Weeabootrash, Pokemon, And A Sprinkle Of Cartoons

Not very active. Fanfic blog is @pogokitten now. Ps: Cover photo is not mine in any way! @pogokittenart on twitter and instagram and tumblr

[justladders]

[youareagoodperson]

thank you Canada 🇨🇦

[the-gimmick-hospital]

FUCK YEAH GO CANADA!!!

[yourboymolloy]

REBLOG TO LITERALLY SAVE A LIFE

[unforth]

Y'all I know that when so-called AI generates ridiculous results it's hilarious and I find it as funny as the next guy but I NEED y'all to remember that every single time an AI answer is generated it uses 5x as much energy as a conventional websearch and burns through 10 ml of water. FOR EVERY ANSWER. Each big llm is equal to 300,000 kiligrams of carbon dioxide emissions.

LLMs are killing the environment, and when we generate answers for the lolz we're still contributing to it.

Stop using it. Stop using it for a.n.y.t.h.i.n.g. We need to kill it.

Sources:

AI’s excessive water consumption threatens to drown out its environmental contributions

Artificial intelligence promises revolutionary solutions to global challenges, but the water costs to produce and power AI hardware and infr

The carbon impact of artificial intelligence - Nature Machine Intelligence

The part that artificial intelligence plays in climate change has come under scrutiny, including from tech workers themselves who joined the

Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret

First-of-its-kind US bill would address the environmental costs of the technology, but there’s a long way to go.

[carsonjonesfiance]

One thing the analysts back in 2012 were right about is that they’d stop calling it “Obamacare” the second it started working and lo and behold anytime it was actually threatened under Trump it became The ACA and now Leftists who were in Kindergarten when the ACA was passed think Democrats have added nothing to this country.

[dea-certe]

I don't think a lot of people remember pre-existing conditions. Like it was a thing for a long time where my mom fought to try to avoid having my brother diagnosed with asthma because she didn't want him tagged with pre-existing condition. I wasn't officially diagnosed with autism or depression or anything because my parents didn't want to me to have a pre-existing condition when I became an adult that could prevent me from having insurance. Insurance companies could flat out refuse to pay for treatment if you had a pre-existing condition that could have caused the issue you were wanting them to pay for. That's not a thing anymore. My diagnosis of lupus isn't going to affect my ability to find insurance or use it to pay for lupus-related care if I change insurance.

Remember that bit from Parks and Rec? Yeah, that's kind of like what it was like. That was back in 2012. The ACA made it so that:

1. No insurance plan can reject you, charge you more, or refuse to pay for essential health benefits for any condition you had before your coverage started. This means that if you get diagnosed with cancer, insurance companies can't refuse to cover you. It means that if you have asthma, insurance companies can't refuse to pay for inhalers because you had it before you signed on with them.

2. Once you’re enrolled, the plan can’t deny you coverage or raise your rates based only on your health. This means that when I was diagnosed with lupus, my insurance couldn't kick me off or make me pay more.

3. Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) also can't refuse to cover you or charge you more because of your pre-existing condition. This is actually a big one, because it meant that the only coverage some people could afford wasn't able to kick you off, refuse to cover you, or charge you more because of something like a heart murmur you had at birth. That was a real concern for us when my oldest was born. They had a heart murmur and we were terrified we would never get insurance coverage for them.

Those were real things that really happened to millions of Americans. They would get diagnosed with cancer and get kicked of their insurance. They would have a semi high blood pressure reading one time and have a heart attack 10 years later and the insurance would refuse to pay for any of it.

Obamacare killed that. And the GOP fought like hell against it. Can you imagine everyone whose ever had COVID not being covered at all under insurance? Or being charged 3 or 4 times more? Or being charged 3 times more and still not having coverage for anything that might stem from COVID? Because that's where we would be without the ACA.

[jenroses]

my health insurance would be 40,000 per year without the ACA. And that's only because my state had a high risk pool.

[pogokitten2]

With my preexisting condition I’ve had since I was like 12 I would be paying 30k+ every year for necessary preventative medicine. Don’t get me wrong it’s still expensive, but not like 80% of my yearly income.

