#stimulus bill

[stlhandyman]

#covid conspiracy #covid vax #covid stimulus #covid vaccine #covid #tw covid #covid 19 #covid pandemic #covid fourth wave #cdc #pandemic #pfizer #bill gates #covid19 #covid truth #monkey pox #debunk this fauci #fauci says cnn #Dr bris

[mfb1949]

#economics #economy #recession #2008 recession #interest rates #yield curve #liquidity trap #2011 #u.s. treasury #treasury bonds #treasury bills #monetary stimulus #monetary policy #debt ceiling #deficit #federal reserve #great recession 2008

[greyschristian]

Stimulus bill update

Stimulus bill update how to#

But There’s Always a Glimmer of HopeĪlthough pockets of the economy are booming, the unemployment rate remains above where it stood before the pandemic, and other enhancements, such as the expanded child tax credit, have expired. Until this trend reverses, federal stimulus is likely on pause, if not over completely. The Biden administration seems focused primarily on infrastructure spending, while many economists warn that additional stimulus would only accelerate the rise in inflation, which hit an astonishing 8.5% in March 2022. But the federal government’s appetite for more direct stimulus is waning. Of that, roughly $1.8 trillion went directly to individuals and families, while another $1.7 trillion went to businesses. government injected roughly $5 trillion in stimulus money into the economy. See: 50 Ways You’re Throwing Money Away Federal Stimulus Is Likely Overįrom March 2020 to February 2022, the U.S.

Stimulus bill update how to#

What does this mean for additional stimulus payments in spring 2022?įind Out: How To Get Rich With a Normal Job Combined with the trillions of dollars of stimulus money in the system, inflation exploded in early 2022 to levels not seen in decades. But even as widespread mask mandates and travel restrictions remained in place, the American economy enjoyed a sharp and rapid recovery. Stimulus payments came in waves, and as the pandemic lengthened, it almost seemed as if the government would continue to print money forever to bail out the economy. The coronavirus pandemic brought unprecedented stimulus to American businesses and workers to the tune of trillions of dollars.

#Stimulus bill update

[v-mos]

Dodged covid for years until today, got a positive test and feel like I’ve been run over by 14 trucks in a row 😞 literally THE DAY before I get my electric skateboard that will let me be personally responsible for my mobility around town and to/from a job without relying on my parents so I can actually be an adult for once, and I get fuckin covid I’m PISSED

#I knew nothing good could happen to me without something horrible happening first #nothing ever works out for me like it’s supposed to 🥲 #just like the pc I almost got that I had to pass up on to pay the landlords $5000 electric bill that ate the entire stimulus

[theconcealedweapon]

Many businesses went out of business because of COVID.

Many people use this as evidence that the shutdowns and restrictions were the wrong choice, and that all businesses should have been allowed to operate at full capacity with no restrictions.

That wouldn't have worked, because businesses would still have had to close if too many customers chose to stay home or if all of their workers quit, went on strike, or got COVID.

But besides that, why would they go out of business from having to close for a few months? Why can't they just pause their operation for a few months then pick up where they left off when it's over? Closing means no profit, but it also means no operating costs.

Could it be because they still have bills that exist even if they're closed, like rent?

If that's the case, then the entire problem is that the profits of corporate landlords are being prioritized over everything else. If you're angry, direct your anger there.

Similarly, if you're angry about all the taxpayer money being spent on stimulus checks, there's another solution to that too. We could have just cancelled rent payments and postponed mortgage payments. That would have costed zero taxpayer money. But again, profits of banks and landlords were prioritized. While the working class lost their source of income, the owning class got to keep theirs.

#covid #wealthy privilege

[the-greatest-fool]

I basically only post and read posts in my bubble aside from occasionally scrolling through Real Tumblr, but people’s takes about US politics on this website are fucking unbelievable. They talk about our government as if it didn’t save us from a pandemic-induced financial collapse, pump trillions of dollars into public works, not to mention substantially invest and rein in pharmaceuticals, and is instead some sort of ultra-neoliberal-corporate kitty shooting machine.

