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That is the cutest goddamn thing I’ve ever seen

Perfect for staying inside and reading.

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you know what dad? maybe i don't wanna be the saviour of the broken, the beaten and the damned. it's a lot of pressure to put on me and honestly i've been feeling stressed recently because of it

hold on lemme google something

ok yeah this is funny

The true deadly sins

Lust

Not a sin- feeling sexual attraction, sex with consenting partners, masturbation, consuming pornographic media, having several sexual partners, sex before mariage. IT’S A SIN WHEN- the person projects lust onto an unwilling recipient person and does not take into account their wants or consent. Rape, harassment, sexual assault, catcalling, dick pics.

Gluttony

Not a sin- food, enjoying food, cooking, eating sweets, eating meat. In the larger sense, accumulating material things you enjoy, like books or collectibles or whatever.  IT’S A SIN WHEN- It deprives other people of what they need.

Envy

Not a sin: Wanting things you see other people have, like money, power, fame. IT’S A SIN WHEN: This is how you define people, and stop respecting them as humans. It’s a sin when you use them for what they have and what they can bring you.

Greed

Not a sin: Wanting financial security, working hard for the things you want.  IT’S A SIN WHEN: Your own financial growth depends on keeping other people impoverished and suffering.

Pride

Not a sin: Being proud of your accomplishments, liking your looks, dressing up IT’S A SIN WHEN: It stops you from accepting your faults and seeing how you can be wrong, not admitting that you can better yourself. 

Wrath

Not a sin: Righteous anger at situations, being mistreated, seeing other people suffer, at the injustice of the world. Self-defense. Revolution.  IT’S A SIN WHEN: Violence towards defenceless people, hitting your partner or your kids,.  Violence fuelled by intolerance and bigotry. 

Sloth

Not a sin: Resting. Sleeping. Taking a day or a year off. Being unproductive. Playing videogames. IT’S A SIN WHEN: You stay inactive when action is required. When people need you and you’d rather do nothing.

THIS IS SO IMPORTANT AND GIVES POWER BACK TO SO MANY PEOPLE

This is such a good thing to spread for kids from religious households that taught them to feel guilty and ashamed for normal human things (example: me)

“…And that’s what your holy men discuss, is it?” asked Granny Weatherwax.

“Not usually. There is a very interesting debate raging at the moment on the nature of sin, for example,” answered Mightily Oats.

“And what do they think? Against it, are they?”

“It’s not as simple as that. It’s not a black and white issue. There are so many shades of gray.”

“Nope.”

“Pardon?”

“There’s no grays, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.”

“It’s a lot more complicated than that–”

“No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”

“Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes–”

“But they starts with thinking about people as things…”

–from Carpe Jugulum, by Terry Pratchett.

alright my friend and i were arguing about this so i’m gonna make a post about it

reblog and put in the tags what you call each of these

“Big Pharma” okay are we talking about how privatization and monetization has deeply corrupted the field of medicine or are you talking about how you think chemicals in the water are making the frogs gay

“GMOs”? Are we talking seeds that grow sterile plants and patenting genetic modifications then destroying any competition no matter how small they are? Or are we talking life saving rice with vitamin a to make sure kids don’t go blind in regions not suited for other high vit a veg? … or are we talking about your chidoodle?

Conversely, “alternative medicines”? Are we talking the traditional practices of non-Western societies which have an ancient history of being the cultural tools that allowed communities to take care of the health of their members and are nowadays rigorously studied within these communities to adapt them to the needs of the contemporary life, and can offer important prompts to modern medicine? Or are we talking about a white woman who traveled to India twice, followed a five-hour seminar and knows everything about inner energies now

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“Appeal to a wider audience” is corporate lingo for “strip more themes from a piece of media so it’s safer and more sanitized for investors”

I struck a nerve in the billionaire fandom with this one

Oh wow, I didn't know this. I have been hearing her name, but I assumed she was on Ottawa city council or something (I heard the city of Ottawa had started a class action, so I immediately assumed city council, not a regular citizen)

She's a true hero in this.

Tagging @allthecanadianpolitics

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Secret set of useful items for adult life that are good to have:

1) A hammer, not too big, maybe an 8oz one. Because you will need to hit something with a hammer at some point - maybe a nail’s coming out of the wall, maybe that bag of frozen fruit you got melted a bit on the way home and refroze into a solid lump in the freezer. At some point, you will need a hammer. I got mine at the Great Canadian Dollar Store for $1 Canadian. Good hammer, serves its purpose.

2) A pair of regular-sized screwdrivers, one phillips (has the + shaped tip) and one flathead (has the - shaped tip). As with the hammer, you will need to screw or unscrew something at some point, and these two types of screwdriver will cover most of the stuff you’ll encounter on a normal day. I got these at the dollar store, too, reliable allies.

3) A mini-screwdriver kit, a small one with maybe six screwdrivers in it. These will have your back with all the fiddly little screws you don’t normally think about - glasses, calculator battery cases, small bits on sewing machines. One of those items you generally think of as useless, right up until you need it, at which point it becomes the most valuable thing in your house. You can get a good set for about $8 usd.

4) This one will sound like a joke, but a model tool kit for plastic models, a simple one with nine to eleven pieces. They are full of strange, esoteric tools that can just… come in handy at weird times - a metal file to smooth a rough edge on something plastic or resin, a nice exact-o knife with some spare blades, a polish cloth, tweezers, good stuff. And you can get a good one for $10-$15 usd easy, which is way cheaper than going and buying all this stuff separately.

5) A box of q-tips. They’re just weirdly useful for stuff, but, again, one of those things you don’t often think of until you need one.

6) A cleaning toothbrush. This can be an old toothbrush that is a little too worn to get its job done anymore or a cheap new one. The important thing is, the cleaning toothbrush does not go in the mouth. It is used with a bit of soap or detergent to gently clean spots on clothes, dirt from the fiddly areas of jewelry, watches, cool figures/statuettes, small spaces the scrub-cloth doesn’t reach, and that sort of thing. It is a powerful secret weapon, cherish it throughout its life, then pay respects when it is finally replaced.

8) A pair of utility scissors, possibly with orange handles. The big kind your parents didn’t let you get as a kid, but not so big as to be unwieldy. Grown-up scissors. Used for everything from cutting cardboard to removing a small chunk of uneven hair to cutting plants outside. Costs about $11 usd to get a good pair, very worth it.

9) An appropriately-sized bag or box to keep all this stuff in. It won’t have to be very big, a shoe box will hold all this with loads of space left over, but you wanna keep it consolidated, you know? The scissors especially, they will try to strike out on their own for regions unknown if left to their own devices.

All together, this kit will probably end up costing from $40-50 usd, if you go for the cheapest version of everything I’ve suggested and hit up the local dollar store (like I did). That may still sound like a lot. However, with the exception of the q-tips and the toothbrush, all this is stuff you will never have to buy again. The newest, non-toothbrush-or-q-tip item I have on my list is the tool kit for plastic models, and it’s about four years old - the rest is more in the range of fifteen years old and have never needed replacing.

None of this is likely stuff you’ll need on a daily basis, but it’s all stuff that you will need eventually and which is really useful to just have on-hand when you do. One day you’ll need a screwdriver to pry a stuck lid off something, another you randomly require a pair of tweezers or nippers from your plastic model tool kit, and what could have required an hour-long work-around or a trip to the store is over in a couple minutes and you can get on with your day.