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It took USonians one win against Paraguay to believe they will take over football
I hope you all have a nice week :D
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Qatar at least wanted to do some sportswashing and made sure every single fan attending the event had no problems. I have no idea what the US is doing or why they bother hosting an event with all the shit they are pulling.
Sorry folks that I haven’t fully come back. Never expected life to throw me so many issues at the same time while taking a break. For that reason, I will take a longer break.
In the meantime, found these beautiful photos from Italy. Hope you all like them. And… I miss you all.
You are well-loved and sorely missed. Be kind to yourself, my sister.
Good to hear from you. Take the time you need of course. We’ll be here when you have more time for it again.
its late. adhd couldnt let me sleep. checked fav baseball team score earlier at 1st inning 1-1. now we are 1-6. i need something to help me sleep im going crazy
Wow same, if you ever find something to make you not think please tell. I can’t stop thinking
So because of how this province’s disability program works, and because I worked through Easter, and because there were 3 paydays in April rather than 2 thanks to how the calendar fell this year, my cheque this month was clawed back to less than 24% of what it usually is. I had to pay rent 100% out of my savings that I worked to build and still ended up over drafted. I survived till the next payday (today) but I’m just so tired and disgusted at the poverty trap I’m stuck in rn.
Literally zero point in working more than a few days a week because that money will just go into my landlords pockets at the end of the month. And let’s not forget that my Employment Insurance money that gets stolen out of my paycheque is money I essentially never get back because when you get it, 100% of that value gets clawed back, meaning I’M the one subsidizing the fucking province!!! I will never get that value back!!! What a fucking JOKE. Fuck Ontario. I can’t wait for this place to fall apart. I can’t even cry about it anymore, there’s nothing left. I’m giving it another year and then applying for MAID. I’m fucking done.Some guy on Bluesky a while back was trying to convince me workers own the means of production because we can vote in elections and I never wanted to slam my head into a wall harder than after reading that post.
The (US part of the) world cup is going to be such a shit show and I’m here for it. Parking lots the size of Luxembourg, stadiums in the middle of nowhere with a 2 hour commute into town, probably some shootings here and there, insane temperatures and whatever the fuck Donnie will do
May be the first world cup I will follow a bit just to see the shitshow
The only thing that even gets any mild interest from the world cup for me is the possibility of moronic British Football hooligans clashing against moronic US police, win win no matter who gets beaten up.
They will play in a 92k stadium for their first match. Both Engurland and Croatia got 4k tickets at like 1000+ dollar a piece. The stadium will be empty I think. Total flop.
Yesterday’s match had two hydration breaks and Dutch public network took the opportunity to introduce ads during those breaks and I genuinely cannot comprehend how USonians accept this. I was ready to throw my couch through the tv in pure rage.
Americans typically work between two to four jobs, an American’s brain is turned off by the time they can lay their body back. Plus the hyper individualism contributes to an inability to imagine a scenario where things change w collective action as everyone is tunnel-visioned on their own precarious situation. Those who resist are thrown into the prison system which disenfranchises them for life.
And if you combine all that with the literacy rates, the scale of alienation, the quality of our education, and propaganda that instills a fantastically-undeserved arrogance into every citizen then you got the perfect cocktail of a self-absorbed narcissistic population with no time or desire to form a coherent worldview.
I genuinely cannot overstate how poor the education system is. There is no attempt at forming critical thinking skills, if you look at federal and state guidelines theyre primarily testing memory and an absurdly oversimplified cause and effect understanding of history and in literature. We have repeatedly failed every generation with the education we provide, and with the material conditions getting worse we are only seeing worse teaching practices as the resources and training are inadequate.
KNICKS WON. Let’s goooo, finally champions
I will say, my initial impressions of Christianity were very negative because of the old testament. Im very glad to know I wasn’t the only person who thought “hey the old testament god is kind of really cruel.” like even gnostics back in the 2nd century were feeling that sl hard they just made the old testament god a different person
The old testament really is weird. Like, “So, some of you are thoroughly fucked in the head [citation needed]. Therefore, I’m going to mass murder all of you with a flood. But I’ll allow a few of you to survive along with a bunch of animals on a large boat. I’m sure this wouldn’t harm anything in terms of genetic diversity and will be well deserved.”
If a human announced they were going to try that, we’d immediately call them genocidal.
Or like, “Your city really was not welcoming to strangers. I’m just going to destroy it. Everyone in it.”
Or, “Can you sacrifice your son for me? J/k, that was a test.”
Old testament god is absolute barbarian narcissist energy. Loves collective punishment and loyalty tests.
I like to think of it less as “heres a bunch of stuff, everything is stuff God literally did” and a bit more like “here is a bunch of stories, some more allegorical, some based on real events, where we try to explain what human life, the world, and divinity is”
The Tanakh often depicts G-d as cruel because nature is often cruel. Floods, pain, droughts, &c.: these cruelties came from nature, and for the ancient Jews nature and G-d were synonymous. It is true that there are no verified records of, say, somebody turning into salt, but to the ancient Jews such a misfortune would not have sounded entirely out of character for nature either.
i just want japan to lose the world cup
you don’t have to wish for it, they suck lol
Oh should have specified. Lose embarrassingly <3 ik theyre not contenders but some ppl have hope for them and i want it quashed
Hopefully us Dutchies can embarrass them tonight
Watching Prairie Fire’s video “Germany Was Never Denazified” and you know what as much as I hate my country I can say one positive thing about Americans: we are in fact less Hitler than the average German.
The American Left can at least call a spade a spade and recognize the fascism of Israel but for Germans that apparently is not fucking possible. Truly a sick and rotten country to the core. Signing that Morgenthau apology form right now; he was cooking and we should’ve listened.
The Flemish-Brussels area of Belgium is roughly the size of the Greater Tokyo Area and we manage to get traffic jams of over two hours on a road that is maybe 20km long. This country could be run entirely on public transport if we wanted too but we gotta drive our shitty roads into the ground, one traffic jam at a time.
I’m not kidding when I say my gf regularly stands in traffic for 2 hours for a commute of 16 km.
I’m not kidding when I say my gf regularly stands in traffic for 2 hours for a commute of 16 km.
At this point you’re better off just riding a bike.
I’m not kidding when I say my gf regularly stands in traffic for 2 hours
Damn. That sucks. You could drive to Germany in less time than that.
