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I'm so happy we're passed the point where if you said this was true, they'd argue it wasn't.

In the past you used to have to be in second tier girl club fandom to be allowed to see the GIRLSMUT and GIRLPORN that the girls on the one hand would pretend doesn't exist, or only exists in a "true, wonderful, romantic" fashion, superior to the horrid soullless MAALE GAAZE objectifying smut that men write. And if you testified that yes, female authors exist and are horny as fuck, you'd be told to shut up that's not true.

The internet has made it so inescapably true and so easily verifiable that to deny it is simply impossible and I am here for it. No more ambiguities on "pure, chaste, no horny only loving and intimate" glorious crystal women.

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It's largely because of the usual suspects. First the present the European purge of the Indigenous Native Americans as a bloody slaughter universally.

Then you ask questions about the genocide, and you learn the vast majority of the deaths came from plague. Not violent war, or extermination.

Then they tell you bullshit about the smallpox infected blankets; reproducing infecting blankets with smallpox turns out to be inconclusive and the guy wholesale made that "fact" up with a conspiracy theory that the North American Army did the infecting and spreading. And they did it because they were literally a communist agitator spreading bullshit and trying to cajole a local tribe into his professorial nonsense. The vast majority of those deaths came from Spanish and Mexicans colonizing what would become US states and spreading diseases.

And you learn not only did they not have proper germ theory at that time, but the smallpox blanket thing WOULDN'T HAVE WORKED. So the vast majority of the deaths of Native Americans didn't come from bloody slaughter by European colonialists, they came from disease that the indigenous people just weren't familiar with and lifestyles that exacerbated and enabled massive casualties. To call it a genocide implies intention. When over 80% of the indigenous Americans were dead before the fucking Mayflower even arrived on US shores.

The people that are so hellbent on teaching the bad parts of US history, "that the status quo doesn't want you to know about," put such emphasis on just how white supremacist and prejudiced and hateful of the natives the whites were, how murderous and evil they uniformly were.

They let you make logical leaps to assume the unfortunate fading population was akin to Nazi Germany tossing the oppressed minority into ovens by the hundreds of thousands. They didn't tell us it was actually the SPANISH occupied states that spread the majority of the disease, and instead attribute it to non-Hispanic white supremacism. Somehow, the Spanish manage to both be behind the plague, and free of the blame for it in the ledgers of how this "gritty, real" alt-history is taught.

From the 60s up until the late 90s, they fetishized the image of the more wise and learned Native American that wasn't spoiled by capitalism and western European culture, with an almost mystical connection to the planet that whites just lacked because we're soulless I guess.

When talking about Europeans conquering the mainland US, they frame it in terms of this singular people (like if East Asians went to Europe and the Europeans all just idenfieid as Europeans, with no distinctions or discrimination or bigotry between one another) that were uniformly the victims of a massively organized efforts to cleanse them with extreme prejudice. They don't mention all the Native Americans that left their failing tribes in the faces of surviving plague and joined western society, adding to the gene pool, and instead attribute all of that to spoil brides of war and rape.

And then you learn they had EMPIRES and conquered their neighbor tribes and their own cultures maintained polygamy and gender discrimination towards women and that Native American tribes ALSO took black slaves.

But somehow European colonialism is noteworthy for its specifically terrible cruelty, because specifically white supremacism is a heinous and horrid blight on the earth, and capitalism. Somehow, blood&soil exists as an argument making ALL of North America the collective property of an indigenous bloodline or culture, in a way that it's invalid in Europe among Europeans, that they'll say no white American legitimately counts as REAL American. Not even if they're aboriginal/native mixed. To where miraculously, ethnosupremacism among any other group in history is somehow irrelevant.

They didn't fail to tell us the natives of North and South America had empires, they simply removed them from the conversation deliberately. Because to their morals, it only mattered that it was white people doing the colonizing, and that was somehow the most wrong thing on planet earth.

God I am sick and tired of people uwu-washing indigenous American history.

Did the Inca have exquisite building techniques, efficient messengers, and quality waterworks? Yes. They were also an expansionist empire built on violent conquest and the splitting up and relocating of conquered peoples.

Did the Aztecs have a gorgeous capital city built at the heart of a lake, with floating farms and towering temples honoring their fascinating pantheon? Yes. Guess what tho. They were also a violent expansionist empire who practiced ritual sacrifice of prisoners of war.

