you.

It feels taboo as a childfree person to admit this but I actually do have concerns about who is going to take care of me when I'm old. The elder care system in our nation relies A LOT on the unpaid care labor of adult children. I just don't think that's a good reason to have kids.

"But you'll have more money!" does not completely put this to rest for me. Neither does "Buy care insurance!" Even if I can afford direct personal care, who is going to advocate for me to get it? Who is going to navigate bureaucracy for me when I'm 80?

"If you do have kids, there's no GUARANTEE that they'll take care of you when your old!" That's true, but doesn't solve my problem.

I think childfree people get very defensive about this question because its used as a kind of "gotcha!" against us, but I actually do not feel we can afford to be in denial about this reality. Based on current trends of more people in their 30s stating they intend to be permanently childfree, we are going to see a huge wave of childfree adults hitting the eldercare system at once in a few decades. Childfree people in their 30s should be advocating around eldercare NOW.

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We desperately need to cultivate a society in which everyone, even the most bitter, unlikeable, miserably lonely person in the world, has a social safety net that they can rely on from the day they're born to the day they die, and that includes their elder care.

We are not going to achieve this meaningfully under capitalism. :')

Do you ever memorize a person’s voice? Like you can construct a sentence in your mind that that person’s never said, and yet you hear them say it.

Is that a thing people can do?????????

yea 

there are people that cant do that??????????

We are a chosen few. We have a great power.

It’s called echoic memory

That reminds me…

You’re welcome.

Damn you

Man, I love having echoic memory. Once, when I was writing an exam for a psych class, I made my internal monologue sound like Sean Connery. It was infinitely more entertaining.

I can only do it with a few voices. Wanda from Fairly Oddparents is one, but I’m out of practice with hers.

I find it very useful when I’m writing fanfictions and such. Makes it easier to stay in character.

…wait, people can’t do this?

I never realized there was a name for this, or that it was something not everyone could do! :O I agree with the poster above, it’s so useful for writing in-character voices in fanfiction. 

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I think in other people’s voices more than my own

It takes effort to think in my own voice

SETTLE AN ARGUMENT FOR ME

i am trying to explain to her most general people do not know how to play an instrument and she is aghast at this

THAT IS BECAUSE IT'S AN INSANE STATEMENT

and yet i barely know anyone who can play an instrument!!!

YOU LIVE IN A BUBBLE

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i feel like high school/middle school sitcoms set the unrealistic expectation of being able to have lunch time outside

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ok because apparently i'm wrong about this, reblog with where you live and whether you got to eat lunch outside during school or not