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It seems weird to me when someone talks about the adversarial relationship between cars and people. I’d rather talk about people who drive cars vs. other people.

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A developed system, like a mental health system or a poverty aid system, has a hypothetical user it’s normed for, someone who has nothing wrong with them aside from the things the system is intended to help. As the system develops more rules for how to help them, it becomes inflexible and unable to help anyone whose problems are different from the hypothetical. This seems to be the standard pattern across a wide variety of systems, and I’m not sure how best to avoid

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/63636787/chapters/163109722

Fascinating idea in this Fate fic. There’s a post somewhere on Tumblr about fantasies for middle-aged parents, spy movies and such where they get to prove to their kids they’re cool and badass. In this fic, being a middle-aged parent is Saber’s fantasy, and being a cool badass is the unpleasant reality that threatens to rip her away from her happy life.