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Mah privet place.

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by which I mean my private place.

nintendo: can't have alcohol in our child gambling games!!! solution???

vacation juice

Me after consuming nineteen (19) glasses of vacation juice:

My sociology professor had a really good metaphor for privilege today. She didn’t talk about race or gender or orientation or class, she talked about being left-handed.

A left-handed person walks into most classrooms and immediately is made aware of their left-handedness - they have to sit in a left-handed seat, which restricts their choices of where to sit. If there are not enough left-handed seats, they will have to sit in a right-handed seat and be continuously aware of their left-handedness. (There are other examples like left-handed scissors or baseball mitts as well.)

Meanwhile, right-handed people have much more choice about where to sit, and almost never have to think about their right-handedness.

Does this mean right-handed people are bad? No.

Does it mean that we should replace all right-handed desks with left-handed desks? No.

But could we maybe use different desk styles that can accommodate everyone and makes it so nobody has limited options or constant awareness that they are different? Yes.

Now think of this as a metaphor. For social class. For race. For ethnicity. For gender. For orientation. For anything else that sets us apart.

WHY DOESN’T THIS HAVE MORE NOTES?

Because I posted it about 90 seconds ago, calm down.

Never heard of left and right handed desks before…. Is this an American thing???

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Combined seat and desk setups. We're more typically used to table and chairs setup.

Can’t wait until we’re out of the EU so I can wave about my new blue BRITISH passport and eat BRITISH cheese patriotically and also cry BRITISH tears when I get made homeless after our BRITISH economy collapses.

Yami do you even understand what that means

He knows full fucking well why do you think he dresses like that

Me BEFORE BNHA 151:

BNHA 151:

Me AFTER BNHA 151, swiping away all my wrong thoughts:

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Scientists have figured out how to use nuclear waste as an energy source, converting radioactive gas into artificial diamonds that could be used as batteries.
These diamonds, which are able to generate their own electrical current, could potentially provide a power source for thousands of years, due to the longstanding half-life of the radioactive substances they’re made from.
“There are no moving parts involved, no emissions generated, and no maintenance required, just direct electricity generation,” says geochemist Tom Scott from the University of Bristol in the UK.
“By encapsulating radioactive material inside diamonds, we turn a long-term problem of nuclear waste into a nuclear-powered battery and a long-term supply of clean energy.”

SSSSSSCIIIIIIEEENNNNCEEEEEE!

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So basically science has given us a common staple of fantasy - crystals that have real tangible power. I will now assume all fantasy stories with power crystals and gems are post apocalyptic.