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In half a country abortions are borderline or actually illegal, and in the ever growing number of states trans people are deprived of healthcare and human dignity. Idk what veil they could hide behind at this point.

Absolutely not. If you like streaming - by all means, do it, it's fun, and it even might eventually take off. But it is an industry where 99% of people don't make any money after years and years put into it. Definitely do not start with the expectation to make a living. Any other form of content creation has better odds of working out. And it's almost always better to move into streaming after amassing some audience that way.

Gay glorification, is the cornerstone of US globalism. With women, minorities, etc... not just gays.

Bro I fucking wish

Originally it's just a beach/surfing brand and, well, lifestyle. But pigs and military co-opted it as a kind of thin blue line symbol, since it's word play on "assault life".

The answer is no, nobody knows, not the Ukrainian military leadership, and definitely not Al Jazeera. One thing we can know for sure is that the "denazification military operation" that made the most insane fringe ultranationalist groups that were eager to go kill people into national heroes and role models did not bring that number down.

One of the most destructive lies that was sold to the American public was that the stock market = economy. Line goes up means good. Even when you're homeless, hungry, and sick.

I mean, the book of Genesis was essentially a collection of earlier Sumero-Babylonian, Canaanite, and Egyptian cultural materials. And it reflected the contemporary practices, laws, and customs of neighboring people in its narrative. The specific part I was referring to, the shift from the Mother-Goddess to God-the-Father, was also in line with it. It just happened to be that the cornerstone of western monotheistic religious thought was birthed in social setting and conditions that affirmed and reinforced patriarchy.

I guess my point is that what they shat on in the bible was what they were already shitting on as societies. And then they used it as a justification to keep doing just that.

Fun fact, Minoan snake-goddess was one of the many female goddesses from 4000BC onward that were worshipped as a source of fertility for vegetation, animals, and humans. Other great goddesses for millennia were depicted surrounded by snakes, goats, birds, often amidst pillars of trees. And then in the christian story of the Fall the tree has become the tree of forbidden fruit. The power to give life is represented by the bearded patriarchal God, the Father. And the snake, long associated with the goddess, now becomes the tempter, and the first command to the woman is that there shall be enmity between her and the snake.

Deadlines and external responsibility as the only driving forces is indeed a very ADHD thing. I can do literally anything at a moment's notice for my friends, but I've been moving the pile of laundry between the computer chair and the bed for the past month.

Damn, the second graph is 1:1 with how much I enjoy those types of milk.

That would be a ton of work, but I like the idea of a database where you could connect items/services you're purchasing to some fundamental characteristics. Like the country of origin, the parent company, maybe info/contacts of the owner. That way you could set up some filters (+"not israeli" +"not nestle" -"touched by a person from Florida") and have a simple-ish way to avoid supporting stuff you'd rather not.

But even then, while boycotts are not pointless, they are not a tool for targeted activism. It's kinda like "eat your veggies", in the end it's up to the individual how far you want to go with it. Most things sold en masse are worthy of a boycott. Especially since everything is owned by like 5 companies. Mistreating/underpaying employees, quality control, ecological impact, investment portfolios, animal abuse, and so on and so forth. When everything is shitty, there's not much of a point to sorting through shit.

If anything, it would be really cool to have an app that suggests sustainable alternatives to the items you're purchasing, or directly promotes them (and there's your monetization model). People would rather use a product that actively makes them feel better, rather than the "everything in my cart is making the world burn" app.

"what he said" - USA