#and that is a direct result of communism!
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Something so many people still don't understand about climate change is how climate getting warmer doesn't equal the weather only getting warmer at all times.
The weather will become unpredictable. It can be more wet, it can be more dry, it can be snow suddenly, it can be no snow or rain for long periods. And this is not only an inconvenience that disrupts the daily life.
Here's some numbers:
Around 37% of heat-related deaths are tied directly to human-induced climate change. Heat-related fatalities among over 65 years old have increased by 70% in the past two decades. (WHO)
Based on projections, between 2030 and 2050 climate change could result in an additional 250,000 deaths annually, caused by from malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea and heat stress. (UN)
Climate change is expected to increase the frequency of heavy precipitation events which can harm crops by eroding soil and depleting soil nutrients. (US EPA)
By 2030, under a high greenhouse gas emissions scenario, corn yields could decline by up to 24% and wheat yields might increase by approximately 17%. (NASA)
The frequency and severity of wildfires leads to widespread health issues and displacement. Ie. the recent wildfires in Los Angeles highlighted the city's deep-rooted social inequalities, with both affluent and low-income communities facing significant threats.
Extreme weather events, like hurricanes, floods and droughts, have become more common and pose direct risks to human health and safety. These events can lead to injuries, fatalities and mental health challenges, as well as disrupt essential services like healthcare and sanitation, which again can cause more risks. (US EPA)
Climate change affects the distribution and prevalence of vector-borne diseases. Altered temperatures and precipitation patterns can expand the habitats of mosquitoes and ticks, increasing the spread of diseases such as malaria, dengue fever and Lyme disease. (NIEHS)
Already record highs seen in food insecurity due to the worsening climate crisis. 48% of global land experienced severe droughts which adversely affect crop yields and food availability. (The Lancet Countdown's 2023 report)
I used many US sources as I have a feeling that these might disappear at some point, especially the government ones, and it's good to have proof they did exist at some point.
Move along, nothing to see here. Just blizzards in Florida + record snowfall in Mississippi and Louisiana + climate change.
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*rubs temples* Okay, first of all …
Now, let’s get serious.
For those of you who don’t know, I am from Northeastern Pennsylvania, where our exposure to disasters is normally confined to bad snowstorms, the occasional weak tornado, and some heavy rainfall if a hurricane manages to get that far inland. That last one became a real problem in 1972, when hurricane Agnes dumped so much rain on our area and on the southern tier of New York that the Susquehanna river flooded, trashing Wilkes-Barre and surrounding communities here, as well as Binghamton and Corning up in NY.
We didn’t have FEMA at the time. We could get funding from the federal government to help with disasters, but it was kind of a clusterfuck. See, disasters do this weird thing where they don’t stay within the lines of state borders. So when they affect multiple states, those states need to coordinate their responses because the damage which results affects them all. Prior to the founding of FEMA, what you would have as somebody who’ve been affected by a disaster is a dozen different government agencies showing up in your area to help, but not giving you any sort of direction about which one you needed to fucking talk to which I don’t think I have to explain just makes it harder to get help in a timely manner.
Then there was the fact that 1972 was an election year between Nixon and McGovern. Now there had already been several other disasters that year, and people were still waiting on relief in other states. Nixon needed to win Pennsylvania and New York in November, which he hadn’t done in the last election, so he started pushing for that disaster relief for Agnes. Oh, and he threw in disaster relief for at least one of those other disasters, not because they needed it, but because it happened in South Dakota, which was McGovern‘s home state and he wanted to win it. Which is exactly what you want when your house has been flooded by hurricane rains and everything you own has been washed away along with half of the coffins in graveyards near the Susquehanna river. (No, I’m not joking. They were finding lost bodies for a while.) Who doesn’t love to be used as a political football when you have lost everything that you own? 
Anyway, FEMA came into being several years later, but that didn’t help the victims of hurricane Agnes at the time. They lived on flood plains, so their insurance didn’t cover what happened to their homes. The state could only afford so much disaster funding. People could help each other, but there are plenty of assholes out there who would gleefully screw you over regardless of what you’d just gone through. (Apparently, one of my great-uncles “helped” with the cleanup in Wilkes-Barre, and by helped I mean that he went there, rifled through the debris or whatever he could find, kept it even though it was somebody else’s belongings, and then came home to brag about what he did.)
