It All Depends, I Guess

It's okay to be living a stagnant life. You don't always have to keep climbing, you can slow down and make connections with the people around you. It makes life more meaningful.

Reach out for help from the people you trust. If you isolate yourself, you're gonna have a bad time. (That's putting it lightly.)

Support your trans kids! Actually, support your kids in general. Don't be an abusive parent, for Pete's sake! You can't control what or who your kids turn out to be, you can only guide them. Trying to control every aspect of their lives, including who they are and their own identity, is just not going to work out in the long run. It's okay going to lead to trauma, severed connections and misery.

Another thing about abusive parents, your kids are not your punching bag to take your negative feelings out on. Just because someone is smaller and/or weaker, it doesn't give you the right to treat them as less than. Instead, find other methods to cope with negative feelings, like art, music, or talking things out with a mature, more stable relation.

Adding on to the last point, trauma doesn't give you an excuse to treat others like playthings. No matter what you've been through, you always have a choice in how to treat others. If you push everyone away by acting like a douche bag, not caring about other people's feelings, etc., you're just going to end up alone in the end, and maybe even worse. Humans REALLY need connection. We're social creatures, you can't deny that.

Abuse only works in the short term. It's not worth it to treat yourself and others like trash. Don't try to suppress others, it'll only lead to one of two things. Either they'll turn the tables and fight back, or they'll be destroyed. And what's the use of a broken toy? (Don't treat people like toys.)

Don't take the people around you for granted. You'll never know when they might be gone.

Honestly, spot on. Mostly.

Some things I wanna correct:

Your contract is 8 years. It can be 2 years active, the rest reserve. It could be 8 active. It could be 1. You're still property until year 8 is over. Means you only have freedom of religion too.

Basic does brainwash you - it's designed to make you react unconsciously so that even in a blind panic you still take cover and engage the target. And that means you'll hear orders and respond accordingly, yeah. Cold War really made that cult mentality stick.

Obama got rid of recruiting bonuses, don't know if Trump brought them back. Given how shit retention rates are, probably.

Some jobs actually can't deploy! But unless you're a veterinarian, yeah you're at risk.

Reasons I would encourage someone to enlist:

The only other option is homelessness.

The European Union already forced Apple to abandon its proprietary charging port and adopt USB-C across its entire iPhone lineup. It just did something bigger. A new EU mandate requires every smartphone sold in Europe including Apple devices to feature a battery that can be replaced by the user without specialist tools, without voiding a warranty, and without sending the device to a manufacturer approved service center. Batteries must maintain a minimum capacity threshold after a set number of charge cycles and replacement parts must remain available for up to ten years after a model goes on sale.

The consumer electronics industry built its current business model around batteries that degrade, cannot be replaced at home, and create a natural upgrade cycle every two to three years. The EU just legislated that model out of existence in the world's largest regulatory market.

Apple, Samsung, and every other manufacturer now faces a choice between redesigning their devices for the European market or accepting that their current hardware architecture is no longer legally sellable there.

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We, the undersigned, citizens and residents of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to:

1. Cease all incentives, subsidies, and permit accelerations for AI data centres;

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3. Commission a detailed study for public release on negative externalities associated with existing AI data centres in Canada and elsewhere;

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hi, my name is niizh and I got fucked over by my school and they didn’t give me the financial aid I was promised. On top of that, I haven’t been put on payroll at work so everyone else got paid but me, and it’s really hot here in Minnesota!!

I’d really like just a little bit of help to get another fan for my apartment, I don’t have central AC, just a little window unit and it doesn’t really help when it gets over 75 degrees F. All of next week will be over 80F where I live, and my medication makes me overheat easily. :(

And once I start getting paid again, I should honestly not need mutual aid again for a long while, I was lucky to have savings set aside for my surgery that I was able to use as emergency rent money when I came back to the country.

There is nothing moral or ethical about tormenting a person with dementia and the fact that this has to be said is astounding

Interestingly the more she declined, the better she was to him. It doesn't negate the harm she did when he was a kid, but he walked away from her death knowing he'd done his best.

It helped that we inherited a fair amount of money from her but it wasn't why we did it.

This does not mean you are obligated to take care of people who were awful to you, but breaking the cycle on purpose is good, whatever that looks like.

Human beings deserve care, even if we don't like them. No one deserves abuse.

And if a chance for compassion and seeing the complexity of a person and finding some peace in their old age is possible, that is better for you in the long run than holding your fury longer than you need it.

We respect that not everyone’s sweet little old forgetful grandmother was a good person. A good parent.

Leave them to us guilt free. You deserved better.

