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“Rhododendrons time” | Mt. Fuji, Japan || hobopeeba

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if you’re irish and you complain about britain “erasing culture” but can’t even speak the language/ don’t know shit about ireland before 1910 then just shut your cakehole nobody cares
Them being Irish and not being able to speak the language/not knowing shit about Ireland before 1910 is a direct result of Britain erasing culture, you goddamn Vitamin D-deficient circus clown
langblrs studying less popular languages: “Here’s the basic vocab, numbers, and verb conjugations.”
japanese langblrs: “Here’s the vocab you need to be able to read your dishwasher’s instruction manual in Japanese”
i know this isn’t really original but im obsessed with how english words that refer to the bodily, the tangible, the elemental etc are so often of anglo-saxon/germanic origin e.g. (heart, blood, jaw, flesh) or observable phenomena, like adjectives describing light (glisten, gloaming, glitter, gleam, gloom, glow, dark, fire) or places (hearth, hall, hill), and the most stark, primal emotions or states (hate, love, life, lust, death) and of course fuck, shit, bitch, cunt etc– these often monosyllabic, consonant heavy words…and then you have the lilting, limpid romance/latinate, words like acquiesce and exacerbate and agrarian and pellucid and clemency and lucidity…and how maybe the secret of all great english language poetry is a textural balancing of the push-pull of the germanic and the romantic/latinate, a balancing of these two energies. like some of the most powerful moments in shakespeare are where the verbosity falls away and you have these plain utterances (“to be or not to be” or lear’s dying “look there look there”– all anglo saxon words) that are so powerful precisely because the language is so ornate elsewhere. i once came up with an elaborate wildly incoherent theory about this in the pub with some drunk american masters student who was dressed like harry styles

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to anyone that still doesn’t get why people were protesting the shutdown, let it be known that i was denied unemployment for three months, my claim was FINALLY opened today, and I can’t make any back claims on the, uhh lets see, thirteen weeks I had no source of income, but its okay I will finally be receiving……. $72 a week.
oh also i never got my stimulus check.
but it was just white people who wanted haircuts.
You’re just being selfish. Everyone knows that “the economy” is just a game that rich people play where they like to see an arbitrary Number Go Up. The notion that the economy is the whole of the populace of the United States and all the goods and services which they produce and consume, and that shutting down the economy will cause untold misery in ways both seen and unseen for millions of people for decades to come is utterly preposterous.
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Anonymous photographer, Japan, 1954 / Courtesy Galerie Lumière des Roses / source
Not going to lie, I’m having some serious Japan withdrawals right now

