The American Midwest is being hit with dangerous blizzards and subzero temps that can cause frostbite in under ten minutes and my dad is outside grilling burgers.
You guys are having a great time in the notes but my dad is having a better time in the snow.
Every time a story is like “this enlightened civilization solved war, scarcity, and disease but doing so only made life boring and meaningless because you need Suffering for anything to be worthwhile” I just wonder how they even made it that far with seemingly not even a concept of games or simulated conflict in general.
Especially bad when this is a civilization so advanced and utopian that they could conceivably rewire their own brain chemistry to just not have those sorts of needs in the first place.
It’s so weird when you think about it, isn’t it? “A world without struggle has no satisfaction” is probably fair enough, but why does the struggle need to have such high stakes? Why would anyone need to suffer and die for real for it to mean something?
Empirically people are perfectly content to challenge themselves through things that will have no major negative consequences for failure, and it seems reasonable to believe this would continue to be the case if all the problems in their personal life were solved.
It kind of reminds me of the trope of the rich character who is bored and dissatisfied with life and tries to make it into a thing about how money doesn’t buy happiness but really they just clearly have no hobbies or interests and don’t know how to entertain themselves beyond just buying even more positional goods.
“this society has it too easy and is culturally degenerated as a result” is also a fascist/reactionary trope
Put Trump back in the White House and we’ll see an all out war on the planet led by Republicans and the fossil fuel industry.
In the same interview with Sean Hannity when Trump said he’d be a dictator, he also promised that he would “drill, drill, drill”.
His lust for fossil fuels only continues to grow.
Former President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement, staffed his environmental agencies with fossil fuel lobbyists and claimed — against all scientific evidence — that the Earth’s rising temperatures will “ start getting cooler.”
Expect a second Trump presidency to show less restraint. Trump’s campaign utterances, and the policy proposals being drafted by hundreds of his supporters, point to the likelihood that his return to the White House would bring an all-out war on climate science and policies — eclipsing even his first-term efforts that brought U.S. climate action to a virtual standstill. Those could include steps that aides shrank back from taking last time, such as meddling in the findings of federal climate reports.
Meanwhile, many of his former staffers are building out a comprehensive plan to decimate both climate policy and regulations on fossil fuels. And Trump allies expect that the former president would fill his next administration with officials who are even more hostile to efforts to address global warming.
The people on the fringe who claim that both parties are alike seem like even bigger idiots with each passing day. Putzing around with third parties is like playing Russian roulette with a fully loaded revolver.
The only way to avert a disaster for democracy and a planetary catastrophe is to vote and Vote Democratic.
It’s always easier to prevent a dictatorship than it is to end it once it’s in power.
A second Trump Presidency would be a fatal blow to any attempts to avert the looming climate catastrophe. As if you needed yet another reason to make sure he never holds office again!
Ah, the Democrats still have “not being the republicans” as their only real platform people care about.
If only they didn’t actively shift US politics to the right making the republicans job easier.
The fact that you can’t raise taxes on billionaires even slightly without them pouring money into fascist political movements is, of itself, evidence that billionaires as a class shouldn’t be allowed to exist in the first place.
You, ah, don’t think it’s unfair to judge people’s morals based on their finances?
I, ah, think that it’s perfectly fair to judge people’s morals based on the amount of money they pour into neo-nazi political movements, yeah actually.
had a dream last night where I took a uquiz called “what do you serve?” and at first the questions were standard but as the quiz progressed they became more and more highly specific to me personally and the answers became more and more similar and I realised the quiz Knew me and was forcing me into being honest by giving me no other option so I tried to click out but it just went to the next question which was “are you the spider? or are you the web?” and it had an option for each but I didn’t click either so it then turned to a text box and I typed “I think I’m the fly” and the quiz paused for a while and then took me to a results page that said “you serve truth” and the description just read “what you know will kill you but you will die laughing” so like. good morning everyone I guess :/
OP I think the devil visited you in your sleep
“What you know will kill you but you will die laughing” needs to be added to that list of profound statements from unlikely sources.
why do grooms get one boring black jacket and brides get the most jawdropping gowns ever like when i get married i want pearls and lace and a train is that too much to ask??
Hnn could you imagine.. a suit embroidered with baroque pearls… a LACE CAPE gently floating behind the groom… a fuckin sword..
oh my god…. your m i n d…. the wedding industry is quaking
Meanwhile in Scotland…
YO, there are SO MANY great groom outfits around the world where he is dressed all in silk, lace, gold, pearls and glitter, with capes and scarves, hats and stitchery and I find it so sad that most of these countries switch over to “suit”. Like, look at these handsome boys!
India
Sudan
China (traditional)
Nigeria
Indonesia
Mongolia
Ghana
Ethiopia
Poland
Romania
Russia (1)
Russia (2)
*shakes fist at sky*
damn you western marriage culture
may I add
Norway
japan
japan the hard core traditional wedding costume
Turkey
Hungary
Navajo
maori (new zealand)
Fiji
Tonga
Here are some gay wedding additions:
India
India-Pakistan
South Africa
Thailand
Japan
Georgia
This last addition to this ^^^ is my genuinely my most favorite part!
I rb’d a different version of this and added other cultures (including that Georgian one – which, ftr, notes that these guys are Georgians in America, because if they’d worn those clothes [chokha] in Georgia as openly gay men having a gay wedding, there’s a not-insignificant chance they would’ve gotten killed, since gay men aren’t considered “real men” and only “real men” are deemed worthy of wearing chokha. Which I think is contextual information worth sharing here – that this isn’t just beautiful cultural garb but also a very deliberate act of defiance and pride using that clothing in the face of the intensely hypermasculine, homophobic culture it comes from).
Rb’ing this alternative version just because I love the inclusion of some of the other same-gender weddings.
no because why are so many mental health posts just shitting on neurodivergent people? like “smile more, exercise more, do things you enjoy, put in consistent effort” its all just “dont be mentally ill”
yesterday i had an anxiety attack as i was waking up. wtf would other people do? feel better? I wanted to kill myself, that isnt something i can just exercise through.
every moment is exhausting and constantly takes immense effort. it is hard for me to do things i actually like doing let alone the things i have to do but cant. like I’m sorry but for most people working out, doing homework, and going out, comes far easier than for neurodivergent people. I feel physically sore and tired when im depressed, anxiety makes me physically nauseous and dizzy. these dont have easy fixes.
When im not in a depressive episode i can actually get these done pretty well, working out comes easy, i can do homework and all that, its just not always like that yk? i have months at a time where i feel like I’m rotting from the inside out. its not that easy. i wish it was.
Actually considering the wide range and overlap of pelvic structures of all sexes, it’s more likely they will identify your gender based on your belongings, burial, and culture! So basically, darling, serve cunt hard enough and the archeologists will see that cunt, too ❤️
never getting over “the archeologists will see that cunt”
mouse girl commercial airline pilot who gets on the intercom and says “this is your captain squeaking… we’ve just ahhh, reached our maximum cruising altitude of 32,000 feet, which is very high and scary for me because I’m a mouse”
Big fan of sun motifs in characters not necessarily being about positivity and happiness and how they’re so “ bright and warm” but instead being about fucking brutal they are.
Radiant. A FORCE of nature that will turn you to ash. That warmth that burns so hot it feels like ice. Piercing yellow and red and white. A character being a Sun because you cannot challenge a Sun without burning alive or taking everything down with them if victorious.