Like let’s be for real. Do they…know what the government does? How it works? Do you know what a conservative is? Do you know what an authoritarian is?

Because a system of government whose citizens are all lucky it has had continuous peaceful transfer of power for centuries could very well have its greatest norm violated—that those who reject its legitimacy must be rejected—and we don’t blink an eye.

Because the first major investment against climate change, coupled with life saving investments into healthcare, cancer research, and drug costs could be shredded by indiscriminate fiscal conservatives who don’t care if we die in forest fires, cancer from pollution, lose insurance because we’re jobless, or, apparently, all die in a fricking plague.

Because a foreign policy establishment that had finally reversed two decades of foreign intervention in favor of a normalization strategy aimed at reducing American foot presence, drone strikes, and indiscriminate killings is about to be replaced by the whims of a man who dropped the “mother of all bombs” on the Middle East, gave American soldiers up to Russian bounty hunters, extorted a foreign leader for political favors and arguably indirectedly resulted in that country being BRUTALLY INVADED BY AN IMPERIAL NEIGHBOR, is in the pockets of CCP-funded billionaires, and WANTS TO “FINISH THE JOB” IN GAZA.

Because a President who is against family separations and promotes a path for DREAMERs and more legal immigration and rights for unodcumented people could be replaced by a man who wants to separate families, PUT UNDOCUMENTED PEOPLE IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS, RESTRICT EVEN LEGAL IMMIGRATION, ESPECIALLY THAT OF MUSLIMS, AND SHOOT MIGRANTS.

Because a President who stopped a repeat of the Great Recession and the painful decade that followed it with strong fiscal stimulus which CUT CHILD POVERTY IN HALF BEFORE CONSERVATIVES MADE IT EXPIRE, then managed to cut deficits and presided over a decline in inflation, resulting in record high real wages (aka taking into account inflation) for workers is going to be replaced by a President who wants to TARIFF ALL FOREIGN GOODS by 15%, CUT TAXES FOR THE FILTHY RICH AND THE TAX ENFORCEMENT TO STOP THEM, INCREASE CHILD POVERTY AND UNINSUREDNESS by cutting gov’t programs, and HURT UNIONS which by every measure will lead to lower wages, higher prices, and more poverty and starvation.

Because a President who has pledged to sign a bill codifying Roe v. Wade (which has yet to be possible in recent memory, whatever these kids say), who enshrined the right to marry someone of the same sex or different race, who supports the Equality Act which would enshrine LGBTQ protections into the law, could be replaced by THE MAN WHO REMOVED AMERICA’S RIGHT TO ABORTION, whose Christian nationalist supporters want to END SEXUAL FREEDOM as we know it including TARGETING IVF AND BIRTH CONTROL, who wants to reverse LGBTQ discrimination law in favor of Christian bigots who hate queer and trans people, and who demonizes that community to win political support.

Ask yourself if you really think there’s no difference between the two. Ask yourself if a reasonable person given these facts would choose the latter. Ask yourself why you see so much propagandizing against the reasonable choice. Ask yourself why so many people seem to have opinions on this when they “don’t even go here”.

Maybe I’m just preaching to the choir here. Maybe people who say this inane stuff wouldn’t vote anyways. Maybe somehow we’re screwed anyways. Maybe people will stupidly vote third party and we’re fucked. Maybe this will get me attacked.

I don’t care anymore. If I have to see one more fucking post acting like we live under the fucking Evil Empire while a SELF PROCLAIMED DICTATOR is about to end the best streak of decent governance I’ve ever seen in a while, I just can’t anymore.

#us politics #abortion rights #abortion #biden #trump #joe biden #election 2024 #climate change #climate crisis #gaza #palestine #israel #middle east #christian nationalism #lgbtq #trans rights #poverty #economy #economics #politics #healthcare #human rights #immigration #misinformation #disinformation #donald trump #american

[franki-lew-yo]

Still unemployed

Sorry as always for the open rant you all witnessed two nights back from me. I'm genuinely very stressed about money. In summer and fall 2023 my concern was just trying to make myself noticed somehow, bit-by-bit through social media and gaining a substantial following just to better myself as an artist.