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Friendly reminder that hating Pokemon Unite isn't just about ""no Sinnoh remakes or no let's Go Johto"".
Fucking Tencent is the one making it.
Tencent is known for spyware, punishes those who support the Hong Kong protests, are KNOWN to rip off larger companies or buy out larger companies if they're seen as competition, are extremely rampant with censorship of any kind, and were receiving personal information from Apple such as I.P Addresses, and the CEO is extremely honored by the communist party that supports Muslim concentration camps.
This company is absolutely fucking garbage and it's pretty obvious from the comment section of the video that everyone who knows about Tencent is chiming in with them dipping the moment they announced it was made by them.
And if that's not enough to stop you from wanting to play tencent has driven many players who actually did enjoy their games away due to the rampant cheating that occurs and isn't dealt with in their other online games. They're known to try and milk their gamers for money with pay to win deals and from the sounds of it ""free to start"" means you'll have to pay eventually no matter what and then continue to keep paying in order to succeed or advance in later levels due to the pay to win structure.
For those who are excited about this there are LITERALLY so many other games on this oversaturated market that spent time on their back grounds, and textures, and design that dont make them look like a dollar store rip off game. Please look into literally anything else.
Pokemon Unite is NOT the way to go
I'm sure that people in the videos comments did a MUCH better job of explaining the dangers of tencent instead of me and theyre most likely a lot more well aware of the first hand experience with them. But please just take my word for it when I say that the ""unfair hate around this game because it's not a Sinnoh Remake"" is bullshit.
There's hate for a reason
I’ll admit I was skeptical of these points bc there are no links or resources to back em up, so I did a little research.
So Tencent is a ridiculously large conglomerate holding company whose investments in video games ALONE pile up fast:
(Outside of video games, Tencent also invests in “search engine[s], e-commerce, retail, real estate, software, virtual reality, ride-sharing, banking, financial services, fintech, consumer technology, computer technology, automobile, film production, movie ticketing, music production, space technology, natural resources, smartphones, big data, agriculture, medical services, cloud computing, social media, IT, advertising, streaming media, artificial intelligence, robotics, UAVs, food delivery, courier services, e-book, internet services, education, and renewable energy.” Needless to say, the company has a LOT of influence and power.)
Regarding OP’s mention of the Hong Kong protests -- Tencent made a partnership with the NBA to secure rights to stream its U.S. games in China, but in October 2019, when Houston Rockets general manager Morey expressed support for the protesters in Hong Kong, “Tencent began sending out refunds to customers after cancelling the broadcast of NBA games" due to NBA executive manager Adam Silver’s support of Morey’s “freedom of political expression.” (x)
Regarding OP’s mention of censorship -- oh boy there’s a lot of info that proves their rampant censorship. Most notably, Tencent owns the social media app WeChat (which has “a billion active daily users”) and uses it to facilitate Chinese government surveillance and censorship. Millions of WeChat conversations were found to be relayed to police; people have been interrogated and arrested due to their private conversations. (There have been ”penalties against numerous WeChat users for mocking President Xi Jinping, criticizing judicial officials, commenting on massive floods, sharing information about human rights abuses, or expressing views related to their persecuted religion or ethnicity.”) Also, WeChat SIGNIFICANTLY distorts the news available to its users by using AI to find and delete select topics (including in 2018, the “deletions from some 4,000 public accounts...[of] major news stories like the U.S.-China trade dispute, the arrest in Canada of Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, the #MeToo movement and public health scandals”). (x)
Regarding OP’s mention of ripping off other companies -- Tencent’s founder and chairman, Pony Ma, has famously said, “[To] copy is not evil.” There are plenty of allegations and remarks out there about his inclination toward copying.
Regarding OP’s mention of Apple -- at least in iOS 13, Apple’s “Safari browser uses Tencent’s Safe Browsing system to help fight malicious webpages--but Tencent may log IP addresses in the process.” Apple’s also had many issues with surveillance and censorship in China. (x)
Regarding OP’s mention of Tencent’s money-grabbing -- their popular technique of gaining revenue from games is to publish “free-to-play” games, such as Pokemon Unite, and then include in-game transactions so people will pay *after* having gotten into the swing of the game.
TL;DR: Tencent is a despicable company whose hand in a Pokemon game should be a red flag. Don’t support this company.
Y-you are an absolute godsend
I didn't expect this post to blow up like it did, but that's probably a poor excuse for no links
Thank you so much for taking the time to find sources 🥺🥺🥺
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Can we please stop talking about “the economy” as if it’s just haircuts and the stock market when it’s also:
People’s ability to buy food and pay for utilities
People’s ability to pay rent or access housing
People’s ability to access child care
People’s ability to keep their health insurance
People’s ability to access medical care that reduces pain or increases mobility
People’s ability to access government benefits
People’s ability to immigrate (including seek asylum)
The asylum program in the United States has been suspended since March 20th and people, including children, have been deported without hearing over it. There’s been about a 70% increase in demand for food banks. Non-essential procedures that have been suspended across most of the country include surgeries that reduce pain or procedures that screen for more serious disease. Rent builds up even during an eviction moratorium. Domestic violence and suicide hotlines are reporting massive, in some cases exponential, increases.
New analyses suggest that 500 million people across the globe - 8% of the world’s population - may be pushed into poverty due to the economic collapse.
Can we please stop depicting “reopening the economy” as just the right to get a pedicure?
The “economy” is made up of PEOPLE. That’s why it matters. “Damage to the economy” means damage to the people who make it up.
Anybody who says that saving a single life is more important than any amount of economic damage is an idiot. Every day, every poor person has a random chance of becoming a dead person, and every time “the economy” is damaged that chance increases. Large scale economic problems are measured in body counts.
Leaving everything business as normal during a pandemic will kill a lot of people. Shutting everything down forever will kill a lot more people, just not of the virus. There is not going to be any answer were people don’t die, and finding the balance point where the fewest people die from the combination of disease and poverty is an incredibly complicated and difficult question.
That’s why you sometimes hear people talking about how many deaths is “acceptable” to prevent further economic collapse; they’re not saying it’s fine if another thousand people die, they’re saying that they would prefer a thousand die to save a hundred thousand.
But it takes a huge amount of data and expertise to do the analysis required to figure out what the damage will be from any given course of action. And the people who have the power to do that usually don’t give a fuck about public good, they care about their own profits, or getting reelected, or whatever the CCP tells them to care about. We’re stuck in a position where we need to trust the people who know what they’re doing to guide us, but also we damn well know we can’t trust the people who who are trying to guide us.
“You just want haircuts Karen! The economy doesn’t matter when people are dying!!”
Translation - I am an upper middle class person with a desk job that can be done from home who refuses to acknowledge their class privilege.
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