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Homeopathy isn't really folk medicine, but a system of alternative medicine conceived by the 18th century German physician Samuel Hahnemann. It's based on the idea that "likes cures like", e.g. drinking coffee can cause you trouble falling asleep. Therefore, coffee should be used against insomnia. Now, most people probably wonder: doesn't this approach just make everything worse? But homeopathic medicines are extremely heavily diluted substances. Imagine one drop of coffee mixed in the Atlantic Ocean. Of course, since you can repetitively dilute a dilution, you don't actually need that much water. Take 1/100 from a solution and dilute it, take from 1/100 from this dilution and dilute it, etc. And again, most people probably wonder: how can a substance which is so extremely diluted have any effect at all? Well, Hahnemann believed that the way the substances were diluted, with violent shaking, would activate the vital energy of the substance - the more you dilute a substance the more powerful it gets. Obviously, homeopathic principles are very different from conventional medicine (and even common sense). Because of the dilutions, criticism of homeopathy is never that it is harmful by itself, but that it doesn't work. It is "just" the placebo effect - though this effect can be pretty strong, especially for mental conditions. But some people may waste precious time trying out homeopathy for serious illnesses. E.g. Steve Jobs should've been immediately operated for his cancer. Instead, he delayed surgery for 9 months trying such approaches, which likely worsened his prognosis. Undiluted, yes. But if you do not believe in the principles of homeopathy, all he ingested were sugar pills. It seems to be standard treatment in homeopathy for "repressed emotions" (such a stupid trope that aromanticism is about this).

Happy midsummer!! 🌞 (there are so many dates for midsummer. Some countries celebrate it at the actual summer solstice, the 21st, but I know it as the night to the 24th) And... midsummer in Elden Ring:

Voidpunk reminds me of the void type in the C programming language, so it has quite a robotic flair to me. I don't know if that association was intended.

There's nobody around who posts images with sassy captions about my problems for the whole world to see, without consent. And I don't miss it. Ok, I now hear you saying: "But wait, isn't this just the bad apples?" Yes, yes. But the fact that this got 65.5k 😠 upvotes still shows how widely accepted such behavior is for romantic partners.

Great idea for drawing. Aro Artemis going on a mushroom 🍄 hunt.

In my housing co-op, "rent sharing" has been banned with some vague exceptions like for "life partnerships" 💞. I believe this weird construct isn't really legally binding if you'd go to court. But it still works in deterring people. I voted against this resolution, because I'm for aro rights, obviously. 😅 But a shocking two thirds or so of the members voted for banning rent sharing. Their main argument was, "ooh, the rent is already sooo cheap in comparison to for-profit landlords". Yeah, but with rent sharing it would be cheaper, and you can't save enough money right now as cost of living has exploded.

PS: my attempt at renaissance hats:

I sometimes wonder if it was a good idea to put that much money into an Android system. On the Microsoft Surface, you can use e.g. the serious apps like Adobe Fresco. Ok, sorry, btw. where did the image go? You hopefully didn't delete it just because of my comment? Anyway, nice to find other Krita users here, I love this app. Don't be discouraged! It gets better with practice.

In my opinion, if an idea is still relatively common it's worth arguing about, no matter how wrong it is. There's the implicit assumption that language encodes power relations and isn't just a neutral tool for communication. Such an argument can also be constructed regarding gender, e.g.: "you should always disclose your trans status on dating sites, since as a trans woman you may not fit other people's understanding of woman." To which most users here would probably answer: "all the worse for those bad people who reject gender self-identification!" On the other hand, the "standard picture" (implicit in your post) is that we have ideas which refer to the real world and words that represent the ideas. Those two aspects of language are chronically conflated nowadays. And so it's often not clear if we talk about words, ideas, or the real world. People get confused or feel manipulated, and productive discussions become very difficult.

Looks great!! What hardware are you all using? iPads ?? I'm using a Samsung S8 Ultra. @TwinkieMcdinkie Do you have layers in your app, so that you can hide / unhide your guides?

The micro-label for this would be bellussexual. Disclaimer: I'm really not much into those labels, so I'm not that experienced in those things. I just looked it up for you. Ace also means ace-spec, therefore it's not necessary to be totally uninterested in sex to be ace in this sense (for example, like greyasexuals).

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I guess, I'll never understand this line of reasoning. But you still have an opinion what the right answer should be, don't you?

That's a new development, though. Like on the page you linked to, this requirement was inserted a year ago. See version from 29 April 2022.

QPRs aren't romantic in nature, that's all. It's neutral regarding sex. Or maybe, phrased more carefully: QPRs were originally conceived to set arospec folks' closer relationships apart from romantic relationships. Disclaimer: I personally don't really understand QPRs since from the outside they look way too romantic for me than I'm comfortable with. Yes, though the rest of the world understands "platonic" very differently, i.e. it must be nonsexual.

Why does Artemis hunt? 😔 I want an Artemis who is just a peaceful forester, then she would be perfect. 😄 Nor does laughter-loving Aphrodite ever tame in love Artemis, the huntress with shafts of gold; for she loves archery and the slaying of wild beasts in the mountains, ... from: Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite

Oh, that would be great. There's never enough aro art!

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍🌈 Saw so many flags when I came back from work, wow. 😸

🚨PSA: Wikipedia says:: ➡️ LOTS of examples here aren't really guilty pleasures and better belong in the "How are You a 'Bad' Aromantic Spectrum Person?" thread OR in the "How are You a 'Bad' Asexual Spectrum Person?" thread... if that thread existed... yes, why does it not exist?? 🤔

Does it also have this one: Italiot Greek Strange world!

Oh no, I don't own a Switch.🧝‍♂️ I just finished Horizon Forbidden West, and now I'm playing ... nothing! 😶‍🌫️ Maybe I buy Star Wars Jedi: Survivor after the bug fixes. Diablo IV comes out in five days. Normally I would have preordered it, but I fear it will be one of those extreme time sinks. 🤔

Yes, obviously. But the sentence immediately before was: So for brevity's sake, I didn't spell it out explicitly again, that I did not mean queer romance or romance involving minorities here. Good that I never advocated or excused "insulting romance" in my post. I just said that romance was not even remotely as repressed as sexuality. "If ... a man wishes to satisfy his desire, and a woman hers, they stimulate each other’s desire; their inclinations meet, but their object is not human nature but sex, and each of them dishonours the human nature of the other. They make of humanity an instrument for the satisfaction of their lusts and inclinations, and dishonour it by placing it on a level with animal nature" - Immanuel Kant So this quote is about plain vanilla straight sex, no mention of minorities. Try to find anything like this about plain vanilla straight romance.