cursed with "do you still like me?" "are you mad at me?" "did i do something wrong?" disorder
"this is actually anxious attachment style" no. it's "do you still like me?" "are you mad at me?" "did i do something wrong?" disorder.
Twitter is screenshoting us more and more often
Though you guys would want to know.
I don't trust anyone who hasn't acknowledged their capacity for evil.
"I'm just a smol bean uwu" No sir, what you are is someone who is so habituated to thinking of yourself as innocent that you will continue to do so even when you're guilty.
And if you convince yourself that you're always and only a victim, you can inflict absolutely monstrous cruelty and never once feel bad about it.
NaPoWriMo #6
I didn't like either of today's prompts, so I decided to write a poem inspired by this Sunday's Gospel and my recent reading about St. Thomas Aquinas. Apologies for any theological accuracy that may have been sacrificed for the sake of the rhyme scheme.
The Two Thomases
The Twin heard tale of how the Lord did rise yet could not bring himself to take their part until he saw the Christ before his eyes and touched the wound the spear left through His heart. Such proofs left doubt no place within his mind; the skeptic fell before Him wholly awed. Then faith could see what reason could not find and knew Him for his mighty Lord and God. The Ox in later years did reason heed and knew that Christ had not gone from man’s sight. Creation gave all sign a man could need to know his God within faith’s holy light. O holy pair, we see the truth through thee That God gives faith to those with eyes to see.
me any time anything happens
I'd fucking retire dude are you kidding me
I've got one of these. It's from the vtech V.smile educational games console. It's got a really nifty feature: it's ambidextrous!
you start beating them and mid match they beyblade their fucking controller to their dominant hand
Loving the notes
this is going to be difficult -> i am capable of doing difficult things -> i have done everything prior to this moment -> this difficulty will soon be proof of capability
less "this is gonna suck", more "finally a test worthy of my skills"
This app is like free therapy sometimes I swear
A baby pika! Listen to his little cry. Someday it will be much louder.
* W I G G L I N G I N T E N S I F I E S *
not to be a total nerd, but this reminds me of a little bit of text from the 7th Sea Game Master's Guide, regarding the Reformed Vaticine Church of the Prophets (a fictionalized merging of Roman Catholicism and Reformed Judaism). it was going over the beliefs of the church, and it had some interesting things to say about sin:
[...]
there is more, but the general gist of the text is that Theus (that world's version of God) does not declare things sins arbitrarily; anything that is sinful is so for a very good reason, a reason which can be easily enough determined from a simple analysis of the sin and the repercussions of committing it on those around you. gluttony is a sin because it harms your body and deprives food from those who need it, lust spreads disease, rots the mind, and tears apart families, greed is a drug that causes you to horde wealth and power but derive no pleasure from it, and as a result deprive others of what they need to live, and so on.
in other words, prohibition against sin is similar in nature to a mother telling a child not to touch the stove while she is cooking pasta; he could burn himself badly, or worse knock the pot over and scald both himself and his sister. or when a father tells his kids not to chase their ball into the street; it's not because he hates fun, or doesn't want his kid to have the ball, but rather because he doesn't want him to get run over. it is not random or arbitrary; it is purposeful and full of concern for his child's wellbeing.
Explanation:
>Japan bombs Pearl Harbor which brings America into World War II
>The draft for WWII creates a labor shortage in the US
>Because of the labor shortage, companies start significantly raising wages.
>FDR is worried that if wages go up too fast it could create runaway inflation, so he signs an executive order creating the National War Labor Board, which standardized salaries during the war in order to stabilize prices.
>Companies wanted a way to compete for talent in a limited labor pool despite not being able to offer higher salaries, so they started offering benefits packages to attract workers, the cornerstone of which was health insurance
>After the war, companies didn't want to give up their role in providing health insurance because it served them well in terms of both recruiting and retention (i.e. you're less likely to quit your job if it means losing your health insurance)
>This model becomes increasingly common across the US to the point where private health insurance companies are paying for the majority of healthcare expenses in the US
>Because the majority of healthcare costs were being paid by insurance companies rather than the people receiving care, hospitals began massively inflating the sticker price of their services with the expectation that the insurance company would negotiate those numbers down (as private insurance companies are want to do)
>Insurance companies take advantage of the increase in sticker prices by increasing premiums and passing off more of their costs to the consumer while continuing to negotiate down the actual price paid to hospitals
>This cycle repeats until the average hospital bill is completely divorced from any of the actual costs of the service
>In 2024 the average cost of giving birth in America is over $18,000
Who's got the Cotton Hill flip off FDR image handy?
Always.
Perfect
That’s it, the Professor is truly the King of Sass
The letter didn’t come from the Nazi party, but from the publishing house which had expressed an interest in the German translation of The Hobbit. Tolkien’s response really is a thing of beauty, though, so it deserves to be quoted in its entirety:
25 July 1938 20 Northmoor Road, Oxford
Dear Sirs,
Thank you for your letter. … I regret that I am not clear as to what you intend by arisch. I am not of Aryan extraction: that is Indo-iranian; as far as I am aware none of my ancestors spoke Hindustani, Persian, Gypsy, or any related dialects. But if I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people. My great-great-grandfather came to England in the eighteenth century from Germany: the main part of my descent is therefore purely English, and I am an English subject - which should be sufficient. I have been accustomed, nonetheless, to regard my German name with pride, and continued to do so throughout the period of the late regrettable war, in which I served in the English army. I cannot, however, forbear to comment that if impertinent and irrelevant inquiries of this sort are to become the rule in matters of literature, then the time is not far distant when a German name will no longer be a source of pride.
Your enquiry is doubtless made in order to comply with the laws of your own country, but that this should be held to apply to the subjects of another state would be improper, even if it had (as it has not) any bearings whatsoever on the merits of my work or its suitability for publication, of which you appear to have satisfied yourselves without reference to my Abstammung.
I trust you will find this reply satisfactory, and remain yours faithfully
J.R.R. Tolkien.
(Letter 30)
The Hobbit wasn’t published in German until 1957.
This might just be the politest “fuck you” ever written.
W.h.a.t.
Not just “I wish I had Jewish ancestors, but I don’t,” but also “you do realize that’s not what ‘Aryan’ actually means, right,” and “you guys are making it pretty hard to be proud of my German heritage.”
Nazis: Are you Aryan?
Noted linguistics freak Tolkien: Are you?
I’ve said this before, but it’s worth repeating:
Not only did Tolkien say “not Jewish but wish I was,” the only group more effectively exterminated during the Holocaust than the Jews were the Romani; per capita, over 99% of Romani were murdered by Hitler’s regime. More Jews died by total numbers, but there were more Jews than Romani.
Note that although he uses outdated language I suspect he may not have known was offensive (the G-word), he ALSO provided the one-two punch of “I’m not Aryan, but do you know who is? THESE PEOPLE YOU HATE. They are the ideal you seek to claim but can’t, fuckers.”
I genuinely hope at some point old Adolf had to read this letter, I really do.
i think we shouod terraform earth to make it completely flat because itd be fun
cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it
"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."
-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"Evil is boring. Right? I kinda believe in the banality and mundaneness of evil. Evil is just selfish impulses, which at the end of the day are really easy to understand. It’s easy to understand why people do bad things. It’s like “yeah, ok, you’re selfish and scared and cruel, I get it”. Being good is complex and beautiful and hard." - Brennan Lee Mulligan
“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
- Simone Weil
why should i care about taylor swift when the killer remains at large
#girl… put 2 and 2 together
