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in absolute tears about the pride module at my work

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hey chat did you guys know there's a whole website with informational videos on the rights you hold when interacting with ICE or witnessing interactions with ICE. all written by immigrants and for immigrants. idk man it'd be a shame if people watched these informational videos y'know.

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I'm glad you're a normal person and not one of these morons you see on here who can't see past their own noses and spend all their time stirring up weird discourse.

Maybe that's why you're so popular.

Discourse isn't fun. So much shit online has devolved into anger-tainment: content that only seeks to frustrate its viewer. They pick an easy target, and simply play to their frustrations, making them emotionally invested through proxy of certain events (rarely does the event actually matter to them). Once invested, this allows the player to cheaply virtue-signal the played - whatever sentiment echoes theirs on whatever matter. This cyclically activates the lil' part in our brains that releases dopamine during moments of agreement between like-minded people, but it's artificial - faux-communal moral-upstanding, coupled often with a release of frustration through battery of the shamed. But this digital injection subtracts the human-element of a second party. It often lacks a true means of vocalization. It's a one-way mirror; the viewer can only see themselves in its reflection. They feel praised for their own views and are reaffirmed by invisible threads, all whilst playing into creators who rile people up for a living, creators who pray on your anger and conscience, sapping it from your unwilled body, leaving it a mere husk.

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You would think that Disco Elysium is a sequel to Rhythm Heaven. But it's not that

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If you're feeling anxious or depressed about the climate and want to do something to help right now, from your bed, for free...

Start helping with citizen science projects

What's a citizen science project? Basically, it's crowdsourced science. In this case, crowdsourced climate science, that you can help with!

You don't need qualifications or any training besides the slideshow at the start of a project. There are a lot of things that humans can do way better than machines can, even with only minimal training, that are vital to science - especially digitizing records and building searchable databases

Like labeling trees in aerial photos so that scientists have better datasets to use for restoration.

Or counting cells in fossilized plants to track the impacts of climate change.

Or digitizing old atmospheric data to help scientists track the warming effects of El Niño.

Or counting penguins to help scientists better protect them.

Those are all on one of the most prominent citizen science platforms, called Zooniverse, but there are a ton of others, too.

Oh, and btw, you don't have to worry about messing up, because several people see each image. Studies show that if you pool the opinions of however many regular people (different by field), it matches the accuracy rate of a trained scientist in the field.

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I spent a lot of time doing this when I was really badly injured and housebound, and it was so good for me to be able to HELP and DO SOMETHING, even when I was in too much pain to leave my bed. So if you are chronically ill/disabled/for whatever reason can't participate or volunteer for things in person, I highly highly recommend.

Next time you wish you could do something - anything - to help

Remember that actually, you can. And help with some science.

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replayed hatoful boyfriend and in isa's backstory it's mentioned that ryuuji brings back a fossil. not sure if this is a night on the galactic railroad reference or what

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Screaming crying because I hate every piracy guide I come across on here.

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Stupid joke based on birds i saw at my bird feeder

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Hatoful bf is so much fun when u know enough about galactic railroad and demian that the references to them have you white knuckle clutching ur legs ur in so much agony

anyway heres 1 srs comic and 1 shitpost that also reference them except the first one is literally the ending dialogue from penguindrum so its a reference in a reference?

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Some brotherly advice

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doodle

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The color pictures don’t scan very well unfortunately. ;_;

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as an american i don’t like america and won’t defend it from its detractors unless they’re coming for free refills or garbage disposals in which case you sound jealous

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Poor Heiji

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the new normal

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rough drafts/ideas for if akty could fuse. love my little fusion guy

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MWAH!