Now, I need any income I've got just to afford my rent and utilities.

To put it into perspective (besides the Ko-fi produced Shelby-fund, which was successfully breached and will be used this coming week on her vet bill) my ssi income's been reduced to 530$ a month while my rent is 760$. My old job supplied at least 300$+ but I don't have any of that coming in now. The stimulus money I was given as a parting gift instead of a final paycheck can't be withdrawn from or transferred to my main bank. I have at least 140$ left on that stimulus just for other expenses like busfair, art supplies, dog and home care.

I'm INCREDIBLY grateful to have my EBT card covering my groceries, my jobcoaches assisting with printing out cardstock for any (eventual) upcoming events or cons and getting me a buspass discount, and of course the backers to my Shelby fund to cover that for the year (much love to Brandon, Misty and Cheatsy on Ko-fi). I will be receiving unemployment soon, though still not enough to cover my rent and utility cost.

But, I need to pay for services on Upwork, Linked In and Vograce, for sensitivity readers and animators and shipping costs for any physical Etsy merchandise, possible venue space for real-life events, professional art prints, computer and tablet maitanance, and that's not even getting to possibly subscribing to sites such as instagram or Facebook. I still have a lot to save up for and do WITHOUT being unemployed.

As a reminder, I need to take commissions especially at this time, both 'quick' ones and more complex pieces.

5$ USD for Sketches (traditional or digital) 

15$-20$ USD for Inked, flat colored art without backgrounds

30$ USD for complete pictures

3$ USD = specific medium (completely digital, colored pencil, ink/watercolors, chalk)

5$ USD = extra characters 

5$ USD = shading/lighting 

10$ USD = Physical shipping of the drawing if it’s traditional

This is also a reminder to please assist and support me however you can via my Ko-Fi, Etsy shop, Redbubble shop and my Patreon.

Thank you, everyone.

#franki lew #artists on tumblr #artist support #disability advocacy #disability #disabled artist #ssi help #patreon #etsy #artist on kofi #ko fi support #buy me a kofi #redbubble artist #redbubble #support #mutual aid #unemployment #unemployed

[transgenderer]

Thinking about how the brain and the economy are both very complex dynamical systems which we don't have a good model of, just a bunch of toy models people are wildly overconfident in, and a bunch of crude and inconsistent levers we can pull to make it due what we want. An antidepressant for the economy, a stimulus bill for the mind...

[azspot]

The record on that score is unequivocal. His COVID-19 stimulus bailed out people, not banks. His domestic economic policy has been about curbing giant corporations and promoting income growth. His infrastructure bills invested in America in a way not seen since the Eisenhower administration. He has taken commerce back to an earlier era in which it was broadly understood that trade needed to serve domestic interests before those of international markets.

The Great Reordering

#biden #economics

[dudefrommywesterns]

i don't like doing this but:

our power will be shut off tomorrow if we don't make some kind of payment.

we owe $2k in missed payments. we think they'll take a portion of it in a payment adjustment.

my mom lost her car and her job.

my dad and i are employed but we don't make enough to pay the mortgage, buy our food, and pay that electric bill. we both have minimum wage jobs (we fell on some hard times).

on top of that, my mom is a very reckless addict. she took her half and my dad's have off the stimulus check and gambled it, so we don't have anything we can do.

