If It’s Dumb I’m Into It

Let context be known. We may be quickly investing in modular nuclear reactors! Trump Admin win.

If this change will change public perception we might get nuclear everywhere in Europe as well! There are so many benefits I can't even list them all. But in the long run this is THE solution to the energy crisis and, therefore, a whole lot of wars too.

And don't even get me started on pollution and climate change.

Fantasy: Gold pieces. Quests?

Sci-fi: Missions. Bounty hunters?

Fantasy: Sellswords. Magic?

Sci-fi: *sigh* Science.

Sci-fi: . . . Crystals?

Fantasy: Crystals!

Sci-fi: Crystals!

Sci-fi: Princesses! Ancient civilizations?

Fantasy: Ancient civilizations! Dashing rogues?

Sci-fi: Dashing rogues! Non-human people?

Fantasy: Non-human people! . . . Sexy non-human people?

It's also denial of the genocides experienced by Jews in the Middle East.

All human beings are equal and deserve life, shouldn't be displaced, and shouldn't face dehumanization.

Their grandparents are very often victims of the Holocaust, and the many efforts to displace Jews across the Middle East.

Jewish people experienced displacement at the hands of Europeans and Middle Easterners.

I've heard this so many times. That after the Holocaust Jews were supposed to move back in? To the homes where their neighbors ratted them out? The properties that were confiscated from them?

*snort*

This is Targowa 67, in Lodz, Poland. It was my paternal grandmother's family bakery and apartment.

My great-uncle was sent to the gulag by the Soviets when he tried to reclaim it after the Holocaust, and when we tried to reclaim it in the 1990s--as we had the paperwork still--the city government, which owns it now, threatened our lives. "You would have to come here to press the suit, and we would not be able to guarantee your safety" was what they said.

But hey, ignoring all of the history and stuff stolen from the Jews who then had to flee to other countries, while their oppressors got rich off of what they stole is just easier and gives a better sense of superiority, doesn't it?

Like, I didn’t fully understand this either until fairly recently! But it is so convenient for a ruling power to have a population of people who are literate, exempt from religious prohibitions on certain kinds of financial transactions, and incredibly easy targets for resentment and hatred.

So much of the last 2000 years of Jewish history involves Jews being 1) allowed to move to a region, 2) barred from most occupations, 3) steered (or forced) into fields that allow them to build up some degree of wealth and success while 4) serving as an involuntary meat shield between the peasantry and the ruling class.

And then when there’s famine or war or plague or social unrest or revolution, it’s so easy to aim all the blame at the Jews, who were doing pretty okay for themselves up to that point.

We take the fall for whatever has gone wrong, get killed or expelled, and conveniently are forced to leave behind the homes and businesses and wealth that we’d managed to build despite our deliberately limited options. Whoever’s now in charge gets the spoils, and those of us who survived have to go start over somewhere else.

This is an old, old pattern. It has happened to someone in the family of just about every single Jewish person alive, usually more than once. In my direct family tree, it happened to all my great-great grandparents, who left the Pale in the midst of the 1880s wave of pogroms. Hell, I have an uncle by marriage who had to flee Iran as a teenager in the 70s — that’s the 1970s, to be clear — and his family left behind homes and farms and bank accounts. Everything but what they could carry.

but ALSO, it cannot be understated that the existence of the state of Israel is a rare example of a successful decolonization project on the world stage.

People in colonies like the Americas, Australia, Sweden, South Africa, New Zeland, etc. Are calling an intifada to OUR home, makes me feel like they dont care. Makes me feel like they are willing to hand our land to another colonial population, we have no right in or any say over the land our tribes (and others) lived before white people stepped on our shores . You must know just as well as I do, if not more, how people shut down our "land back" movement and have been for at least my entire life. There is no line, they dont want any indigenous population that would affect their way of life, or make them feel guilty for taking land. Canada silently lets aboriginal sit in poverty, have apartheids, anti-native propaganda in schools, the population is extremely racist and even dare I say "hateful", and misunderstand the entire "free North America movement". In reality the Hamaskins have made it harder for any colony to decolonize, now that for example decolonization = violence and terrorism to almost every government world wide. Hamaskins have sullied and blackened the free america movement and have falsely applied it onto the Palestinians. As we have seen/heard, to be indigenous is to be poor, to be recognizeable, to be another race lower than them on the totem poll. This narrative now carries "land back = a bloody war" which makes governments pretty happy to further oppress indigenous peoples, and even take more rights away. If any of these people actually wanted decolonization, they would listen to the aboriginal peoples living there and not pretend we do not exist all over the world. The fact they dont even care about their own neighbors, how can we expect them to truly care about anything or anyone?

We were forced into one empire with horrible genocidal consequences, and colonizers want to put it in the hands of terrorist groups, that will finish the job.

[ID: Bugs Bunny in a suit meme, edited to read "I wish all Etruscan shrews a very pleasant brain-regrowing season."]

They’re the smallest mammal if you measure by mass, coming in at under 2g. That’s tiny.

Because they’re so small, their volume to surface area ratio is messed up, and they are constantly in danger of their body temperature dropping. Their very high metabolism is what keeps them alive.

Their brains can shrink by up to 28% over the winter, so that they don’t have to keep it warm and fed during the coldest season.

They don’t even live where it’s super cold — as the name suggests, they’re found around the Mediterranean, as well as in parts of Southeast Asia. But they’re very sensitive to the cold, on account of being tiny.

"Likely also why being in this rural area I work in is so exhausting because the guys are so pent-up and perverted and nasty because EVERYTHING outside of their Hanbali norm is "extreme perversion" and this makes them think it's okay to harrass people. They'll mistreat me because I don't veil my face (I'm still wearing a surgical mask most of the time to avoid disease?!) or have... embroidered sleeves. People in my home region used to complain about young guys from Riyadh/the central region in general visiting because they act like deranged horndogs, they'll trash the place, commit vandalism, sexual harrassment, etc., because they're not used to how things are in places that are more educated, have more foreigners, have people ascribing to different schools of Islamic thought in them, etc."

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I've lived and worked in societies that are deemed "sooo polite" by westerners. It's got "chastity" laws. Apparently "super safe" (unless you're a woman, but apparently that doesn't count when we're talking crime statistics). Under its strict etiquette and 'saving face' behavior heavily restricting open emotion and "western depravity", the underbelly of these places were rampant with extreme sexual perversion. Because everything was deemed depraved, they truly lost touch with what's actually depraved and what isn't.

In societies where girls and boys grow up together, in households where brothers have sisters, where teenagers grow up dating and learning safe sex, men are likelier to see women as people and are likelier to have a healthier approach to sex as adults. In societies where they keep "chaste" and "appropriate" and "pure" by segregating children by gender and are taught to only abstain, men more often view women as aliens and objects and sex is often loaded with trauma. In a society where fantasies are shamed and kinks are hidden away, people are likelier to have unhealthy relationships with these things, and lose sight of the difference between harmless kinks and real-life harm. In societies where drugs are all demonized, people don't know how to tell the difference between getting high on weed and dying from cocaine overdose. And the lack of healthy education and discussion around these things always results in more real-life victims that don't get help.

Just like how pearl-clutchers clog up FBI phone lines reporting "CSAM" that's literally a cartoon and the FBI have to beg them to stop wasting their time so they can focus on actual CSAM.

As always, puritans be on this post like "kinky porn = sex with children" because the first thing they think about in a kink is children in sexual situations. I swear, the people that are always screaming about protecting children think way more about sexualizing children than normal people do.