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When did I break 800 followers? Also, why do y'all follow me?!
We're at 944 by the way. What is wrong with you people?
Okay, I have a request. Drop in the replies what, if you remember, drew you to my page and why you followed.
I hate how very specifically British colonialism overshadows all other imperialism.
Nobody talks about the Ottoman empire, the various shenanigans the Indian and Chinese rulers were up to, the Russian Empire (Russia is still a colonial Empire, btw) hell, even the shit Spain or Portugal did are swept under the rug. Nobody remembers French colonies in Africa or how much of a menace the Dutch used to be.
No, it's all Britain, all the time, baby. The only colonial Empire to ever exist, I guess.
I mean, they did do it bigger and better than anyone else. There's a reason they used to say, "The sun never sets on the British empire". It literally circled the globe, so the sun was always shining on some part of the empire.
Still, you make good points. They definitely weren't the only ones, and definitely not the most brutal.
The Mongol Empire and Russian Empire at their biggest were of a comparable size and the "sun never sets" era lasted for a blink of an eye on a historical scale.
A lot of the people who whine about colonialism also heavily fetishize people who aren't white, so they aren't concerned with any transgressions they might have made.
I see Slavs don't count as white again ths week
They're not wrong tho. The reason people focus on the British Empire is almost entirely because of noble savage bullshit anti-white racism with a touch of fetishizing PoC HEAVILY.
Shit, people wine all day about the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade but people don't even acknowledge the Arab Slave Trade that still exists to this day and existed before the Trans-Atlantic, nor the fact that the same can be said about fucking Africa's slave trade. They even shit themselves and scream "racism" whenever anyone brings attention to it. This unwillingness to accept that poc did wrong even extends into "historical movies" (see, the Woman King, or whatever the fuck they called that movie).
A week or two back, I saw someone go "yes, Africa had a slave trade already, but Europeans made it so much worse!"
I'm not sure if that genius even knew about Barbary/Ottoman slaves, who were often taken directly from raids on Christendom.
They're also wrong. African slave trade lasted longer and was much more brutal. The warfaring tribes would raid another tribe, kill the resistance, rape the women, then use the surviving men like subhuman filth to do all their menial jobs.
Hello?
Her nips were frightened away
it's not that PKD was sexless or a virgin or whatever it's that he was simply the most divorced man of all time
Furthermore we have to recall that on top of being the most divorced man to ever live he was writing all this absolutely thwacked on speed
oh okay, yeah
"Most omenpaths are not stable and do not remain open continually. Also, you have no idea where you're going when you go through one, so it's not something to be done lightly. Finally, not all omenpaths are in obvious places."
All of this seems like reasons to not build a town around one, yet we have a town built around one on Thunder Junction. Is their a reason the one there is different?
For some reason, the nature of Thunder Junction makes the omenpaths more stable, and more plentiful.
I'd really love for this to be better fleshed out. This feels like "... And then Palpatine returned, somehow" all over again.
Google isn't the only search engine in the whole internet, there are others! And we need to diversify our search engine usage or we're gonna end up where we were a decade and change ago with the Internet Explorer issue. We can't let a single brand monopolize everything! This is why Google Search can afford to suck so hard: because people use it regardless! And there are alternatives.
A little bit about search engines, there are 3 types: crawlers, which work by scraping the web and developing their own indexes; metas, which get their results from the crawler-type search engines and therefore depend entirely upon them; and mixed, those which have their own (small) index but also pull results from the crawlers.
Right now, there are a couple of independant crawlers apart from Google, Bing (from Mycrosoft) and Yandex (the Russian one): this are Mojeek and Wiby.
Mojeek.com is an independant british search engine with its own growing index commited to fighting internet censorship. It's small, and therefore it's usability isn't as good as that of the Big Three, but it doesn't censor, it's fairly respectful of people's privacy, and it doesn't drown you in adds. For those old enough to remember, it's a lot like early 2000s Google: you can find what you need, but if you write "dig shelter" instead of "dog shelter", that's what it's gonna search for. That said, please try to use it and support it as much as you can before we end up entirely dependant on Google, Bing and big corps adds. [click here to go to Mojeek]
Wiby.me is a new indie project that is literally dedicated to bringing back the old-school web. It's goal is to index as many personalized websites as possible, and NOT commercial sites. So, for those of you who can't find any answers to technical questions beyond highschool level because Google buries them under a gazillion commercial sites and other meaningless shit, keep an eye on this project! It has a lot of potential. And, if you know of any personal websites that have great stuff but have been murdered by Google, you can go over to Wiby and submit it to their index. [click here to go to Wiby]
Aside from those, there are also meta search engines you can use to ween yourself off Google and search for random, day to day stuff.
Qwant.com is my go-to hereโit has its own index and pulls from Bing, has relatively little censorship, and is fairly private. This is the one I use on my phone for everyday stuff. [click here to go to Qwant].