I've spent months struggling to keep my family (4 people and animals) afloat and it's stressed me out. my job's been cutting hours too. i can't afford to move out so this is my only way to live.

we need this electricity to make food, charge my phone (which i use at work and to get transportation to work), etc.

anything helps.

p/ypal link

#i can't catch a break #and I'm doing everything i can as a 21 year old chronically and mentally ill person with a minimum wage job #typewriter dings

[rageprufrock]

hello, I hope you're doing well. I was wondering if you could answer a career-related question of mine. I'm a young woman (21) in an extremely male-dominated field. I want to go into project management, but I am not prepared to deal with the insane male egos/fragile masculinity I had to experience during my internships. it doesn't help that I've been a passive person my whole life. how do I overcome my passiveness? how do I even begin to learn leadership and project/people management? 1/

I'm going to be honest, you're catching me at a disadvantage because I'm allergic to project management. Like if I'm sharing an area code with that shit I'm itchy. I'm joking, a little, sort of, because the unfortunate truth is about 50% of my job on any given day at this point is project managements but I still hate it. The point is, I'm not your best point of contact for it, because while I can do it for my specific area of expertise, the practice by itself is not my ministry, if you get my drift. Project managers are lunatics who you will find snorting crushed up Excel spreadsheets in truck stop bathrooms, and for that I fear and respect them.

For the passivity, maybe have some thoughts that might be helpful.

So like, you're probably not going to like hearing this: but oh my God, you're--so young. Like I refer to someone on my team who is 30 this year as the resident fetus. You have nine years before you hit fetus status. So much of you're feeling is only going to be remedied with time and experience, and your fearfulness of speaking or standing out right now in a professional environment isn't a mark of failure in yourself, it's a natural part of your growth and progression.

It is absolutely normal and completely fine that when you were in an intern (or honestly, even early career!) situation, presumably surrounded by people who were more experienced than you and have significant seniority to you, you felt were feeling at sea with the egos and politics.

Here's a dirty little secret, especially re: internships:

Many interns get brought in on projects that are far, far, far beyond their actual scope of capability.

That is because we have no actual expectation that you will deliver any work or usable outputs on it, but we want interns to get excited about what we do, to feel like their work could be important, for them to get a taste of the what it will be like when you actually get your feet wet and have more professional seasoning.

For example, people who summer at law firms get a red carpet experience rolled out to them, and they get to sit in on really exciting high profile client meetings! These are not things that will happen for them again for a long, long, long fucking time once they become associates! Once they've got you in their claws, they no longer care about giving you enjoyable stimulus, now you gotta start billing.

In organizations I've worked at in the past, I was fully happy to welcome interns with like 4 minutes of "experience" into very sensitive high level meetings--with the understanding that (a) everybody there knew they were the intern (b) the objective was to show them what the work could be like and (c) that nobody would actually ask them to throw themselves into the demented fray of the actual work.

The goal isn't to scare you off. We know that the stuff you're seeing a lot of times as an intern is really terrifying, for a lot of reasons. If you're in a room of people with 10 or 20 years of experience on you, then...yeah, it's going to feel awkward. You're not even a full time employee! Of course it's going to be weird and nervewracking! If you didn't feel weird and nervewracked about it, I would ask you to bottle whatever it is you're taking and sell it to become a billionaire.

Beyond that, the rest of it will come with time--truly.

When I think back to the person I was at 21, at 22, I feel such a strange tenderness toward her. I feel so protective. She had no idea what she was doing, and she was doing her best to do her best every day. She failed a lot. She was a mess. The people around her knew it. She knew it. She wasn't the greatest at what she did, or a very good friend, but she was trying so desperately to keep her head above water and only sometimes succeeding.

So much of the vulnerability you're feeling will be remedied in tiny, unnoticed ways. With every day and week and hour, you'll gain some new insight or capability, and some afternoon or month far from today--but closer than you think--you're going to look back and realize you've built yourself an entire suit of professional armor, and have no idea where it came from. You feel passive and ill equipped right now--but that's only because you are ill equipped right now, you just tumbled out onto this strange new world.

It's going to take a while to get your sea legs--just try to be kind to yourself as you do it.

You're going to crush it. I just know it.

