Philosophers be like "I really *hate* this spot" and it's the literal Gravemaxxing Railway
A fun game to play is Go Into The Forest In The Dead Of Winter, while it's snowing.
Good luck, have fun, don't die²
¹: like, Proper Forest, not manicured bullshit most people have near them
²: bring a compass. I'm not kidding.
We already have them for virtues, it's only fair
A Miserable Pile Of Words
A Miserable Pile Of Words
A Miserable Pile Of Words
"Fucking vampires," a drunk college student at the bar scoffs. "You're all 'Blah! Humans are livestock!' Fuck you, I don't see you doing any *farming."*
Mina makes a polite noise, shrugs, waits to catch the bartender's eye.
and of course the Phantom Air Support and the cockpit feed that plays her last sortie over and over on a loop...
all the hits.
Sure is easy for some people to discard the word "systemic" and its implications, when they see any opportunity to designate people it's Good Actually For Them To Bully.
Not to mention, even setting aside that the systemic illiteracy we're talking about is necessarily a *policy choice* — *imposed,*
imagine you hear 1000 people are celebrating hitler's birthday so you roll up with 60 of your buddies and beat the shit out of them, incredible stones on these lads
you can't actually go "fuck all these illiterate takes, we should make life harder for Those People again to fix it" without targeting, y'know, every single person whose poor or absent literacy is *not* solely because "failed by sabotaged school system"
various intersections of race and disability
We have made existing without learning to read far too frictionless, as a society, and we need to correct that
Caffeinated Otter
Digging my heels in that we need to treat functionally illiterate people worse instead of enabling them
Every video game should be forced by law to include a puzzle that requires reading comprehension in the first 30 minutes