Historically, DuckDuckGo has always been a go-to for those who want a search engine that respects your privacy and doesn't censor. Personally, I've never been a fan, and there have been a LOT of scandals in recent years. It supposedly has its own index and pulls from Bing, much like Qwant, but I don't know. I just don't like it. Still, I've added it here for completeness' sake.
If you have Firefox Mobile browser, you can set any of these search engines as your default search engine and you can also add the others as secondary search engines and switch quicky from the navigation bar. If you don't have firefox mobile though, what are you doing with your life??? Go get it!! It is So. Much. Better. You can have add blockers and watch YouTube add free, for free! You can have reader mode and dark mode add-ons! You can have the world oh my goshhhh, drop Chrome!!
4get.ca is my last recommendation: it works a lot like SearX, but honestly better. It doesn't have its own index, but pulls from many others. I think it's the best for reaserch, since it allows you to search for answers from different indexes, is easy to configure, add free, and avoids censorship as much as it can. It's also very privacy conscious, so that's an other plus, and it has that late 90s / early 2000s vibe that I totally dig. [click here to go to 4get]
If you wanna learn more about the topic, you can over to the Search Engine Map [click here] which shows you a bunch of Search Engines and how they relate to each other. Or you can also go over to this one dude's personal website whose done A Lot of reaserch into the topic (way more than me) and seems to be pretty legit, if a little extra. [click here to go to digdeeper.neocities.org] Hope this infodump is useful to someone =D
PS: here's to hoping all the links work!
EDIT: eliminated the "read more". Figured there are enough mega long posts in tumblr, one more won't make no difference lol (tho the version w the read more has been reblogged already, in case you'd rather)
Be mindful of using Yandex though, it's owned in large part by the Russian government. And if you think the U.S. government does shady things, you don't want to know what they do.
Oh damn the Catholics have joined in on the war against AI "art".
I kill you
Unmute for full effect.
jesus christ
Doctor: $140,000 a year
Furry artist on Patreon: $160,000 a year
i think youโre lowballing the furry art amount tbh
Iโm sorry for the inaccuracies, Doctor Yiff
no matter how I respond to this I donโt look good, well played. i walked right into that
Well, furry artists are typically more competent and courteous than your average doctor, so I can see that.
Did you just legitimately tell me that a person who draws wolf ass is more competent than a dude who spent 8+ years in a university to give you your lung transplant?
doctors are bullshit and furry artists perform an infinitely more valuable service to society compared to them
You will die in 7 days
It took doctorโs like 10 years to diagnose what was wrong with me, some insisting I was faking for attention while a furry artist I knew just went โthat sounds like crohnโsโ after hearing me complain once and ended up being right
Also I canโt go to a doctor and ask them to draw Rouge the Bat wider than she is tall with tits to match, now can I
You could if you werenโt a fucking coward
World Heritage Post
Art by coolfrogdude together at last
THE ORIGINAL HOLY S H I T
My dash has been graced by glory this day.
there's something very uniquely evil in the fact that the food aid dropped to gazans by the US wasn't halal
if that strikes you as naive or nonsequitur, i want you to put yourself into the shoes of a palestinian in the gaza strip, suffering untold famine and trauma at the hands of israel and the US empire, living through a genocide of everyone you've known and loved.
now imagine that the only food that you can eat is food that violates your religious dietary restrictions, sent straight from the people who are supplying the bombs and guns for you to be killed.
is that not, too, a form of ethnic cleansing? of erasure?
not trying to defend the united states in any way here but like? no? thereโs PLENTY of things to criticize the us about here, we donโt need to spread misinformation. unless this source is wrong in which case fuck americaโs response even more
Ah, but you ARE defending the United States here. By not jumping onto their disgusting misinformation bandwagon that they used to inflate the number of injustices and parrot the fabrication of lies, you aren't "being an ally" like they'd want you to be.
But they feel you're defending the US and the status quo by not working to disrupt and demolish/abolish it, anyway. Not blindly accepting their propaganda means "you're operating in bad faith and being a radical centerist/crypto conservative."
โCommander Vimes didnโt like the phrase โThe innocent have nothing to fearโ, believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like โThe innocent have nothing to fearโ.โ
โTerry Pratchett, Snuff
All this is true, but also Snowden went about things in a completely shit way. He didnโt blow any whistle, he stole massive amounts of sensitive information (outside of the shady shit NSA was doing) and just out that shit anywhere he could before fleeing the country.
Like, weโve very much got a system and protocol for handling the โhey, this is fucked up and probably illegalโ actions, and he completely ignored it.
He also decided to take refuge in a country that, even back then, was very famous for being much, much worse about individual liberties than the US. And which has only intensified that in the years since. Snowden has said he personally opposes the war, but he has to know that itโs his status as a physical manifestation of the shame of the American government that allows him to do so while your average Ivan Ivanov on the street gets five yearsโ hard labor for doing the same.
