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Deadbeat daughter

The north Korean famine of the 90s was caused by the united states btw

The first factor is the fall of the USSR, partly caused by the US. North Korea was then not allowed to join the world bank, because the US rejected them. Then the CIA would come to the country and personally sabotage agricultural efforts.

And this is only one example, you'll find that most communist famines out there are the direct fault of anti-communist interference.

-Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United states.

Can you link the source of that Carter quote? I want to save that.

"fruit has sugar" warning post reminds me of my coworker who told me to make sure I don't get "addicted to fruit". yeah i'm also addicted to a nice walk on the beach

me after developing a debilitating fruit addiction

The honestly surprising thing here imo is that even for *very* rich people apparently unbridled capitalism that makes them as rich as possible apparently doesn't buy them the same satisfaction as it can in places with less inequality.

You'd think (and every second temporarily embarrassed millionaire will argue) that if you can command a private limo, public transport doesn't matter. But apparently the systems that result in good public transport also result in amazing holidays for people so rich they wouldn't even consider using it.

If everyone can afford a nice coffee in the morning, there's a cute little cafe every 100 feet to serve it to them; if there's only 100 people in town that can afford that habit they're all going to have to hop into their swanky limos and haul their groggy asses to wherever the exclusive Coffee Club is located to get their fix.

If there's no public transit or bike infrastructure, your swanky limo is stuck in traffic behind 120 beat up Honda Civics.

If there's workers rights and public healthcare the barista there wants to have a nice little chat with every customer, because that's the human default way of greeting people in the morning. If there's not they straight up don't have the spoons and you get the dead-eyed Gen-X Millenial Gen-Z stare while you order.

No amount of individual expenditure will buy you what living in a healthy society gives.

the thing is i actually am pro adaptations being like weird and anachronistic and based on like the feelings and ideas that the source material evoke rather than being a faithful 1:1 historically accurate rendition. that's not my problem my problem is that emerald fennell is doing it and she's doing it badly. with white heathcliff.

One of the reasons the democratic party will continue to steadfastly support ICE regardless of public opinion is that its shareholders are terrified of the hundreds of millions of climate migrants of the future and agree with MAGA that the US must become an impenetrable fortress

it is a truth universally acknowledged that any apple tv scifi show will ultimately hit upon a moral dilemma featured in the star trek: voyager episode "tuvix"

so as very basic background: in this episode, due to a transporter accident, the main cast members tuvok and neelix get essentially fused into a single individual who ultimately uses the name tuvix. initially it seems clear that reversing this process is the best course of action, but by the time the doctor has figured out how to do that, it's been weeks! tuvix is making friends, he's integrating with the crew, he's developing a sense of self! and when undoing the fusion is raised again he understandably protests that he doesn't want to die. (ultimately, in a fairly horrifying ending, tuvix begs for anyone on the bridge to intervene on his behalf, nobody does, and janeway has him taken by security to reverse the process.)

in severance I talked about this with respect to the idea of reintegration, and mark s near the end of season 2 feeling that reintegration would mean he functionally ceases to exist.

in pluribus we have a sort of similar scenario, in which if the hive stays as it is, the original zosia (and most everyone else's original personalities/identities) is gone. but if the reversal occurs, the relationships formed by the hive and its individual members, the things they've learned, etc, are gone instead.

more generally, both these shows deal with a scenario where the ideal would be that the inciting incident had never happened. but now that it has, it can't be fixed by a simple reversal without serious collateral damage. (e.g. in severance, creating the innies for a life of endless drudgery and torment should never have happened. but now that they exist, they are demanding their right to live.) and of course these can all be discussed as modified trolley problems in a way too.

who gets to live in the body/bodies in question? if you combine multiple identities into one consciousness, are you functionally killing them to create something new? does it matter which situation is the status quo and which requires action to achieve? or who has lived in the body longer? what about if the people who are alive and alert right now are begging for their lives?

i am not a psychiatrist but i do find it really weird how autism checklists are so often focused on "outward" signs of autism rather than what is going on internally. i don't know how to explain it but "do you make eye contact with other people" feels like a much less relevant question than "how does it feel when you have to make eye contact with other people?"

while i'm here, the other one that always pisses me off is "do you interpret idioms literally, for example 'bull in a china shop'?"

well, no, obviously. i know what "bull in a china shop" means because that is a popular phrase with a clearly defined meaning. and if i hadn't heard it before, then i would still not interpret it literally, because it has the cadence of an idiom and i would probably be able to work out from context what it meant. what is the point of this question

third and final complaint: "are you good at noticing subtext?"

i feel like the problem with this question is best illustrated by a conversation i had with a friend a while back, where i said something like, "i feel very safe with you because you don't do subtle hints and you are always very straight-up with me about what you are thinking and feeling."

and he laid a hand on my shoulder and was like, look dude i'm gonna be straight up here. i am subtle with you constantly and you simply do not notice <3

@luckyybones hope you don't mind me screenshotting but you are actually so correct

Your internal experience does not matter, you are an unreliable narrator by default, or else you wouldn't be here. We're here to talk about how inconvenient and weird you are to other people.

Tree Swallows by Linda H. Dulak - Audubon Photography Awards

barn swallows depicted in the “spring fresco”, akrotiri, thera, greece. c. 16th century BC

When youre a kid youre like wtf adults are making themselves sick with poisons and when youre an adult youre like i need more poisons ASAP

HOW 2 COOK

flicking back through my procreate library what the fuck was this

Things to look for in this:

— Andrew Rannells reveals which tweet sent him into a rage (x)