I just know at some point Charlie screamed YOLO and Dean just stared at her like “that’s a goddamn lie”
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I just know at some point Charlie screamed YOLO and Dean just stared at her like “that’s a goddamn lie”
Movement nudge! Working toward aging well.
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Everybody STOP having a crisis, it’s now tea time
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Pause all dread an catastrophe to have a cuppa and some cookies for the next 15-30 minutes
This is a wizard spell
has anyone considered that it was probably her house too. where else was she supposed to put her chintz?
I love you Pride Radioapple 🥺✨(No, Al isn’t even fanning him correctly)
I find it so interesting how some people accept and reaffirm the fact Israel has religious importance in both Islam and Christianity, and say that Jerusalem should “be for everyone”. Then they shit their pants when Jews say it’s also important for them.
So Muslims and Christians have a right to certain sites in Israel because they have deep religious significance, but Jews don’t? They have no right to their own damn indigenous land? To the birthplace of their entire culture, religion, language, and identity? The amount of mental gymnastics and Jew hatred required to make these statements is mind numbing.
And for anyone that’s curious, Muslims and Christians already can and have been to Jerusalem for decades. The whole “Jerusalem is for everyone” is so fucking stupid because literally anyone can visit already. And this argument is even more rich when considering the Temple Mount, the literal holiest site in Judaism, has highly restricted access to non-Muslims. Jews cannot visit their own holiest site without massive restrictions and they are not allowed to pray there. Only as recent as this year have SOME Jews been allowed to pray there (discreetly and out of sight). They’re facing these restrictions in their own indigenous land, no less! You would think since Israel is a “Jewish supremacist” country they’d get rid of these restrictions in their own fucking capital city.
Mind you Muslims and Christians are free to visit the western wall and pray there to their heart’s content. Though most Muslims wouldn’t since they can just go up to Temple Mount. The reason the western wall is holy to Jews is because it’s the closest they can get to the Temple Mount without facing restrictions. All of this to say Jews have no problem sharing their land making Jerusalem “for everyone”.
I feel like I need to share this because idk if Europeans are familiar with the presence of Aldi in the US, but at least especially in my area they’ve been growing a lot recently. Like Aldi bought out some local failing grocery chains where I live (Louisiana) and have opened Aldis in all these somewhat rural communities and small towns, which for the record I’m fine with
But as a result of this they are advertising a lot more in my area and also in many cases, the people in these areas have never been confronted with Aldi or any European grocery store. So the ads that Aldi is pushing out to its new US customer base feature a cowboy shopping at Aldi who is explaining to new Aldi customers how Aldi works. Like this cowboy is explaining you gotta put a quarter in the shopping cart and why there are very little name brands. A cowboy is how they want to reach their American customer base. They gave us a cowboy
Here he is, the Aldi Cowboy
I hadn't seen these so I had to go find them:
Leo Chicago and ALDI are heading out West for the latest chapter of the retailer’s ongoing “It’s an ALDI Thing” platform.
The rest of the space is going to be pretty pissed when they see this.
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Fanfiction is cool because you get to learn what other people's parents taught them the hymen is like
I know that I had somewhat unusually comprehensive sex ed but it still surprises me every time I'm reminded that some people genuinely think that losing your virginity is a capri sun kind of situation.
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B’tselem Elohim (spelled here with a quf to avoid writing a name of God) means “in the image of God.” It comes from Genesis 1:27
וַיִּבְרָ֨א אֱלֹקִים ׀ אֶת־הָֽאָדָם֙ בְּצַלְמ֔וֹ בְּצֶ֥לֶם אֱלֹקִים בָּרָ֣א אֹת֑וֹ זָכָ֥ר וּנְקֵבָ֖ה בָּרָ֥א אֹתָֽם׃
“And God created humankind in the divine image, creating it in the image of God—creating them male and female.” (Revised JPS translation, 2023)
Happy pride month! :)
🩷🧡🤍Lesbian flag challah bread from lav.bakes on tiktok!🤍🧡🩷
It goes without saying I'm magnitudes more """pro-AI""" than this website's median bloody-minded luddite, but it is fascinating that part of the appeal of having LLMs do web searches for you is that having a power hungry, computationally intensive mathematical miracle hosted however many hundred km away fetch the page for you, read the raw code, generate analysis, and then stream output to back to you is on the whole a faster way to retrieve information than fucking rendering JS in-browser.
And then webdevs have the gall to go and block Claude Code or whatever from downloading their websites because "ohhh 🥺🥺 so much downloading is massively costing us so much in bandwidth 🥺 we just can't afford it as if they can't not but send 150MB of CSS and React gibberish.
my 0.5 GB substack page #my0.5GBsubstackpage
I will be kinda annoying and say that even websites without a lot of JS and styling are struggling (e.g. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/our-small-team-vs-millions-of-bots), but also most sites are so incredibly bloated right now and it sucks. And from talking to people, part of the appeal is to avoid wading through a bunch of shitty clickbait sites which take forever to load and have the info at the bottom. Imo decent sites are becoming more and more like the clickbait sites every day.
