AbouBenAdhem

All cardinalities equal to or greater than that of the natural numbers.

Institutions aren’t the sum of their parts—their behavior is dependent on human participation, but is largely independent of the values or goals of the participating humans. Unless you’ve identified a specific weakness and have a plan to exploit it before going in, your participation will probably benefit it more than any opportunistic harms you can do to it while participating.

Nationalism—the idea that there ought to be (or ever was) a 1:1 correspondence between countries, cultures, and ancestry—is a 19th-century invention unsupported by history, anthropology, or genetics. Ancestry tests that categorize results by country are obfuscating real data to meet a demand for pop pseudoscience.

I’ve never been in a poly relationship, but from the ones I’ve seen I think the key is to distribute your affections between partners in proportion to the affection they’re willing to devote to you. In general this distribution won’t be equal, nor will it match what you’d want it to be in a perfect world.

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