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Consider this a sequel to this morning’s post talking about that SOS from that woman.

To kidnap people, starve them, beat them, torture them and even rape the whole taking their personal belongings? HOW does someone NOT being here “legally” justify that EVIL treatment?? Because guess what fuck sticks? NO ONE but Native Americans are here legally.

But thankfully a group called Haven Watch is formed to help these victims. You can donate if you can but if you can’t just spread the word!

No One Walks Alone

My mom and her teacher friends have a similar group here in New York and me and my friends have a similar kind of group going on.

Because this is NOT about differing opinions BUT of what’s morally right and I don’t want to look in the mirror 20 years from now regretting not what j could have done.

I can't help but think Xenoblade 2's element pairings are weird.

All elements come in pairs and they're weak to each other. Makes sense so far. Light and Darkness are paired up, so far so good.

Fire and Water makes sense on some level. Fire is weak to water, yes, and I can see an argument for beings attuned to Water not doing well if they dry up... But there's a huge elephant in the room about there being a more appropriate opposite to Fire. I'll get to that later...

At this, things get weird. Earth and Lightning are paired up and, while that makes sense for Lightning being weak to Earth, I cannot fathom how an Earth elemental takes more damage from Lightning. If only there was an element that better opposed Earth on equal terms...

Ice and Wind... Why are they opposites? Why is Ice not paired with Fire? Why is Wind not paired with Earth? It would make total sense for Wind and Earth to be weak to each other. Then the last pair could've been Water and Lightning, which is a pairing that makes as much sense as Fire and Water. Water can short circuit electrical stuff and this very opposing elemental combination is used in other games, like FFX. Yet we're stuck with Ice and Wind being opposites and I can't even figure out a reason one way or the other...

So I can't help but think the plot decided the pairings rather than having the pairings figured out beforehand. Brighid is a good example. She and Morag the first real boss fight of the game and she's bested via using an advantageous element. Of course when writing the story, it makes perfect sense for the Fire Blade to lose to water rather than ice. Not to mention that water is just a more accessible element. If Brighid were weak to Ice, they'd have to drop an ice cream truck on her or something instead of a water tower.

#xenoblade #xenoblade 2 #xenoblade chronicles 2 #xc2 #I'm replaying XC2 right now because I need to be not depressed

probablymoons

ngl some of these posts sound shortsighted so i’m pulling out the Marjane Satrapi quote:

"You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same."

finalgirlfall

Marjane Satrapi, "Sexual revolutionaries," interview by Michelle Goldberg, Salon, April 24, 2005, https://web.archive.org/web/20260228171009/https://www.salon.com/2005/04/24/satrapi_2/.

godlessondheimite

it’s actually really easy to satisfy audiences with Good Representation. you can’t depict someone struggling with their Otherness because that portrays it in a bad light but you have to depict them struggling with their Otherness because if you don’t, then you’re romanticizing how hard it is to be Othered. be super careful not to depict anything that might be adjacent to a common stereotype but if you go too far to avoid all stereotypes, then you’re still building the characters around stereotypes, which is a stereotype in its own way. if your storyline uses tropes, then it’s cliche, but if it avoids tropes, then it’s inauthentic. if you lampshade any of this, then you’re speaking down to your audience but if you don’t acknowledge this, you’re also speaking down to your audience. this is all really easy stuff i don’t know why people don’t get it.

godlessondheimite

forgot The Most Important thing. you absolutely CANNOT make them perfect because that dehumanizes them, but if you give them flaws? hoooo boy…let’s just say, you do *not* want to give them flaws…

charlesoberonn

Do theologians in Omegaverse worlds argue about what Jesus meant when he said "I'm the Alpha and the Omega"?

charlesoberonn

That makes a lot of sense, actually.

brainscrems

Does anyone know the history as to how that ended up in the bible? Idk, it seems weird that a judean guy who, by historical consensus, spoke aramaic, and possibly hebrew as well, would be using greek letters in a speech. Is this passage thought to be thrown in by the council of nicea on their own? Is this a bad translation and he said the first and last letters of aramaic which was made into greek letters for western audiences? Why is this in there at all? Has the history of this passage been traced as to how it ended up in the canonized version of the bible? I find this very strange that he’d be using greek letters and I gotta know how this came up

charlesoberonn

The historical Jesus is believed to have spoken Aramaic but the New Testament was written in Greek, likely by people educated in Greek literature and rhetoric.