So, yeah, FEMA has its flaws, but *fucking existing* is not one of them. 
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have compassion for yourself and for others. it seems hopeless but any small amount of good you can do is just that much more love in the world
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Oh, they absolutely are rioting. The CN Girlies have been angry and vocal about this for months, emailing and calling Paperfold basically every single day, to no avail. All they've been getting from the company are crickets or nothingburger replies. Then it all came to a boiling point with the 3.0 update, at which point the girlies had had enough and decided to file an official group consumer complaint on Black Cat, charging Paperfold with consumer fraud.
As of right now (Jan 26th) it has documented 3394 valid complaints that have been filed against LADS. And the number of complaints are not likely to stagnate now that Caleb is receiving the same treatment as Sylus, which I presume none of his girlies are happy about.
In addition to this, a lot of CN kittens are actively boycotting the game, refusing to spend any money or even time on it until Papergames issues an official statement/roadmap as to what their plan regarding Sylus is and if/when he will get the content he is missing. As you and everyone else probably noticed, we received no free 20 pulls in the mail this banner. Those tickets are given to us as thanks whenever LADS reaches top 3 in the official app rankings in China. This time however, it didn't even break the top 5 (last I checked it was at number 9. I don't know where it is rn, but I'd be surprised if it had risen substantially). This is a direct result of the boycott (though it most likely also has at least something to do with Caleb mains having saved up so many dias and tickets in the year leading up to his debut)
So in summary: the CN Sylus girlies are not sitting idly by and they have shown no intention of backing down, even in the face of legal threats from Paperfold. And this is something not only us global Sylus mains should be grateful for, but every single LADS player global or no. Because if anyone thinks that this issue will only affect Sylus or his mains, then they are quite frankly naive. Look at what's happening to Caleb (the same thing). Or at how they're already starting to put previously free items behind paywalls (the event outfits). If this is allowed to go on, then trust me, they will take their greed as far as they can and we will all suffer for it.
Lastly, even if we as global players hold minimal sway, I still firmly believe that doing something is better than doing nothing. Which is why I and a lot of other global players have joined the boycott, written emails, filled out the in-game survey, and spread the word on social media. And for my part I will keep doing so until Papergames learn how to communicate with and respect their playerbase.
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God bless the CN Sylus Girlies for having all our backs 🫶
I'm hoping this will finally make Infold release his content from their basement and stop treating him as their cash cow. B/c right now? He is essentially P2W and even for spenders he is extremely difficult to main. Raising his affinity is hell compared to the other LIs. Whaling and R3ing his cards is basically a necessity at this point. Especially if you're a newer player.
It's just not fair and we should all demand better treatment.
(Note: This is NOT a question of asking for MORE Sylus content compared to the other LIs. Most Sylus girlies — myself included — know and accept that Sylus will never truly catch up b/c of him being newer. No, what we're asking for is literally just to have the same amount of stuff that the other 3 had upon release and which Sylus still does not have months after his introduction)
#justice for sylus#apologies for the wordy reply but this is an important issue that i will never stop being vocal over#love and deepspace#lads#sylus#sylus lads#lads sylus#sylus love and deepspace#love and deepspace sylus
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the way leftists online (and probs irl in progressive circles but idk) talk abt ppl from swa/na is insane. trying to oppose racism so hard it turns into racism again. just full blown orientalism but from the other side. if u oppose racism u gotta uhhhhh woobify n infantilize entire ethnic n religious groups n strip them of their agency. im not even arab n im offended for them.
#this is esp so belittling n erasing to women/lgbt ppl/disabled ppl/ethnic n religious minorities/etc. n their struggles#ppl who saw 'modern day homophobia n misogyny r a direct result of colonialism' n just kept running w it not knowing where#like imagine being a yemeni woman that had the houthis destroy her community draft her son at 13 and marry her daughter off at 8#n see her die at childbirth (bc that what happens to a lot of these girls n no one likes to talk abt it)#then come online n see braindead westerners going 'awwww theyre pirates uwu just like one piece!!'#id get homicidal
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I often forget "Tulpamancers" are a real thing and not just a funny made up word made by the funny wood man who lives in my brain and sings me songs. Like I'm agnostic when it comes to Tulpas but like I generally forget they exist as a concept and just every time I read the title of Mr. Capgras Encounters a Secondhand Vanity: Tulpamancer's Prosopagnosia/Pareidolia (As Direct Result of Trauma to the Fusiform Gyrus) I just think he made up some of those words when in fact he did not.
