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I am extremely online but in like the Loser Way. if you try to make me use instagram or tiktok I fumble around with it like a grandma who has never seen a phone before. if you send me a tumblr screenshot however, I will tell you that not only have I already seen the original post but that I'm mutuals with OP
Is making a lot of incredibly shitty, possibly bad or outright horrifying mistakes actually a viable survival strategy in life? Maybe even a wise one?
I don't think I'd be so annoyed by the various media with the premise "The Man wants to control what art people can make, and this made the world Sad and Gray, but we can fix it by adding Color and Music" if literally any of them had anything to say about the *actual* method by which the people with power control what art does and doesn't get made (IP law, publishing, and curation) instead of just having a Fisher Price Department of Wrongthink that arrests/kills you if you play anything other than the One Approved Genre Of Music or paint a dog without a license.
Like there's definitely something interesting to say here, but none of them have aspirations to have any greater message than "artists most important people on earth, say artists."
People mock STEM majors for dismissing all humanities as worthless frivolities but this is literally just the same shit. "MY discipline is the most important one that can solve all the world's problems" is just incorrect no matter what discipline it is that's saying it.
movie where the world is sad and gray because IP law prevents art of any kind from being available anywhere without paying exorbitant fees and the protagonists heroically commit copyright infringement to bring art back to the world
"some weird looking looking alien heads above an image of many people" "an illuminated pendant made out of many squids in a room"
Everyone say thank you sanitation workers we owe you our lives sanitation workers
linen center with bobbin lace border; average: 38.8 x 38.8 cm; flanders c. 1800s.
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not to be insensitive but some of the salem witch trials were so funny bitches like “i saw her at the devils sacrament!!!” girl... what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament 👀
happy birthday devils sacrament. i wish you were never born
Whenever America starts a war with a nuclear power everyone starts yelling about WW3 and it's only just occurred to me that when Americans say 'WW3' they are at least partially expressing an anxiety that this time their government's blind aggression might have hit somebody who'll actually hit back.
I was gonna say 'like WW2' but then rapidly remembered that neither of the existing world wars involved like. much of any direct damage to civilian populations either because America's eternal wars haven't touched its own soil since like the 1860s. except for Pearl Harbour, which was literally One Attack in the whole of WW2 (and which was also primarily targeting a military base. and was in a colonized nation far from the mainland USA). I am not kidding if you look up 'attacks on American soil' every single thing since 1900 except individual attacks (Pearl Harbour and 9/11, basically plus a couple of border skirmishes with Mexico) is like 'America was attacked In The Gulf States' or 'America was attacked In Asia'. like mate where is the US? you can't count attacks on military bases as 'attacks on US soil' unless you need to bulk out the list which. look at the history.
Like imo one of the reasons the US is so comfortable being leisurely belligerent against Literally Any Country In The World is that it's been literally well over a century since the fight actually came to them. why WOULD the US government stop being blindly aggressive when the only costs are financial?
and instead of being primarily concerned about like. the actual thousands of people who are actually gonna die in these strikes. every time the US's unprovoked aggression hits a nuclear state of a state with a measure of international heft, the loudest concern from Americans is OH NO WHAT IF THIS ONE'S WW3
because. war is so abstract and foreign. because it's spent 150 years constantly happening Over There and only involving Americans who are in the military. foreign wars don't register as a threat because they're NOT a threat to Americans (the only Real People) and the way in which they're frightening is the abstract possibility that the other party might at some point bring America actually into the war. which has basically never happened so it's this vast unknown threat.
(the UK btw is also not immune to this but it's a wee bit different. our economy was permanently crippled by direct damage in WW2 and the Irish republicans got a lot of hits in so there's still some memory that War Has Consequences. but by and large we still approach war as something that Happens Elsewhere and are scandalised by the idea it might directly affect us at home. this is still a fairly abstracted and fictionalised threat to us which we treat as More Worrying than the actual bombings currently happening, but I just don't think it's as completely abstracted as the American relationship to foreign wars)
The Black Tom explosion in 1916 was a German terrorist attack on US soil and resulted in 7 deaths, hundreds of injuries, about half a billion dollars in adjusted damages, and complete annihilation of an island in New Jersey.
Also, WWII was a nuclear war.
SEVEN. SEVEN DEATHS. A CENTURY AGO. is the 'war has come to US soil' you wanted to pull?
