the following reviews now have pictures:
http://dghjdfsghkrdghdgja.appspot.com/categories/shows/2010/10/10.html (hey rosetta, ottawa)
http://dghjdfsghkrdghdgja.appspot.com/categories/shows/2011/01/21.html (braids, ottawa)
http://dghjdfsghkrdghdgja.appspot.com/categories/shows/2011/05/10.html (nils frahm, ottawa)
http://dghjdfsghkrdghdgja.appspot.com/categories/shows/2011/07/10.html (a perfect circle / electronic picnic, ottawa)
http://dghjdfsghkrdghdgja.appspot.com/categories/shows/2011/10/05.html (valleys/suuns/ps i love you, ottawa)
http://dghjdfsghkrdghdgja.appspot.com/categories/shows/2011/11/05.html (sheezer, ottawa)
there will be more after 2012, as i kind of made it a habit to take shots before i went out, and still do.
Saturday, March 18, 2017
i think that,
on this file, we're better off just picking up the slack on funding and
organizing. this is an accounting issue, it's offloading, he's not going
to push back if we decide we want to pay for it. and, these programs
should be run locally, anyways. i'd like to see the provinces and states
get together and find the right way to step in and fill the void.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/03/17/donald-trumps-great-lakes_n_15430522.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/03/17/donald-trumps-great-lakes_n_15430522.html
the reality is that canada skipped the baby boomer generation. i know that sounds insane, but it's actually what happened.
the silent generation hung on in canada all through the 70s, 80s, 90s and into the mid 00s. chretien & martin were born in '34 and '38, respectively, and ran the country from 1993-2006.
stephen harper is on the x/boomer cusp (born: 1959), but few canadians would argue that he's a baby boomer. he's a dead-ringer for alex p. keaton from family ties, and there's probably a lot of truth in the observation.
canada did not ever have a prime minister born in the 40s and, excluding the '59er harper, did not have one born in the 50s, either.
the reality is that the world is currently run by baby boomers and people looking towards a generational turnover in the last election were jumping the gun. i told you that as it was happening - that the boomers would determine the election, not the millenials. the boomers picked these candidates in their respective primaries, and were going to dominate the vote in the end.
the canadian government needs a reality check: it's twenty, thirty, forty years younger than the governments in the rest of the world. and, these other governments are not going to look forward to the future when they see the canadian delegation. no. they're going to snicker that the canadians are up past their bed time. the canadians may not realize their own lack of experience, but the rest of the world will. and, we will not be taken seriously by these aging old men - aging old white men - that cannot relate to us or understand what we're prattling on about.
we need more old white men in government.
the silent generation hung on in canada all through the 70s, 80s, 90s and into the mid 00s. chretien & martin were born in '34 and '38, respectively, and ran the country from 1993-2006.
stephen harper is on the x/boomer cusp (born: 1959), but few canadians would argue that he's a baby boomer. he's a dead-ringer for alex p. keaton from family ties, and there's probably a lot of truth in the observation.
canada did not ever have a prime minister born in the 40s and, excluding the '59er harper, did not have one born in the 50s, either.
the reality is that the world is currently run by baby boomers and people looking towards a generational turnover in the last election were jumping the gun. i told you that as it was happening - that the boomers would determine the election, not the millenials. the boomers picked these candidates in their respective primaries, and were going to dominate the vote in the end.
the canadian government needs a reality check: it's twenty, thirty, forty years younger than the governments in the rest of the world. and, these other governments are not going to look forward to the future when they see the canadian delegation. no. they're going to snicker that the canadians are up past their bed time. the canadians may not realize their own lack of experience, but the rest of the world will. and, we will not be taken seriously by these aging old men - aging old white men - that cannot relate to us or understand what we're prattling on about.
we need more old white men in government.
actually, i think that what trump is broadcasting is clear: he sees trudeau as a child who doesn't belong at the big kids table.
so, he's brushed him off on his kids, instead.
if the canadian government is serious in building a relationship with donald trump, they're going to have to send him somebody his own age (or older - he'll respect his elders) that has a history in business. donald trump and his cronies are simply never going to take a 40-something liberal seriously.
the obvious candidate is paul martin.
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/03/16/daughter-diplomacy-trudeaus-unorthodox-play-for-donald-trumps-approval.html
so, he's brushed him off on his kids, instead.
if the canadian government is serious in building a relationship with donald trump, they're going to have to send him somebody his own age (or older - he'll respect his elders) that has a history in business. donald trump and his cronies are simply never going to take a 40-something liberal seriously.
the obvious candidate is paul martin.
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/03/16/daughter-diplomacy-trudeaus-unorthodox-play-for-donald-trumps-approval.html
actually, i'm going to be integrating pictures of show dates in, too, so there's going to be one more update for 2011, soon.
i'm sorting through old pictures. here's another shot from july, 2007, fwiw. i previously claimed i was "male identifying" in 2007, but i guess that wasn't even really true then, was it?
