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Blue: my boberty....

A bushel.

A herd of kitties.

A nationstate.

I want many kinds of kitties in all sorts of unions.

If she has something to tell me, I’ll receive an email with nothing in the body, but a Word doc attached. That’s where she writes her message.

Whenever she wants to email me a photo, she does so via an empty Word doc with said photo set as its background.

But my favorite thing was the first time I witnessed her visiting a website. She had me spell the URL (“W… W… W… dot…”) and with my own two eyes I watched her type it into Word, made it a hyperlink, and Ctrl click it to go there.

I'm given to understand that dryers are normalised there because in many areas it's considered at minimum rude, if not straightup forbidden (HOAs baffle me), to line dry clothes outside. I do not know why. Americans just hate to see drying laundry I guess?

even when wikipedia isn't proliferating red scare propaganda, they're still centering usamerican perspectives. take this sentence, for example:

"Agent Orange and similar substances have caused many health issues for Vietnamese people and the US crews that handled them."

why is there any mention at all of how agent orange affected the us crews that handled the substance? does this matter? the usamericans that were handling agent orange were the ones who were using it to poison the landscape of vietnam. these chemicals have caused severe health problems for millions of people in vietnam for decades after the war. why should anyone care that the imperialist colonizers of the usa who caused this health crisis also faced consequences? they went home to the usa, where they no longer had to live with these chemicals in the environment, and they had access to robust healthcare infrastructure that wasn't in ruins from being bombed for decades. cry me a fucking river

The americans war tactic back then was described as "thà giết nhầm còn hơn bỏ xót", effectively usa soldiers were supposed to kill everyone. Doesn't matter they killed the wrong person, doesn't matter they murdered innocents. They just needed to make sure everyone is dead.

Agent Orange, the bombs, the horrible stories survivors of the war tell to younger generations,... but captured american soldiers weren't tortued, they were fucking cared for and then allowed to go home. Meanwhile, the american colonists poisoned half of my country and nearly burnt the other half to ashes with bombs. And now (english) wikipedia has the guts to call it the "Vietnam war".

Even worse? It's not just Vietnam. I have no doubt they have done this to other countries as well. Right now, from what I've heard, wikipedia is pulling the exact same neutral bullshit with Gaza.

For example: I was recently trapped in long-distance transportation with a man who apparently didn't bring any tissues with him and proceeded to sniffle on a predictable cycle of one wet sniff every 15 to 25 seconds for approximately three hours. To prove that this is ridiculous and I am not overreacting by being annoyed, that is about 1 sniff for every 20 seconds, or an estimated 540 sniffs. 3 sniffs a minute. That's ridiculous.

I don't normally consider myself a petty person. I don't normally do anything with this information. It's just for me: a way of asking myself, "am I having an episode of some kind right now, or is this actually bullshit?".

Once, however, while on stationary guard with another security worker I did in fact contribute to his firing by running the calculations in a fit of internal frustration and concluding that- in addition to routinely arriving 45 minutes late to relieve me for my only lunch and toilet break- he was also absent from our assigned area of operation for a legitimate and easily-proven 78.9% of our shift.

(It was a low-traffic location. I had a lot of time. I made a pie chart.)

Anyhow, this is all to say that my personal productivity is something I take great pride in, and my brain is normal.

And- after running the numbers- it appears that while my productivity has increased 54% in the past year, compensation for this labor has increased an effective 1.5% adjusted to inflation.

And I'm mad about that.