whiskers165 [she/her, she/her]

What the fuck is this trash. Bad robot!

Saying it calls Palestinians nazis is pretty big stretch. I don’t see it at all. Do you think this meme is also calling Palestinians Ukrainian?

It’s a reference to this new political compass. Basically clowning on the anti-warism camp for supporting Palestine/Ukraine on paper but in reality Ukraine is a Zionist military collaborator. Supporting Palestine is also supporting the Ukraine/Israel axis at the expense of Palestine

Anti-warism people getting cucked by the dogs of the US empire.

Back in the day I used to game hard as fuck on the 650m on my 2012 MBP lol

I have Fedora on mine now and it works great once you figure out how to make the wifi and graphics drivers play

Definitely upgrade to 16 gb RAM if you haven’t already. DDR3 is stupid cheap

Mildew is mold. The morning condensation is it’s water, the dirt it’s food, gaps around the window are the perfect space for outdoor mold spores to find their way in

If you have regular condensation on the window it can be evidence your house is too humid or in some other way creating a climate conducive to fungal growth.

Idk where your head is at but if you are freaking out or agonizing over whether something is mold or not you might have some things wrong with your environment making you sick even if the mold hypothesis doesn’t pan out

Trust your instincts, trust your senses, and don’t let a bunch of people who aren’t living your life tell you it’s no big deal. I got very sick letting a bunch of people who barely see me and spent almost zero time in my house gaslight me into thinking there was no problem when there was actually a collection of giant problems. Theres a bunch of mold deniers out there who are happy to thoughtlessly gamble with your health, be careful.

If its bad it’s so much easier and infinitely cheaper to just move rather than struggle against the current with this kind of thing. You might not even be diagnosing the problem correctly or there might be multiple problems. Not saying your situation is bad enough to warrant moving, I have no way of knowing on the other side of the computer from you, but where there is smoke there is often fire.

It was not accredited as a private school. I was participating in a home school program administered at a church. I graduated from a home school program, I worked on home school curriculum, it’s a subtle distinction but no just because there’s kids in a building learning does not mean it’s legally a school

There were several other Christian private schools in my area and they were nothing like my program. They were stricter and more intensive than public school, complete opposite of what I experienced

I finished high school at a private Christian home school program that functioned like a small school run out of a church. Four days a week, late start to the day, get out hours earlier than public school. There was Bible verse trivia in every subject but they only counted as extra credit. Creation in the biology class

Honestly shit was way better than public school. My public school was a cursed mold infested nightmare build on top of an old plantation and the descendants of the slaves work there as janitors still bearing the same name as the school. The teachers at the home school program was just as good but much much nicer and more permissive. Hats on inside, take a snack break whenever, iPods on in class. Only like 10-20 kids per grade level, everything was really personal.

At public school they would be oppressing us, sick from the nasty environment, strict rules, constant trouble, kids acting horrible because the environment was so toxic

Say what you will about Christian homeschool but done right it’s a massive improvement over the nightmare that is secular public school in the American South. I graduated and went to college earlier because of Christian homeschool. Public school had me needing surgery every other year because of how bad the moldy environment was fucking my body up.

Are you the type of person who thinks it sanitary to wash your hands in the toilet water?

Yeah, the stalls lock but the sink is outside the lockable stall. Just a toilet and door. But I guess you can wash your hands in the toilet if that’s how you wanna live

I can pee without touching anything but my pants. Why tf would I wash my hands? Sink has got to be dirtier than my pants. Low dexterity MFers can’t pee without touching their genitals a bunch and getting piss all over their fingers

Also I’m trans so if it’s a multi stall public bathroom I’m not definitely not washing my hands because people are transphobic

I felt bad for him until he handed his phone over, (I think?) gave them his password, and let them delete all his photos. Weak sauce, what opsec, buckled under pressure, played himself. The way he talks kindly about the dean after what they put him through is embarrassing, that guy fucked you until he got what he wanted. He’s not a nice guy for talking nice to you after he made you cry.

Reddit algorithm feels like it’s trying to brainwash me. The admins and mods are unaccountable and out of control. The owners are capitalists, I will never trust them.