#professional advice #advice

[thickness-protection-program]

I'm still not over how my 2020 stimulus check instantly all went to bills

[collapsedsquid]

But, the argument seems to run, at least Romney would generate more opposition from Democrats when he committed similar and worse abuses. I believe this is true. But to carry any weight that would justify the repeal of the ACA, the overruling of Roe v. Wade, the gutting of environmental and civil rights enforcement, massive upper-class tax cuts, etc. etc. etc. it’s not enough that there be more opposition; it must be the case that this opposition be effectual. And it’s overwhelmingly clear that, in fact, this increased opposition would be extremely ineffectual.

The “Ect, ect, ect” bit there could have been a much longer list, but even at that length it seems implausible on the face of it. Recall, Obama’s whole strategy was based around abandoning all other priorities such as carbon tax, an effective stimulus bill, half his nominations, most of the financial sector reforms and so forth, all to concentrate on passing health care. And he only got about half of that – the version passed was something he’d specifically camapigned against as not being anything like radical enough. So given that, how are we to suppose that President Romney would be able to push through an agenda five times as radical, including the ultimate third-rail issue of abortion? You would have to believe that under a Democratic administration Congress is a sclerotic, obstructionist institution which prevents all possibility of effective government, but as soon as the Republicans get in it becomes a streamlined ideological machine. Which is in fact not far from what’s being argued here and it’s really quite frightening. Part of the case for persuading people to vote to keep the Democrats in government is that they’re so terrible at being in opposition. Specifically, their very weakness and incompetence in carrying out the business of politics is being used as an electoral asset. That’s not a cool rhetorical ju-jitsu move; it’s nightmarish. Similarly, the case has been advanced that the time for the liberal wing of the Democrats to express their opinions is at the primary stage, but there wasn’t a primary this time – the economy was so weak and the administration so unpopular that nobody wanted to risk weakening the candidate further. This is the problem with lesser-evilism – it’s very vulnerable to strategic behaviour. If all you care about is the gap between parties, you can increase it either by making your own party more attractive to vote for, or by making the other side look even worse (either by strategically weakening your ability to resist them, or by being somewhat adventurous in your claims). This is really just a specific case of Henry’s general point that in the long term, one is unlikely to change the behaviour of any self-aware entity by constantly rewarding it for going on in the same way.

Here enjoy this 2012 piece

#found it

[compneuropapers]

Interesting Papers for Week 6, 2024

Visual velocity perception dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease. Bernardinis, M., Atashzar, S. F., Jog, M. S., & Patel, R. V. (2023). Behavioural Brain Research, 452, 114490.

A mathematical formula of plasticity: Measuring susceptibility to change in mental health and data science. Branchi, I. (2023). Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 152, 105272.

Impaired salience network switching in psychopathy. Deming, P., Cook, C. J., Meyerand, M. E., Kiehl, K. A., Kosson, D. S., & Koenigs, M. (2023). Behavioural Brain Research, 452, 114570.

Pinging the brain to reveal the hidden attentional priority map using encephalography. Duncan, D. H., van Moorselaar, D., & Theeuwes, J. (2023). Nature Communications, 14, 4749.

Brain criticality predicts individual levels of inter-areal synchronization in human electrophysiological data. Fuscà, M., Siebenhühner, F., Wang, S. H., Myrov, V., Arnulfo, G., Nobili, L., … Palva, S. (2023). Nature Communications, 14, 4736.

A cell-type-specific error-correction signal in the posterior parietal cortex. Green, J., Bruno, C. A., Traunmüller, L., Ding, J., Hrvatin, S., Wilson, D. E., … Harvey, C. D. (2023). Nature, 620(7973), 366–373.

Functional modules for visual scene segmentation in macaque visual cortex. Hesse, J. K., & Tsao, D. Y. (2023). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(32), e2221122120.

Experimental validation of the free-energy principle with in vitro neural networks. Isomura, T., Kotani, K., Jimbo, Y., & Friston, K. J. (2023). Nature Communications, 14, 4547.

Crows flexibly apply statistical inferences based on previous experience. Johnston, M., Brecht, K. F., & Nieder, A. (2023). Current Biology, 33(15), 3238-3243.e3.