The Iroquois confederacy had one of the most unique representative political systems I’ve ever heard of, with women taking a forefront in most local government matters too. But their internal peace allowed them to redirect violence to their neighbors, as so often happens with tribal confederations, and they eventually violently conquered the Ohio valley and destroyed or displaced dozens of other indigenous groups.

Even my beloved Cahokia has the graves of sacrifice victims amidst its ruins.

A society should not need to be (and fundamentally cannot be) squeaky clean unproblematically stannable in order to be worth studying and remembering, and pretending that they were is no less disinformative than the European accounts painting them as godless savages.

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It's expensive, but worth it.

I watched a video criticizing vertical farming. It winds up being incredibly expensive, because the sun is cheap and land depending on where, is plentiful.

But that's just it. Vertical farming practices make the most of minerals, water and in the right environment, can be completely controlled for mold, fungus and bacteria. You just need more specialized knowledge and modern equipment to start it up.

Once you have it you can grow, rain or shine, omnienvironmentally. Including under the earth and Antarctica. You could have 15.6 million acres of farm land in the span of 250 acres across, 250 long and 250 acres straight up. 300 of those across the planet would mean we double all existing farmland that currently exists on earth. Without detrimentally affecting the eco-systems, clearcutting forests or destroying grasslands, or swamps.

It becomes impossible to starve or worry about food just because your country is desolate. All you need are geothermal plants and vertical farms underground, and even if your country lacks sun for a quarter to half the year, you could grow enough food for tens of millions of people.

I'd say, "Even socialist countries couldn't fuck that up," but it requires trust and professionals and integrity and proper management of resources, so I highly doubt North Korea would benefit from this technology, even if they had it.

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Worse than a conspiracy theory, it's an echo chamber theater performance piece. Not unlike when you have those absurd televangelist conferences where they all agree Satan is behind gay rights and they all need to believe and repeat that and insist it's the truth, starting from there.

This is a bad faith interpretation of history and may as well be on the same level of Russian state propaganda/agriprops, except it's not something actively working for republicans, so it won't be considered that by the left.

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Stellar Blade Censorship

Once again, something risque gets censored and people rush in to say "omg who cares" or "stop being horny".

I'm not big on the game. But the devs had a vision and it was censored. Sony is notorious for stupid censorship of games produced outside of the EU/America and this is another case of it.

Remember what they did with DMC5? Among other games.

We are at a point where corporations are trying to pressure out anything NSFW, like Gumroad evicting anything too risque at the behest of Mastercard and Stripe.

And this is the exact same sentiment. I do not care if it's only adding a bit of fabric to her outfits or the gore is toned down. It is still censorship and against the devs' artistic vision.

The fact that people are willing to let this slide because a personal bias or prudishness is absolutely shameful. If you don't like the art, that doesn't mean you should approve of the art getting censored for no damn reason.

It seems so easy to make people defend censorship. All you have to do it cover a bit of skin and they'll shrug, yet they'll be surprised when their NSFW artist friend gets nuked off of a site.

Stop defending censorship of art for the sake of corporate approval/sensibilities.

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I feel validated in that I've always called her, "Mee-yet."

Just checking.... We all pronounce Miette like My-TAY in our heads, right?

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It's the most fundamental of processes—the evaporation of water from the surfaces of oceans and lakes, the burning off of fog in the morning sun, and the drying of briny ponds that leaves solid salt behind. Evaporation is all around us, and humans have been observing it and making use of it for as long as we have existed. And yet, it turns out, we've been missing a major part of the picture all along. In a series of painstakingly precise experiments, a team of researchers at MIT has demonstrated that heat isn't alone in causing water to evaporate. Light, striking the water's surface where air and water meet, can break water molecules away and float them into the air, causing evaporation in the absence of any source of heat. The astonishing new discovery could have a wide range of significant implications. It could help explain mysterious measurements over the years of how sunlight affects clouds, and therefore affect calculations of the effects of climate change on cloud cover and precipitation. It could also lead to new ways of designing industrial processes such as solar-powered desalination or drying of materials.

Continue Reading.

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The question is what would he start over from scratch with.

It's not enough to throw out the existing punch with a poop in it. What will replace it? What will the principles be? Because we have an entire section of far-lefters that dedicate themselves to ingratiating themselves into a system to make sure ones they don't like can't function, and they do it specifically so they can argue for the replacement of it with something entirely new, that they control.

