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#Best Things To Do In Europe
hella1975 · 8 months
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all hate to tiktok for taking 'having a space to more openly and actively talk about different cultures' to mean 'cultures are NOT to be shared and we must be vigilantly defensive of our cultures for fear of appropriation, a word that can be applied to any multicultural interaction'. like of course cultural appropriation is a very real problem but ive seen with the access to global multicultural conversation that tiktok provides it's made people TERRIFIED to even interact with cultures other than their own for fear of 'doing it wrong'. like at some point you have to acknowledge that in the real world of the great outdoors, the majority of people are eager to SHARE their cultures. yes there are ignorant questions and biases but also... how do you think those things get unlearnt? i dont understand how deciding that multiculturalism is an elephant in the room instead of a normal thing that should just be talked about and lived with is supposed to benefit anyone? and kids on tiktok are CONVINCED that it's a time bomb of a conversation to have and therefore must be avoided at all costs but like. people generally LOVE their home and their culture and are PROUD of it and want to share it. how have we made it so that showing genuine interest and a desire to understand something so integral to a person's identity is now feared and borderline demonised?
#thinking about this a lot lately. thinking about how fun it was comparing cultural differences in america#thinking of how when i was homesick one thing i found a great comfort in was talking about my home#and how it differed and i really loved and appreciated it when people would ask me about england#in a way that they genuinely just wanted to learn about it and not to take the piss#thinking about how the kitchen at work has chefs from all over europe. we have an irish chef and a spanish chef and an italian chef#and one of the kps is from eastern europe (i havent actually been able to find out where yet) etc and the way they banter with each other#like usually chefs are Problematic bc their humour is VERY abrasive and usually offensive#but this is one instance where it's actually to their benefit bc they're so unafraid to ADDRESS THE FACT THEY HAVE DIFFERENT CULTURES#i feel like the tiktok gen are so petrified of even acknowledging other cultures let alone discussing them#that it's actually sending the conversation backwards. like how does hoarding your culture and pretending it's not there benefit anyone#LET ALONE YOU AND THE CULTURE IN QUESTION. idk it just baffles me a bit that something that started as people on tiktok#genuinely spreading information and talking about the BAD side of this where people DO culturally appropriate or invade spaces that arent#theirs has now become 'for fear of speaking bad about it we will not speak about it at all'. and they'll crucify you if you do. like what#even at uni my best mate is indian and she's too scared to join the sikh society on her own so i regularly go to the events with her#and im typically one of the handful (or the only) white non-sikh there and i get SO welcomed each time#like there's such a genuine excitement to share the culture with someone who is effectively a blank slate#and like yeah ill ask 'dumb' questions or i'll have different experiences (tried a samosa for the first time at one of these events#and the moment that info got out i had like five STRANGERS trying to give me different samosas to try and it was genuinely such#a laugh bc yes they were TEASING me bc 'how have you never had one' but they were also really eager to share MORE as a result)#ugh idk what im saying. i just think it's a shame to watch this happen in real time on the internet#when if people would just go outside and actually TALK to people from other cultures they'd realise 9 times out of 10 the interactions#are actually really really nice for BOTH parties. and actually refusing to talk about this stuff is long-term pretty fucking detrimental#and it also goes the other way!!! like imagine if i - citizen of colonisation motherland herself - didn't interact with other cultures#and didnt ask questions or hear their opinions on whatever shared history we have from THEIR POINT OF VIEW#imagine the kind of shit id be internalising bc i only hung out with other white british people. it wouldnt matter if i was doing it#to be woke or 'respect their culture'. it would still be fucking ignorant. like half my interactions with other cultures#see me as the butt of the joke bc of this like aforementioned irish chef at work VOCALLY slates the english all the time#but it's done in an environment where we're FRIENDS and it's poking fun at each other while still addressing a very serious history. like??#idk if any of this is worded in a way that makes sense but yeah. i have thoughts#cant believe i got inspired to make an actually serious post bc of the CHEFS AT WORK. embarrassing. no one let them see this
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yamameta-inc · 3 days
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covid has really made me realize that most people don't have very good risk assessment or sense of scope, especially when it comes to statistics. part of it is definitely a knee-jerk aggressive response to the word even being said, but a lot of the arguments i hear seem predicated on some kind of belief that Low Percentage equals safe, because that's how people talk about things generally.