#will wood#wee woo#zanderds thoughts#i often misread it at Tulipmancer ngl#no hate to the tulpa community#mr capgras encounters a secondhand vanity: tulpamancer's prosopagnosia/pareidolia (as direct result of trauma to the fusiform gyrus)#tulpamancy#tulpa#tulpamancer
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Tell us your secrets Mel...What in that video are you responsible for?
ah damn i wasn't expecting this
off the top of my head the five things i was thinking of were
1 . the spunchsoul drawing (i made that)
2. the yiiking out tesla sprite (i made that)
3. the azzypants fanart at the very end of the video (i made that) (posted here)
4. the touhou jazz in the diagram section
5. the psychology bit with a screenshot of "cbt with yuuka kazami"
#so three of them are community art#me accidentally getting him into 2hu jazz#and the fact he messaged me asking for the name of the game for that single visual gag#and proceeded to make a joke that made me turn off my phone#it's not really important LMAOOO i just find my contributions funny because they're the direct result of my brainrot#askbox
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I don't think those newer to Tumblr understand it used to be that about a third of a post's notes were reblogs, if not half.
Folks from twitter don't realize they're not really feeding the tumblr ecosystem when they only hit 'like' and they rarely if ever reblog stuff. (And also folks with empty blogs are gonna get blocked for looking like bots!)
So please, if you see something that you think deserves to be seen by more people, reblog it! The appeal of tumblr is that content is spread through people, rather than through an algorithm!!
You don't have to do anything you don't want to do, and the 'Like' button is still a nice little compliment for the maker of the post. Liking things is good! It is normal to 'Like' more things than you reblog.
But as an artist who has seen his art get circulated less and less as the like-to-reblog ratio has become increasingly imbalanced in the past couple of years, please understand that reblogs are the primary way tumblr continues to function as a content-sharing platform.
You are not expected to add commentary on a reblog if you don't feel like it, and again, your blog is a space where YOU get to decide what makes you happy and comfortable. So do what you want.
But the fact that I get to work to appeal to PEOPLE rather than to a vague and biased algorithm is Actually A Really Good Thing, and reblogs are what make algorithms unnecessary for the smooth running of this site!!!
There's no need to feel guilty or ashamed about this if my words apply to you - that's not my goal - instead, please just consider this info if you can, and consider how happy you might make an artist by showing their art to more people!
#you're not a bad person if you never reblog but you may be a bad tumblr user lol#which doesn't make you less kind or good as a person it just means you're not doing a good job participating in an online community#original#tumblr#tumblr itself#i don't want to guilt and shame people but i do want them to understand why reblogs are important#this is not directed at any one person it is just a result of seeing my art get liked by 30 people and shared by 2#which means no one sees it after about 8 hours
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Well-meaning atheistic friends will often speak about the utilitarian benefits of religion to me in an attempt to make me feel like they don’t think I’m weird (I think). They talk a lot about how religion gives you a community and a sense of purpose, and, while that is all definitely true… I wish I had expressed myself a bit better during the most recent conversation that went in that direction.
Because really, it is true that my faith has many utilitarian ‘goods’ that result from it. But that’s not really the point—the point is I follow it because I believe it to be true. Even if it didn’t give me any of those psychological or emotional benefits, I would still follow Jesus, the love of my life.
I guess this is just something I’ve been thinking about, that I wish I could properly express to those who don’t believe in any version of God.
#anyone else have the same experiences?#also I’d like to add that I think the reason our faith can be beneficial to us is literally just a direct result of the fact that#*it is true*#because living a lie will never bring peace or a truly good community or#any number of these other things we talk about. it may bring a kind of pleasure but not peace#also not to mention the fact that oftentimes faith is incredibly challenging and does not bring ‘happiness’ or ease#catholic#Christian#Jesus#religion#faith#spirituality#utilitarianism
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Made the mistake of scrolling down the Hogwarts Legacy tag for a while, gonna blacklist it now so I can't keep doing it because it's not a helpful or productive thing to do. It's all kinds of infuriating though.