And also, a lot of the webdevs aren't just blocking LLMs, they're also blocking things like the Internet Archive and bots researchers use to scrape sites which is frustrating at best.
treating your own characters badly is problematic? back in my day if we were mildly inconvenienced on the way to work we'd vivisect them for the stress relief
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the problem with genetically modified crops is not so much the genetic modification but the patenting of genetic codes (and crops in general) as a tool of maintaining agricultural imperialism, and for this reason I can't talk to most people about GMOs
it's pride month
everyone get more understanding of the asexual spectrum right nOW
so soothing. cancel my appts. gonna be watching a bubble freeze in real time for the foreseeable
The thing I don't really understand is, if so many non-native Americans and Canadians and Australians (etc) are so vehemently anti-colonial and want so badly to "decolonize" the world, why do none of them go back to where their ancestors (the colonizers) came from and give whatever land they own (and any wealth they have accumulated) to the native peoples?
Why don't any white "anti-colonial" American/Canadian/Australian/New Zealander/South African activists actually walk the walk and go back to Europe?
Just give the land back. Actually decolonize. Do it.
Why are no Americans/Canadians/Australians calling for their own countries to be wiped off the map? Why just Israel?
Why not also Italy and Greece? It is generally accepted that the Greco-Roman empires were the origins of Western thought and expansionism/colonialism. The OG Western Empires. Should THEY not pay the price for originating Western/European colonialism? Or, skipping forward a millennia or so, how about Spain? The Catholic country who paid that horrible man from Genoa to go "discover" the Americas? Spain who conquered and owned (and named) most of the Americas, should THEY not be wiped off the map for their colonial sins? Or perhaps Britain and France and Belgium?
Nobody is calling it the Hallucinated States of America. Nobody calls it Cantada. Or South NOT Africa(n). Denying their existence and/or right to exist. That treatment is reserved just for Israel. Why?
ScapeGOATs
Regardless of what they say, the modern Western "anti-colonialism" activist isn't trying to undo colonialism.
They're trying to feel better about it.
Instead of confronting or giving up the colonial empire they inherited, they outsource the guilt they feel about it. They make Israel their moral scapegoat.
The scapegoat is a symbol, a Jungian archetype which is fundamentally installed in the Western mind, though many don't know its origins or history.
In the biblical scapegoat ritual (Leviticus 16), the High Priest would symbolically place the sins of the people onto a goat and send it into the wilderness to die. The people's guilt was taken from them, dumped into a sacrificial animal...and pushed out of sight. The people were freed of their sins...and all it cost them was the sacrifice of a goat.
(Jesus, in Christian theology, is often described as the ultimate scapegoat. A sinless figure onto whom the sins of humanity were placed...so others could be redeemed. Like the goat in Leviticus sent into the wilderness, Jesus is cast out, humiliated, and sacrificed to cleanse others of guilt. I'd argue this is deeply embedded in Western culture, which has been primed to believe that salvation comes from sacrifice...so long as someone else pays the price.)
Throughout history, Jews have been convenient scapegoats for relieving others of their own unpleasant feelings.
In medieval Europe, Christian debtors blamed Jewish moneylenders for their financial ruin, forgetting it was Church law that barred Christians from lending money with interest in the first place.
During the Spanish Inquisition, newly unified Christian Spain projected its anxieties about impure faith and fractured Spanish identity onto Jews and conversos, purging them to cleanse the soul of the state.
In the 19th century, Eastern European peasants, angry at feudal oppression but too afraid to blame the aristocracy, attacked Jewish communities instead and used pogroms as emotional release valves.
In Nazi Germany, the shame of losing World War I and the collapse of national pride were offloaded onto Jews, who were cast as traitors and parasites undermining the Volk.
Each time, they cast their sins, conscience, or guilt onto the Jews and had the Jews pay the price for them.
Today, many Western activists project the guilt of their colonial realities onto Israel, demanding Jews pay the moral bill for sins committed by European empires.
They live on stolen land, inside settler colonial societies built by genocide and maintained by power.
But reckoning with that would be hard...so instead they find a goat.
They heap the weight of the guilt they feel for Western sins onto Israel.
In doing so, they can imagine themselves as cleansed of their western, colonial guilt. Even better, they get to feel righteous.
It doesn't matter that Jews are indigenous to Israel. It doesn't matter that the Jews were colonized by Rome, exiled, massacred by Christian and Muslim empires, and clawed their way back to sovereignty in a small portion of their indigenous homeland. It doesn't matter that Israel doesn't meet the definition of settler-colonialism, that an indigenous people cannot colonize their own land, and that Israel is the most successful decolonizing project in history.
Jews are close enough to white, successful enough to resent, and far away enough to be disposable.
Nobody is demanding that people of Spanish descent pack up from Latin America and "go back to Spain."
There are no international calls for settler Australians to return their homes to Aboriginal nations and return to England, or for Canadians to give their land back to First Nations and evacuate to Europe.
Instead, they want the Jews to again be their goat, wandering in the wilderness, carrying sins which were never theirs to begin with.
It's the same story, played out for a modern audience with better PR and worse intentions.
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Dr. Tomer Persico explains it briefly and well.
The Germans will never forgive the Jews for Auschwitz,” runs a bizarre quip ascribed to the Israeli psychiatrist Zvi Rex. To deconstruct ..
The shift in Newsom’s rhetoric tells us far more about the political winds swirling inside the Democratic Party than it does about Israel.
In his grand and gloomy book Civilization and Its Discontents, Sigmund Freud identified the tenacious sense of guilt as “the most important