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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • Yeah, also medium sized Midwestern cities remain a hub of those countercultures, not because people never bothered leaving, but because they remain trapped, or maybe because thats where they managed to leave to. It’s easy to think that if you don’t wind up in a major coastal city you failed to make it, but for some people getting out of their home town and making it in the city means moving to Cleveland.



  • captainlezbiantoSigh-Fi@quokk.auset piece
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    It’s a great national monument (yeah here in the us sometimes we call protected geological or ecological features monuments, it’s a quirk of the law). I highly recommend anyone in the area check it out, though it’s unlikely many people will just happen to be in the area. Great short hike around it though. And you can see prairie dogs! And listen, if you’re there you’ve probably been driving for a while, it’s a nice break to take and rest.



  • captainlezbiantoComic StripsIrresistible
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    Yeah bread and circus has its issues, and I dislike that it’s used to stratify wealth. But also it’s a baseline of function for a government. It’s that needs are met and the population has entertainment. It prevents revolts that need to happen, yes, but it also prevents revolts that don’t and will just make things worse




  • It was a legacy of American reconstruction. We sent industrial engineers to Japan to test their theories after they’d proved useful during the wartime manufacturing, but American companies weren’t interested in continuing using them. This resulted in combining Japanese ideas that ultimately led to the Japanese style of manufacturing such as lean

    Japanese cars, especially in the early days were really differentiated by being efficient and small (Japanese cultural and practical desires contrasted to what American consumers were believed at the time to want) and cheap and well built (this is where the industrial engineering thrived)




  • captainlezbiantoLemmy ShitpostMaturing
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    Honestly yeah that’s an important act of maturity. I love acid, but I waited until I was ready for it. I haven’t done it in years but it was hugely helpful for my self improvement during a difficult and transitional stage of life. Too early and it may not have gone so well



  • Iirc in early drafts V was a trans woman forced to detransition by norsefire.

    I like your theory but won’t headcanon it myself.

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    Because as I see it one of the major points was that V is too broken to do anything but destroy the oppressive regime and take revenge, and in doing so became a Moses figure, meant to lead people to the promised land that they can’t enter. V is fundamentally tragic, the human being capable of filling both roles died in the camp. And so what we see of V is someone who shows the good in their heart by shaping Evie, who has also been damaged, but is capable of healing. V could have just as easily not bothered attempting to rebuild, unable to care since everyone worth saving was killed fighting, but Evie was worth saving and if Evie was worth saving then there might be those who deserve a better world Evie could build.