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  • nah, just trying to educate an ignorant person on something with which they know nothing about. what are your qualifications in talking about the deaf community? because please, I’d love to know your background. we know you’re not deaf, so is a family member deaf? a friend? how involved are you in the community? are you an asl interpreter? how involved are you in fighting active legislation that has chilling effects on the deaf populous? what do you do?

    my previous point still stands, you were fighting about something which you knew nothing. yeah, I’m still mad as hell at the deaf community. but I don’t need vengeance. you clearly have limited emotional understanding if you can’t comprehend that anger is a valid emotion and separate from vengeance, an action. jeez, you’re just so ignorant.



  • You changed the argument. That’s why it’s a bad argument. It’s not your fault though, most people argue that way. I should not comment, I think. Clearly, it’s not an enjoyable experience for me anymore. This was very enlightening. Thank you for this opportunity. Peace and blessings unto you and your family.




  • Uncle worked down at city dump. He loved it. He was kind of a garbologist in a way. He was fascinated by all the things folks threw away. Retired there too. Got a job right out of high school and worked until he was 62 and retired. Dude has so many “trash” sculptures. That is to say, sculptures made out of trash. I think you’d be surprised the jobs folks enjoy doing.



  • Well, I’m sorry I was rash. I assumed you were deaf, albeit for contemptuous reasons. That was a look, I’m not fond of in myself. I’m sorry my words hurt you, but I feel there is truth to them. When a large group of people represent a community, and actively hurt people, you can’t be surprised when those hurt people are contemptuous toward that community. Same reason, people hate insert religion.

    edit: told my sister about this and she said I shouldn’t have apologised lmao deaf people am I right?


  • You’re right, it was hilarious as for four years a deaf family harassed us, because my mom wouldn’t give up her child to them because they were deaf and we were hearing. Fucking hell, you know nothing of my lived experience and chose to mock me. I have done so much on behalf on the deaf community, even though they spat in the face of my sister. I have fought the deaf community when they excluded her because she wasn’t deaf enough. She’s profoundly deaf, mind you. can’t hear a lick without her hearing aids, and even then. But she spoke. Because my mother sacrificed her whole life to make sure that she had every advantage while being deaf. She not only spoke, she spoke well. She only has a slight accent. She spoke so well, it had a chilling effect on all her deaf relationships. She could live in a hearing world, much easier than they could. So, in a way, you are right. It is ridiculous the things they did to her. It was awful when every year, she asked to go to deaf camp and came home early every time. I’m so sick of people like you acting like you know more about lived experiences than those who have lived them.

    I don’t even know why this infuriated me. Maybe it’s because I’m very close with my sister and I’ve seen her struggles. Maybe it’s because I’ve seen the public school system take away the only interpreter they had to another kid because he couldn’t speak, so he was more deaf. Maybe it’s because I watched as the deaf community rallied around that kid in testimony against my sister in the lawsuit against the district. Maybe it’s because then I had to watch my Mother sacrifice her life as an educator to take us home and educate us. And holy fuck, praise be to her because I wouldn’t do it.

    You know nothing about me, and yet you chose to make gross assumptions about me. As if that gives you some superior moral high ground. You are a shameful person to do so.





  • Agreed. The AAV delivery isn’t even new. It’s just treating the signal from inner hair cells IHC to the brain, improving it. Most deafness comes from either damage/mutations to the IHC or Cochlea. In the case of a very close family member, they were born without IHC. Most or all, were gone. This is due to genetics, or viruses, commonly. In the case of my family member, it was the latter.

    Those IHC are also what cause age related hearing loss and acoustic hearing loss. They get damaged over time, and with loud noises. Effectively, curing that is the cure for deafness. The problem with that is, the ability for regeneration diminishes with age. We can’t figure out a way to grow them, consistently, safely, and lasting. Because stem cell therapy is wild.



  • Why would we concern ourselves with the disposal of RepU, rather than storing it? Uranium prices are not terrible and reprocessing techniques are getting better all the time. The Pu+Np can be used in MOX fuel. Once fast breeders are going and efficient enough, reprocessing will be super useful. And since the fissile material decays quicker, we can extract the fissile. Leave the U. Use the Pu + Np for the MOX and store the U for breeders, whenever they are cost efficient enough come online. Why would we dispose of perfectly good materials? Especially, if we could somehow use it in a burner.




  • “No John, you’re wrong. Dying is worse. Because, well, it is. Isn’t it?”

    This reminded me of my favourite scene in Luther. I think dying is worse too. Once he’s dead, it’s over. We get so caught up in wanting to see justice, but is there no greater justice than death? The desire to see him suffer is coming from a place of anger, hate, and malice. Not justice. It’s gaudy. It also gives him the opportunity to live. Why would you give him that gift? Death is final.

    I used to hear about Charlie Kirk all the time, from local conservatives, but not so much anymore. I don’t think there’s any way to look at it, other than death being the ultimate punishment. He didn’t get to be a big martyr icon, he was in the news and left behind. Dying presents a golden opportunity that should not be taken for granted, no more speaking.

    Finally, I just want to say this, one who wishes to see suffering and pain, is one who wishes to create martyrdom. And I don’t want that.