Stimulus edges induce orientation tuning in superior colliculus. Liang, Y., Lu, R., Borges, K., & Ji, N. (2023). Nature Communications, 14, 4756.

People can use the placement of objects to infer communicative goals. Lopez-Brau, M., & Jara-Ettinger, J. (2023). Cognition, 239, 105524.

Metacognitive awareness in the sound-induced flash illusion. Maynes, R., Faulkner, R., Callahan, G., Mims, C. E., Ranjan, S., Stalzer, J., & Odegaard, B. (2023). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 378(1886).

Metacognition in the audiovisual McGurk illusion: perceptual and causal confidence. Meijer, D., & Noppeney, U. (2023). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 378(1886).

Boosting Serotonin Increases Information Gathering by Reducing Subjective Cognitive Costs. Michely, J., Martin, I. M., Dolan, R. J., & Hauser, T. U. (2023). Journal of Neuroscience, 43(32), 5848–5855.

Causal inference during closed-loop navigation: parsing of self- and object-motion. Noel, J.-P., Bill, J., Ding, H., Vastola, J., DeAngelis, G. C., Angelaki, D. E., & Drugowitsch, J. (2023). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 378(1886).

Aging and temporal integration in the visual perception of object shape. Norman, J. F., Lewis, J. L., Bryant, E. N., & Conn, J. D. (2023). Scientific Reports, 13, 12748.

Non-shared coding of observed and executed actions prevails in macaque ventral premotor mirror neurons. Pomper, J. K., Shams, M., Wen, S., Bunjes, F., & Thier, P. (2023). eLife, 12, e77513.

Backbone spiking sequence as a basis for preplay, replay, and default states in human cortex. Vaz, A. P., Wittig, J. H., Inati, S. K., & Zaghloul, K. A. (2023). Nature Communications, 14, 4723.

Feasibility of dopamine as a vector-valued feedback signal in the basal ganglia. Wärnberg, E., & Kumar, A. (2023). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(32), e2221994120.

NMDA-driven dendritic modulation enables multitask representation learning in hierarchical sensory processing pathways. Wybo, W. A. M., Tsai, M. C., Tran, V. A. K., Illing, B., Jordan, J., Morrison, A., & Senn, W. (2023). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(32), e2300558120.

#neuroscience #science #research #brain science #scientific publications #cognitive science #neurobiology #cognition #psychophysics #neurons #computational neuroscience #neural computation #neural networks

[mariacallous]

A former Navy submarine technician was arrested after law enforcement says he drove an SUV into the FBI headquarters near Atlanta on Monday afternoon. It is still unclear why the suspect, Ervin Lee Bolling, attempted to force entry into the headquarters, but research conducted by the nonpartisan public-interest nonprofit Advance Democracy and shared exclusively with WIRED has found that accounts believed to be associated with Bolling shared numerous conspiracy theories on social media platforms, including X and Facebook.

Just after noon on Monday, Bolling rammed his burnt-orange SUV with South Carolina license plates into the final barrier at FBI Atlanta’s headquarters, wrote Matthew Upshaw, an FBI agent assigned to the Atlanta office, in a sworn affidavit on Tuesday. Upshaw added that after Bolling crashed the SUV, he left the car and tried to follow an FBI employee into the secure parking lot. When agents instructed Bolling to sit on a curb, he refused and tried again to enter the premises. The affidavit also stated that Bolling resisted arrest when agents subsequently tried to detain him.

Bolling was charged on Tuesday with destruction of government property, according to court records reviewed by WIRED.

Advance Democracy researchers identified an account on X with the handle @alohatiger11, a reference to the Clemson University mascot which Bolling has expressed support for on his public Facebook page. The handle is similar to usernames on other platforms like Telegram and Cash App, and also bears similarities to a Facebook page with Bolling’s name. The profile picture used in the X account also resembles a picture of the same man shown in Bolling’s public Facebook profile. The X account is currently set to private, but dozens of its old posts are still publicly viewable through the Internet Archive.

