basically every type of animal either lives for 10 years or 100 years. the trick is to be a 100 year animal

What the media won't show

It’s actually pretty nuts how there is no real mass media coverage of the protests that are happening all over the US. It demonstrates fairly conclusively that the unlawful activities at the White House aren’t just limited to Trump. There’s a lot of wealthy people in powerful positions in the US and around the world helping to support the dismantling of the US federal government.

April 4

Today in Dungeon Meshi: Izutsumi joins Laios' party.

made a lil turnaround of my dnd oc + an old drawing of her

medieval yuri

Still can't believe the entire campaign relied on people not googling "Tariff" and spending like a minute to read the definiton. "I'm going to introduce tariffs" as a campaign promise is LITERALLY saying "I'm going make the price of things even higher than they already are, for you (usamerican)"

He literally won by telling people to their faces that he's going to make inflation worse. Joke country.

I am incredibly amused by these random Japanese women for scale with prehistoric creatures

I'm drawing lately because it's hard to do anything but take one day at a time with the current situation of our world, of our country, and I just don't know what to do. Like obv. people will say go to protests and help out and form community, but sometimes I sit alone at night and think oh, the world really is a pretty terrible place and all you can do sometimes is watch before you have to clock in to work to put food on the table every day. To have a roof, to continue to survive meagerly lest you fall into despair and debt.

I want my tax dollars to go to social services, to help everyone. I want everyone to have an opportunity to survive. I want trans people to live and exist well. But it feels there's too much evil in the world sometimes.

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“Where you go, you leave half the world overturned behind you. You are more dangerous than Bonaparte in your own way, you and that beast of yours.”

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Shoutout to @cozy-fish-crow for reminding me of this amazing quote.

But it’s done! A little messy, a few mistakes, but it’s done and I’m happy.

The US having an entire city in the middle of the desert dedicated entirely to gambling sounds like a thing other countries would make up about the US as a joke but its real and no one bats an eye at it

They also do divorce

You know I held myself back from going off on an infodump about the history of divorce in Las Vegas for the sake of this joke but the amount of people reblogging this version from me and not getting my history based joke about how divorce was important in shaping the economy is Las Vegas is driving me a little bit crazy

The people want an explanation so an explanation I shall give.

Basically Nevada used to be like. Nowhere. Even more nowhere than it is now. They broke several rules when they made it a state actually because the population wasn’t big enough to justify it but they wanted Lincoln to get more electoral college votes or something. I dunno.

Point is, there’s not much in Nevada. Sure, there’s silver mines. There’s local tribes who are pretty cool. There’s wildlife. There’s some neat mountains. Not much water though and water is needed for most industries and large scale civilization.

This vast emptiness ended up making Nevada what it is today though mostly because of crime. It’s hard for the feds to stop your crime when you’re surrounded by a whole lot of nothing. Is the state and federal government gonna trek through the Nevada desert to scold you? I don’t think so.

Local governments today in Nevada can often trace themselves directly back to criminal organizations and corrupt groups of politicians, including the city of Las Vegas and the very large unincorporated community of Paradise which is actually where the Las Vegas strip is. Why is Paradise, Nevada still an unincorporated community despite having over 180,000 residents? Because if there’s no city government that’s one less government entity your casino has to pay taxes to. Duh.

And these crime people and casino owners and easily bribable politicians despite their many problems did figure something out. Tourists like doing things that are illegal in other places. Californian tourists in particular. And one of the illegal things that all Americans really but especially Californians wanted to do was get divorced.

Around 1930 Nevada became one of the first states to make no-fault divorce legal. Not only that but the required waiting period became six weeks. Not only that but only one spouse had to live in Nevada for those six weeks. To this day, the waiting period for divorce in California is still six months. This was huge.

This becomes a whole industry. Not only is gambling legal in Nevada but now divorce is too. When a couple decide mutually that they want a divorce but there’s no legal reason for it where they live, one of them, usually the woman, goes to live in a resort in Las Vegas or Reno for six weeks (often called a divorce ranch) and then they can get divorced.

And while one or both spouses are there, they can gamble, get pampered, see entertainment, meet other people. Then they go home after their divorce and tell their friends all about it. Now all their friends know that there’s gambling and entertainment in Vegas. And now they know about the divorce ranches. More money in the Nevadan economy.

Las Vegas is a bright shining tax evasion island in the middle of the desert built on entertainment, gambling, crime, and divorce. God bless Nevada and god bless no-fault divorce.

They made it a state to give Lincoln 3 more EV, yes.

Hey kid, sorry I killed your dad with a huge sword. The cycle of violence is super fucked up isn't it. Hopefully it can stop with you.

dude im feeling so dysphoric rn…. and the only thing that can help me…. cough….. is a fat stack of benjamins…. 🥺

it's basically the only way to have a social life in this environment, but consistently messaging people first really does make me feel like The Annoying Pesterer even in cases where that is a ridiculous thing to believe

I deserve infinite attention for free and yet I am forced to Put Myself Out There (send a message unprompted) to the ungrateful masses (people who probably like me)

Biodiversity is bad, actually. I think there should be one big bug that rules everything.