Ash's Random Ramblings.

now I know that there's no way for me to respond to this without a bunch of fans of the modern adaptations ruining my inbox for the next week, but there's no evidence of Waluigi - or indeed Luigi - in any of the contemporary versions of the Mario-Wario sagas. The name "Wario" itself is a later invention, held to be a pun on warui that likely emerged after the adoption of Japanese scripts in the Koopa States.

The conflict between Mario and his "boyhood rival" was one over political influence on his home island and Mario's long absences - in particular his trip to Sarasaland. While later Sarasan sources would heavily reference Mario's brother, he is absent from both the preceding narrative and the unrest in Mario's homeland. The historical consensus is that the Sarasaland journey was one of Mario's earliest wanderings, with his brother attempting to manage affairs in his absence and proving unfit. The invention of a separate "Wario" character and its development into an explicit coup d'etat were later poetic creations, as is distancing of the "Wario" figure from the later depictions of Mario's brother as the more cowardly and reserved "Luigi".

(As an aside: "Mario Land" is a mistranslation. The original Mushroomer and Sarasan chronicles are better translated as "the land of Mario", without connotations of ownership. The modern scholastic consensus is that it refers to Yoshi's Island, where Mario and his brother spent their youth and later established a small manor, not, as commonly depicted, a "Mario Castle". The emphasis on Mario as king of "Mario Land" was a mostly successful political maneuver by the Yoshis to retain coequal status with the Mushroom Kingdom heartlands in the face of 18th-century expansionist pan-Mushroomism.)

The August Twenty-ninth Movement (ATM), Fan the Flames: A Revolutionary Position on the Chicano National Question

note: I (the owner of this blog and maker of wheels) am not into warrior cats! I just thought this would be fun to make

okay so i think i found the article op's (and me in my tags) talking about. being exposed to over 40 celsius (120 farenheit or so) for the whole day means youre sweating a LOT (the article says rashid- the farmer at the centre of the text- drinks around 17 liters a Day. humans usually only need 3, so i presume the rest is mostly used for sweat). so much so that the organizm reroutes water from other parts of itself to not die of heatstroke - salivary glands included, which means that 1. they have very little saliva in comparison to a healthy human being 2. what little their bodies DO produce is incredibly acidic, falling to ~5.5 ph from the ideal of 7ph. Teeth dissolve. Quickly. There's a mention of someone losing 8 teeth in two years

im not reading the whole article now (headache -_-), but later on the author of the article says about 30 million people (employed in agriculture) are at risk for extreme dental health problems. 30 million people at risk of not being able to eat solid food. 30 million people at risk of not being able to find work. being able to marry. being able to be part of their community. being able to speak clearly

Okay, imagine your family or your best friend is going through this right now. They're losing their teeth and hair because they've had to spend most of their time farming under the scorching sun. Do you understand where I'm going with this? Stay with me.

You're worried, so you write a blog post to tell your online friends and community what's happening.

Then someone comes along and says, "Hey, I could get a good grade in my class if I use the information you just shared!" without saying anything else. Without even an ounce of sympathy.

How would you feel if you saw that?

Now imagine you're already familiar with how impudently many people around the world have reacted to the suffering of your people. There are millions of people, both online and offline, who treat your people's suffering as nothing more than collateral damage simply because they live outside Europe and what the rest of the world calls the West.

Could you really respond positively when someone comes to you and says they want to use your suffering to get good grades or as material for their fiction which has happened here?

I don't think it's inappropriate. Desmond Tutu first coined the term "adaptation apartheid" to describe countries' unequal ability to cope with climate change. It's a concept that later became widely known as "climate apartheid."

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