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Ah, the actual ‘last possible mate in the world’ strategy.

We must procreate for thr human species!

lol

Roughly translated:

“I have never had a healthy, stable, non abusive romantic relationship, and all my coworkers either overtly or covertly dislike me.”

Well, if you try not to think about it too hard, you may fall right about wherever Spike does:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=LO0MRVjcY4E

The System Is Down

I’m from Seattle, a place where many Japanese Americans immigrated to before the war.

… During the war, they were rounded up, shipped to concentration camps on the other side of the state (in a desert), and basically all of their homes and business property/possessions were seized and sold off during the war, and while they were released aome years after the war ended, they were seriously discriminated against for decades afterward.

I obviously can’t speak for all Japanese people, but yeah, Japanese Americans I’ve known find ‘Jap’ to be a slur. There’s a good amount of newspapers and even US propaganda films shown to either the military and/or the public, and other media, that use the term ‘Jap’ alongside rascist cariacatures…

Dr Seuss, more widely known as an author/illustrator of childrens books, actually drew a good amount of these racist cariacatures.

The even worse slur… is something I’m not even comfortable typing out… basically, similarly shorten Nippon (which is a name of ‘Japan’ in Japanese, along with Nihon) to only the first syllable.

That one is an even more severe slur and was commonly used during the war. It’s basically as severe, rude and disrespectful as the n-word with a hard r to refer to Black people.

If you want to use a 3 letter abbreviation for Japan, I’d suggest JPN.

Last place I was at had birds nesting in the walls.

Told the maintenance guy, brought him in so he could hear them, and his response was ‘yep, not much we can do’.

He had the same response when I pointed out the black mold, easily visible all over the bathroom, and that the AC/heating unit didn’t even have a filter, nor a cover, and regularly spit out chunks of … presumably wall insulation.

Took em 6 months to finally get rid of the bed bugs too.

It’s wild how much ads ruin your load times.

And burn through your data cap if you’re poor and/or on a mobile device.

I want Klein Bottle Earth.

I come from a similar religious background, though my parents very obviously hate each other, never divorced, both constantly trying to get a middle school aged me to take their sides in arguments, traingulating everything, always, all the time, later escalating to trying to force various mental health condition diagnoses on each other and myself via quack doctors and institutions with dubious at best qualifications and track records.

I stopped talking to my family years ago, but if my ability to search through public records is accurate, it looka like my brother, his schizophrenic former FLDS cult member girlfriend and my mom rent and live in a two bed house in a suburb, and my dad lives in a trailerhome 60 miles away out in the sticks.

They want slaves and concubines back.

IE an actual traditional family, as very well defined in the Old Testament / Tanakh.

When you get to the New Testament, you end up with the uberconservative push for making divorce illegal citing Jesus himself.

Matthew 19:3-9

3 And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one 's wife for any cause?”

4 He answered, "Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female,

5 and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?

6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate."

7 They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?”

8 He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.

9 And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”

Notice how the presumption here is that only a man can divorce his wife, not the other way around.

The rule of Moses as understood by the Pharisee is that a man can serve a woman divorce papers, and that’s that.

What they can all agree on is women are second class citizens and should be subordinate to men.

Paul is quite famous for not permitting women to speak:

1 Corinthians 14:34

the women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says.

Strider’s gonna have a rough childhood if any kids around him his age ever play Half Life 2.

… Do… you mean cut the ‘bitter’ taste?

Because… somewhat ironically, if you’ve indeed made that spelling error, I’ve also found that a tiny bit of butter (actual butter, not margarine), a teaspoon, stirred until totally melted into the coffee, can give a much more rich and varied taste to what would otherwise be too bitter and… ‘sharp’, I guess.

Probably wouldn’t work so well with instant coffee… but I’ve always just gone with a darker roast of some kind, either grounds or beans that I grind with a cheap grinder, and then just use an old fashioned french press.

I guess I just prefer significantly more bitter and less sweet coffee than about 1/3rd of the people who’ve read this…

Oh well, works for me.

Fall damage from tripping down the stairs?

Starved to death?

Succumbed to poison inflicted by an enemy upstairs he already vanquished?

Back when I regularly drank coffee, I’d use a bit of this kind of stuff. A splash.

Still way, waaaaay too sweet.

Switched to a half gallon of wholefat milk in the fridge, used a splash of that instead.

Much better.

…

Most Americans I’ve known seem to think they like coffee, when what they actually like is a milkshake with notes, hints, suggestions of coffee.

One former roommate of mine thought it was completely normal for ‘a cup’ of coffee to be 1/3 coffee and 2/3 this kind of pictured coffee.

I remember actually vomiting one time I mistook her cup of coffee for mine.

Can someone put the stonks guy’s face on anakin, and a bear on mace windu for when the housing market/stock market crashes?

I was promised infinite growth, yet line not go up! This is unfair, outrageous!

Take a seat, young hodler.

Yep, I’ve certainly met and will continue to meet many priveleged, sanctimonious, manipulative fools.

And when their peaceful protest gets dispersed and peppered with gunfire by armed thugs with guns, I’ll just stand aside and watch, just like they’d want me to.

You and I will never meet.

EDIT: I gave you my personal experiences because you made a personal claim about me, that I am violent, that I want to kill someone.

Not because its relevant to the larger idea about guns.

You made it personal, you became judgemental, and gaslit met.

Yeah, you and I will never meet, I’ve suffered knowing far too many manipulative, sanctimonious gaslighters in my life.

Hope all your friends enjoy you victim-blaming them as much as I have.

I don’t even own a gun, but uh ok?

I’ve worked at non profits to house the homeless, for years. Could have made a lot more money in a corporate job, but I eschewed that in favor of doing actual good in the world.

I’ve been homeless, been robbed and beaten by people with guns, dodged a drive by shooting by 20 or 30 feet, been held against my will, without charges, by armed agents of the state for simply existing while honeless, been held captive by a madman and beaten for a week straight.

I have firearms training, because I grew up around guns, but I’ve never owned a gun.

I have martial arts training, and I’ve only ever used it to defend myself and others; never once have I instigated a random assault, but I’ve broken up a few.

My country is the most armed country on the planet, and it’s currently undergoing a fascist coup.

But please, do go on about the revolution your parents had, and the comfy, detached from reality moral structure its allowed you develop.

Tell the Ukranians defending their country how guns are evil and they should just roll over and accept assimilation.

Tell the Palestinians to stop resisting and just allow themselves, their people, to be wiped off the face of the earth.

Meanwhile, leftist demonstrations in my country have been terrorized by openly armed right wing militias and terrorists for years, been black bagged and arrested by armed secret police.

But I’m sure you’re quite fine telling victims of armed violence that they’re actually the guilty ones for pointing out the basic underlying fact that all politics and laws are only as meaningful as the monopoly on violence that enforces them, and that guns are the most common and direct tool in that trade.

Oh sure, violence is awful, traumatizing and cruel.

But if you think that you must be a child to mistake violence with reality, than I’d say that you are actually the one with the priveleged, childlike view of the world.

I agree that guns should not be fetishized, that that is a dangerous sign of immaturity, but guns are a useful and prevalent tool.

You can’t just wish them out of existence.

Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.

• Karl Marx

When they kick at your front door

How you gonna come?

With your hands on your head

Or on the trigger of your gun?

• Paul Simonom

I do apologize for any strife of traumas but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming.

• Luigi Mangione

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

• John F. Kennedy

Politcal power grows from the barrel of a gun.

• Mao Tzetung

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