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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • Dang couple friends using that word ablate in the comments. I gotta look it up.

    Before I look it up, I imagined a scenario where it could happen. This is fresh out my butt brain(I’m playing with the phrase “pulling it out of my butt”, meaning making it up for my non-native english speaking friends) I could see this place(existence) playing a crazy trick that when something reaches a certain speed it creates a heat bubble kind of thing around the object, and the object is not affected by extreme heats, because the friction or air resistance around the object make a protective covering, kind of like how sharks have rough skin that grips the water around touching it to apply to the friction of the water around it. Although that’s what I remember from early school science classes.

    Ablate is a fun word, in this case; To remove by erosion, melting, evaporation, or vaporization.





  • If I search for how Ukrainian women feel about being in the military, I see a lot of positive views. Although I did see some about women facing discrimination in the military but I think that’s par for the course for humanity sadly. I did find some stuff about Ukrainian misinformation campaign to downplay their casualties that western media pushed too. I also found Russia being secretive about their losses as well. These are both par as well. Sorry I realized par might not be as universal as I think, it’s a golf score thing for anyone that may not know, it means business as usual or common.

    If I search for how America feels about their government, I see a lot of no kings protests stuff and negative views about it. I see some media stuff supporting the government and I see some regular people too but they all sound like REALLY into the president, hating brown people, or controlling women.

    The article linked in this post is definitely saying negative things, but it’s also doesn’t look like the journalist is attempting to set aside any bias. It’s full throttle Ukraine is a fascist regime and the people are committing their own genocide by running into a Russian meat grinder. Propaganda can do a lot but I don’t think I’ve seen it used effectively enough to convince a nation to fight so futilely just to reduce their own population.

    From what I understand, Israel might have encouraged either a little or entirely the growth of Hamas in order to justify their genocide of Palestinians. A little on the same line but I think different enough because it’s a government influencing another versus a government influencing its own people.

    So how come I can’t find as much stuff from the Ukrainian people about their government being nazis?





  • I just watched season 2 episode 2 of Star Trek TNG and this seems relevant and also I want to tell people about it cause of how cool I thought it was.

    DATA: I have a question, sir. PICARD: Yes, Data. What is it? DATA: What is death? PICARD: Oh, is that all? Well, Data, you’re asking probably the most difticult of all questions. Some see it as a changing into an indestructible form, forever unchanging. They believe that the purpose of the entire universe is to then maintain that form in an Earth-like garden which will give delight and pleasure through all eternity. On the other hand, there are those who hold to the idea of our blinking into nothingness, with all our experiences, hopes and dreams merely a delusion. DATA: Which do you believe, sir? PICARD: Considering the marvellous complexity of our universe, its clockwork perfection, its balances of this against that, matter energy, gravitation, time, dimension, I believe that our existence must be more than either of these philosophies. That what we are goes beyond Euclidian and other practical measuring systems and that our existence is part of a reality beyond what we understand now as reality.





  • I think I see your point, awareness alone might be just as you asked, but for some she also gave the courage to act on that awareness, to commit themselves to take steps towards progress and away from practices that harm an entire planet while benefiting very few, by supporting public policies focusing on such and raising more awareness. I’ve certainly benefited from having a personal vehicle and modern industry but those that profit immensely from them should be held responsible with proper regulation and responsibility to cleaning up messes and compensating the lives and environments ruined as a result. Too many weak and corrupt individuals have again and again taken the attractive “deal with the devil” to look the other way in order to secure something they desire. We are all capable of corruption and we are all capable of integrity. I have hope for the future because of people inspiring me like, civil rights leaders; MLK and Bernie Sanders, abolitionists; Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, and finally who I see as everyday people like; Greta Thunberg and Daryl Davis.


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    3 years ago

    That’s assuming a lot just on appearances. The women on the right may value their culture but support policies that strengthen the community or help lifting families from poverty. While the women on the left could be rich tourists that support lack of government oversight in industry and providing tax havens for the rich.