#trucking crisis

[artisticdivasworld]

Trucking Exodus: Why 35% of Owner-Operators Fail

Today, let’s talk about something that’s been weighing heavy on a lot of minds lately. Did you know that over a third of owner-operators—35.2% to be exact—are saying they’d leave the industry by the end of 2032 if things don’t get better? That’s not just a statistic; that’s a massive wake-up call for all of us. I know I don’t need to tell you how tough it’s been out here. Between skyrocketing…

[archive-pl]

‼️🚨BREAKING: Zionist settlers attack humanitarian aid trucks again

Zionist settlers attack humanitarian aid trucks again and destroy the packages of rice and flour that were going to be distributed among the hungry population of the Gaza Strip.

Gaza is suffering the greatest famine of this century and this is what the supremacists of "Israel" are dedicated to.

[cherrytraveller]

gladiator get-up this, gladiator get-up that, y’know maybe he just wants to have a nice day out🥺

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[news4dzhozhar]

Michael Fakhri, the UN's Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, calls out the nations of the world at the UN Human Rights Council, even those allegedly supporting Palestine, for doing nothing to stop the starvation of Gaza.

[apostateapologist]

chinhands. life update

my car might be totaled and it wasnt my fault and im recovering from whiplash and the er doctor said i have some early stage osteo arthritis in my lower back and i dont have a lot of money and this does throw a wrench in my work/social/personal plans but i am like. coping? like im... vaguely sort of bummed out and my body hurts but im just like. okay. well. lets constructively talk to friends abt it and. go figure it out i guess.

[originalleftist]

Senator Lindsey Graham once famously said (presumably before he sold his soul) that if Republicans nominated Trump, they would be destroyed, and they would deserve it.

He was right.

I say now: if America allows Trump to regain power, it will be destroyed.

And it will deserve it.

[sugas6thtooth]

[rawliverandgoronspice]

If Ganondorf was lying to anyone during that Wind Waker speech, he’d be lying to himself. The gerudo desert was indeed harsh, and Hyrule sucked during his time, but legit everything he did in Ocarina of Time is completely unjustifiable, except for the murder of the King of Hyrule. The man sat in luxury for 7 years with monsters surrounding the land, while his people remained in the desert. Yet at the end of the day, he believed that he had every right to do all of that.

Self-justification isn’t a trait that’s outright noticeable with Ganondorf, but Wind Waker puts it out in the open and shows that yes, the self proclaimed “King of Evil” truly believes he’s deserving of the world, and that his circumstances justify his crimes.

I feel like the fandom misses that while Ganondorf may not be this complex 5d villain, he still carries an interesting amount of traits like this

Hey, thanks for the ask!! I'm sorry, I haven't slept in over 24h and felt particularly rhapsodic today so uhhhh sorrryyyyy for being cringe about my little guyyyyyy (and the approximate use of English language that might ensue)

So yeah, I think there's absolutely a huge part of that, trying to make sense of the violently absurd situation he found himself in, a monster and one of the last people who remembers Hyrule and how it was destroyed, and rationalizing to himself why it is not meaningless.

I have to say, not to be uhhh a parody of myself, but I think it could be a little bit more complicated than that (all of it being interpretations of the text that I don't think canon entirely backs always, but my point is that it could be read out of it).

If Ganondorf wanted any meaningful chance to reshape his own reality, then there's no doing that without access to the Triforce. If he had wanted to go for the King's head and nothing else, he would have been stopped immediately by everybody who do have access to shards of the keys to the Sacred Realm (not to mention how trigger happy Zelda was about wishing ????? something to the Triforce about erasing him in some form). I don't think it would have been reasonable to aim for anything but the Triforce as a military goal --not to mention that his beef is half with Hyrule, and half with the Goddesses themselves for considering the gerudos beneath them in some form and for some reason (which becomes even more apparent and deranged in Wind Waker, as part of why he can't let go of Hyrule in my opinion is because their intervention was so violent he simply cannot wrap his head around it and, as usual, Will Not Be Defeated >:((( because he's that kind of bitter little shithead, which I uhhhh relate to a little too much maybe). And then, well. You can't exactly ask for the Triforce and be nice about it, right?

