“cold unfeeling machine” don’t you lie that computer is working hard as hell overheating itself for YOU. those fans are whirring fast as fuck to make YOU happy!!! you are making her cry don’t you call her “cold and unfeeling” again. feel the warmth of the computer with your hands. computer love you OK?
Thats… Actually not a bad idea? Like obviously not everyone owns a tent but it isn’t terribly hard to get your hands on a cheap one (atleast in the us). The weather rating on tents has more to do with how they withstand the elements (how wet can they get) than how insulated they are. You probably wouldn’t want one that’s mostly mesh, but otherwise just about any tent will sleep really warm, especially with several people in it. Might be cold when you go to bed. But it should warm up fast.
Many of these climate change crazy weather tips seem to be pretty ineffective or of limited use, but this one seems like an actual good idea to me.
Beyond Walmart, google maps outdoor or sport gear. Most of those will have some sort of cheap tent, though I would avoid REI as they really only carry more expensive options.
This is actually largely the original idea behind four-poster beds. Castles are a bugger to heat, especially stone ones. But if your bed has its own roof and tapestries that hang down on all four sides, you basically have a tiny room with woolen walls.
I am American and I have never seen photos like this. I had no idea there are borders like this. Even though I LOVE the idea of open borders, I am staring at these pictures like “wait…people can just…walk across some stones or grass and BE IN ANOTHER COUNTRY??? and nobody stops them?? how does that WORK?!” So you can tell that my country’s propaganda has gotten to me by convincing me that this CAN’T work even though…it…obviously can.
These pics just seem unreal to me. I’ve been taught my whole life that this can’t exist. In 27 years no one has ever sat me down and gone, look, here’s how it is elsewhere. It isn’t impossible at all.
I want to add something, but I’d just be restating what they said. I.. didn’t know peace and kindness like this was possible.
All of the above, and …
Why did the chicken cross the road?
To get to Belgium, apparently.
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This also leads to some funny images like: GuEsS wHeRe ThE bOrDeR Is XD
this is real, but it also gets at why hopeful stories are so important - its real hard to make a better world if you cant even imagine it existing
can’t believe there are still people out here in the year 2023 that genuinely think aang should have killed ozai
“even avatar yangchen said—” that’s not the POINT, the point is that aang is the LAST airbender the LAST air nomad the LAST person following these teachings, the point is that if he breaks his vows the air nomads will truly die out with him, forever. the point is that the monks taught him all life is sacred and even if ozai is a piece of shit who everyone agrees deserves to die, aang refuses let ozai force him to give up the last thing he has of his people, their lessons, refuses to let ozai wipe the last air nomad from the earth and finish what his horrible family started. the point is that aang beats ozai because his spirit is unbendable, the point is that he takes the man whose ancestors set his on fire and robs him of the ability to hurt anyone ever again, the point is that the Fire Lord ends the fight kneeling before the Last Air Nomad and THAT is the ending aang deserved
i don’t think people really understand what’s happening in gaza. with each passing day that sees more and more palestinians dead, it’s becoming easier and easier for those in the west to perceive them as nothing more than a statistic. they might engage w the occasional palestine post, sure, but it’s just as easy to scroll right past that moments later w no real outrage for the genocide retained.
it’s vital to stay reminded that palestinians who are with us today won’t be with us tomorrow. it’s happening every second of every minute of every hour, and it’s relentless. somewhere in gaza a little girl is losing her mother, a little boy is watching his siblings bleed to death, elderly people are infirm with starvation and illness, palestinian women and girls are being sexually assaulted and kept in cages, fathers are leaving tents to find food for their families and not coming back. this is all happening right now, and it’s a direct result of the west’s complacency. it’s a direct result of their not seeing arabs as people worth saving.
it might be hard to compute as a westerner, but this is real. don’t let your privilege blind you to your humanity.
i think it’s easier for me to conceptualize this because i’m iraqi through blood, and to be iraqi through blood is to inherit the trauma of losing your home to imperialism regardless of where you were born or raised. i’m from the us, but it doesn’t mean i don’t have family displaced throughout the entire world, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt me to see my mother reminiscing her homeland every day, it doesn’t mean i don’t have relatives in iraq i think of every day. i can vividly imagine my family being put in this position. i can empathize and relate and i don’t have to work at all to tap into my humanity.
i do understand that many of the people engaged in this conversation don’t come from multicultural backgrounds, let alone an arab one. that’s where i start to find some of the things these people do w respect to a genocide bizarre, like handpicking their palestinian blorbos. they’re so privileged and insulated from it all, they actually are struggling to reconcile their feelings with the severity of the ongoing genocide.
and to that i say–get a grip. i’m tired of watching ignorance and insensitivity get repackaged as not knowing any better. at this point it’s your duty and your responsibility and a requirement to read up on palestinian history, check the news, find orgs to donate to. it’s not palestinians’ job to try to prove to you they matter. it’s yours to figure out why you think they don’t.