They also wrote for a largely Greek-speaking audience since most Christian churches at the time were outside of Judea.

mirielvairenen

Also, that speech is from Revelations- so the Jesus saying that is in a vision seen by a guy imprisoned on a Greek island. (John of Patmos, historically identified with John the beloved disciple, and IIRC imprisoned by Domitian towards the end of the 1st century). So it’s… not really attributable to a historical Jesus.

charlesoberonn

Historical Jesus spoke Aramaic but Dehydration Hallucination Jesus can speak whatever he wants

charlesoberonn

rederiswrites

History will remember you today, Minnesota. Well done.

leebrontide

IN NEGATIVE TWENTY DEGREES!!!!!

Please spread this around. Don't let ANYONE lie and say my community is anything but ASTONISHINGLY UNITED in rejection of ICE's behavior. This crosses generations, race lines, party lines, class lines. THAT is how bad ICE is. THAT is how bad we want them gone.

THAT is how loudly we are DEMANDING they leave!

Do you understand what a crowd like this means in a small city like Minneapolis??? In weather that hurts to breathe???

Can you imagine what that takes?

ralfmaximus

Bigger turnout than his inauguration!

ozth

found this three year old draft buried in my files. is it funny? I don't remember

wispsofwhimsy

no no you’re on to something don’t leave this in the notes!

cannibalchicken

prospitianescapee

This one is pissing me off because there’s cheese in it. I’m not sure there’s a period of Chinese dynastic history wherein the type of dudes likely to be having rap battles would also have been familiar with hard cheese. There’d be political fucking implications to that. Fermented dairy products were often seen as uncivilized foods, and were associated in particular with northern “barbarian” cuisine (see: <lactose intolerance in Eurasia>), whereas competitive poetry was viewed as a civilized and scholarly pastime appropriate to civil servants and courtiers. Mentioning cheese in a verse which also references the heavens could be seen as an effort to legitimize the presence of these dangerous foreign elements within Chinese society, and, thus, as seditious. If dairy were to become a common theme in rap battles, it might be viewed as a dangerous sign of poor morale and defeatist thinking among the literati. “Emperor, we have got to move the capital to the south. The scholars are rapping about cheese. It’s all falling apart.”

cryptotheism

Now this is a fucking post

adiabat

i’m not aromantic but i believe in their beliefs

adiabat

for me being bi has contributed a huge amount to noticing all the ways in which romance and friendship run together and i think in general people would benefit from recognizing that romance and friendship are socially constructed categories used to describe a vast, nebulous, and often overlapping range of feelings

asteroidtroglodyte

My way of parsing it:

Every Relationship is actually a specific, unique thing. We invented Shorthands, such as Friend or Husband, to help describe recurring motifs in Relationships. But. The labels are simplifications. They will always fail to adequately contain the entirety of the Relationship.

rocketbirdie

unstoppable force meets immovable object

nonconformityhub

Aroace Experiences We Don't Talk About Enough (Infographic)

(If you're interested in a blog where aspecs can talk about experiences like this, I've since made an aspec venting space!)

lesbianseaweed

my wife [the animated webseries rwby] is away at war [the hiatus] and she almost died in an ambush [rooster teeth shut down] but she survived [viz media picked it up] and they're letting her come home [vol 10 is being written] but the journey is long and perilous [animation takes a really long time] so i don't know when i'll see her again [no vol10 release date] and if she'll still be the same after all that she went through [i dont know how viz operates and that scares me a bit]

#rwby #I didn't realize how long its been until I noticed how little I've been hyperfixating #I need it to come back so I can mentally distract myself during work

pocketsizedpanther

Yall be careful!

naamahdarling

"it's all fake looking ugly slop! Weird fingers! You can always tell!"

I need you to realize that literally none of these things are true, and that by continuing to believe them, you are making yourself gullible.

megafreeman

This is so important. AI is ever evolving, especially with trillions being invested into it. There are no more weird fingers at all.

I have run into several videos into my feed thst I wouldn't have been able to tell they were AI if it weren't for the watermark alone. Especially ones posing as police body cam, security cameras and other similar low quality cameras.

sistersorrow

A lot of people hinged their criticism of AI on how it consistently looked bad, which I have been saying for a while was always going to be a criticism with an expiration date attached since AI models have clearly been getting better with time

A lot of people operate with the assumption that AI can never get better than the most obviously AI content they've seen, so they end having no reason to suspect something was AI generated unless it's yellow-tinted pseduo-Ghibli art