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caught a hint of welded rubber sneakers that are built with these 70 year old machines that used to make russian army boots, i'm like "yeah gimme those" and they're no longer being made. cruel joke, people talkin about running shoes lasting 6 months like this is okay.

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hey, i know i’ve not been around much, so i feel like, awkward about asking for mutual aid in light of that, but i’m in a bit of a bind

due to circumstances beyond my control, in July, i’ll be losing a source of monthly income amounting to about £200. this is a huge problem since my income from benefits is barely adequate as is and cost of living keeps rising.

while ideally i’d set the goal at £1200 to cover the loss for at least the rest of the year, that seems like too much to ask rn.

so i’m not setting a goal for now. but … i really need help affording bills. i’ve suspended my efforts to boost the GFM for new furniture in light of more pressing bills.

i’ve cut down my expenses as much as i can. i already can barely afford to eat and due to my limited mobility, food pantries aren’t really an option.

links to send £££:

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Taiwan Beauty Snake (Elaphe taeniura friesei), family Colubridae, found in Taiwan

photograph by Smoldering Serpents

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There's a weirdly poignant sort of... metaphysical tragedy in the fact that pain, which evolved as a helpful signal to alert us when bad things might be happening to us, grew into becoming... well, basically the Bad Thing. To the point where by universal consensus the very worst thing you can do to a being like us is torture them (i.e. trigger the warning signal as strongly as possible while perhaps deliberately avoiding causing "actual" harm). And there are tons of illnesses and injuries and disabilities that massively impact people's quality of life, ranging from annoying to depressing to driving people to suicide, basically purely because they're very physically painful, while the underlying bodily dysfunction that the pain is supposedly "warning" of is either relatively minor or literally non-existent.

The capacity to feel pain is a good and important thing, some people lack it and that's generally awful for them, only in a universe unrecognizably different from ours could we ever do without it. But isn't it awful to think how if only there was somebody up there to adjust the settings for us, they'd probably only have to tweak them the tiniest bit to keep 99.99% of the benefits while saving us from all the most extreme miseries forever?

The mechanism didn't have to be perfect for natural selection's purposes, it had to be good enough that the average individual in the average situation would be motivated to stay more or less out of trouble. Measured by the metrics nature was working towards, she could afford to be a little slapdash with the exact implementation, and she was. In doing so she opened the door to infinities of evil and suffering that wouldn't otherwise be conceivable. All this only had one chance to happen, and it happened that way. There's nobody to be mad at--I'm mad about it, though.

#posts that make u more sympathetic to transhumanists

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Ilan Pappé, Ten Myths About Israel (2017).

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As a kid, when your parents are poor, you're poor. If they don't have money, that means none of you have money. But if someone's parents are rich, that doesn't necessarily mean the kid is. Sometimes rich peoples' kids aren't rich kids, they're just some rich freak's exotic pets that can talk but aren't allowed to.

#friend of mine knows a guy with an awful dental situation his rich parents won't help him with #to Show Him The Value Of Money or some shit

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Bernard Willem Wierink - Knight and giant ape (1908)

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pranking the new kid in the firing squad by telling all the other guys not to pull the trigger during his first execution

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need me a dark indigo wash denim jacket, regular fit, with white highlight stitching. selvedge and/or raw please

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really coming to believe fighting games get their goodness from the complexity of their music

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parents got my height wrong and i may or may not be 5 foot nothing and rampaging in the realm of signifiers, brainfolds splayed open. Like dude i don't like the cute thing. already have a very child-like face under all the hardworking scar tissue. this is kind of trivial, you can call it a dozen layers of gnat-bite, but I was really not looking to fit into it this way.

listen pal if I open your fashion site and click "petite" and the next thing I see is modeled on a 5.10 woman I'm gonna get some girls and you are going to a bad place. people in 2100 are gonna cry for you. you will not reach hell, man.

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listen pal if I open your fashion site and click "petite" and the next thing I see is modeled on a 5.10 woman I'm gonna get some girls and you are going to a bad place. people in 2100 are gonna cry for you. you will not reach hell, man.

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Is the buffalo chicken dip super bowl sunday tweet so bad? It really just reads to me as a fantasy of domesticity and belonging with a normie coat of paint. The part that horrifies seems to be a lack of a certain jaded self-awareness combined with corniness.

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Mass Effect had this odd approach to alignment where you could be either a long-suffering peacemaker (Paragon) or a daring and cruel pragmatist (Renegade). A middle option existed but withheld all rewards. This alignment was not 'locked in', every choice allowed you to pick either side, forever.

More than occasionally a decision would have an obviously correct choice, falling into the blindspots of either idealists or assholes. But you were not actually supposed to use your judgement, here. As well as neutrality being unrewarding, the game mechanically punished you for mixing Paragon and Renegade choices.

It seemed to say "pick what you want to be and face the worst of it. If you're a cold badass until it comes time to gun down innocents, you're not much of one. If you're a peacemaker until you're going to be taken advantage of, you're not much of that, either". Then it tried, sometimes guilelessly, to make you flinch.

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#yes #but i'm saying this more out of my general arrogance and martial attitude #yk

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live and drink suckers! i rev up saad-amus' jetpcak and create a huge cloud of smoke. when the cloud dissipates im lying completely desiccated on the salt flats

#godlike poast #caves of qud