#t#hogwarts legacy#jk rowling#harry potter#anyway thats the blacklist tags on so now im gonna rant in the tags real quick#Rowling takes support of the Potter IP as support of her beliefs and so do UK terfs#every time Potter blows up for any reason I see a direct result in my day to day#whether its i ❤️ jk posters making yet more appearances and knowing every one of them is a rallying call for people who hate my community#or even just people straight up being more comfortable being transohobic#anyway its not a coincidence that the teacher who went to my boss and demanded that i not be allowed to work with her school#was wearing a gryffindor hoodie at the time#one of the kids in that group was wearing a trans pride bracelet and he had to see that#he had to see that his teacher not only thought people like him were dangerous for existing but also that she would get her way#it fucking breaks my heart#and that's my lived experience#i know that jewish folks have been fuckin begging folks to not play because the game is literally blood libel as well#im not going to pretend to know that hurt#but please#listen to them#listen to the communities that are being hurt by jk rowling and hogwarts legacy specifically#and do not support it#its a good day to not play the fuckin harry potter game
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Hello, family member of survivors of communism and people who actually lived in public apartments here.
THEY WERE SHIT.
I cannot express to you how much living under communist rule is shit. It doesn't matter if the IRL regimes didn't live up to the ideals -- SO MANY human rights have to be trampled over and so many people have to be hurt for the system to even be ATTEMPTED in the first place (and revolution mostly just KILLS PEOPLE and replaces who's at the top for a while -- the elites in China these days may often have peasant ancestors but look at the way they live, and look at how the rest of the country lives -- the inequality is still staggering, and it was even before the PRC opened up to market economies again).
Communism is nice as a theory, can be useful for looking at and understanding systems in the world, but it is ultimately unsuitable for governance.
I am a leftist in America and support socialist-leaning policies but dear fucking gods DO NOT bring up communism like it's an actual fucking solution to me. It's like telling a Jewish person to give fascism a try.
companies really have got to be okay with stagnant profits. what is wrong with earning the same amount every year? why does it always have to be more? it’s not sustainable. there are only so many people on the planet you can profit from 😭
#i am pro regulating the stock market#i am also pro finding an alternative to late stage capitalism#but fucking hell im sick of people talking about communism#when they did not have their own family members starve to death because of so called#'collective farming'#sure cuba has a great literacy rate now#but think of all the people who had to have their lives derailed as adolescents to make that happen#no choice. humans being managed like just another resource.#nobody outside china seems to remember the mass starvation that mao caused which killed millions upon millions of people#this happened in the soviet bloc too!#xi jinping is a disaster re: geopolitics partly bc this man is ruling china like a gangster#he was sent to the farms as a youth and never completed education beyond elementary school#like yeah school isnt everything but this man is running china like a schoolyard bully#he literally does not understand more sophisticated tactics or politics#and that is a direct result of communism!#before china opened up to capitalist markets#i wont deny communism has done SOME good things#china is better for womens rights (well. when the women are born and not aborted) than korea or japan bc of communist rule#but as a whole the people are so fucked over by the state#you can't trust what any person in china says in public about their politics -- not even the most famous or rich people#they can and will be purged.#richest man in china got all his assets seized#my dad's classmate just disappeared the other month -- its made all the headlines#bc he was so high up in govt and suddenly he's just GONE#nobody is safe. that's not a fucking solution to capitalism
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So there's something I want to say re: intentionally withholding your vote, and I want to do it without coming across as condescending or dismissive.
I've worked as a field organizer in two campaigns, 2010 and 2012, and my job was to help turnout the vote for Democratic candidates up and down the ticket. Technology may have changed, but people are still knocking on doors for specific voters the way they were 12 years ago.
If you say you're not voting/voting 3rd party, the campaign volunteer is supposed to mark that and move on. Their job, in the final month of the election, is to make sure the campaign's supporters have all the information and resources they need to cast a vote.
They aren't collecting data on why you're withholding your vote. They aren't submitting opinion polling results to the campaign. Something like 155 million people voted in the 2020 election, and if you say you're not voting, the campaign is not going to waste a volunteer's time and morale begging you to vote when there are literally millions of other voters to turn out.
Let me repeat that: The campaign does not track why you're not voting. They simply note your vote is not a priority for turnout and move on.
