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In a superposition where I am an overprotective helicopter parent while also neglectfully relying on an iPad to parent for me
there a lot of details of american macroculture that have caused what I'd describe as a reality fracturing mental reset when I learned about them. one was learning that children do literally swear their allegiance to the american flag every morning before school and that's not a quaint comedic exaggeration left over from the 1950s like rabbit ears on a TV. one was learning that Americans have to pay for ambulance transportation. one was learning that Americans are taught the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were tough brave necessities that made the world safer and not horrific war crimes on a footing with the nazi holocaust.
and one was learning that the cultural cachet of veggietales is completely unironic and a lot of you watched the parables of God from the bible and his son jesus christ the cgi vegetable for real real and thought it was good, no goofing, not a bit
thank you small americans in my phone for correcting me: beloved cgi bible show did not portray the son of god as a vegetable, because that would have been sacrilegious
I was gonna put this in the tags, but it became an entire rant. SO
Do you know how many people would've died on both sides during an attempted invasion of the Japanese home islands?
Millions.
Do you know how many Japanese civilians committed suicide en masse in fear of American occupation?
It was 1000 just for the Battle of Saipan¹. 1 0 0 0. Not 1000 civilians that died as unfortunate collateral damage. 1000 civilians that killed themselves because they were convinced by Japanese propaganda that they'd be raped and tortured and mutilated if the US captured them alive. Hundreds of civilians threw themselves off a cliff.
Nuclear bombs are awful and horrible and never should've been invented, much less dropped. But the US military's estimated casuality number from invading the home islands was millions. That's only for the US military. Add in the Japanese military and civilians, and you get millions more. ²,³
Conversely, the high end estimate for both bombs is less than a quarter million.⁴,⁵ That includes the deaths from the effects of radiation, including cancer, decades later.
The trolley problem is a running joke on this website. But this was the trolley problem, and it wasn't a joke.
(Also, the estimated number of dead from the Holocaust for just Jews is 6,000,000.⁶ So, um. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are not on footing with it. Not at all. But the land invasion of Japan would've been.)
Astroth, Alexander (2019). Mass Suicides on Saipan and Tinian, 1944: An Examination of the Civilian Deaths in Historical Context.
Mosley, Leonard (1982). Marshall: Hero for Our Times.
Frank, Richard B. (1999). Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire.
The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
United States Holocust Memorial Museum
progress pride flag in my pfp to defend US war crimes because it's priiiiiiiiiiiide moooooonth 💅
"Dagnabbit if those civvies kill themselves it don't count!"
Why wouldn't they be frightened of Americans anyway? The Japanese-American concentration camps had been up and running for a while. I wouldn't rely on the moral fortitude of my enemies after seeing how keen they were to imprison their citizens.
So does her body just convert the silver and tin to energy? Does she poop the impurities? Are these added as a new nutrient requirement for her, she has to eat metal or she will become deficient? We already do that with metals, she's not special. Did the new disease make her look like a child? Or is the child the one who is penning the flyer? I hope that letter is double sided! They printed in colour, too, they must be nouveau rich.
[TN: This is a translation of this note by Maromi. If you are able, I encourage you to read the original article for yourself as translation
I have never read a more excellent article
This is a great take and I would like to adopt “Feelings Yakuza” in English actually, I feel like it conveys the whole thing way more obviously than “anti” (not to mention the muddled meaning of “proshipper”).
To avoid harassment, EA and SEA artists have started pre-emptively blocking users with "proship DNI" or any variation thereof in their profiles as a result of this article and said feelings yakuza are getting pissed that their DNIs are being hard enforced by the other side. How very dare.
I’m screaming with laughter at the actual Japanese term, o-kimochi yakuza. The “o” is an honorific indicator to indicate how prissy and self-important these people are being.
Reminder that shinigami eyes is one of the best tools to have as a trans woman. It helps mark people that are transmisogynistic through community consensus. The green labels don’t mean much but the red labels are accurate most of the time. If anyone is trying to convince you otherwise, they’re a bigot.
