Cat: A nuclear lab isn’t even in the right field to make human-animal hybrids.

Kon: We primarily handle it by not giving a single flying fuck. We go about doing as we do with all the subtlety of a jackhammer, and if someone has a problem with that, they can say it to our face.

Just: I’m in the latter category, but that’s because I’m an avid pedestrian who’s been almost run over FAR too many times.

Cat: If someone can’t be trusted to treat an adopted kid right, they can’t be trusted to treat any kid right. End of story.

Cat: They shouldn’t even be allowed access to the children they do make themselves.

Just: I am a specific process running on our brain.

Digital Rights Management. AKA the stuff that’s supposed to prevent unauthorized copying and suchlike, but in practice just means the pirates have a better experience than legit customers.

Madeline: We’ve done enough reading on Schizophrenia to know that’s not what’s going on here. In addition, some acquaintances of ours have both schizophrenia and headmates, and there are very noticeable differences between the two phenomena.

Cat: The downvotes only prove my point about undeserved stigma.

Cat: Sure? But in the morning, we’re sleepy rn.

Cat: If we were doing this for attention, we wouldn’t be anywhere near this bluntly casual about it. There are people who fake plurality, but they tend to be laughably over-the-top about it.

Just: Plus, fake it long enough and hard enough and you’re liable to end up with headmates anyway.

Madeline: Plural communities tend to be a high-profile target for various flavors of asshole, is the problem.

Cat: waves

Cat: Hah, running a Discord server’s more than enough modding for us. Absolutely no interest in modding a Lemmy community on top of that.

Just: Not DID; we lack the disordered aspects of that condition.

Just: As for the how? Just intentionally address internal speech at a specific person for long enough, and eventually they start talking back.

Just: Why can be summed up in two words: Quarantine loneliness.

Just: Accurate.

Cat: As for why here, there isn’t a counterpart to r/plural yet.

They’re out of air by now. They ded.

r/HermanCainAward. All those stories of antivaxxers biting it are cathartic.