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I guess the clue was in the name, I'm done with this shitty instance,

  • Quite the opposite actually, and not really amusing in the slightest:

    The global promotion of commercial tobacco, and the subsequent addiction of Indigenous peoples to commercialized nicotine products, is a modern form of colonization and subjugation at national and international levels.5 Indigenous knowledge values, behaviors, and protocols have been suppressed (oftentimes appropriated for financial gain) through colonization processes implemented by governments, churches, and other institutions.6–8 For example, the US federal government passed the Code of Indian Offenses in 1883, prohibiting Indigenous peoples from the right to perform cultural and traditional ceremonial practices, such as the ghost and sun dances. Both of these ceremonial practices involved the use of ceremonial tobacco.9,10 In Canada, ceremonial tobacco use and ceremonial practices were more broadly illegal under the Indian Act of 1885 and its associated amendments.8 However, commercial tobacco use was not illegal, contributing to the promotion of commercial tobacco use among First Nations (status and non-status) and Métis peoples.8,11 As a direct consequence of these policies, commercial tobacco products were introduced into ceremonial practices as a harmful and unsustainable replacement to sacred tobacco.1,8,11 The restrictions of cultural and ceremonial practices, including use of ceremonial tobacco, were finally lifted in the United States in 1978 and in 1951 in Canada.8,9

    Among some Indigenous peoples, the modification, transformation, and commercialization of the Nicotiana tobacco plant belittle, disrespect, and complicate the understanding of these plants that are endemic to Turtle Island.12,13 The widespread availability of commercial tobacco products, the historical restrictions on ceremonial tobacco products, the tobacco industry’s exploitation of tribal sovereignty through tax-exempt tribal cigarette sales and heavy promotion at tribal enterprises, and the Industry’s targeted marketing of commercial tobacco products to Indigenous peoples have enabled frequent use and dependence among Indigenous communities, with concomitant and serious effects on the user’s health, and those exposed to second- and third-hand smoke. These forms of colonization tactics have complicated public health efforts aimed at reducing harms of commercial tobacco in Indigenous communities. Commercial tobacco and its derivatives represent a threat to physical health, spiritual health, and well-being for Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island.5 Today, Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island report the highest prevalence of cigarette smoking, with above 50% in many communities, and lowest quit rates of all groups.14–16 Consequently, high rates of cigarette smoking have led to higher rates of smoking-related disease morbidity and mortality in these communities.17

    source

  • Right, because his tyranny will be so much better for us! 🙄

  • Next time, take it one step further lol:

    I don't think I have a favourite, but I'm definitely with you - when it comes to food prep I'll always choose an item that is one solid piece over one that has joins (and other unnecessary grooves and crevices, or that is porous) where crap accumulates and is hard or even impossible to remove.

  • I won't post a photo because privacy, but there isn't much to see anyway, everything past the hedge along the lane at the end of my drive is white. Not as in snow covered (which everything is, too), but as in cloud covered - gone. The fields, the hills, the neighbours, everything past the hedge has vanished in to the fog lol

  • I'm certain you didn't mean that they are, but the meme format kinda implies it, so I just thought I'd point out from here on that intersection that the two groups aren't mutually exclusive😊

    (also shout out to fellow enby and or agender afabs lol)

    Otherwise both this and op are sadly spot on.

  • No, continuing to consent to, participate, and put faith in the sham that is electoral politics is the compromise.

    The fact that people see the impact of direct action, and can't resist the urge of their indoctrination to force it in to the box that is the constructs and systems that they're familiar, and therefore comfortable with, even in an expressly leftist community, is frustrating as hell.

  • I couldn't help it 😊

    (edit to clarify, just in case: couldn't help but describe them that way. I just realised how confusing that phrase might be in isolation to someone who isn't a native speaker, or maybe my stoned and tired brain is just overthinking it lol)

  • The fact that anyone would need this amount of mental gymnastics to find reason enough to relate to the women potentially being targeted, to be against it, is pretty fucked up in its own right.

    A large part of how patriarchy works is that men aren't expected to, so often don't, give a shit about the harm it causes until something impacts them directly, and even then, they will only actively oppose it if it harms them significantly more than what the patriarchy benefits them (toxic masculinity being a prime example of self harm many men are reluctant to fight).

    Catering to this feature of the system only perpetuates it. Stop creating convoluted ways for them to relate (even "your mothers and sisters" shouldn't be needed), and start expecting, and demanding, they simply consider and therefor treat all humans equally (which magically leads to caring about what happens to women just as much as they would if it were men under threat).

