I Like This Thing A Lot

You wanna talk about settler colonialism? Talk about this:

During the two-year occupation of Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia region, Russia has brought over 100,000 of its citizens into the city

(Svidomi)

100k people in 1 (one) occupied city. I'm not talking about Mariupol, I'm not talking about Crimea, or Donetsk, Luhansk. It's just Melitopol, it's just the last two years.

Peanut

“Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom. To be fruitful, the two ideas must find their limits in each other.”

— Albert Camus, The Rebel

The Wrong Turn

Guess who's back here? I had a bumpy ride but I made it eventually.

Even with a blank map, a lot of people can only name 45-50 of the 64 states.

Label the States [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

Geography Challenge: Can you label all the states? [An unlabeled map of the United States, but instead of 50 states, there are borders for 64.]

Querer & vouloir

In most Romance languages, the verb meaning 'to want' comes from Popular Latin *volēre, such as French vouloir, Italian volere, and Catalan voler. However, in Spanish and Portuguese, it's querer - which not only means 'to want' but also 'to love': te quiero and quero-te. Querer stems from quaerere, a Latin verb meaning 'to ask; to seek to obtain', which is related to the English words question and to require. Click my new extra large graphic for more information on the evolutions of these words.

I'm convinced people who don't trust nuclear energy don't actual know anything about it beyond chernobyl

Nuclear plants have a ridiculous amount of safety precautions and procedures and nuclear is cleaner than fossil fuels even when you include nuclear waste.

And the two big disasters, Chernobyl and Fukushima both had factors other than the reactor that went wrong (chernobyl had workers being told to ignore the computers which said to shut down the reactor and Fukushima had both and earthquake and thusnami) and safety precautions were put in place to stop accidents in the same manner from happening

Nuclear is safe.

Alr, so this is just expressing my thoughts after reading It's a Good Life by Jerome Bixby, as well as after watching an in depth analysis on it.

Honestly, I really really enjoyed this short story, especially as it is in the cosmic horror genre (absolutely one of my favorite genres).

Now, this is the message that I interpreted from the story:

I think there comes a fear in being unable to live. A fear in not being allowed to live. A fear in trying to make the conscious decision to live. And yet what do we do? Often, we take this conscious decision in our daily lives ‐ and we face this fear - knowing that, although unspeakable horrors may yet lie in the ineffable (or something we know and are unable to explain its ineffable consequences), our lives are good because we exist, and even if we're seen as the "bad man" (quote from the story; it could represent a multitude of things, but i see it, in the context of the story, the want to be able to express one's own individualustic desires, thoughts, and creativity), our 'rebellion' from this absurdity is what makes us ultimately human.

yeah looking back on my interpretation, it's definitely absurdist, but hey, absurdism is one of my favorite philosophies, so I'm not complaining!

Anyway, please go read this short story, it soooooooo sooo good it's such a well-written story.

ngl, schwa is actually kinda mid.