#human tears

Paddy fields have been swept away. Bridges and roads have been destroyed. Human bodies have been found buried under the flooded debris of their home.

Paddy fields have been swept away. Bridges and roads have been destroyed. Human bodies have been found buried under the flooded debris of their home. As the unseasonal rain began, many unwanted happenings inundated the country. The drinking water pipelines have been destroyed in the hilly region of the country; agricultural lands have been swept away; and people’s houses have turned roofless.…

The news flooding in from Paris for about the last 24 hours have had me going through a wide spectrum of feelings. This will be a rather short post, I lack proper words.

Firstly, I am terribly sorry. For everyone who has been affected by these attacks or terrorist attacks anywhere else in the world. There have been several quite recently. All horrible. I’m sorry.

Secondly, I am angry. As tends to be the case with me, this is a very prominent feeling. So, a hearty fuck you goes to:

- ISIS, and honestly any organization or person that practices terrorism. I don’t give a fuck if it’s religious or ideological or whatever else, just fuck anyone who does it.

- Racists and xenophobes trying to score cheap political points going “see we told u tolet*rds this would happen, U R RESPONSIBLE 4 THIS AND NO MORE MUSLIM REFUGEES TO EUROPE!!!1!” Oh, go fuck yourselves. Organizations like ISIS are what most of the refugees are running from.

- People who bring out the “religion of peace” schtick. Most Muslims are peaceful. Islam itself is not. Nor is it entirely violent. It’s multi-faceted, and can be used and interpreted both for peace and for terror. And that goes for Christianity too, by the way.

- The media, for pretty much ignoring terrorist attacks in the rest of the world and then turning a real tragedy into sensationalist click bait. The news is enough. We don’t need a most horrifying pictures round-up.

Appetizing title, I know. I’m in an awful mood. I haven’t gotten to posting anything lately, because this country has been shit, the weather is shit, my hypochondria has been handing me my ass and I have a short attention span and keep getting distracted by other stuff (like playing E.B.O.N.Y. ‘til 5AM). Also I don’t appreciate being woken up by leaf blowers, whose name should just be changed to Satan machines because that’s what they are. RAKE THE DAMN YARD. Now I shall offer you a whiny rant about how badly this first world country sucks.

1. The Finns Party is so embarrassing that I can’t even keep up with how embarrassing they are anymore. Their representatives’ poor knowledge of Finnish law and science and their strange worship of their incompetent party leader are appalling, but the worst things about them are their casual attitude to racism and their blatant homophobia. Let’s start with the racism. Currently particularly our social media is crawling with assholes, some of whom are blatantly Nazi, spouting their barely literate bullshit about Islamization and Jews and what have you and giving names and faces to Finland’s shrieking need for better mental health care, and the Finns Party is not-all-that-subtly endorsing it, some of their representatives even participate. That is fucking insane. Representatives of a cabinet party are engaging in a collective delusion where everything from them not getting laid to the poor economy to the crazy right wing murderer who attacked a school in Sweden yesterday are somehow the fault of immigration, and that’s that and fact checking is for tolet*rds and sissies. All the while attacks against refugee centers, Ku Klux Klan “jokes” and blatant verbal abuse of refugees are becoming commonplace here. What the fuck is wrong with this country.

Then the homophobia, another area where the party is making an ass of itself and giving some of my brain cells the sudden need to commit seppuku. Recently the parliament went over some laws that will change as a result of the legalization of same sex marriage, and justice minister (and Finns Party MP) Jari Lindström was quick to point out how reluctant he is to present this to the parliament, because apparently doing his fucking job is a problem for him if everything doesn’t go the way he wants it to. Other Finns Party members also held some pretty asinine speeches, particularly former drunkard criminal and current born-again fundie nutcase Mika Niikko who went on a deranged rant about how MPs have been appointed by God and therefore should follow the word of God and God hates f*gs and where is minister Palpatine’s and minister Soini’s fear of God anyway (presumably he targeted these two because both are practicing Christians). It must be fun to live in such delusions of grandeur that you think you're God’s chosen vessel, when the sad truth is that you were appointed by a bunch of moron voters who are just as dumb as you. Niikko also called bishop Kari Mäkinen (who has supported same sex marriage) a “paid shepherd”, and I don’t even know what a “paid shepherd” is but I’m sure it’s very insulting, not that the church even has anything to do with this law but we won’t let facts get in our way, now will we, Mika. The Christian Democrats threw their own little hissy-fit too, but it’s not like anyone takes those motherfuckers seriously.

2. Okay, enough about the Finns Party, since I certainly haven’t forgotten about the Corruption- oh, sorry, I of course mean Coalition Party. (Lately there has been rumours of hidden money from anonymous donors and all sorts of scheming within the party. Even the president, who is from the Coalition Party appeared annoyed with the party high-ups. All I have to say about that is that it should surprise NO ONE if it is true.) Nor have I forgotten the Center party, which is basically the Coalition Party with a different logo nowadays with Palpatine being in charge. They’ve been up to some pretty damn sinister shit too, whilst everyone is gawking at the clusterfuck that is the Finns Party. Well, thankfully not everyone, since the opposition at least managed to shoot down their ridiculous idea of a law that would have allowed tax evaders to confess to one tax crime and get a slight tax hike and immunity for all their other tax crimes. Simultaneously the cabinet was going to cut a bunch of money from the prevention of tax evasion and have the police chasing small fish like people who sell *gasp* too cheap pizza. (How cheap is too cheap? Under 6 euros. Why yes, our food prices are ridiculous.) But as I said, this got harpooned. The business parties are still working on a law that would make it easier to hide money abroad (=tax evasion) though, despite all experts who know anything telling them that it’s a stupid idea, so just for that they deserve to be blasted.

3. None of this may actually matter much though, because as I’m writing this, the cabinet may be falling apart over the question of how many health care districts Finland should have. The Center Party which has tons of voters in the countryside are like “of course every village in the middle of nowhere should be its own health care district duh!” and the Coalition Party is like “waaahhh that’ll take too much of the precious money that we want for ourselves so five districts and radical privatization are the way to go!” and the Finns Party doesn’t know diddly dick so they’re just sulking on the side hoping that the other parties will even want to talk to them. And in his typical fashion Palpatine is stomping his feet like a five-year-old and is threatening to dismantle the cabinet if he doesn’t get his way, because this is the company of Finland and he is the C.E.O and it’s his way or the highway dammit. He is unfathomably childish, and I for one hope he does dismantle the cabinet, it’s not like they’ve done anything right so far anyway and a new election would suit me real good, since it would likely mean way less Finns Party buffoons in the parliament. But I don’t feel all that hopeful that the cabinet won’t work out some awful right wing compromise that will fuck all of us over instead. We’ll see, I guess.

Why Do We Cry? The Complexity Of Human Tears

Tear production is a fascinating and essential trait for the eyes to function properly. Humans produce tears for a number of reasons including a response to sadness, a reflex to discomfort, or to keep the eye hydrated. The different types of tears produced in these situations all have a slightly different chemical composition when examined under a microscope; if one were to capture someone’s tear…