In December 2020, the X account responded to a post about a federal government stimulus bill that stated, “Wonder what it will take for people to wake up.” The X account believed to be associated with Bolling responded, “I’m awake. Just looking for a good militia to join.”

Around the same time, social media accounts seemingly associated with Bolling repeatedly boosted QAnon content and interacted with QAnon promoters, including by posting a link to a now-deleted QAnon-associated YouTube channel alongside the comment: “Release the Kraken”—in direct reference to Sidney Powell’s failed legal efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia.

On what’s believed to be Bolling’s Facebook account, there were various posts related to anti-vaccine memes as well.

The accounts also posted in support of former president Donald Trump. In December 2020, “I love you” was posted in response to a post on X from Trump that falsely claimed the election had been rigged by Democrats.

Courtney Bolling, who is identified as the suspect’s wife on Facebook, did not respond to requests for comment via phone or messages sent to her social media profiles. No legal counsel is listed on record for Bolling.

It is so far unclear how Bolling came to espouse these beliefs, but far-right groups and extremists have for decades used social media platforms as a way of spreading conspiracies and radicalizing new members. In recent years there have been numerous examples of far-right groups making online claims or threats that have been quickly followed by real-world violence.

[specialshoesclub]

Good I just realized I love wearing hoodies now that I'm a stoner because I don't shave my armpits so bras and tight shirts pull on the hair and I'm always tuning out that stimulus because I'm hyposensitive to pain due to my ADHD but when I'm high I can feel it and I realize that tuning it out was silently sucking my brains energy like how some appliances do that to your electrical bill if you leave them plugged in when they're off and hoodies are the only thing that's comfortable and I like how it looks since I think I could also wear loose, thin clothing but I don't like how I look in those because it's too revealing and I don't want men to lust after me due to the awkward situations it causes when I have to reject them. Men's clothing is designed to either make men's bodies look bigger and harder to evoke the instinct that they are a threat and protect them from the contempt of other men - the bigger and harder a man's body, the less clothing he need wear. Whereas women's clothing is designed to make women's bodies look either like better mates: softer and healthier and younger or like his mother - to protect us from male aggression. A man's mother is the only female he needs to protect without wanting to fuck due to our wild ape genes programming us to protect family. There is a genetic component to being queer but there's no one queer gene. Homosexuality is evolution's way of making the people who like casual sex the most not reproduce to slow population growth. But now we invented birth control and altered the course of our evolution even farther towards divorcing sexual behavior from reproduction. This is possible thanks to the industrial revolution giving us more time for sex. Being queer is the result of having and higher number of the genes that make you work together with other members of your own species. In biology this is called "sociality". It's is a species' size of group they're adapted to live together in. And it's behavior that is genetic. There are different genes that make people social like some of them make people more empathetic to other species and our surroundings. Some make you more self-sacrificing, that's what ADHD is. Some combination makes you autistic. And queer people have a combination that makes them less driven to reproduce but more driven to form larger social groups, less based on having less genes in common. Humans are a social species but ants and some bees and naked molerats, and a beetle and a shrimp are eusocial, meaning that they live in colonies where only some reproduce but their offspring are cared for communally by others who do not. Eusociality is more complex, and therefore more evolved than the amount of sociality that humans are at. This is why aliens should be written to be more like bees. This is what Steven Universe is about. It's a love letter from a more highly evolved society to a less highly evolved one. Religion, fandom, subculture and other forms of parasociality are just below eusociality because they still rely on leaders. It's eusocial behavior for those just a little less social. Living together in peace as one group allows us to have freewill because individually we have freewill but when large groups compete our behavior is predictable mathematically. Boom. I think I have to go to grad school and study psychology from an evolutionary perspective. I won't let it make me racist. I can prove that being racist is less highly evolved than loving all life. Maybe we can stop world leaders from using religion to sell wars if maybe we can prove it wrong by explaining more of the behaviors that make us the most human from an evolutionary perspective.

#🍃🍃🍃