Their far right, including the woman won a Nobel peace prize, are explicitly pro the U.S. attacking Venezuela to overthrow Maduro.

Yeah, I know and knew, hence not following that path. Went for teaching where I did 80 hour weeks for a little more than minimum wage instead. But we’re talking about “perfect” lives here - which for me, would be being a professor of Chinese history or math at a small liberal arts university in a small town where no one gave a shit I was trans.

I really would have liked to have become a history or math professor at a small university. Living close enough to campus to walk, getting to go to my colleagues lectures and learn new things, keeping a dozens of books checked out from the library at the same time…

I used to travel a lot in eastern Oklahoma, and left a lot of stickers at gas stations in the middle of bumble fuck nowhere towns. Probably less smiles and more anger honestly, but fuck them. Also did some on a trip to Missouri, where I’m pretty sure it was illegal for me to piss.

“A trans person peed here” stickers in gas station bathrooms/other public bathrooms.

The Giant’s Drink from Ender’s Game always seemed really compelling to me. The emergent gameplay reacted to your state of mind and serving as some sort of arcane test of your mind.

The Facebook post I got this from had an AI description. I have met some who genuinely had a religious world view based on god being a Shrek made out of flubber (the Trinity manifest in the fact that flubber is solid, liquid, and gas at the same time.)

They kinda be in charge of a lot of things lately. Hard to avoid talking about them.

“I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.”

It looks like a common issue is for blackmailers/thieves to find men on Grindr to extort, attack and/or rob - knowing the police will do nothing to investigate.

I’m certified in special education and spent two hours of my day today teaching an adult how to do subtraction. I’ve worked with kids with Down syndrome. I entirely believe that it would be possible for 95% of students, if given the appropriate support, to learn how to take a simple derivative and have some vague understanding of what they did. It just takes visuals, good use of real world examples and metaphor, and patience.

It’s not uncommon to have a sneeze reflex when aroused.

It matters a little more I think, because Coke’s aesthetic is a part of “Americana” - people collect vintage Coke advertising. (And it’s a broad enough hobby to have niches; I had a professor that was specifically focused on how African Americans have been depicted in Coke ads in his collecting)

If you put any stock into what capitalism promises - Coke ads are supposed to be the best of the best. Coke doesn’t need to advertise to inform you that Coke exists. Coke holiday ads are supposed to be a spectacle, to encourage you to associate things like Christmas itself with the soda. Their advertising has changed how Americans picture Santa even. There were good artists who got paid, and you got advertising that was more to be trying to make you feel positive feelings/some appreciation of the aesthetics.

It’s just another symptom of late stage capitalism - that the interaction between the business and the customer must be hostile. They can’t pretend that their advertising is meant to be for our benefit. Like yeah, obviously as cynic lemmings we know advertisers are always full of shit, but I think for most normies the Coke ads have always been at least mildly interesting part of seeing a movie during the Christmas season.

Anger subsided all the other emotions for me as far as climate change. There were people who knew. There’s something along the order of magnitude of 100 people who chose to obfuscate science and sacrifice us all for profit. I hate those people. I can’t even feel sad because I hate them so much.

But using them interchangeably is accurate to Old English.

Eth and thorn were interchangeable. (go to timestamp 8:06, for some reason lemmy keeps eating my attempt to link directly to that time.)

Uh, Micheal, there’s not “scientific evidence.” You aren’t a doctor. You sell poop from strangers. If this was scientific, you’d expect some sort of standardization, instead of letting random people sell each other poop.

ETS2 + Lee Hazlewood’s Cowboy in Sweden is just maximum aura.

wut

I was showing a student the Collatz conjecture last week. It would be a nice way to enter the millionaire class.