I say this because I see a lot of promotion of non-voting like that's a boycott, when the function is not the same. A boycott is a coordinated mass refusal to engage with an institution—which sounds similar if you see a vote as a good or service to withhold. Unfortunately, it's not.
A vote is a choice you're making as part of a community hiring committee. Your abstention doesn't prevent someone from being hired. It just lowers the threshold for the worst candidate to succeed.
All this to say: In my direct experience as an organizer, abstaining from the vote sends a message. That message is not "You need to try harder to win my vote." It's "Don't waste time on me."
#voteposting 2024#this *is* condescending but#sometimes I need people to ask themselves if they really think joe biden is reading their insta stories
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I feel kinda bad about being pretty much fine with my parents no longer being in a romantic relationship but really being upset over the legal and financial aspects of the divorce. like I sound so callous I'd almost rather be crying over some childish shit like "oh no this must mean that mommy and daddy don't love each other anymore"
#in fairness I can already see some communications breakdowns and account problems as a direct result of the split#originals#divorce
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Also, indirect communication isn't universal. Many neurodivergent people (like me) don't communicate the same, and don't pick up on hinting around, nonverbal cues like facial expressions and tone of voice, etc. Saying "I'm fine" when you aren't will result in exactly one thing when talking to me: I'll believe you.
So if you read this post and think, "Well why do I have to do the work and not my friends? If they really cared about me, they would do some of the work," consider the possibility that they are not as aware of your internal upset as you are. Or even that they may not be aware that you are upset at all.
It may seem obvious to you that you're bothered, but unless you have an actual conversation about it, some people will not be able to tell. Trust me, I'm one of them.
"No one remembered my birthday-" Well, but did YOU tell anyone it was coming up and you wanted to celebrate it with them?
"I wish someone would see through it when I tell people I'm fine-" Well, but have YOU considered not lying when people ask you how you're doing?
"I am so resentful of my friend because they keep doing this thing that really bothers me-" Well, but have YOU directly communicated that the thing is bothering you?
"I am burning out because my friend keeps expecting me to help them with serious struggles-" Well, but have YOU tried to establish the boundaries you need to feel okay?
"No one ever asks me about this thing I really care about-" Well, but have YOU brought it up yourself?
"I miss my friend but they haven't texted me-" Well, but have YOU been reaching out to them?
Sometimes people are mean, uncaring assholes, in which case you get to be mad. But sometimes you just need to communicate better. Try communication before you assume someone doesn't care!
#communication styles#direct vs indirect communication#I grew up with a parent who does a TON of indirect communication#having someone blow up at me seemingly out of nowhere because I didn't see their hinting around that they were irritated#has resulted in me being anxious about other people's moods and convinced I'm missing something even when often I am not#if there's any irritation shown I can't tell if it's a little or a lot in the other person's head#and that sucks#anyway...communicate with your friends#actually talk to them#every relationship could use more earnest and direct communication imho
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🇵🇸 From Friend of Al-Aqsa (FOA):
What exactly is Coca Cola’s role in Israel's occupation? Coca-Cola has a factory in Atarot, an illegal Israeli settlement built on stolen Palestinian land. Palestinian communities are forcibly removed for illegal Israeli settlements like this to be built. These settlements are illegal under international law. By having an Israeli franchise in the illegal Israeli settlement of Atarot, Coca-Cola is ignoring international law and profiting from the illegal occupation. There are currently up to 750,000 Israeli settlers living in at least 250 illegal Israeli settlements across the occupied West Bank and East Jeruasalem. By drinking Coca-Cola, we as consumers are turning a blind eye to the illegal occupation of Palestine. In 2022 American food company General Mills announced it was divesting from Atarot as a direct result of pressure from human rights groups, activists and others. Let's keep up the pressure on Coca-Cola to stop operating in Atarot! Join our call to #BoycottCocaCola until it stops operating in Atarot illegal Israeli settlement. Make a pledge to boycott Coca-Cola until it stops operating on stolen Palestinian land.
For more info, check out FOA's webpage.
If you're in the UK, they have several upcoming campaign and events you can participate in.
#free palestine#palestine#israel#gaza#bds#boycott divest sanction#again i encourage everyone to join a bds-affiliated org in your country/city
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