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Council member Christy Martinez-Garcia, who represents the north side of Lubbock where the art walk takes place, looked puzzled when the discussion started. She later said she was blindsided by it.

“I don’t think anybody was prepared for this,” Martinez-Garcia told The Texas Tribune. “More people attend First Friday than vote.”

Martinez-Garcia described the trail as a hugely successful event that attracts about 20,000 people monthly. She said it’s in the city’s best interest to be inclusive.

“We need to make it open for anybody and everybody, I’m straight but I don’t hate,” Martinez-Garcia told her fellow council members. “I appreciate your input, but it’s so important that we don’t pick who we are representing.”

Based Christy Martinez-Garcia

I donated for the first time this election cycle, to Harris and to Colin Allred, because fuck Ted Cruz

Are silverfish dead to you

I'm sure this has nothing to do with Mr. Musk's personality putting off potentially millions of buyers worldwide, or with chaotic and unpredictable management that has everyone questioning Tesla's long term future

What do creative people do in Germany to support themselves?

Fuck Tierra del Fuego, I guess.

If you were of the opposite gender that people see you as you would be stressed too

You still misunderstand, a significant number of people who are trans never experience gender dysphoria. Experiencing distress is the brunt of gender dysphoria, without distress, there is no diagnosis, you're just trans.

Almost universally in the DSM, diagnoses are qualified by "clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning."

Talk therapy also helps cancer patients and people with biological chronic illness

Helps them with what? Anxiety? Depression? There are a lot of different people out there, and just how only a subset of people who experience a trauma develop PTSD, only a subset of people with a chronic illness will experience clinically significant emotional distress and meet criteria for a certain psych diagnosis because of it.

Some of what you say is true, but what's also true is that for a number of conditions, evidence based talk-therapy can ease or cure psychiatric symptoms. Anxiety disorders, trauma disorders, OCD, and borderline personality disorder, for example, are all treatable with talk therapy, which implies learned behavior may underpin each of them. Depression is more tricky, as there are people who have fallen into learned patterns of behavior, but also people who have serious "brain chemistry" issues

Also I think you misunderstand what gender dysphoria is as far as the DSM is concerned...gender dysphoria is a feeling of stress related to gender expression as it relates to one's society and support system, it's not defining being trans as "mentally ill." Someone who's trans does not have gender dysphoria unless:

The condition is associated with clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.

"Sea foam"

The Greek word aphros means “foam,” and Hesiod relates in his Theogony that Aphrodite was born from the white foam produced by the severed genitals of Uranus (Heaven), after his son Cronus threw them into the sea.

That's not Uranus, that's Ouranus

What an awful candidate Andrew Yang was

Honestly it was before a month ago, probably 6-8 weeks ago I saw the first Halloween stuff there. Then it'll all be completely gone by the end of September and they'll spend the entire month of October celebrating Christmas