...although, i'm actually not even on hormones, here.
i'm 26.
but i'm coming to a kind of disturbing conclusion: i spent my 20s looking like a 12 year old boy, and i've spent my 30s looking like a 12 year old girl.
maybe i'll finally be able to spend my 40s looking like a woman :\.
puberty has to happen eventually, right?
i really want my testicles out asap.
i'm sorting through old pictures. here's another shot from july, 2007, fwiw. i previously claimed i was "male identifying" in 2007, but i guess that wasn't even really true then, was it?
...although, i'm actually not even on hormones, here.
i'm 26.
but i'm coming to a kind of disturbing conclusion: i spent my 20s looking like a 12 year old boy, and i've spent my 30s looking like a 12 year old girl.
maybe i'll finally be able to spend my 40s looking like a woman :\.
puberty has to happen eventually, right?
i really want my testicles out asap.
i finally got up until the end of 2011 comprehensively finished before i slept, yesterday.
http://dghjdfsghkrdghdgja.appspot.com/categories/shows/index.html
i can't remember when i last updated this here, but i've uploaded a lot of videos here:
...and i've updated this list quite a bit, too:
i'm hoping i can get most of 2012 done today. it should be a lit faster, after that.
http://dghjdfsghkrdghdgja.appspot.com/categories/shows/index.html
i can't remember when i last updated this here, but i've uploaded a lot of videos here:
...and i've updated this list quite a bit, too:
i'm hoping i can get most of 2012 done today. it should be a lit faster, after that.
i suspect she's being constrained by the publication in not being definitive at the end, but this is nonetheless a decent summary of the right way to think about things.
that is, the differences that exist are better explained by plasticity through gender roles than by biological determination. and, what this suggests is that decisions we make regarding how we choose to live are paramount in how our brains develop.
this is strange language, but i feel i need to use it to get the point across: if a boy chooses to socialize with girls and rejects the influence of boys and men around him, his brain will feminize as a consequence of that choice.
the true challenge that we face as a society is in accepting these decisions.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/girl-brain-boy-brain/
that is, the differences that exist are better explained by plasticity through gender roles than by biological determination. and, what this suggests is that decisions we make regarding how we choose to live are paramount in how our brains develop.
this is strange language, but i feel i need to use it to get the point across: if a boy chooses to socialize with girls and rejects the influence of boys and men around him, his brain will feminize as a consequence of that choice.
the true challenge that we face as a society is in accepting these decisions.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/girl-brain-boy-brain/
brain sex can sell lots of copies of cosmo, and create lots of clickbait on buzzfeed, as it upholds the conservative ideal of gender binaries. but, if you ask an actual scientist, that person will tell you that it's not actually really a thing.
our brains are not planned out by god, or by dna, or by aliens, or by any other mystical force. they are constantly changing organs. this ability of our brains to morph and change - rather than develop due to a set plan - is called plasticity.
what it means is that we are literally the products of our experiences. tabula rasa, baby! our brains can and will and must and do change depending on the environment that they exist within.
when you begin to understand the brain as this constantly shifting ball of plasma, rather than as this fixed identity given to you by god, the idea of a "brain sex" stops even being coherent. how can a brain have a sex if it's constantly shifting and adapting to the environment? what does that even mean?
the abstract suggests that there are sex differences, and we exist on a spectrum, but this is a poor use of language. what they should be talking about is how experiences cluster with gender roles, making it more clear that the overlaps are a consequence of experience, rather than of biology.
transgendered people do not have a genetic abnormality or a psychological disorder. we are merely a product of human variation. a truly liberal society would uphold our rights to make choices, not try and diagnose us with an illness and claim we don't have a choice and don't understand what we're doing.
but, we're coming up to the end of this fruitless search. the science on this is winding down. and, we're going to have to confront the reality that it hasn't found anything, and instead deal with the actual issue in front of us: that we are free to make these decisions and need legal structures to uphold our rights of free expression.
http://www.pnas.org/content/112/50/15468.abstract
our brains are not planned out by god, or by dna, or by aliens, or by any other mystical force. they are constantly changing organs. this ability of our brains to morph and change - rather than develop due to a set plan - is called plasticity.
what it means is that we are literally the products of our experiences. tabula rasa, baby! our brains can and will and must and do change depending on the environment that they exist within.
when you begin to understand the brain as this constantly shifting ball of plasma, rather than as this fixed identity given to you by god, the idea of a "brain sex" stops even being coherent. how can a brain have a sex if it's constantly shifting and adapting to the environment? what does that even mean?
the abstract suggests that there are sex differences, and we exist on a spectrum, but this is a poor use of language. what they should be talking about is how experiences cluster with gender roles, making it more clear that the overlaps are a consequence of experience, rather than of biology.
transgendered people do not have a genetic abnormality or a psychological disorder. we are merely a product of human variation. a truly liberal society would uphold our rights to make choices, not try and diagnose us with an illness and claim we don't have a choice and don't understand what we're doing.
but, we're coming up to the end of this fruitless search. the science on this is winding down. and, we're going to have to confront the reality that it hasn't found anything, and instead deal with the actual issue in front of us: that we are free to make these decisions and need legal structures to uphold our rights of free expression.
http://www.pnas.org/content/112/50/15468.abstract
i don't know why people can't deal with the premise that humans are free to make a choice as to which gender they'd prefer to live as.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170117135943.htm
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170117135943.htm
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