1458 pts · July 12, 2016
I worked for a Kroger deli about 10 years ago. We threw out hundreds of dollars of edible food every night, and we intentionally did so in a way that prevented the local homeless from being able to eat any. The story went that workers used to set aside food for themselves and/or for the local homeless, and to prevent that, we were never allowed to take any home or donate it. So much food waste that it should have been criminal, just one of many places. That’s what the fuck they’re talking about.
It can still be said that your final death is the last time your name is repeated, which is why some shifty copper merchant from ancient mesopotamia still lives rent free in the heads of many. It’s one of the only forms of immortality one can feasibly grasp in our time.This living hand writes, soon cold and dead. Should it be still, and thus never be known to begin with? Or write, and thus survive in its way?
Counter Culture
Who asked
Cosmic brownies and zebra cakes still hit different
I cannot possibly understand the mindset of people who think that anyone should be immune to the violence they inflict, let alone advocating for the lives of evil tyrants. In my opinion, it’s a philosophy that is such a moral ivory tower that it circles back to becoming a defense of evil. One cannot say that those who dragged Mussolini in the streets, or those who wished him just as dead, were performing a moral evil without saying implicitly that his continued reign was preferable.
Witnessed
I’m very excited to see what Zohran Mamdani’s able to accomplish for NYC
No. Texas representatives are acting against general public’s best interests by redistricting undemocratically. California took the moral high ground by actually involving voters, although the mandate of the voter is ostensibly not actually required.
#49 Broadly speaking, this is done to encourage higher analytical thought in students. Thinking critically about literature isn’t ‘fun’ for most people, but it CAN provide an avenue for deeper and thoroughly enjoyable discussions. Some authors’ works are meant to be read with critical lenses, while some are not able or intended to withstand such scrutiny. Most teachers won’t assert that the curtains MUST blue because a character is depressed, only that it is an important possibility to consider.
It’s remarkably on brand to forget the named generation before the “Greatest Generation.” The Silent Generation, the one that was decimated by the Great War.
The Left Hand of Darkness was SO intense. I haven’t read The Word for World is Forest, but The Left Hand of Darkness impacted me in a way few books ever have. It left me feeling so cold, that what bitter relief came at the end still had me frostbitten.
The understanding of pronouns and gender politics was not in the public eye when Le Guin wrote The Left Hand Of Darkness. It boggles my mind that she wrote a world with a hermaphroditic, agender society using ‘he/him’ pronouns universally, *when* she did, and that those people consider the diplomat (our ‘normal’ representing human, and our lens into the world for much of the book) a pervert?Le Guin paved the way for stuff like Steven Universe, 110%, or at *least* she did it first.
I read The Left Hand of Darkness as part of a science fiction literature course in my undergrad studies, which reintroduced me to Le Guin (I had read an Earthsea novel without knowing anything of the author. HUGE tonal difference) and it captivated me. I started reading a chapter before bed and told myself I’d finish the rest the next day. I read for several hours straight and consumed it in one sitting, like a madman, and wrote my discussion posts online. It was the best read of the semester.
I HIGHLY recommend the Left Hand of Darkness. I found myself empathizing strongly with the characters within, and after reading, I felt like someone had locked me in a freezer and then let me thaw back to room temperature, but something in me had been scraped out. It’s a bitter, gripping read.
So, to folks who donate to Russia for their invasion of Ukraine, we should recommend cigarettes for the troops?
Now, I *know* that sounds bad…
I’m sorry. Welcome home.
Danny Phantom
#26 Depending on location, could have been part of the Underground Railroad. There’s some stuff like that here in Indiana.
#6 is pretty stupid and ahistorical. By all means, wehraboos, neonazis, and armchair historians aggrandize the regime and its military/economic reach. There’s good evidence the structure would have collapsed by itself.But if you look at the death toll, and the length of the war, and the reach of its logistics, Nazi Germany did not ‘get its ass kicked quickly.’ It got lucky in some places. It had genius military minds in others. TLDR It’s a grossly misleading meme, Nazis WERE big and bad once
Damn! TIL
jumper cables
the font makes this so much more unhinged thank you
Some monsters with human DNA aren’t capable of remorse. Would you teach remorse to Dahmer?