putting aside for one moment that the percentages are most likely a lot higher than they think, and that the risk of long-term complications after catching the virus is cumulative--i think people have sort of lost sight of how unprecedented covid actually is, because it's so easy to go back to normal life. covid is the first pandemic in the age of super fast and easy plane travel. covid is the first pandemic in the age of humanity's numbers being over 8 billion.
no one is claiming that your risk of catching covid after going out unmasked just once is high (with the exception of peak season during the holidays). in periods where transmission is low, that risk could in fact be negligible. but you aren't rolling that dice once. you're rolling it several times a day, every day. have you ever played a gacha game where the odds of pulling a SSR were 0.5%? did you ever pull one, or did you know anyone who did? how surprised would you be if you were able to pull one after pulling for 10 hours a day nonstop every day? would you really be particularly surprised?
despite all this, you may not catch covid more than once a year, or maybe even every two years. if you're looking at a time-frame of 5 years, that's pretty good, isn't it? the odds of developing severe, permanent complications from one or two covid infections isn't That high. except... why would we look at time-frames of 5 years? we're in the fifth year of the pandemic and this virus has evolved fast, so the research is obviously laser-focused on year to year changes and working with the timeline that it's got. but i don't know about you guys, i anticipate living about 60 more years. do you think, knowing what we know about cumulative damage, that catching covid 60 times will be completely fine for our bodies? hell, what do you think catching influenza 60 times would do? post-viral syndromes have existed long before covid.
vaccines will never be able to catch up to the rate of the virus' mutations if they keep being tailored to specific variants, and it complicates things for developing effective treatments too. this is because this is a virus that circulates every day among essentially 8 billion people. statistically, it's inevitable that a random mutation somewhere will be successful and then begin to circulate. the fact is that 0.5% (a completely arbitrary number) of the global population is a massive number of people. it's 40 million people, more than the population of many countries. but it can be that amount again and again, because there's nothing preventing continuous reinfection.
no other statistics deals with this kind of situation. you can't use that ordinary benchmark or logic to think about covid. because this is in fact an unprecedented situation. and when new situations arise, people have to adapt and change their behaviour. but that's something that humans really hate doing, unfortunately
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comradecowplant · 1 month
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so things are not going well with my new elderly socdem friend unfortunately.
#she said this RIGHT after talking about how bad yt misinfo is... which she followed up w SO I WAS WATCHING A YT DOC ABOUT WW2 & LEARNED THIS#youtube 'historians' are literally the most fascist breed of youtuber. avoid the vast majority like the plague lmao#i asked if the video was sourcing the hollow dahmer & the black book of communism & she didnt seem to know what those are lol#to her credit i told her straight up that she was incorrect & she at least faked being curious about doing more research but i am doubting#she also 'learned' that lenin killed trotsky lol get your propaganda right lenin was dead by then STALIN icepicked him <3#anyway im making jokes bc the worst part was a different conversation where she spoke positively of israel#THAT'S gonna be the one to ruin our friendship. fuck you & your war tourist friend who fought in the 1960s landgrabs that youre now#telling me as if this is a cute story. nahhhh lmao i looked her straight in the eye & said i will NOT debate this#so she dropped it like the true enlightened centrist most socdem cowards are and i kept cleaning her house quietly#turns out You & Me We're the Only Ones Around Here Who Aren't Complete Fools was premature *kicks the poorly rendered gravel sadly*#shes otherwise a nice lady & i know i need to be more flexible in order to hopefully change ppls minds...#but also when people say awful & untrue things it makes me not want to talk to you 🤷‍♂️ srry 2 b a freak like that#also i know shes not transphobic but i havent sniffed her out well enough to know if shes safe to come out to#so its hours of misgendering (which isnt her fault she doesnt know) bc shes obsessed with neoliberal feminism and inappropriately brings#gender into conversations that it does not belong in#'did you know all the countries that handled covid best were ran by women?' 1) untrue 2) dont care finland still sucks#she also tried to tell me that european rich people learned to be nicer after the french rev & thats why europe is better than america...#girl shut up we learned how to be so good at racism and capitalism BECAUSE of europe. there is no such thing as a good rich person!!!#i pick my battles (genocide & anticommunist genocide revisionism) so i let her cook w that one & was not left convinced as you can imagine#ANYWAY rant about today's weird day done. gonna smoke weed & rim some skies 🥵 while listening to the Khrushchev Lied audiobook i found 😘
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fideidefenswhore · 6 months
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yeah, that is like...quite the thing, 'anne boleyn was not politically savvy', or, her strongest political allies/supporters (save mark smeaton) were arrested alongside her in a political coup, and they were all judicially murdered.