Theres lots of content but it feels like dead Internet. The niche communities are nice but not amazing. I don’t want reddit owners and shareholders privatizing niche communities anymore than I want Facebook doing it so I refuse to participate. Short term pain, id rather build the fediverse up and post here even if it takes a long time to manifest a bigger more fulfilling platform.

For the same reason I don’t invest in stocks or the market I don’t want to participate in niche communities on corporate owned social media platforms. I dont want to invest in a future where the capitalist class is empowered through control of my retirement or savings. I don’t want to participate in a future where the capitalist class controls the platforms where I engage with my communities online.

Software worked out of the box much more reliably. I miss certain software but there’s nothing I haven’t found a happy replacement for. There’s a little nostalgia in there somewhere but honestly the feeling is mostly good riddance

You accused the Chinese of being illiterate and I provided statistical evidence. The paragraph you wrote maligning Chinese literacy rates literally starts off with “does anybody have any statistics”.

You reject the statistical evidence because you personally can’t believe it. The rest of the world believes it. Nobody gives a fuck about your opinion when you are so wrong, so many times, in such relatively short comment.

If we can just personally dismiss things we don’t believe in, evidence, statistics, and facts be damned then I don’t believe in you. Are you an actual thinking person with a brain or sinophobic caricature impervious to evidence?

I don’t have time to go through everything wrong with your post but I want to touch on Chinese vs American literacy rates for a moment

In America while the total population literacy rate is often cited at 99%, functional literacy (the ability to manage daily living and employment tasks) is lower, with estimates placing it between 65% and 85%.

China’s literacy rate has grown from 79% in 1982 to 97% in 2020.

In 2018 PISA results,15-year-olds in China outperformed U.S. peers in reading, math, and science. Some analyses suggest about 20% of U.S. 15-year-olds do not read as well as they should by age 10.

In the 2018 PISA China ranked first globally in all subjects. The U.S. ranked roughly 13th in reading and 37th in math among 79 education systems

Youth literacy in the U.S. is facing a crisis, with 25% of 16-to-24-year-olds deemed functionally illiterate as of 2023, up from 16% in 2017. Roughly 60% of U.S. teens do not read at grade level, and 34% of fourth-graders perform below basic reading levels.

In 2020, youth (15–24) literacy in China reached 100%.

I’m an extremely privileged hedonistic inner city party queer. This shit weighs so heavily on me I’m consumed with visions of war whenever I go out to have fun now.

Tripping mushrooms at the beach unable to escape horrible visions of the cruel calculus of war. The anger and shortages spilling into violence, famine, and fleeing your home, the way hunger and exhaustion will beat you down long before a gun is ever in your face. Occult dance party the night after the war started, could barely dance or enjoy myself just weighed down by the war, as was my wife, so we left very early.

Asking other people who were around me at the dance party, on the beach, other recent concerts, no one else was that bothered by the war, it wasn’t something anyone had put much thought into.

I live very close to where the Battle of Atlanta started in the Civil War. It’s been 150+ years since this land and its people actually knew war. Sure there are soldiers overseas but that’s exactly it, overseas, out of sight out of mind. By and large I don’t think most Americans comprehend in the slightest what war is. A lot of us grew up in the Global War on Terror where aside from the toxic political discourse a persistent state of war really didn’t feel all that much different than peace felt before.

A lot of Americans have also wised up to the idea that we fight forever wars, to a lot of people they can’t even keep up with when the fighting has started or stopped, just this vague awareness there are constant military actions happening in the backgound. So when they hear about all this with Iran it’s just another drop in the bucket of forever wars, something they have become desensitized to after decades of the Bush’s, Obama’s, and Clinton’s killing sprees around the world. So much murder not only can they not keep up they just tune out.

So in conclusion I think America has fully internalized the Orwellian mantra War Is Peace. They just can’t tell the difference anymore not that they would’ve cared much about Iran back when they could.

Americans acting normal as fuck. People were crashing out 10x harder when the invasion of Ukraine started in 2022