[arielsojourner]

USA people! Buy NOTHING Feb 28 2025. Not anything. 24 hours. No spending. Buy the day before or after but nothing. NOTHING. February 28 2025. Not gas. Not milk. Not something on a gaming app. Not a penny spent. (Only option in a crisis is local small mom and pop. Nothing. Else.) Promise me. Commit. 1 day. 1 day to scare the shit out of them that they don't get to follow the bullshit executive orders. They don't get to be cowards. If they do, it costs. It costs.

Then, if you can join me for Phase 2. March 7 2025 thtough March 14 2025? No Amazon. None. 1 week. No orders. Not a single item. Not one ebook. Nothing. 1 week. Just 1.

If you live outside the USA boycott US products on February 28 2025 and stand in solidarity with us and also join us for the week of no Amazon.

Are you with me?

Spread the word.

[absolute-r-andomness]

For context, there is a blackout on February 28 to protest against de DEI roll back

Nationwide economic blackout on February 28: List of stores being targeted

The national economic blackout is scheduled as a way for Americans to boycott major retailers that have pulled back on DEI policies.

[erelavent]

Trump getting inaugurated on MLK Jr. Day is a hate crime. I don't care what anyone says.

[pickypicnic]

[mariokart64ost-deactivated20170]

I wonder what kind of symbolism they’re trying to get at

“There are a lot of giant robot shows in Japan, and we did want our story to have a religious theme to help distinguish us. Because Christianity is an uncommon religion in Japan we thought it would be mysterious. None of the staff who worked on Eva are Christians. There is no actual Christian meaning to the show, we just thought the visual symbols of Christianity look cool. If we had known the show would get distributed in the US and Europe we might have rethought that choice.” -Kazuya Tsurumaki, assistant director/art director on Neon Genesis Evangelion

[eclipsebykimlipmp3-deactivated2]

eva is literally fake deep

[thanhpls]

#i love this tbh #like their treating christianity like white people treat buddhism and what not is such an unintentional fuck you

[whetstonefires]

tbh the Japanese sprinkling Christianity into their media like a cheap vaguely spooky seasoning is a tonic for my soul

[thetragicallynerdy]

[ID: a gif of Evangelion Unit-01 being speared through the hand, then showing it suspended in the air with a spear through each hand and its chest, with three glowing triangular wings of sorts around its head and shoulders. It looks like it has been crucified. End ID.]

[onemuseleft]

I did a report on Evangelion for my Millennium and the Apocalypse class (Yes, I’m Very Old) and the thing I remember the most was having to explain, over and over again, that the Christian symbolism was an aesthetic and used for entertainment, not to convey religious meaning and the entire class having a goddamn mental break over it because the idea that someone might not have been 1) culturally familiar with and 2) personally invested in Christianity was a goddamn revelation.

[wolf-of-odin-1963]

[longjump5o6]

Saw on the local news the other day how Salvation Army was struggling for donations during the pandemic and all I said was “Good.”

[a-place-to-be-panace]

Reminder this upcoming holiday season to not give any money to the Salvation Army, but don’t harass the collectors because they’re often people who are desperate, receiving help from SA, and their next meal/place to sleep depends on them ringing the damn bells and asking for donations.

[courtesanofdeath]

you know it's bad when even nyanko-sensei says no to your food

[reittu]

Would you take a snack from him?

Yes

No

Voting ended onNov 19, 2024

[nick-nellson]

The Sound of Music (1965) dir. Robert Wise

[lukas-broken-bow]

no one is Okay, I think.

[guerrillatech]

[cryoverkiltmilk]

How dare you leave this Jason Todd discourse in the tags.

[eggmacguffin]

I love natsume yuujinchou so much

it's so cathartic, about how the stuff that happens to you as a kid breaks you down over time and that healing is slow but possible

it is such a sweet and loving show about living a good life surrounded by people after surviving a scary, lonely adolescence.

also nyanko-sensei is the best deconstruction of a mascot character that I've ever seen. mascot character who is an alcoholic. mascot character who doubles as a father figure to the protagonist. who else is doing it like natsume yuujinchou

[willgrahamscock]

Do you look your age? (according to other people)

Yes, generally people guess correct

People guess that I’m older

People guess that I’m younger

I’m not sure

Voting ended onJun 12, 2024

Add in the comments if you think you look your age and what others guess

[helenvaughans]

[tiffany-chan123]

We thought it would never happen…We were wrong.

[girly-sidetails]