Some tribal owned grocers that ship:

Bow and Arrow (Ute Mountain)

Native Harvest (White Earth)

Red Lake Fishery (Red Lake)

Wozupi (Mdewakanton Dakota)

Ramona Farms (Gila River)

Tanka Bars (Oglala)

Indian Pueblo Store (Pueblos)

Twisted Cedar Wine (Cedar Paiutes)

Ute Bison (Ute)

Seka Hills Olive Oil and Vinegars (Yocha Dehe Wintun)

She Nah Nam Seafood (Nisqually)

Sakari Botanicals (Inupiaq)

Honor the Earth (? Anishinaabe)

Nett Lake Wild Rice (Boise Forte Anishinaabe)

Passamaquoddy maple (Passamaquoddy)

BONUS: coffee :)

Yeego Coffee (Navajo)

Spirit Mountain Roasting (Yuma Quechan)

Birchbark Coffee (Anishinaabe)

Honor the Earth is an organization founded by Winona Duke of the White Earth Nation (Anishinaabe/Ojibwe) with Amy Ray and Emily Saliers (LGBTQ musical duo Indigo Girls and long-time political activists.) You can buy Honor The Earth merch online to support the environmental work they do, specifically to help protest Enbridge Oil’s Line 3 Pipeline routed through tribal lands that endangers wild rice beds which are both a staple crop and sacred to Anishinaabeg.

However, Winona also heads up a hemp farm called Winona’s Hemp & Heritage Farm located on and run primarily by members of the White Earth Nation. It seeks to general local wealth for the tribe by encouraging the production of hemp as a fast-growing renewable and regenerative crop resource to be used for everything from non-plastic textiles/clothing, housing construction and insulation, food products, and CBD products! (They also grow other crops there such as heirloom varieties of corn, beans, squash, Jerusalem artichokes, potatoes, and ceremonial tobacco in an effort to help re-establish and increase tribal food sovereignty!)

They have both a brick-and-mortar shop called The Hemp Market Store and Coffee Shop in Osage MN where they sell their products and others by Indigenous-owned & -run companies! (They also sell those seasonal tribal heirloom crops there including Lakota squash and Ojibwe purple potatoes.)

it looks like some shops’ products are seasonal and arent avaliable at this time of year (november 2023), but it may be at a different season

new or fixed links in green with ✳️ emoji inactive/closed website in red with ⛔️ emoji

Grocers: from salamanderinspace’s reblog of product list

Bow and Arrow –> Cornmeal, Polenta

Native Harvest –> Maple Syrup, Plum Syrup, Coffees, Jewelry

✳️Red Lake Fishery –> fish (Walleye, Perch, Crappie, Northern, Whitefish, Smoked Fish)

✳️Nawapo (formerly Red Lake Nation Foods) –> Mixes & Batters, Teas & Coffee, Fruit spreads, Wild Rice, Personal care, Handcrafted gifts

Wozupi –> seasonal produce [no online ordering right now]

Ramona Farms –> Beans, Wheat Berries, Whole Wheat Flour, Corn Meal Products, Grits, Pinole, Chickpeas/Garbanzo beans

Tanka –> Buffalo-cranberry snacks [no online ordering right now]

✳️Indian Pueblo Store –> Housewares, Apparel, Mugs, Jewelry, Decor, Baked goods mix, etc

Twisted Cedar Wine –> Wine

Ute Bison –> Bison jerky sticks, skulls, and robes

Seka Hills –> Olive Oil, Wine, Vinegar, Nuts, Beef jerky, Honey, Body Care / Soaps, Pickled Asparagus

⛔️She Nah Nam –> [website is closed]

Sakari Farms –> Hotsauce, Tea, Seasonings, Lotions, Medicinal herbs & oils, Squash Candy

Honor the Earth –> [see the reblog above]

✳️Nett Lake Wild Rice –> Wild rice (website features recipes)

✳️Passamaquoddy maple –> Maple products (syrup, sugar, candies), Pancake and muffin mix, Seasoning

✳️Ioway Bee Farm (Iowa, recommended by watcherscrown) –> Honey, Lotions, Lip balm, Beeswax, Candles, CBD products, Honey sticks

Online retailer: partnered with some of the grocers in the list above, so you can order several grocers’ products from 1 place

✳️Tocabe (Osage, recommended by killmecoward) –> Pantry food staples

✳️Indigenous First (recommended by pingnova) –> Handmade crafts/art, Foods & Teas, Personal care, Decor, Seeds, Books, Jewelry supplies

✳️SweetGrass Trading Company (Winnebago, recommended by watcherscrown) –> Handmade crafts/art, Foods (of note: Salmon), Coffee & teas, Personal care, Books (website features recipes)

Coffee/Tea:

Yeego Coffee

✳️Spirit Mountain Roasting

Birchbark Coffee

Thunder Island Coffee

✳️Owl Lightning Coffee (Ute (?), recommended by c4-magic)

Bow & Arrow Brand, Ute Mountain Tribe

Native Harvest, White Earth Band (wild rice recipes)

Ramona Farms, Gila River (bean/corn-based recipes)

Sweetgrass Trading Co., Winnebago Tribe

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So in order to keep getting the full evil karma experience, every time I do something convenient or utilitarian that raises my karma I go back to Moriarty’s Saloon and just open his terminal over and over again.

Future you will thank you for not pinning your ability to enjoy and get any sense of achievement on having the base energy levels of a teenager.

There is a continual need for funds to buy food, water, and medicine, but Israel's destruction of infrastructure in Gaza means that jobs are nearly nonexistence.

You can help this family stay alive through genocide by donating via:

GoFundMe

Or via:

venmo (@gothhabiba) paypal (paypal.me/Najia) Cashapp ($NajiaK)

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