I'm not saying he wasn't gleefully horrible about it the entire time, but I can absolutely see a case of him being self-centered enough to see each of his actions as the necessary (or righteous/vengeful) next step to get closer to his goals, and one thing leads to the other, and after seven years of strife, well, the kingdom you wanted to rule is a pile of rubble, ash and misery you enforced at every step, and oops! You have alienated absolutely everyone who aren't your weird moms!

There's a ton of things to say about the many interpretations that could be made of his relationship to the gerudos so I won't over-expand on that, but, uhhhh yeah he probably used them, or at the very least ruled them with an iron fist to enforce his own power he believed unquestionnable (even if the goal was genuinely to do things for their sake, which in my opinion could still be argued --Hyrule is a big nightmare place during his reign, but the Valley is the only location basically untouched with arguably Kakariko after all).

To be honest, I think TP Ganondorf is more accursed with a sense of self-justification than WW Ganon, who has a surprising amount of clarity on his own motives (to restate my tags on a post I just reblogged: I don't think "I coveted this wind, I suppose" is particularly self-pitying, it's soberingly self-aware if anything). TP Ganon is the one who's obsessed with divine purpose and considering himself a weird take on the Chosen One.

But yeah, I think... To be completely honest, I sometimes feel like Ganondorf's potential (!!! not actual execution, very important to draw this distinction) is just kind of too large for the IP that birthed him? The full breadth of his complexity cannot be explored in a setting that demands he merely generates a simple conflict that doesn't seriously question the status quo while everything about him inherently begs for it (and I love Zelda and its simplicity and what it does, to be very clear!). Like, I know this is just me justifying my own investment to a degree, but... his relationship to the gerudo culture, his relationship to gender, to divinity, to fate, to self-definition, to absolute resistance grinded down to the point of absurdity (but at the same time, what else is there to do)... like all of this absolutely has potential to be large and epic and breathtaking, but. Nintendo needs to preserve the statut quo. And Ganondorf just cannot express all of these themes without having this simple world literally collapse around him.

This is what I find incredibly compelling about this dramatic disaster of a guy. And the very media that suggested all of these contradictions and inner conflicts (without necessarily understanding them at first I think) is now fighting tooth and nail against what it introduced, what he can embody and once questioned (in WW most potently) for the sake of Hyrule's moral balance, backpedalling into a state of simplicity that just never truly existed to that degree before --partially, in my opinion, because this conflict is scary to face heads on without taking significant artistic risks I am not confident we will ever see again, to be uhh less than optimistic.

So yeah! He isn't that complicated as the villain of the children video games for sure!! But. As a character, there's so much there, just sitting right under the surface.

[sonicdesolation]

*wipes sweat off brow* ok mistake was fixed!! New version is rebloggable now :D

[athena5898]

(PrR) UNRWA Commissioner-General: We have stopped delivering aid through the Kerem Shalom crossing, the main crossing for humanitarian aid to Gaza.

Yesterday we tried to bring in a few food trucks through the Kerem Shalom crossing and gangs seized them.

Our difficult decision to stop aid comes at a time when hunger in Gaza is rapidly worsening.

Humanitarian operation has become impossible in Gaza due to the ongoing blockade and obstacles by the “Israeli” authorities.

[clochanamarch]

absolutely demanding that everyone makes jones family members now bc @hcpebled and i have a fantastic set up where aisling and her sisters niamh and siobhan reunite and it's discovered that there's magic and powers dwelling in both niamh and siobhan, but also aisling's ex fiachra went out and slept with siobhan resulting in the birth of aodhan, who now has powers of his own, and i'm js like. the family is a blank canvas with the exception of these characters and moira and the company. we could be having the wildest family tree ever. just think about it.

[cinnamart]

Dom is that u

[news4dzhozhar]

[agentfascinateur]

At long last, aid trucks won't be stopped

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