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also, did she alienate cromwell or did cromwell alienate her? fox&guy also speak of the evidence that as early as late 1535 ... cromwell was actively undermining her; and told his people to prevent marguerite from ever receiving the letter anne had written her...i get the sense it could have easily been cromwell that fell 1536 had some chess moves been different on the board...bcus interfering with the literal correspondence of -- not a foreign-- but your own goddamn king/queen...without their explicit permission either came pretty damn close or literally was,,treason...not to mention the fiasco of the attempted imperial detente mediated by cromwell...seems to suggest henry was of the opinion that cromwell had exceeded his powers in promising things henry had not agreed upon on his behalf/in his name.
#sorry; i am not intending any hostility towards the anon. i just find this opinion. tiresome and not well evidence#norris particularly shocking for having been the closest to henry.#he didn't have like as long a relationship as charles brandon and...charles was obviously not a supporter of anne's and also ended up on#her jury but like . otherwise. it is almost like charles brandon was arrested#it was near that level ; save that norris hadn't been raised quite as high but like. 'best-loved' of the king is crazy.#all things considered#*well-evidenced#i also don't care for mackay's argument that anne had become a political liability and had no recognition in europe bcus.#i mean. the former is arguable but the latter is literally not true; or at least not universally true#also tell anyone making this argument that if anne had become a political liability that her predecessor had become a political nonentity#and watch them lose their minds.#*then it follows#anne was only an obstacle to sanguine foreign relations if henry viii's intent was to and/or#restore his eldest daughter 1)#return to papal protection/loyalty/obedience...authority 2)#it was pretty clearly not his intent or purpose to do either of those things; tho?#melita thomas in her otherwise pretty good book about princess mary...#theorized that henry had actually completely intended 1) but that he was sent reginald pole's tract which infuriated him so much that he#decided to never restore her ever again#however...this does not match the evidence#on the threshold of the last week of april 1536/first week of may 1536#he very harshly informs both imperial and french ambassadors in no uncertain terms of mary's illegitimacy#the lancelot de carles account does recount him saying she'll return to court but nothing about the restoration of her status...#this actually seems to be corroborated somewhat by the bishop of faenza who was usually wrong tho so. idk#anyway......#seems fox&guy are arguing the news that the writ of excommunication against him would finally be published or fulminated or put into effect#was a factor#i remain unconvinced by just the summary of that given in their podcast interview but will have to read to judge for sure#also did she alienate cromwell or did cromwell alienate her?#fox&guy also speak of the evidence that as early as late 1535
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magicoleanders · 3 months
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just watched Poor Things (incredible). currently halfway through Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus (also incredible so far). they have extremely similar vibes. Yorgos I’ve discovered your next project
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exigencelost · 1 year
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this ted lasso episode was a perfect satire of late night consensus based meetings including and especially the fact that in a meeting about what to do with one night in a city one guy in the meeting passionately refused to make or entertain any proposals that were not "we all have to leave this city immediately"
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2nd part for amnesia trope
So for Gil's POV. So what I was thinking is he was a gangster and he is somehow to blame for Thena's memory loss, it was because his enemies targeted her and got involved in a car crash. He left her in the hospital (but of course he paid everything and sends flower everyday) because he thinks that she's no good and she's in danger everytime she's with him. But he still knows how Thena is doing and where she is so when he knew she was finally discharged he started and somehow pretended to be a shop owner (he bought Thena's favorite coffee shop) so he could see her everyday.
He can remember it clear as day: the worst day of his life.
Just like how Thena remembered it, he was in the car with her.
He ended up at the museum to get some information on a competitor. He didn't know who he was meeting or what they looked like--part of the whole confidentiality of being an informant.
So, he hadn't blinked twice when a gorgeous blonde walked up to him and asked if he was lost. He had stated he was looking for some information on the Trojan Horse.
He was looking for information on someone within his gang who he suspected was acting as a double agent, he meant. She thought he meant the literal Trojan Horse, which apparently was a specialty of her major in Greek History.
