We Live in a Beautiful World

personal blog. 33, they/them, Taurus

[depsidase]

[bebsi-cola]

when you tell people passports don't need to exist and people should be able to travel as they did throughout most of human history they think that's going too far because in their mind there exists a hoard of nameless faceless immigrants waiting to flood their country and "take over". without realising that there is nothing inherently superior about the imperial core countries - the culture, the food, the clothing, the architecture is not superior than that of the rest of the world. all you've got going for you are the benefits reaped from hundreds of years of historical colonisation and the continuing benefits of modern day imperialism. do you think if people's homes weren't subject to manufactured violence, artificial scarcity, and systematic disenfranchisement they'd all just wanna leave? can you not imagine a life where someone would be happier living in uganda than the usa?

[banchie]

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

[unyieldingsilence]

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[probablysomethingtm]

Lmao we have to fucking destroy this company are you fucking kidding me with this shit

Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and

[probablysomethingtm]

Remember that xkcd about how Google searches are shit now? What if we made them even worse for no reason?

[probablysomethingtm]

I will vote for any candidate who promises to go scorched fucking earth on every tech company. Break every single one of them up into companies based around a single product and then split those in thirds. Weaponize existing antitrust laws to the hilt and pass the most draconian versions of them ever seen on this planet. Nationalize google search specifically. Pass consumer privacy protections strict enough to kill the data harvesting industry for good. Make all of these fuckers go bankrupt for this rent-seeking shit

[probablysomethingtm]

[stackslip]

we're moving to an internet where children would be banned from reaching out for help and friendship online but abusive parents can post their children's every second online to humiliate and expose them for money with no pushback

[targetedknowledge]

[boccher]

no one with any amount of power brave or enlightened enough to call what the western world is doing to children segregation. children are segregated from public life. children are a legitimate oppressed class

[enki2]

[beadyeyes]

Where's it made? Who brought it here? How much were they paid? Who makes it? Is it made in separate parts and put together? How much were they all paid to do this? Where do they get the materials? Who paid for that? Who brings it there? How much were they paid? Who streamlined the base materials? How much were they paid? Who gathered the base materials? Where? How much were they paid? Is it good for them? Is it good for us? Is it good for the land? Is it necessary? Is it biodegradable? How much does it hurt? Do I need it? Do I even want it?

[inthefallofasparrow]

[ransomnote]

every fleetwood mac documentary i've ever watched is like "the band was at the height of their success, enjoying the fame rolling in from their #1 hit 'i know about the other woman, lindsey'. however, nobody could have sensed the tension brewing between members."

[ransomnote]

"the group initially disbanded immediately after the release of the single 'well get the fuck out if you're going to be like that', leaving thousands of fans shocked."

[notaplaceofhonour]

Ryan Gosling’s career has just been one long quest to climb the Warner Bros water tower

[notaplaceofhonour]

that man has been trying to climb this tower since he was 16. he has asked multiple times, and every time they said no, but now he’s famous enough & variety was able to convince them to do a shoot on the tower. it all led here. it was all for this.

[notaplaceofhonour]

I’m obsessed with the implication that this was a coming-of-age ritual where a boy becomes a man, like a bar mitzvah

[liberalsarecool]

The solution to homelessness is housing.

[quasi-normalcy]

I've reached the point where cynicism is a major turn-off for me. You're not smarter than idealists, and you're not helping.

[quasi-normalcy]

Funny that the stereotypical cynic is an idealist who aged out of it. In my experience, the reverse is true. I was an extreme cynic as a teenager and then I noticed how profoundly limiting it was, and also that "cynics are cool and smart" was a message that was being constantly reinforced by corporate media for some reason.

[quasi-normalcy]

#yes! cynicism reads as very juvenile to me#and yes prev often stemming from teen pain

Yeah, like I see black-pilled people on here and my default reaction isn't "oh, these must be world-weary old warriors who've lost their faith in humanity", it's "these people are in their 20s and need a hobby"

[quasi-normalcy]

I also think that the present era has proven that authoritarian leaders don't actually want a population of wide-eyed idealists, they want a population of jaded assholes who are convinced that everyone is lying, any resistance is either a scam or doomed to failure, and nothing can ever get better.

And that they're somehow better than everyone else for being aware of the scam.

[depsidase]

[krakenmonger]

Personally, I despise tomatoes, especially sweet ones. I admittedly have food sensitivities to tomatoes which don't help my hatred for them at all, but I just also don't. Like. Tomatoes. Never have.

I can, however, apparently grow tomatoes fairly well despite my not liking them.

Why do I grow them if I dislike them so, and have sensitivity issues with them and cannot eat them?

Bc I am a farmer; it's what I do. I grow whatever seeds I can get my hands on and get to grow. I'm a fifth generation homesteader who was raised that no food should ever go to waste, no matter what. I cannae eat these damn red fruits but my neighbor can. My 80+ year old neighbor who doesn't get around very well or have much money to spend on fresh vegetables at the grocery store. The latter being very much like a lot of other people nowadays. Myself included.

I have five plants of this particular variety of tomato growing in my garden that when ripe, every single fruit goes to my neighbor.i have zero use for this plant. But they look forward to my weekly tomato delivery with extreme anticipation. They admitted to me that since I have started delivering what is essentially my castoffs from my garden, they have started eating better. They have BLT sandwiches and salads with fresh tomatoes and vegetables instead of tv dinners from the freezer. They are saving money and eating better all bc I share with them the cursed red fruit from my garden.

The variety is early treat tomato for those that are interested. They absolutely are quick producing and prolific to boot, with fruits being around 2-3 oz on average. They are semi determinate which I have learned means they continue to produce even though they really only ever reach a certain size. So as long as the plant doesn't die it continues to put off sweet, globe tomatoes. If one is into that kind of thing, I'm told these are amazing to eat raw.

Photos show this mornin's harvest of about 15, 2-3 oz globe tomatoes in varying stages of ripeness, in my hand, green tomatoes on the vine, and the harvested tomatoes in a sourdough bread bowl. Final photos are of said tomatoes in a target plastic bag being delivered to my neighbor on their windowsill.

[the-habitat-ring]

This is why I grow cantaloupes. I absolutely cannot stand them but they’re easy for me to grow. My spouse likes them but can only eat so much. But lots of other people really like them, and giving people fresh fruit makes all of us happy

[drawnsnake]

Uncaring

[cipheramnesia]

"I literally don't care. I just wanna live." like really unlocked something in me. About house centipedes, about bugs, about me.