Mostly Miraculous

The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and pulls all the levers: Boss, it's the fascism. You're completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you're also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you're going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances.

Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDITATE NOW.

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ladybug says fuck (for her mental health)

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For example: I am an independent craftsman in the US. I have no employees and I make everything I sell by hand, 'by myself.' But without Mexican workers raising cattle and tanning their hides, I would have no leather to work with. Without Chinese workers manufacturing the hardware and without the miners who mined the iron, nickel, copper, zinc, etc, I would have no rivets or dee rings or square snaps. I do not steal the surplus value of those under my employ because I have no one under my employ, and yet without the exploitation of hundreds or thousands of people, I can produce nothing at all. And this is true whether I am producing for the purposes of making money or for the joy of creating or for any other reason.

You spin your own yarn from fibers you gathered yourself? Okay, where do the crochet needles come from? You whittled your own needles? Where is the knife from? You forged your own goddamn whittling knife? Where's the steel from? Where's the hammer from? Wheres the sharpening stone from?

You write or draw? Where's the cobalt and lithium from your computer from? Okay, you only do it on paper, where's the paper from? Where's the wood, graphite, glue, and paint from the pencil from? You need food to fuel your body, where's that from? Where is the chair you sit on from?

And you'll be like, "That sounds bad." And she'll be like, "No no. It's totally not that bad. It's just a meme. Men say it too. Like if a man does something silly he'll be like, 'I am like those women who do not deserve to vote.'" And you'll be like, "Does that make it better?" And she'll be like, "Well there was one guy who tried to make 'Men shouldn't vote' a popular meme. But it never caught on and also he got yelled at a lot."

Here in the UK it is still labelled as 'Gulf of Mexico' with 'gulf of america' in parenthesis underneath it.

The world at large does not recognise the 'gulf of america.'

This is because the US has no legal right to change the Gulf's name under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

The naming conventions only extend 22KM from the shoreline. The rest is shared between the US, Mexico, and Cuba. This means only the land on America's shores up to 22KM away from them can legally be called the 'gulf of america', they cannot rename the whole thing to the rest of the world and call it a day.