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Hot philosophical take: when you ask whether the ship with every board replaced is the ship of Theseus, you’re really asking whether the ship has the color of belonging to Theseus.

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I suppose I shouldn’t judge so negatively when fiction depicts evil demons. I don’t think fiction is what makes people believe in demons. But it’s hard to maintain a distance from it when there are people now who get beaten or killed to “drive the demons out.” I have an easier time dealing with, say, werewolves, since it’s been hundreds of years since the last time a supposed werewolf got executed.

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I’m on the last few pages of the Ukraine bundle. I don’t have much to say about this game, but it’s good and it’s buried WAY down in there, so I’ll just drop a trailer:

Watch on YouTube

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Inspired by a post about trans people “pressuring” people who aren’t trans to get surgeries:

There are valid reasons not to look at trans issues from a medical perspective, but sometimes the medical perspective knocks things back into context. Surgery for a deviated septum is something that can help you breathe if you have a deviated septum. It would be pretty silly to say that surgery to fix breathing pressures people to get nose jobs.