  • Elaine don’t come in, I’ll get some for you!”

    Spiderman pointing at spiderman meme lol

  • I've not read any myself because my brain is too fried, but I've heard great things about Ursula K. Le Guin's books, especially The Dispossessed.

  • Oh, hey everyone, this random on the internet disagrees with masses of research that I guarantee they didn't even glance at, as well as observable reality (once and only if you're willing to set your bias aside, that is), problem solved!

  • Oh, so the people in your country aren't avoiding having kids because it's too expensive to either give up a salary, pay for childcare and bigger housing, or both? Or because they fear bringing a child in to a world being devastated by climate change and other inequality (which you oh so conveniently ignore)?🤔

    But hey, don't let reality get in the way of your bootlicking..

    (E: also, thank you for demonstrating one of the classist ableist and racist aspects of the myth - the idea and implication that people who are having more kids are "less developed", or that those who you do consider "developed" got that way by magic or "hard work", and not by exploiting those who you consider "less so" and their countries resources, is the epitome of that. Get off your fucking high horse)

  • Because while low birth rates are a real thing that is happening (because of war, hunger, poverty, disease, climate change, and whatever other inequality), "overpopulation" is and always has been a (classist, ableist, racist) myth, to shift responsability away from capitalism, which is what causes war, hunger, poverty, disease, climate change, and whatever other inequality, for profit.

  • stickers that I don’t want to waste

    Permanently sticking it somewhere? That is a tattoo-level commitment, I ain’t doing that.

    I have found my people and feel validated 😂

  • I discovered this game via a lemmy comment, and I feel like it's my duty to pass the addiction along: Cookie Clicker (I play on pc, but it looks to me like it'd be pretty light on mobile)

  • Ron's Gone Wrong (2021) just finished on tv as I scrolled past this post, parts feel directly ripped off from Big Hero 6, not bad, but nothing too amazing.

    Also watched Baby Done (2020) with Rose Matafeo who I love, which was fun if a little heteronormative. Got a great gif out of it though, thanks for the reminder:

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    I also started watching The Ghost Goes West (1935) earlier today but nodded off halfway through, not sure I'm missing much in terms of plot, but I might try and watch the whole thing through if I get the chance, just to see how Florida was portrayed lol

    And then.. Then there was Triangle of Sadness (2022) - private yacht going liberal Hollywood sniffing its own farts pretending to be at the vanguard of progressive thinking, or in the immortally centrist words of its creator: "I am equally as hard on the poor as I am on the rich", which tells you everything you need to know really. Much like current events- there are brief and fleeting moments where the true villain/s get a minor sampling of what they deserve, but ultimately they still come out on top, and only after the victim is portrayed as the real villain (because the creators, and the privileged in general, can't imagine another way, only the tables being directly turned, and their victims treating them the way they treat their victims), before the status quo, which was never under any real threat, is restored and liberalism wins once again lmao. The fact that it's being lauded as some ingenious political satire is deeply depressing.

    E: I also watched films like Junior and Sister act, and some of the other 90's classics that are regularly on tv, but I'm sure no one needs introducing to them, and I also feel like I'm missing some other lesser known films, but my brain is a bit of a sieve lol (E3: to prove my point: I'd completely forgotten I'd watched Everything Everywhere All at Once, and definitely not because it was forgettable lol)

    E2: also the latest Jurassic Park sequel is on tonight against fuck all else, so I'll be watching that, followed by Ferris Bueller's Day Off lol

  • Lol, who do you think owns them now?

    (we have our own billionaires, some even "anointed by god" 🙄)

  • The whole thing just sounds like a data collecting scam, having PayPal involved is confirmation.

  • Though anyone who loves the foodstuff should also definitely be wary of scams - in the UK it was recently reported that nine in ten honey samples fail authenticity test (TL;DR: most honey you buy is just sugar syrup), I don't doubt it's just as bad in many other countries, and almost certainly worst in the US.

  • I'm in the UK, we have the NHS, and several "sin taxes", and they still pretty much exclusively penalise the poor (as does the NHS which has been defunded to oblivion in favour of rampant privatisation, so those who can't afford to go private are left with the ruins), while those selling the "sinful" products (and private health insurance) continue to rake it in.

    There is no taxing or legislating or regulating our way our of capitalism, which is exclusively responsible for those in power exchanging the health and well being of the population and the planet for profit, and they will never allow any tax or legislation or regulation to pass that would put them at any kind of disadvantage. The fact that some people still think they would, is frankly quite terrifying.

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