Preliminary figures today (4 March) is 787 Iranians killed since 28 February. so forgive me if I say you're proving my point pretty effectively.
similarly yes you are correct WWII was a nuclear war. so far the only one. a war in which the US made the decision to kill over 200,000 people Over There on a different continent and then spent the next 80 years making sure nobody else would be able to either retaliate or do anything similar. And the American (and Western) relationship to nuclear arms remains primarily not 'Jesus Christ I cannot believe America killed close to a quarter of a million people in a civilian centre with one set of orders' but 'oh noooooo what if this means we have to mitigate our aggression in case they do something like this BACK TO US'.
so. again. my point. war in the American cultural imagination remains an abstract thing that THEY do to OTHER PEOPLE where the concept of any enemy action reaching people in civilian centres is so completely abstracted it just becomes a boogeyman and apparently we should still be talking about the 7 American civilians that were killed in a war that claimed in the region of 6-13 million civilian lives in Europe, Africa and Asia.
Seven. Fuck me. I thought I was being needlessly shitty when I wrote this post but you have really helped clarify that this actually is how warped American perspectives on civilian casualties are.
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when (some orb-weaver?) spiders are hungrier they build/adjust their webs so the strands are more taut, meaning the web is more sensitive, and smaller prey than normal will make it vibrate (every bite counts when you're starving!). but ALSO: if you station a well-fed spider on a web that was built by an extremely hungry spider, that spider will go capture the kinds of tiny bugs that the looser web it would have built itself wouldn't have alerted it to. they outsource the decision-making for which prey to go after to their web! they just adjust the settings til they seem about right for the moment and then go along with whatever the web picks up. "the spider will eat whatever it's aware of, and it sets the bounds of its awareness by spinning different kinds of webs." that's so cool....
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Painting my tent and making guyline shorteners
I've made a mosquito net canopy so I don't get eaten by bugs in my tent and this shit is adorable.
It's like a very tall wizard and a circus tent had a baby
my consistent top 5 tumblr fear is that i make a pro piracy post and then it gets reblogged with some first world addition about the wonders of the library
an imaginary yet so real being: another fun thing that you can do is borrow intergalactic erotic board games from the 1960s and even if your library doesn’t have it the librarian will be HAPPY to get it for you, believe me!! this is a little life hack a lot of people don’t know about!!!!! TALK TO THE LIBRARIAN and they WILL get you the intergalactic erotic board game from the 1960s! and that’s NOT a thing piracy can do for you (heh!).
my library’s eternal buckets:
Hey by the way if you're an American and you're against the war, it's your duty to call out the shit that is insane and monstrous and wrong.
If someone says something that you know to be wrong, say something. Push back on it. Iran didn't start this war. They haven't been at war with the US for forty seven years. The US didn't have to support Israel's strikes with this kind of escalation (we haven't in the past, in fact Trump hasn't in the past). The Iranian people are not looking to the US as liberators. The Strait of Hormuz was always going to be used tactically in this way, it is absurd to suggest that the Iran would open it because it is the single best method of leverage they have to resist annihilation from a superpower. Bombing civilian infrastructure is a war crime. Saying that an entire culture will be destroyed is genocidal.
There is no moral reason for the US to do this, the reasons that the US is doing this are oil and to destabilize the region. Hubris, cruelty, and a vile old man who wants to give himself a hero's legacy play a part as well.
You should be saying out loud to the people around you "This war is unjust, unnecessary, and cruel, and every reason our leaders are giving us to tell us why we're doing it is a lie."
People should know you feel this way. Some people will feel the same way, and it will be good for you and for them to know that you're not alone. Some people will NOT feel this way and it will be good for them to know that there are people all around them who haven't bought into the violent propaganda of empire.
Simple things to say to push back:
There is no justification for bombing water and power infrastructure for ninety million people; that will kill thousands of civilians and is a war crime.
Iran was bombed while they were negotiating with the countries that bombed them; they were willing to make the agreements requested by the US and Israel before they were bombed.
The Strait was open in February. If the US and Israel hadn't attacked Iran there would have been no reason for Iran to close it.
You can't be an "imminent threat" for forty seven years, so either Trump is lying about the immanency or is lying about Iran being at war with us for half a century.
Correct! If you are enlisted you made one really bad decision already, you don't have to make more. You can become a conscientious objector if possible, but if that's not possible it is better to refuse orders and go to prison than to participate in atrocity.
Incorrect! The average every day soldier is not the one making the decision to drop anything on Iran, or making the decisions for anything currently happening.
We also don't currently have boots on the ground, and to my knowledge, Israel is the one dropping shit rn.
I understand your hatred for the military industrial complex, and I understand your hatred for the government, but the average soldier is not the problem here, and not to blame.
