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IM OBSESSED WITH YOU, BABY KING CRAB!!

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Yamaguchi Kayo - "Cormorants,"

woodblock print, 1963

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stoned and autistic at a party trying to make conversation: I find the comparative lifespan of organisms so interesting. Spiders are comparatively long lived animals. Female black widows can live up to 3 years but their male counterparts rarely live four months. Some tarantulas live upwards of 20 years. The longest lived spider was around 43 years old when she was cruelly assassinated by a parasitic wasp. Domestic rats have a lifespan comparable to female black widows. To put things into perspective, there are spiders that remember a pre-pandemic world but it is likely every rat on earth was born post-COVID. There could be a spider out there born when Reagan was in office.

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the cat's mill (kaķīša dzirnavas), 1993

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my ten hour prog rock playlist has upwards of six songs on it

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 Applied Robotics 

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Smart-ass

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Thank you for speaking up on white oppression! It's especially getting bad since now having pride in white heritages instantly gets your labeled as a "white supremacist" these days 🙄

I'm approaching a white oppression from a historical perspective as a history fan and as an European. Because it is a historical fact, not an opinion. No matter how hard someone might insist that there has never been any oppression or genocide against white people, it does not erase historical facts.

In Europe, white people have been treating each other like shit because of religious and national differences. Ask Estonians, Irish, Karelians, Finnish... Our native religions have been destroyed because of Christianity and Catholicism by other white people (my German friend was sad that no records of native German belief systems have survived). White people were kidnapped and trafficked to Middle-East's slave markets as slaves (you can read about Turkish abductions in Iceland here - just one example of this white people slavery). I could argue and say that witch hunts were also a form of oppression and definitely a genuine man hunt, organized by white people against white people.

We Finns have been able to have a higher education in Finnish only for a little while; the first Finnish speaking university was opened to Turku in 1920(!), and the first Finnish speaking school was opened to Jyväskylä in the late 1850's. Finnish writing system was invented in the 16th century and Finnish got an official language status in Finland in 1892. Although from 1883, civil servants had to use Finnish and deal documents in Finnish. The Finnish language (Finnic-Ugric) has existed for over 3000 years but it has been officially recognized for about 140 years.

And it's not only an European thing but a global thing that people from the same area, looking exactly like each other, are oppressing each other. Artist Simon Fujiwara explained that her mother, who is Japanese, was not allowed to speak her native Okinawan dialect at a school in Japan, but she was punished every time harshly if she did that - and that wasn't that many decades ago. My Vietnamese friend's mother loathes Japanese because of what they did in Vietnam. Zainichi Koreans lived in slums and had a hard time getting any income because Japanese companies didn't want to hire Koreans and no one wanted to rent a house to Korean people.

This world is very, very versatile and an interesting place. The more you study history, globally and your local history/your own area/nationality/religion history, the more you realize that we're all in the same shit, in a way or another. No one gets out alive without hurt and bruises. The best way to fight that is to be kind and look after one another. While we might not be able to do big global things in our individual lives, we can always choose to be kind, compassionate and supportive in our daily interactions. Online ones included.

Being kind is free. Being curious is educational and wise. Supporting one another through tough times is the first step for a better world (and future) for us all.

And, we learn the best from looking back to history and trying not to repeat the same mistakes.

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The Switch 1 as a system sucks so much. It really nailed every note of suck. Laggy UI, slow load times, joycon drift. Default controllers so badly designed that they’re destined to give you carpal tunnel. Pro controllers that cost you an arm and a leg if you live where I do (120 USD). Possessed by an evil spirit that only comes out at night. Forking over money for a game and then paying for online subscription to be able to play with friends. I’m beyond thrilled to be able to play MonHun Gen U on it. But I hate that I’m playing it on the Switch. I’ve been waiting for the store to load for four thousand hours so I can fiddle with one setting.

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indeed.com search history "pet for mysteriously wealthy older woman" "unethical science test subject full time" "vampire thrall with room and board"

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Do you think the knight who gave me a quick smirk before closing his visor likes me?

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