Whales.
Its something about how graceful and beautiful and HUGE and social they are. I'm tearing up as I write this but thinking about their family structures, language and ancient migratory patterns really fucking gets me. I hope we figure out how to talk to the whales, I want to tell them I love them and I'm sorry for what we are doing to them.
Elephants do the same thing to me.
The wonderful people in my life keep me going. I am driven by the beautiful things life has in store, hidden away just out of sight. I aim to be a little better every day, to give kindness to others and contribute to positive changes in the world at large.
Meaning of life? Its short and when it ends that is that so we aught to appreciate ourselves, what is around us, and to help others do the same. We are the universe experiencing itself through a intricate system of chemical reactions. I think that is meaning enough.
It's remarkable how few people understand that SSNs are not randomly distributed, the first six digits indicate the location where the number was issued. So yes actually, axeing employees based off of the first digit of the SSN can constitute discrimination.
Addendum: it looks like microsoft just rolled out a version of teams for linux that is more or less up to speed with the ones for windows. Also important to mention is that there is a possibility that the security systems your organizations use might have compatibility issues so thats something to research and/or ask people in the IT department about.
Libre office is a pretty good replacement for the Windows office suite, though I will say that Excel is a little nicer than its Libre office counterpart. You could try them out on your current system to see how they work out for you. R has a bunch of linux compatible versions though I am not so sure about Teams being able to run on such systems, there is a possibility that one might be able to run it using compatibility tools like WINE but I do not have any experience with Teams so I cant really say.
I don't have any exact figures to give you but I have discovered that taking fries out and letting them rest for a couple minutes before putting them back in for a little while definitely crisped them up.
Maybe they did, maybe they didn't, they are libertarians after all.
less a scream, more a sob, but right there with you
Late to the party with this thread but whatever.
A wide range of emotions this week but I think I'm back to feeling normal, if not motivated. The night of the election there were a lot of trans people who look up to me coming to me for consolation I couldn't give and questions I couldn't answer. I recognize that there wasn't really much I could have done to prevent this outcome but I still feel like I stood there and did nothing. I'm trying to network and see what kind of IRL organizing and activism I can do. I will say that the dissilusionment I have seen in my lib friends has been very good and I have been having conversations to nudge them towards more radical left thought.
Beyond that my experiment with vegetarianism has reignited my love of cooking all over again, the weather has been really nice, and I'm in this era of my life where I have never felt so very myself.
I hope you all have a beautiful day, be well <3
<3 thank you, this has been supremely encouraging!
The Void (2016) Its a fucking awesome not very good movie that does suspense and looking nice very well. The plot is pretty loose, a bunch of people find themselves trapped in a decaying hospital by crowds of cultists outside, inside the hospital are body horror abominations and our intrepid heroes try to figure out what the fuck is going on. Tons of practical special effects, a somewhat nonsensical story, remarkably compelling acting and a really good sense of atmosphere. The Void is a movie with a lot of heart.
The first two of the V/H/S series of short horror anthology films are an absolute blast. I haven't seen the rest but I hear they fell off.
This isn't an attempt at debunking, but there could be other reasons for this. These weapons have been nicknamed "teddy bears" for whatever reason and the toys could be gifts sent to the unit or the individuals operating the vehicles. A bunch of the toys seem to be teddy bears holding hearts, which are less common for children in households and more common for care packages sent to soldiers (also hospital paitents). The motivation behind adorning the vehicles with these could be affection for those who sent the gifts, some kind of joke, or as a decoration meant to humiliate their victims.
The explaination given by OP is the only one I could find attatched to other uploads of this image. Given what we gave seen the IDF do in Gaza it is not below them to decorate their weapons with the belongings of the children they have murdered, orphaned, rendered homeless and/or traumatized. Either explaination of this photo suggests something perverse is going on here.
Dawg, is this REALLY the most constructive thing you could be doing with your precious, finite lifespan right now?
I partially disagree. There are creative works that are being made today that are just as thoughtful, inspiring, aesthetically pleasing and engaging as the ones made in yesteryears. Our view of the art of the past is warped by the tendency for the good to be preserved and passed on while the bad is cast aside. However, in the past 30 years or so media corporations have gotten marketability down to a science in the name of creating safe investments, not stimulating art. That approach creates highly sucessful, super visible, and entirely bland slop like the Marvel movies and Call of Dutys of the world. Its not that its all worse, its just that the great stuff is lower profile. In my opinion the advent of high-bandwidth internet has partially counteracted this by making global distribution acessable to the everyman.
Damn, and I nixed that because I didn't want to get called Ellen lmao... thank you for your rates!
Zephyr
Rio
Gwendolyn
Eleanor
I like to think that my runners-up were strong choices but I await your judgement. (This isnt self doxing... right?)
Very haunting at times too, theres this one scene that lingered in my head for weeks. Fantastic movie, highly reccomended.
Unironically, seriously, hear me out, Mice Tea.
It is a beautiful story about community, identity, self-discovery and what we decide to do with our lives... yes there are a couple dozen sex scenes across the eight or so story paths and yeah sure at its core it's about a tea that turns people into furries but it's GOOD. I cried!
While most erotic VNs are obnoxiously saturated in horny-ness Mice Tea avoids that by having a good sense of proper time and place for that kind of thing, it handles sex more like the way a romance novel would. Plus, the explicit content is meant to be optional and it gives you a chance to skip them entirely with a pop up containing warnings about kinks and potentially triggering stuff. Also everyone is in their mid twenties-mid thirties so yeah.
It's $20 on itch.io but it goes on sale on Steam occasionally. There is also a free demo version that can be found on either of those places.
Fun Fact: H&K tried to sue over the external similarities. They claimed it was copyright infrigement but because it clearly is a different design they lost the lawsuit.