What's more, he didn't exactly spring the moment he got a bad feeling. Dude stuck around for years, and he wasn't just collecting documents - he was drafting them, actively engaging in the work he claims to have hated. Like, if you're going to scream about puppy killers, your credibility drops when you participated in the puppy killing too, to use a metaphor.
He leaked classified documents to anyone who paid attention to him, then fled to foreign nations more overtly guilty of the things he decried in his birth nation. He's a leaker, not a whistleblower, not a hero.
mysterious pink haired girl I'm playing games with at a friend's birthday party: I thought you'd be better at this when they hyped you up as such a good player. I'm not losing by that much
me, trying to find out what button combination leads to me licking her face in their bathroom: I'm not using my full power because I'm still analyzing your movements. you know, like Goku
Goku doesn't do that.
Goku deliberately goes easy on people to analyze their fighting style in like 10 fights minimum
list them in order
chapter 92
chapter 103
chapter 129
chapter 183
chapter 309 (kind of)
chapter 403 gohan acknowledges this is a thing goku does
and then there's the Vegeta fight in Buu saga which was him holding back but for entirely different reasons
You know the more I get into mythology the more I realize how tongue and cheek astronomy is
https://www.tumblr.com/generallemarc/746965719332290560/damnit-tzeentch
I get it because it state the world will end when Apep/Apophis devour the sun. But really nasa?
Also who was the cheeky bastards that decided to named Jupiter moons after it namesake god affairs/victims
The who decided to named the probe that orbit Jupiter after Juno? Like I get why, but seriously
Also found out that our moon proper name is Luna. The sun is called Helios right? Riiiight?
Ahhh NASA, rocket scientists are still nerds first and foremost.
You've also triggered my geek out reflex with this so I'll try to maintain control.
NASA's official deal about it NASA to Launch Sounding Rockets into Moon's Shadow
These are the rockets, they used the same ones in October for the same reason.
They avoid mentioning the inherent pun involved in the name this time, but well, not a secret.
NASA does this kinda often, like you said.
Also found out that our moon proper name is Luna. The sun is called Helios right? Riiiightt
Helios is the Greek name for the sun, Sol is the Latin, Luna is the Latin for the sun Selฤnฤ is Greek.
Planets are officially named after Roman deities, they sneak some greek in here and there for stuff which is only fair since Rome stole the Greek pantheon, most polytheistic faiths borrowed from the others but not THAT much.
JPL in Pasadena, they're the folks that make all the probes and such, when New Horizons did it's flyby of Pluto they well
Bless the nerds.
I hope this was contained enough, I could punch out a couple hundred pages nerding out all this stuff but I maintained most of my cool.
Gonna scream oh my Gd
Fully missed the title of the subreddit on my first read and thought they had a toddler that they were being kind of mean to who had taken to the wheel instead of the cat
my idiot naked toddler son named Salt, who runs faster than God and demands as much praise
โCommander Vimes didnโt like the phrase โThe innocent have nothing to fearโ, believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like โThe innocent have nothing to fearโ.โ
โTerry Pratchett, Snuff
All this is true, but also Snowden went about things in a completely shit way. He didn't blow any whistle, he stole massive amounts of sensitive information (outside of the shady shit NSA was doing) and just out that shit anywhere he could before fleeing the country.
Like, we've very much got a system and protocol for handling the "hey, this is fucked up and probably illegal" actions, and he completely ignored it.
in a kinder world i live in an i spy page
life might be better if we could all take a minute out of our day to stop and do a little puzzle
If some people can just limit to pissing on themselves this morning, that would be fantastic.
Is this regarding that weird stellar blade ask?
Yes. Because it's quite early for someone to fail basic reading comprehension before I've had my morning coffee.
Aww, man! I missed out on Stellar Blade idiocy? But pointing and laughing is one of my favorite pastimes!
You can search the tag on my blog. It's all there. This morning is fairly recent lol
I saw, Jesus Christ do we like pissing on the poor. Good ol' Tumblr.
You've got a whole ass (puns) disclaimer about a lewd tag, and nonnie thinks you're being a prude about a game? I'm impressed, frankly.
If some people can just limit to pissing on themselves this morning, that would be fantastic.
Is this regarding that weird stellar blade ask?
Yes. Because it's quite early for someone to fail basic reading comprehension before I've had my morning coffee.
Aww, man! I missed out on Stellar Blade idiocy? But pointing and laughing is one of my favorite pastimes!
The soft handed, weak backed, empty headed journalist cannot fathom what actual fantasy racism looks like.
Bro, fuckin
My dnd character's backstory has more fantasy racism in it, and more graphic fantasy racism, than the entirety of BG3.
Short answer, no. It's a US fuel ship. Likely bringing fuel to US ships.
Maybe in the Red Sea, but we're sorta there to keep the Houthis from fucking around more than they do.
Where on God's green earth did they think the weapons would go? Ships like the Harvey don't have room for anything but people, their food, and fuel.
