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Cake day: September 13th, 2024

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  • It’s honestly hard not to say we as a species don’t deserve whatever happens from this. This was 100% our own choice and we have no one else to blame.

    Think about it as a sci-fi film. If an evil alien civilization breeds humans specifically to subject them to a life of constant suffering and experimentation, and some humans they deliberately infected with deadly diseases escape, would anyone in the audience feel bad for that alien race when those diseased humans infect everyone and wipe them out? It would be the most classic poetic comeuppance trope and the humans would be uncritically hailed as the heroes.

    Spoiler alert, we’re evil civilization doing that.






  • If you think that’s terrible and sad, wait till you hear about the people who join the air force for the opportunity to kill civilians in foreign countries.

    Remember that time earlier this year when they bombed civilians in Yemen, waited for rescue to show up, then bombed the rescue teams?

    Remember those times earlier this month when they murdered a bunch of random boaters in the Caribbean?

    But keep telling me why they’re poor widdle imperialist babies who deserve my sympathy because when their conscience finally caught up to them, these supposedly brave and fearless soldiers decided to take the easy and cowardly way out instead of lifting a finger to rectify even a fraction of the suffering they dealt on the world. That’s supposed to make me respect them more, and not less?










  • Honestly baffled why anyone still gives a shit about jewels. Literal useless rocks extracted by slave labour from France’s colonies with no industrial or personal uses, and formerly owned by a disgusting aristocrat as a way to show off his disgusting wealth.

    Most jewels are just aluminum oxide crystals with colored inorganic impurities. Who cares if they’re stolen, just make more. The camera lens on your phone and the tube in an old school sodium vapour street light are jewels, and far purer ones than what you can dig out of the ground.