The Outrageous, The Academic

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Hello?

“What’s the most impressive and stressful thing you’ve seen?”

CHATGPT IS NOT A SEARCH ENGINE

CHATGPT IS NOT A THERAPIST

“What if poor people abuse the system?”

This website is still here and some of the asks are heartbreaking. Like “Jamie wants a new pair of jeans because he’s never had new clothes before”. Or “Kayla wants a bag with her name on it for when she moves foster homes again.”

Btw, you can filter wishes based on gender, age, price, etc to help you find the perfect wish for you. This charity is LGBTQ-affirming (unlike a lot of religion-based charities that are unfortunately homophobic), so you can even look for nonbinary kids to donate to.

If you don’t have a lot of money but still want to help give a kid a nice Christmas, there are lots of wishes that are $24 for stocking stuffers as well, or $15 for a sqishmallow!

oh by the way, rb-ing this again to say please read the article -- Joan has always been and remains to this day such an absolute ledge.

This quote is not by the great Persian poet Hafez, who lived in Shiraz, Persia from 1325–1390, it's by Daniel Ladinsky, a contemporary American poet who "translated" Hafez into English and whose books about Hafez are the most popular "versions" in the West nowadays - the problem is just that the poems written by Ladinsky have absolutely nothing to do with actual Hafez poems (which follow very strict form conventions and the difference is obvious to anyone who has seen a real Hafez poem). Ladinsky does not speak Persian and claims his "translations" came to him in dreams, but if you look at his poems, you see that they are essentially original poetry published under Hafez's name and at most loosely inspired. I can really recommend this article about the whole topic

They want you to forget this. Do not.

young people literally spent two days showing the full force of their wrath against a horrific, corrupt system run by politicians that embezzled away every single cent of citizen money. they protested, and when the cops turned to violence, they did too. many of the biggest and most corrupt politicians (including the prime minister) were forced to resign, had their houses swarmed by crowds of furious people, were beat within an inch of their lives, and had their money thrown out onto the streets.