Despite what most people think, you can protest in the military as a soldier. However! You have to have damn good reasons to back up that protest. You cannot just "refuse" or "desert". You can always tell when opinions come from people who have never served or been around soldiers because they so clearly don't understand how things work.
Also, the whole argument of "you got yourself into this" is bullshit. The US military is full of marginalized communities. People of color, people coming from impoverished communities, abusive homes, etc. For many soldiers, their choice was join the military, or starve. Join the military, or get beaten at home again.
Stop blaming the average soldier for your problems with the government. Just hate the government.
If you fly a plane that drops a bomb, you are responsible for the people killed by that bomb. If Israel is the one dropping shit, it's curious that they managed to drop an American F-16 weapons specialist in Iran.
If you vet targets for drones, you are responsible for the targets those drones hit.
If you are a secretary who makes sure that logistics works out, you are culpable for the people whose infrastructure was destroyed by the supply chain you facilitated.
I am much more sympathetic to soldiers than many leftists, and much more understanding of why people join up - which is why I've done a lot of posting about why you shouldn't enlist, how recruiters lie to you, and how you have to be enlisted for three years before you're making more money in the military than you would making minimum wage in california so if you are escaping an abusive situation you would do better to get a bus ticket to the coast and aim for a job at costco with roommates than you would to put yourself in a position where you are going to be responsible for other people dying.
The president said that he wants to eradicate a civilization this week. He has said that he wants to do war crimes that could kill millions of people. If you are currently in the US military, you are following the orders of a genocidal regime.
If the things that Trump has been calling for this week happen, our government and military will be facing our own Nuremberg trials in a few years. And they will absolutely deserve it, and it will be the responsibility of every person of conscience to make sure that people who participated in this war face consequences for their support of genocide.
You are literally saying that if US soldiers bomb bridges and power plants and desalination plants they are just following orders. You are justifying participation atrocities against ninety million people because some American teenagers needed to get out of a bad situation or wanted to pay for college.
I'm not saying that there are no consequences for refusing orders or deserting, I am saying that the morally correct position is to go to military prison rather than taking any actions that will result in the destruction of drinking water treatment for a country that was "preemtively" bombed by a superpower and already had a water crisis.
I'm aware that the US military recruits and propagandizes children, but I'm not interested in infantalizing soldiers. They did make the choices that got them where they are, in the same way that people who sell drugs made that choice and the people who rob banks made that choice - I understand that there are terrible situations that motivate those choices, but if the choice you made hurts other people you have to take responsibility for making that choice.
The bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school was very likely done by US pilots. That bombing killed 100 little girls, in addition to at least 75 other civilians.
The pilots who dropped those bombs likely didn't know what they were dropping bombs on. The specialists who chose the targets may not have known the school was going to be hit during strikes on a nearby base (but they did know that Iran had not struck the US or Israel - those targets were selected when Iran was negotiating to stay out of a war). The Navy loadmasters who transported the bombs didn't know that the bombs were going to spatter schoolbooks with children's blood, or that they were going to be used in a triple-tap strike that would have targeted those children's parents and emergency workers.
But the bombs got there. They were loaded into the planes and they were aimed at targets that had been chosen and approved of. They were flown over a country that the US was not at war with, and a person in that plane had to be the one to make the decision to release the bombs.
If you were part of that chain, yes. You made a horrible decision. You might have been trying to keep yourself safe, you might have been trying to pay for healthcare for your child, you might have needed to get an education to have a better shot at a comfortable life.
And you decided that was worth more than the lives of a hundred little girls who had stickers on their notebooks and inside jokes with their friends and loved their parents and hugged their siblings before they went to school that morning and were buried under the rubble of your choices.
I don't hate soldiers. I pity soldiers.
That's not the kind of thing that I could live with. I don't know how anybody could live with knowing that they were the one who dropped that bomb or delivered it to the gulf or requisitioned its parts or chose where it was going to fall.
So I think they shouldn't live with that. Desert. Refuse orders. Go to jail, get dishonorably discharged, don't sign up in the first place.
There are options, and you should take them rather than spend the rest of your life wondering if the munitions you loaded onto a ship killed a building full of students and teachers who left their homes that morning unaware that they were going to become a casualty of your desire for a housing allowance.
No, you dont understand. YOUR groups inherits collective blood guilt that can never be removed and justifies all manner of harm against them. MY group just has some bad actors who should be punished on an individual basis.
you'd think so! but i anticipated your accusations years ago and embarked in a long-term project to swap all my blood with the blood of innocents. i have wiped myself clean of inherited sin from the crimes of my ancestors and am now guilty of a completely different and much cooler set of crimes
