[-] Catfish@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 6 days ago

You're not gonna be able to find Blowback anywhere online unfortunately :(

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Hey comrades, I'm thinking about getting a degree. About 7-8 months ago I made a post asking about the process of obtaining citizenship in China and I was met with the expected response that I should continue my education if I wished to stay there long-term. Initially I dismissed the advice and just put away the idea of living in China long-term, but in the past few months I think I've come around to continuing my education.

This is a big deal for me, I dropped out of highschool when I was 18 and just two years from graduation because the school I was going to would shut down and I couldn't stomach starting over again at a new school in the middle of the George Floyd Riots and the COVID-19 Pandemic. I eventually tried to finish my highschool diploma but when the school went under a bunch of my credits just vanished into thin air and I was looking at another 3½ years of highschool so I gave up again.

Now I'm 23 and with the support of my comrades on the commune I am finally feeling confident about picking up my schooling again, I'm planning on biting the bullet on the GED (which I should have done in the first place instead of going for the highschool diploma) and applying for college.

I'm looking at mycology, I've had an interest in it since I was 18 and I love microscopic organisms. Fungi are extremely interesting to me and I'd love to learn more about them in ways that are not from the pervasive pop-science or spiritual/psychedelic angles that dominate in the West.

I just wanted to share this with others, I'm excited and I've already started crawling through my old textbooks!

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Here's a little video for folks new to adventure mode by Blind!

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[-] Catfish@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 6 months ago

These are countries where not too long ago people shat and poured piss out their windows. Anglo castles had a potty house that sat over the castle walls and they'd hang their clothes in it because the unique environment killed the fleas and bugs on their clothes. They have never been known for their hygiene, Native Americans said the first colonists stank to hell and wouldn't bathe.

[-] Catfish@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

touches comment scores, looks wistfully into the distance

"Trots passed through here..."

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i think the ingredients bit is very funny lol

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[-] Catfish@lemmygrad.ml 40 points 6 months ago

Japan also has a very concerning 99% conviction rate.

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[-] Catfish@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 7 months ago

shout-out to all the women in the chat

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"owe is a joke word used to satirize Orwellian and totalitarian concepts and accusations. It was coined by nano in 2021. Its sitelen pona glyph is derived from the glyph for lukin with emitters above, representing the global surveillance of the fictional Oceanian government in Nineteen Eighty-Four.

As a number word, it may refer to the quantity of 1984, especially when referring to the year, as in tenpo sike nanpa owe."

Taken from the sona.pona.la article here.

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[-] Catfish@lemmygrad.ml 68 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

If you come into any thread on this topic flailing quips about how this person was a scumbag and deserved it, this genocide has drained you of your morale and your conscience and you need to take a step back and re-examine the words coming out of your mouth. Her action was idealistic yes but it was also a horrible fucking tragedy. She saw the genocide just like us and she was lost and confused of what to do about it. She did the only thing she thought would make people look and gave her life to do it and people still shit on her corpse. Have some fucking respect. She saw what we all saw, this horrific fucking genocide and was overwhelmed by the terror and did the only thing she thought made sense.

Edit: Adjusted the gender in my comments according to new findings that she was transgender. The proof being that the account the action was streamed on using Twitch was named acebush1 a month prior before it was renamed to Lillyanarkitty. Her reddit account /u/acebush1 was found and contains anarchism posting and some LGBTQ content which convinces me that acebush1 and Lillyanarkitty are the same person. Here's a link since the account was wiped clean by the feds at Reddit. https://www.reveddit.com/y/acebush1/

[-] Catfish@lemmygrad.ml 42 points 10 months ago

The W* (which is how you should refer to it because invoking it's name is frowned upon) isn't just some monster horror story. In my tribe and others it is a cannibalistic spirit that may possess you if invoked. That being said there are several tribes where folks do eat their ancestors as a part of their funeral practices.

[-] Catfish@lemmygrad.ml 52 points 10 months ago

Infinite growth is not a good thing, numbers rise and fall just let it do it's own thing. That being said, maybe if the Lemmy instances would stop defederating like children snatching toys from one another at a daycare it would get more engagement.

[-] Catfish@lemmygrad.ml 61 points 11 months ago

Mildred is the name of a grandma that smells like ham.

[-] Catfish@lemmygrad.ml 51 points 11 months ago

Browsing 'All' is immediately better!

[-] Catfish@lemmygrad.ml 41 points 1 year ago

People that believe in IQ don't usually believe material conditions affect it, it's "in your genes." It's an extension of the racist ideology that spawned the concept of IQ. In their world it is something immutable in you that makes you ontologically better or worse than someone else.

[-] Catfish@lemmygrad.ml 44 points 1 year ago

This landlord loving bullshit always starts as a joke until it isn't.

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