Hiromu Arakawa is a treasure.

Here, watch me disprove the Pokémon Card theorem.

Kids on the playground begin to treat Pokémon cards as currency, swapping them for toys the other kids own or tasks other kids might need. One girl starts selling bracelets, using Pokémon cards as currency. She has a lot of Pokémon cards, because she earned them. One boy sees this as unfair. His father is extremely rich, so he begs his dad to buy him more Pokémon cards, so he can ‘compete’ with the girl who earned hers. He buys him so many Pokémon cards that all he can do is flaunt his wealth.

Pokémon cards lose all meaning on the playground because the rich boy has so many that no one can have more. He stops spending Pokémon cards on things like homework swaps or bracelets or cool drawings or cootie-catcher fortune telling, because he already bought all the things he wants. The playground economy collapses because the rich boy won capitalism with daddy’s money.

Periodical uses no permissions. Not even network permissions. Can’t get more private than that.

Are you an anthropologist, an archaeologist, or a geneticist?

I am really interested in hearing your take on the second human migration out of Africa.

I have a hard time finding exit nodes where I can post on Lemmy, tbh

I mean, somebody has to do it. Otherwise, everyone suffers.

I cannot share my oats with you. I cannot even call you my brother.

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There should be an anti-Trump/anti-USian one there. Sorry, my phone was misbehaving, it wouldn’t let me peruse further. But it has a lot of other very useful embed blockers there too.

I can’t. I’m too poor, my gender is illegal to put on an American passport, and Canada/Mexico aren’t interested in taking asylees or refugees.

Besides, if everyone leaves, no one will be here to fight back.

I don’t have the luxury of fleeing.

We don’t like it either. I’ve been trying to drag my neighbors into normalcy for ten fucking years.

There is a uBlock filter for you, and one for Chrome-based browsers.

I appreciate how thorough and how detailed your essay is. This was enlightening, thank you.

I’m sorry that happened to your family. It seems like you’re doing what you can. Shit sucks right now.

They’re not pigtails, they’re called “peyot”. Orthodox Jewish men grow theirs out because it’s part of the traditional dress code. In other parts of the world, they’re tucked under the yarmulke. But in occupied Palestine, it’s been in vogue to leave them hanging down.

Fuck Israel generally, but don’t be ignorant.

Edit: Holy fuck, guys, chill out a little bit. There’s criticizing a genocidal apartheid state, and then there’s just plain being racist. There’s a really thick line there, and y’all crossed it a loooong while ago.

It’s why objective testing parameters are so damn important.

Damn right we do.

I’m gonna get one as a pet and name it Reggie.

Yarrr!

“Sell themselves better.”

I dunno if my asexual is showing, but why would someone need to treat their heart like a commodity to find love?

God, this photo makes him look like a sleazy refrigerator salesman in a dying rural red-state town.