This is why drag hates surprise parties. Privacy is privacy.

Yes they do, but half decent manufacturers are extremely rare.

They aborted his wife… He’s not pro-life anymore

Fourth Trimester: coming soon to a theatre near you

Yeah, if you have a disease that impairs you ability to process facts. When a disease is impairing your judgement so you can’t see the facts, believing in facts is impossible. You can’t see them. That’s like asking a blind from birth person to believe in the colour red. When you tell a severely depressed person to believe in facts, they just feel frustrated that they can’t see the facts. They feel like you’re lying to them. It’s counterproductive.

If you tell them to believe in nothing, well that’s easy, because nothing is precisely what they can see. It doesn’t feel like a contradiction to them. They are acknowledging the absurdity of what they must do and then doing it.

Depression makes it harder to believe the evidence that things can get better, because the disease impairs the part of your brain that processes good news. If you’re functional enough that you can believe good news, drag is proud of you.

Hypocrits. If you don’t want to be peeped on, then don’t spend all day screaming from the treetops about sex. You can’t involve everyone else in your sex life whenever you want to, and then turn around and assert boundaries.

- sincerely, a bird hater

Is that your advice to depressed people who think life is hopeless? Belief in things without having real evidence?

Yeah, that’s exactly what drag was trying to say. Believing in things without evidence forms an important PART of a treatment plan. It should also be supplemented by exercise, medication, social activities, and CBT if possible.

Is that your advice to depressed people who think life is hopeless? To use context better?

Yes, it was, but evidence doesn’t work on most people with severe depression. The disease impairs the part of your brain that processes good news. Drag understood the evidence, but drag’s dragon couldn’t, because it was sick. That’s what depression is.

Drag doesn’t understand what that has to do with the power of faith to fight depression.

If you want to make the effort, drag would prefer you use drag’s second person neopronoun, “drag”.

Belief without evidence is a powerful tool when used correctly.

When drag first met drag’s dragon several years ago, it suffered from crippling depression. Couldn’t work a job, couldn’t clean its house. Couldn’t even maintain most of its friendships because it had no motivation to do anything. All the evidence it had available said that things would keep on getting worse until it killed itself. It didn’t have any good reason to believe it could ever be healthy.

Drag told it, fuck the evidence. Every day we spend hours together. We read books, watch movies, play games, and discuss politics, philosophy, and the arts. Drag tries to push it a little further than it’s comfortable with each day. Drag tells it not to give in to despair, no matter how likely its fears seem.

Belief without evidence saved its life.

Yeah it does. Don’t vote for Nazis

Yeah, that’s right. You have the freedom to make bad choices and the government can’t stop you. But other people can still make fun of you. People calling you dumb because of your bad decisions isn’t a violation of your rights.

They only need to expand it a little bit. Add a rule against Nazi websites, and enforce it. That’s not restrictive very much at all. Drag has gone drag’s entire life without relying on Nazi sites

You can describe something without quoting it

Damn, the Boston Dynamics dog is Nazi now 😔

Maybe stop growing the stuff then.

Fiction is still important and getting it right is important. Look what happened when a bunch of gamers misunderstood the Matrix - they suddenly started bragging about taking estrogen pills as a euphemism for misogyny. It’s weird!

Alex Jones deserves a metal. A lead, to be precise.