She had given him a full tour of their exhibit about ancient Greece. He never did catch his informant, instead letting himself be dragged around the museum by this blonde lady excitedly telling him about intricacies of Greek politics in war times. And he never interrupted to tell her about the misunderstanding.
She was so excited to tell him about everything, and he was excited to be around her when she was so cute, even if she was a nerdy bookworm.
She was Thena, they got to eventually. She had just started working at the museum. He asked if she was a tour guide and she outright laughed at the suggestion. She wasn't a people person, by her own declaration. She worked as a researcher, with a friend of hers. Her other friend was in charge of the tours. He thought she was plenty personable, but apparently he got the special treatment that day.
He hadn't meant to get attached. He hadn't meant to see her again at all. He couldn't afford such things. But he ran into her on her way home from work one night, stopping by a cafe he frequented for its pastries. He had a bit of a quiet love for baking and proper pattiseries. Thena also loved pastries, he came to learn.
She frequented the shop, having tried everything from their canales to their mont blancs, to their dacquoises--she knew even more than him. He asked if she baked at all for herself and she laughed at him again (he really wasn't used to people being brave enough to laugh around him, in his line of work). She said she was no baker at all, just an admirer.
An admirer--that was what he was becoming, much to his own dread.
He returned to the coffee shop. Not to see her, but because he wanted to try these amazing pastries Thena had raved about. And he just so happened to run into her there--a few times, actually. One saturday morning he ran into her without the time crunch of having to be at the museum.
Before he could stop himself, he ended up blurting out, "care to join me?"
She did. She sat down across from him, hands clasped around a cappuccino mug, eyeing the little gateau on his plate.
He handed her a fork, and they shared the few bites the tiny serving offered. Even now, he can barely remember what it tasted like; he was far too distracted by the beautiful smile on Thena's face.
They started running into each other more...strategically. They both knew exactly what they were doing, but also didn't bring it up. He had his own reasons for not wanting to get too involved with the beautiful blonde. She seemed to think he was being coy, or maybe even shy.
He was a ruthless gangster. He wasn't shy--isn't shy.
He asked her to dinner. And then dessert--he asked her if there were any other places in the city that had a dessert to compare to their usual place. She said that she wouldn't know, having not lived there as long as he had. So he invited her to find out.
He should have known better.
She was driving them, because then he could put the directions into her phone gps for her. They were talking about what place to try for dinner. And then a truck t-boned them, knocking them straight off the road.
Thena was barely conscious by the time they stopped rolling. Gil was able to rip his seat belt off of him, cutting through hers with his knife once he was free. She was in and out of consciousness the whole time, dead weight in his arms. But even as she started slipping away, he just held her tighter.
Gil pulled her from the wreck, carrying her away from it in case her car had been tampered with as insurance. It was a standard move in the business, and if she had been targeted because of him, he guessed that his enemies would stop at nothing. Surely they wouldn't draw the line at cutting her gas line after deciding to try and kill an innocent woman.
Thena was rushed to Eternal Mercy Hospital, found leaned against a tree after first responders were called to the scene. They were informed by a passing witness that he had seen the truck that came out of nowhere and wrecked her car--that he had seen the woman pull herself from the wreck and drag herself away as he called the ambulance.
The witness left no name.
But it was the same anonymous caller who made sure that any treatment Thena needed was paid for in full--that she had the very best care possible and that there were always fresh flowers by her bedside as she recovered.
The hospital had no obligation to ask further into it, and Gil was grateful. Supposedly they couldn't tell him how she was doing because he wasn't her family or emergency contact, but whatever. The bastards who had pulled her hit and run were long taken care of, he had made sure of it.
He also made sure that he would never be connected to Thena again.
It was for the best, he said. He couldn't be so selfish as to endanger her for his own happiness. They were lucky she wasn't seriously injured this time, but he wouldn't take the chance of her getting hurt again.
The closest he came was to let himself see her again--literally see, just witness from across the street. Just to say goodbye, in a sense, he told himself. Just for a little closure before he let go of the only woman he had ever loved.
He bought the coffee shop--their coffee shop. He bought it as it was, fired all the staff and just...sat there. He practised his own pastry recipes for his own entertainment, but he definitely wasn't operating a functional cafe. He just wanted to see her walking down the street, on the way to museum.
Just one last time, he kept telling himself.