"transandrophobic exorsexist and intersexist" is always the most telling lineup because it's basically a list of labels that are genderqueer while not being strictly transfeminine. just a childsh mimicry of social justice language used as a bludgeon against transfeminism. a clear statement that you see transfems as a "them" opposed to the "us" of tme queers.
these deserve to be part of the post i think
Forgot that shinigami eyes is an online tool, so was briefly puzzled as to how the reaper spirits developed a power that allowed them to see the lifespan of humans and do something transphobic about it (I guess they kill them, which is a tradition observed by transphobes). I think the exorsexist part solidified the confusion.
and still nobody has managed to spot any works by the completely-under-the-radar "Olive Oil Banksy", or gay banky for short
its still funny that this is the site where ppl love to pass mental illness diagnostic labels around to each other like tokens as some sort of bonding ritual but the second you so much as allude to anything actually inhibiting your functioning or being legitimately disabling in some way suddenly its 'omg you people cant do anything' screenshots all the way down
I love when my brother lets go of his posturing and unashamedly enjoys himself. He thinks he has to be funny, be entertaining, be interesting, be cool. It's exhausting bearing witness to him maintaining this persona, dancing for the present audience like a circus bear.
Last night, he made himself a roast for dinner, and watched Naruto. He made himself something nice, and indulged in something he liked. I love him immensely, and it's so good to see him coax out some love for himself.
People who live in car-centric parts of the world have a lot of trouble imagining a world where cars are not the only/main option. They think of one scenario where a car seems like the only option and immediately give up on the entire concept of not owning a personal vehicle altogether. Meanwhile people who actually live in places that are not as car-centric are always finding interesting new ways to meet their needs for travel & transportation without a car.
"what if you need to transport furniture like once a year?" I can rent a transport van or pay to have it delivered to my home, they'll even carry it into whichever room I prefer for me.
I've also seen people transport entire pieces of furniture on public transit.
"what if I can't cycle or walk that much?" electric bikes and e-scooters.
"what if I have nowhere to put a bike/don't want to owm one for some reason?"
Shared public bicycle systems:
"but what about people with kids?" kids can use public transit too.
Also, meet the humble cargo bicycle:
(they can also be electric)
"what if someone is disabled/in a wheelchair?"
If their disability makes driving a car safely difficult, unsafe or impossible for them, but they can use other options, they're so much better off (that's a lot of disabled people, especially the elderly)!
If a car really is the only option, they should be able to use it, and if those of us who don't really need to drive stay off the roads, that will also be a much better experience for them.
Some places also offer special transport vans for disabled and elderly people that can pick you up at your home and bring you wherever you need to go! That means not every disabled person needs to buy and maintain their own adapted car/van.
When you have a hammer that you're paying tons of money for every month, you feel like you have to throw it at every problem you have, even when a different tool would've worked just as well.
Gods I miss Sydney's public transport. The people there would bitch and moan about it, as is their right, but fuuuuck. Their trains run almost around the clock! There are buses for the few hours they don't operate! Light rail! Trams! Trains connecting other states!
My home state has no passenger trains, no trams, no light rail. Regular buses between two major interchanges finish around 9:30 at night. We don't invest generously in our public transport, so it's unreliable.
Hello bisexual community
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Loving Frieren. Detected three types of episodes so far
1) Frieren and Friends Help Clean Up A Town Before The Festival!
2) FRIEREN AND COMPANIONS FACE A HORROR THAT THREATENS THE LIVES OF THOUSANDS
3) Frieren Faces The Crushing Weight Of Loving Humans For A Lifetime And Grieving Them For Many Lifetimes After
Oh Jinshi. God really said "you wanna be celibate? I'll make sure of that. Prick."
"You need to stop putting yourself in danger on purpose" MAOMAO. YOU.
Shisui 🥺🥺🥺🥺 Shisui Shisui Shisui Shisui Shisui
I haven't been heartbroken over an anime in so long
Basen really out here reading the subtitles
I cast
Ceaseless Watcher, turn your gaze upon this wretched thing.
Sorry but we don’t allow influencers in the building, it just Wizard Council Policy
Lies. The Giant Flaming Eyeball is pulling the ladder up behind it.
Thought I just had regular muscle pain after my workout but now it feels like my connective tissue is made of dental floss covered in habanero squeezings