OC Interview Questions - Fruits and Vegetables

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congratulations to Doohickey Guy for the most successful assassination in history

i sell bootleg political ideologies for cheap. shoulderist theocracy (named after shoulder angels and shoulder demons, where the person in society judged the most evil and the person in society judged the most good via a yearly points system form a diarchy to even out the moral balance for everyone else in the eyes of god). anarcho-contrarianism (based on the principle that the masses cannot be trusted, anarcho-contrarians reject whatever the current form of governance is, and believe humans should live in complete isolation from one another to avoid influence). dialectical imagination. slam poem meritocracy. one that’s just the social structure of ant colonies applied to humans. my partner invented one where a person believes there should be a king so that the population’s disdain can be localized onto one person, a sort of scapegoat monarchism. you want these ideologies, believe me. homofeudalism is going to be big this year.

Jesus fucking christ, dude

Imagine ur the Republican CEO of IBM excited for a big tax cut under the new administration and they invite you in as economic advisor so you end up spending two years of your life desperately playing therapist to try to unlock why your boss is so fucking weird about everything

who in fateslandia is hitting it with the reefer the most. whos dunked in the skunk. whos a pothead. who would never smoke pot. who desperately needs a weed blunt cigarette.

my vote is for azama and setsuna being the biggest stoners and i think xander needs a blunt but youd have to force him. sakura and ryouma get weed panic attacks

I'm seconding Setsuna being the biggest stoner. It's a miracle this gorl hasn't ruined her vocal chords from smoking that often.

On the Nohrian side it's Camilla, believe it or not. She uses it against her chronic backpain she got from carrying those huge fucking honkerdahoos the army

"Skepticism and the scientific method are the tools of white men, women and brown people (nobly) rely on superstition and vibes instead. I am progressive." is truly one of the worst takes of the year every year.

"But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?”

-- Ursula K Le Guin

Der Autoübersetzer von YouTube (den ich nicht abgeschaltet bekomme) hat gerade 'Brainrot' als 'Hirnfäule' übersetzt und ich finde das wunderschön. Wir sollten dieses Wort unbedingt in unseren regulären Sprachgebrauch aufnehmen.

the porygon2 installation process

anyone remember when the combination kfc/long john silvers in my hometown just fucking exploded one night

i don't think danny phantom did this he's a cartoon and a ghost and this was real life

Hey remember when US and Russia was all like “We’re the best!!! We’ve won the space race!!!!” But India sent a kick-ass space probe to Mars and the whole mission was fuel efficient, costed less and a roaring success in the first try and then they were like “…..wait no that can’t be true” and still have the audacity to call us “underdeveloped” or only view us as a ‘third world country’? :)

For anyone who needs more info, the probe was called Mangalyaan (which literally means space probe vehicle) or Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) and you can also get more information here and here

Remember when NYT mocked India for this very thing and an TOI (a major indian newspaper) responded with this? :)

They were being racist asf and we were till respectful literally fuck you if you think ‘third world counties’ can’t be better than you

white people can and should reblog this

and shout out to the women engineers integral to the launch

“Indian staff from the Indian Space Research Organisation celebrate after the Mars Orbiter Spacecraft entered Mars’s orbit.

On November 5, 2013, a rocket launched toward Mars. It was India’s first interplanetary mission, Mangalyaan, and a terrific gamble. Only 40 percent of missions sent to Mars by major space organizations—NASA, Russia’s, Japan’s, or China’s—had ever been a success. No space organization had succeeded on its first attempt. What’s more, India’s space organization, ISRO, had very little funding: while NASA’s Mars probe, Maven, cost $651 million, the budget for this mission was $74 million. 

This was not the only success of the mission. An image of the scientists celebrating in the mission control room went viral. Girls in India and beyond gained new heroes: the kind that wear sarees and tie flowers in their hair, and send rockets into space.”

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The photo of the women looks like a baroque painting

OH MY GOD

very funny to me when people act like animal farm and 1984 are revolutionary anti government texts that the Powers That Be dont want you to read when they have literally been a part of every standard middle/highschool english lit cirriculum in the usa and beyond for decades. precisely because theyre such convenient primers to propagandize that Commies = Bad. the government is quite literally making kids read them

also, animal farm is not just anti-communist, but anti-revolution in general. the whole point of the story is if you overthrow your oppressor the new order will just become the same as the one it replaced! the story offers no suggestion of how the animals could have overthrown the farmer without the pigs becoming exactly like them, it just seems to begin and end with "never overthrown your oppressor because you'll end up right back where you started anyways." bleak and ugly story.

Not to be super English major about it, but Animal Farm was NOT an “anti-revolution” story. According to Orwell, it was inspired specifically by the Russian Revolution that led to the Stalinist regime. The story of animal farm is essentially what happened to the Russian people: they had a revolution against the tyrannical ruling class, only for the very people who had promised them freedom to turn into tyrants themselves.

The moral of the story is not “don’t have a revolution,” it’s that you should always be suspicious of those who promise you this utopian idea of freedom while still aiming to maintain power. The pigs never wanted to actually make everyone free, they just wanted to be the ones in charge. The novel details every small instance of the farm sliding further and further into fascism until it’s too late for anyone to do anything about it.

And 1984 doesn’t have much to do with communism at all. It’s about totalitarianism and fascism. There’s nothing pro-capitalist about the book. A totalitarian government like Big Brother’s could exist in either a capitalist or communist society. The point is the control they have over their people, and how important the flow of information is to that control.

George Orwell literally risked his life fighting fascists, so I think it’s pretty unfair to reduce his books to “anti-commie” propaganda. He was intensely critical of any state that maintained too much power over its people, and at the time, one of the worst examples of that was the recent communist revolution in Russia, which deposed a monarchy to install a dictator in its place.

orwell didn't pick up a gun to shoot fascists in spain alongside anarchist revolutionaries and write The book on it just so y'all can pretend the man favored inaction and the status quo.

but also Animal Farm was a specific historical allegory, without some weird crap about us turning into animals or being farmed by aliens it can't "come true" in the sense people often meme on dystopias doing

Recession Donny repeatedly lies about tariffs being a fee charged from the exporting countries when it's actually a tax placed on the importers by their own government (which ultimately gets paid by consumers in the form of higher prices).

He relies on his followers being too ignorant and too trapped in their own echo chamber to know better.

In case you're wondering: charging other countries for the right to do business is called '"an extortion racket"

The tariffs aren't even based on any real economic concern, even a made up one. It's based on Trump's irrational disdain for trade deficits.

A trade deficit is when one country imports from another more than that country imports from them. It means that the first country "loses" money (in purely monetary terms).

It has no detrimental effect whatsoever (wikipedia has 5 different citations to back up that fact), but it makes Trump's narcissistic baby brain feel like he's being screwed.

That's why and how the Trump administration determined on who and how much to raise tariffs against. They published the formula

Basically they converted the trade deficit to a percentage by dividing it against total imports and then divided that by two.

It's entirely pointless and extremely harmful to the economy. All so that the US could hold onto more of its dollars. Dollars that will become worth less and less as prices rise and countries trade less and less with the US.

treat black queers kindly and love us. that's all.

and don't add any stupid shit derailing this, this is about black queers only. make your own damn post.

please if you're going to reblog this, please reblog this addition so people get the memo along with:

listen to our voices and make us feel safe and comforted.

Eleanor for Fables and Frontiers

Tongue-shaving day!

bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

reblog to let people know it's ok to bother you with questions and statements