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21 May 2025, 3:32 pm

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You don't see as many nuns about these days

I wouldn't have minded being a nun at one point in my life
Mainly for the free bed and board

But I'm not too keen on the costume


You just gotta know where to meet them. :nerdy:


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21 May 2025, 3:51 pm

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Most of us agree that settler colonialism, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and genocide are wrong. Yet, paradoxically, it is also treated as unquestionable that armed resistance to these atrocities is terrorism and unacceptable.

Colonial descendants are often uncomfortable with any form of resistance to colonization that is not muted or unreasonably peaceful, expecting the oppressed to seek justice only through means that pose no real challenge to the status quo.

As Malcolm X observed, "If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.”
Similarly, Frederick Douglass noted, "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."

These expectations of passive submission ignore historical realities in which resistance, including armed struggle, has played a role in liberation movements, from the American Revolution to anti-colonial struggles in Ireland, Algeria, Vietnam, and South Africa.


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21 May 2025, 4:26 pm

when our collective backs are against the wall then we'll have no choice but to fight back, however feebly.



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23 May 2025, 10:58 am

Let's say I'm sitting in a park enjoying a nice sandwich for lunch. A politician and a rich man come by and the rich man says he's hungry so the politician takes my sandwich and gives it to the rich man and he eats it. I tell them that was my sandwich and I paid for it. The rich man offers to buy a new sandwich for me so he goes to the restaurant and buys two sandwiches. One sandwich has fancier meats and cheeses on it and other sandwich is like the one I had before. The rich gives the fancy sandwich to the politician and he eats it then he gives the regular sandwich also to the politician and he tosses it on the ground, steps on it a few times, rolls it in the dirt & mud, and gives it back to me. The two walk away laughing. It's a situation that's supposed to teach me something and make me stronger, they say. Teach me what exactly? All it did was make me realize how much I hate them for ruining my lunch.


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24 May 2025, 2:06 am

There are no winners when people get hurt and lives are ruined


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28 May 2025, 4:02 pm

If America was a person, they'd have NO REGERTS tattooed to their forehead.


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28 May 2025, 4:28 pm

Aspiegaming wrote:
Let's say I'm sitting in a park enjoying a nice sandwich for lunch. A politician and a rich man come by and the rich man says he's hungry so the politician takes my sandwich and gives it to the rich man and he eats it. I tell them that was my sandwich and I paid for it. The rich man offers to buy a new sandwich for me so he goes to the restaurant and buys two sandwiches. One sandwich has fancier meats and cheeses on it and other sandwich is like the one I had before. The rich gives the fancy sandwich to the politician and he eats it then he gives the regular sandwich also to the politician and he tosses it on the ground, steps on it a few times, rolls it in the dirt & mud, and gives it back to me. The two walk away laughing. It's a situation that's supposed to teach me something and make me stronger, they say. Teach me what exactly? All it did was make me realize how much I hate them for ruining my lunch.


Great analogy of what the Reform party is going to be all about. :)



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28 May 2025, 4:40 pm

Tamaya wrote:
Great analogy of what the Reform party is going to be all about. :)


Yep!



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28 May 2025, 4:42 pm

Canada: Donnie Dingleberry can eat a dick.
Trump: Wanna get some golden dome? <eggplant emoji><squirt emoji><orange emoji><orange emoji>


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28 May 2025, 5:30 pm

Tamaya wrote:
Aspiegaming wrote:
Let's say I'm sitting in a park enjoying a nice sandwich for lunch. A politician and a rich man come by and the rich man says he's hungry so the politician takes my sandwich and gives it to the rich man and he eats it. I tell them that was my sandwich and I paid for it. The rich man offers to buy a new sandwich for me so he goes to the restaurant and buys two sandwiches. One sandwich has fancier meats and cheeses on it and other sandwich is like the one I had before. The rich gives the fancy sandwich to the politician and he eats it then he gives the regular sandwich also to the politician and he tosses it on the ground, steps on it a few times, rolls it in the dirt & mud, and gives it back to me. The two walk away laughing. It's a situation that's supposed to teach me something and make me stronger, they say. Teach me what exactly? All it did was make me realize how much I hate them for ruining my lunch.


Great analogy of what the Reform party is going to be all about. :)


Thank you. I love using metaphors so much that I've pretty much mastered them.


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29 May 2025, 6:23 am

These are the wisest people I've ever come across:
-The Buddha
-Chuang T'zu
-Lao Tzu
-U.G. Krishnamurti
-Don Juan (from the Carlos Castaneda books) had some real bangers of wisdom
-Plato likewise had some real bangers of wisdom
-Carl Jung was very insightful into human nature
-Fyodor Dostoevsky was also very insightful into human nature


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29 May 2025, 6:32 am

It's nuts when I think that only a few hours away on a plane literally is the end of the world

So sad


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02 Jun 2025, 5:03 am

What if I don't want my money to contribute towards war stuff


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02 Jun 2025, 12:43 pm

Random thought conspiracy:

The possibility that the end goal is that all high end computer machines will be mainly accessible as a virtual cloud machines run through high end servers.
Only the richer ones will ever get the real ones if ever. Or, own a server that will do the heavy lifting that has a cloud device in it that's only for yourself and no one else.

Everything else is a subscription through a normalized substandard lower end device that's also a subscription that technically no one owns but the whatever company is running said servers.

So to do any heavier digital work at all, one would had to pay a subscription to access to a more powerful device instead of apps or softwares that could be dependently accessible online on a subscription model.

First hiking the prices of all hardwares as future proofing gets increasingly expensive, everything had to be online, etc...
Then advertise it as some form of eco-friendly alternative to reduce e-waste and a cheaper alternative when buying a new device isn't feasible anymore. :lol:


Gaming and streaming shows/movies/music -- just entertainment in general, is one thing.

Everything else -- docs, audio, video, digital editing tools, technical works, along with communication and business, and other personal stuff, etc. is another.

Yes, I'm aware; social media exists, cloud storage exists.
And that the average user doesn't need something huge of a spec to get by everyday.

But I don't want to deprive the not-so average users of the technical expression and accessibility to create and learn digitally. :roll:


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02 Jun 2025, 3:03 pm

Frankly, it's just how utterly amazing how certain people can still be so stubborn about vaccines can do more "harm" than good. :roll:



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02 Jun 2025, 5:05 pm

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Frankly, it's just how utterly amazing how certain people can still be so stubborn about vaccines can do more "harm" than good. :roll:



Not to mention the contrarian horses**t they'll trot out in order to maintain that stance.


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