Imagine my surprise when I was searching for food posts, and I find Ennead art! A web novel I know for……reasons……more food pls
I worked for a Kroger deli about 10 years ago. We threw out hundreds of dollars of edible food every night, and we intentionally did so in a way that prevented the local homeless from being able to eat any. The story went that workers used to set aside food for themselves and/or for the local homeless, and to prevent that, we were never allowed to take any home or donate it. So much food waste that it should have been criminal, just one of many places. That’s what the fuck they’re talking about.
It can still be said that your final death is the last time your name is repeated, which is why some shifty copper merchant from ancient mesopotamia still lives rent free in the heads of many. It’s one of the only forms of immortality one can feasibly grasp in our time.
This living hand writes, soon cold and dead. Should it be still, and thus never be known to begin with? Or write, and thus survive in its way?
Counter Culture
Who asked
Cosmic brownies and zebra cakes still hit different
I cannot possibly understand the mindset of people who think that anyone should be immune to the violence they inflict, let alone advocating for the lives of evil tyrants. In my opinion, it’s a philosophy that is such a moral ivory tower that it circles back to becoming a defense of evil. One cannot say that those who dragged Mussolini in the streets, or those who wished him just as dead, were performing a moral evil without saying implicitly that his continued reign was preferable.
Witnessed
I’m very excited to see what Zohran Mamdani’s able to accomplish for NYC
No. Texas representatives are acting against general public’s best interests by redistricting undemocratically. California took the moral high ground by actually involving voters, although the mandate of the voter is ostensibly not actually required.
#49 Broadly speaking, this is done to encourage higher analytical thought in students. Thinking critically about literature isn’t ‘fun’ for most people, but it CAN provide an avenue for deeper and thoroughly enjoyable discussions. Some authors’ works are meant to be read with critical lenses, while some are not able or intended to withstand such scrutiny. Most teachers won’t assert that the curtains MUST blue because a character is depressed, only that it is an important possibility to consider.
It’s remarkably on brand to forget the named generation before the “Greatest Generation.” The Silent Generation, the one that was decimated by the Great War.
The Left Hand of Darkness was SO intense. I haven’t read The Word for World is Forest, but The Left Hand of Darkness impacted me in a way few books ever have. It left me feeling so cold, that what bitter relief came at the end still had me frostbitten.
The understanding of pronouns and gender politics was not in the public eye when Le Guin wrote The Left Hand Of Darkness. It boggles my mind that she wrote a world with a hermaphroditic, agender society using ‘he/him’ pronouns universally, *when* she did, and that those people consider the diplomat (our ‘normal’ representing human, and our lens into the world for much of the book) a pervert?
Le Guin paved the way for stuff like Steven Universe, 110%, or at *least* she did it first.
I read The Left Hand of Darkness as part of a science fiction literature course in my undergrad studies, which reintroduced me to Le Guin (I had read an Earthsea novel without knowing anything of the author. HUGE tonal difference) and it captivated me. I started reading a chapter before bed and told myself I’d finish the rest the next day. I read for several hours straight and consumed it in one sitting, like a madman, and wrote my discussion posts online. It was the best read of the semester.
I HIGHLY recommend the Left Hand of Darkness. I found myself empathizing strongly with the characters within, and after reading, I felt like someone had locked me in a freezer and then let me thaw back to room temperature, but something in me had been scraped out. It’s a bitter, gripping read.
So, to folks who donate to Russia for their invasion of Ukraine, we should recommend cigarettes for the troops?
Now, I *know* that sounds bad…
I’m sorry. Welcome home.
Danny Phantom
#26 Depending on location, could have been part of the Underground Railroad. There’s some stuff like that here in Indiana.
#6 is pretty stupid and ahistorical. By all means, wehraboos, neonazis, and armchair historians aggrandize the regime and its military/economic reach. There’s good evidence the structure would have collapsed by itself.
But if you look at the death toll, and the length of the war, and the reach of its logistics, Nazi Germany did not ‘get its ass kicked quickly.’ It got lucky in some places. It had genius military minds in others.
TLDR It’s a grossly misleading meme, Nazis WERE big and bad once
Damn! TIL
jumper cables
the font makes this so much more unhinged thank you
Some monsters with human DNA aren’t capable of remorse. Would you teach remorse to Dahmer?
Imagine my surprise when I was searching for food posts, and I find Ennead art! A web novel I know for…
…reasons…
…more food pls