Then she walked right in.
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taegularities · 10 months
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love how i was squealing when tae came to paris last year bc it meant he was in my timezone for the first time since i became army ..and now he basically lives there
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jammintothebeat2 · 11 months
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Happy rando Friday!
Sorry for being a little late, it’s the last day of school for me and I was rlly busy all night
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Lovely Day by Bill Withers! <3
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pharawee · 2 years
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So I guess Check Out will be available internationally on iqiyi except if you're in Europe (or Africa, I suppose).
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noxtivagus · 2 years
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don't you love the little things in life
#🌙.rambles#i shld be doing school stuff but i'm here rambling bcs i love life >.>#i mean in the end when you think abt it the specifics in homework don't really matter in the whole expanse of life#but i mean still try your best !?! yes#that said though#just thinking abt how much i love the way#my mom laughs n smile when i say smth funny#the way my dad replies back when i tell him goodnight#how apollo n i banter n laugh together before we go to sleep#i especially love the nights where we hug#or like. i can't sleep so i hold their hand n it helps me#the way my friends check up on me n tell me they miss me#or send me things that remind them of me#like hehe online ffxiv friends sending pictures of the moon wayy over where they are in europe#n the little ways how we match the texting style of the ppl we talk to#n when calling or speaking irl#the subtleties in voice. the little laughs n the unseen smiles n the silence in between#in school when i see a friend across the hallway n#hehe one of my classmates i pet their head wnvr i come across them#they do the same w me now as well c:#the little habits we pick up from others! the things we learn from each other! that'll stay with us for the rest of our laugh#the soft n affectionate ways we perceive another. maybe teasing my friends about someone they like#or them thanking me when i help out w smth#maybe the way i smile when i see my friends happy. the pride in my heart#the way we say sorry and thank you. and each time we open up more with another person#the way we remember names n preferences. the way we grow up together.#n then similarities n differences. how beautiful it is to relate to another unique individual#there's so much in the little things.#n there are things we forget. memories lost. but they may still be with another who shared the same moment n remembers#we live and die together. we're all connected. it's beautiful
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rthko · 8 months
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The straight woman is unsatisfied with straight studio porn. She wants to get off to something in which the actors actually emote and show passion beyond canned moans from the women and, at best, vacant grunts from the men. She turns to gay porn. She knows it's not "for her," but neither was the straight porn, and at least the actors look like they're enjoying themselves. And for a short while she is satiated by Sean Cody et al, but she runs into the same problems she had to begin with. She was not looking at sex but a simulacrum of sex, trapped in Plato's cave. Unsatisfied, she turned to vintage gay porn, harkening to a time when most gay bars still had darkrooms and reliably smelled of piss and Amyl Nitrite. Here was the real thing, in all its animalistic passion. But she still couldn't immerse herself in the fantasy. She wanted the media to engage with her own imagination and meet her half-way, rather than having it spoonfed to her onscreen. She turned to yaoi, with its elongated figures reminiscent of mannerist portraiture, then bara, including hardcore BDSM scenes. But the tactile sensations depicted in the pages didn't do justice to their real life counterparts. She turned deeper into her own imagination, this time reading erotica. No, not the poolside paperbacks sold at Barnes and Noble. The good shit. Why then, was she still not satisfied? She dug deeper, searching for the true meaning of eroticism. She studied the psychoanalysis of Freud, the cultural criticism of Susan Sontag, the feminist poetry of Audre Lorde. She took vacation time and flew to Europe, starting at the caves of Lascaux to explore the human urge to create, then traversed the Camino de Santiago on foot, along the way meeting a 56 year old carpenter from Burgos named Andrés, with whom she had an explosive affair. They both knew it couldn't last, which made them cherish each other's touch all the more. Upon flying home, she gave up. If her search for true eroticism never bore fruit this whole time, why would it now? It would take years before she stumbled upon the answer by pure happenstance: dubstep.
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hiddengemsreal · 3 months
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shaadiwish · 5 months
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For couples seeking a romantic and wedding experience, Europe offers an array of enchanting destinations. For more details, stay tuned to ShaadiWish!
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katya-goncharov · 6 months
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one of the worst things about not having many friends is that i never have anyone to travel to different countries with
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roseband · 6 months
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...@ the rose release the rest of the dates for other countries so i can determine when i need to request pto
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