Journalists demonstrate that they are unbiased by suspending the editor who has said that they are biased

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Other Voice Actors: hey guys here's my obligatory social media presence (:

Other Voice Actors: thanks for supporting my project (:

Other Voice Actors: I'm going to pretend like the fandom doesn't exist for my own sanity (:

Cody Christian, the voice of Cloud Strife:

Homie showed up to the ship wars with a bat and is just taking out kneecaps.

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They don't even care about the Israeli Palestinian conflict and the problems it makes. Those types of Capital P Progressives are like roombas seeing dirt. Just another thing they believe is in their wheelhouse of expertise, because it's a human conflict, and didn't you know, they're the masters of resolution and equality and justice.

They have a very specific way they want to see all social disorder and problems, and that's to run it through that bogus Class Struggle Theory and Critical Lenses Machine, with criteria, "Whites are bad," and, "Jews are white," and conclude, "Jews are colonizing noble brown people land."

They ultimately do not care beyond this criteria and the infatuation and psychological hubris that is their chosen form to "resolve" problems. They're delusional, prideful and don't care at all about the real conflict or history or dispute, only what equality and justice looks like as defined by socialist culture determinations on what things mean based on their ideology.

They're like one of those ignorant trend moms that try to cure their child's autism with bleach, and no matter how many times the results are bad, they keep trying it and doing it, because to imagine their beliefs are wrong would mean their ideology is wrong. And that's more horrifying to them than a bunch of kids poisoned by bleach.

People who go "Palestine can be free without the violence" are so annoying and can stfu. Throughout history, there is not one [1] time where people have been freed without dying. There's always sacrifices to be made and while we're on the topic, why can't Israel do the same. Why can't they just stop bombing for no reason expect for the fun of killing people? Why can't they stop hurting people? Why can't they be human? Do you think they'll just stop bc we ask them to? It's been screamed by so many people and they're not stopping, what makes you think they'll stop bc you fucking asked

Rights have to be taken; if they were given, half the people who died wouldn't be dead today

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It happens this year folks…

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While I agree that the internal combustion engine will have a place into the future, headway HAS been made in using non-Rare-Earths for the motor.

Yes I get it's satire and yes it has a point. I'm just saying electric car batteries that are neither pollutive or require uncommon and toxic materials and are hard or impossible to recycle, are to soon arrive.

280.27 lb. ft. of torque. This is the direction we should be going, not heavy EV batteries that require a massive amount of mining and toxic chemicals to produce.

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I hate this selfish bitch.

Mom has dollar signs in her eyes again. That fat, coercive bitch is back on wanting me to try and whoop up an anxiety problem I don't actually have to effectively defraud medicare so she can spend an extra $900 a month on frivolities.

I wish I had somewhere to go that wasn't just some governmental armpit, where I was expected to languish and just barely fucking float.

It is so painful to be in a position where you need too much help to expect anyone to give, and you aren't enough of a useless piece of shit for those convenient government programs to just beat you a path to sucking off society's teats.

I hate being perpetually exploited and given no recourse but a cold void and a dumpster.

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"Oh, hey, I knew that [person] way back when."

It's always surreal and amusing to me when I say I knew [someone] from way-back-in-the-day. And they look at me with this pitiful skepticism, like, how could you possibly have ever met this SPECIFIC person on the internet? Like I'm a limo chaser just saying I knew that person for clout.

You'd be surprised how small the internet really is, if you just so happen to walk in the same circles, and they like you enough to name themselves and reveal themselves. If not to you personally, than to the circle.

What's even more hilarious is when you improbably know someone with notoriety, tell them you know someone else from a completely different circle of notoriety, and the famous person goes "Oh, nuh-uh. You don't know them, you're bullshitting. This is, 'My uncle works at Nintendo' level shit."

But lo and behold yeah I did at one point know them. And they're like, ".. wow."

Like just, roleplay chatroom shit. Do you have any idea how many of today's indie creator people used to do that? Just, chill in roleplay environments as their potential flagship franchise characters, before they were anything more than an OC in somebody's spiral notebook?

And so many of them used to just hang out with me in my own little walled gardens- folks I didn't even know but, fuck why not let them hang out.

Do you know how surreal it is to just be chilling in an imaginary bar and then learn the character you're hangin' by becomes somebody's fandom blorbo within a 20 year time span?

Or get to interact and speak with bit characters or background characters they make and use to interact with you, so they can, "feel out" their characters? Hang out in the tavern as the magic cat from somebody's series pops in and just snuggles up in your lap for pets?

It's an affirming experience to have people that go on to do great things seek you out for company before they've hit it big and actually established themselves. Something I consider to be quite the privilege and compliment.