borscht on the bottom left? fuck me that's a great looking lunch, like the kind of thing you'd pay a lot of money for nowadays at a fancy overpriced restaurant
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~~Here's a song to honor his bravery~~
edit: You know what, I posted this late at night, I was tired and hadn't really processed this event entirely. This comment came off as callous, very dismissive and heartless. What this guy did was not just something that I want to make an offhand joke about. This was fucking intense, honestly the ultimate gesture a person can make as a protest. I watched the video today and heard his blood-curdling screams of "free Palestine" and I'm ready to do a 180 and say that this whole event was a punch in the gut. I initially did not take it seriously thinking it was a dumbass soldier doing a dumbass thing, but this is something else entirely. Despite him having been a cog in the imperialist war machine, I have no words to describe the power of his protest. I would never have expected this from a person in his position. I have spent the entire day thinking about the meaning of self-immolation, and I find it intensely humbling, hard to even think about.
It feels like the stakes are way higher now, the US has two parties with their electable figures decaying from old age and probably less than five years away from death. There's an active genocide going on. There's a huge recession looming over Europe. The level of importance of this election has broken past "the most important of our lifetimes" and will soon be reaching "the most important in history, perhaps for all eternity".
It will be a fucking funny election cycle and I'm here for it. 
they truly are, no doubt about it
even seeing pictures of cats is enough to lift my mood, because they are pure perfection
if someone asks after the war ends, you can say that it's an incomplete maze
The true reckoning comes at last! The age of Nar'aloth and his Heavenly Betrothed shall finally begin in earnest. May the thousand blessings of His Promised Hand purge the unrepentant.
It's fucked up, even the fact that they expect the world to take their word for it shows me two things. First, that the international media is willing to just swallow anything Israel says, hook, line and sinker. Second is that Israel simply assumes that to be true from the get-go.
If the media has not held them accountable for declaring safe-zones and then bombing them immediately afterwards, they're not about to do it this time around either.
trailcam location: Nokron, Eternal City
I fully expect the Israeli government to be true to their words. They are very trustworthy and I see no reason why they would slaughter civilians in Rafah after all the hostages are released.
My mom agrees with me, too. We were talking about this topic today, I told her how I'll always trust Israel, then she said "okay love", then she covered her face with her hands and would you believe it, she simply disappeared! And not five seconds later, she moved her hands and lo and behold, there she was again! Holy shit, so cool!
I always say there's a massive difference between being a liberal in the global south and a liberal in the imperial core.
Very important point there. I guess what disappoints me the most in Lula's current government is the constant conciliation and compromise. I mean, look at who his goddamn VP is. It's just that it always feels like the factors which led to the coup in 2016 are still there, still festering. Bolsonaro lost and we're in a period of relative calm, but where do we go from here? Lula can only be reelected once, and then what happens next? I don't know man, it's late and I'm in a lithium brainfog right now so I don't want to belabor this point, but... there's something missing and I don't know what it is.
As I mentioned in another topic, Brazilians in Florida are on average truly exceptional individuals, let's say
It's fucking depressing and all and there are more red flags here than at the Victory Day parade in 1945, but you know what gets me the most about this kind of job ad? It's for an "AI live photo sharing app."
We live in a world that expects people to mobilize all their energy, all the meaningful time that they could otherwise enjoy in their lives, and for what? To build a fucking AI live photo sharing app.
Not to build infrastructure, to feed the poor, to elevate humanity and to develop a better society. You'll have to be available at any time, any day of the week, and you'll have to use your hard-earned programming skills to develop a motherfucking AI live photo sharing app.
We are truly fucked if that's what we think would be the best way to put some of our most talented professionals to work. Just building the next money-making machine for some useless billionaire.