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AOC is at the Columbia encampment. The students need to wise up fast and kick her ass out.

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actually the best scene in better call saul is the bingo mental breakdown because I did the math and the probability of jimmy drawing six B’s in a row is less than .00007 which makes it almost canonically explicit that he is being  taunted by the machinations of fate

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Although most people in the GDR lived in rented accommodation (at controlled and affordable rents – typically five per cent of one’s income), a considerable minority owned their own houses and some (often craftsmen, small business people, but also workers) built their own privately owned houses. [...] Rent levels remained virtually unchanged throughout the life of the GDR and no one could be evicted from their home. The war had left an acute housing shortage, and throughout its history the GDR fought to overcome the lack of decent housing. [...]

Although much of the housing built by the GDR has been patronisingly dismissed by Westerners as faceless ‘barracks’, this is to ignore the innovative technological aspects of the ‘Plattenbauten’ of the time as well as the spatial and economic context that informed their design. With the acute housing shortage after the war, the priority was to build sufficient housing as rapidly as possible. The Soviet method of using pre-fabricated elements which were easy to put together and build was chosen. But these new housing units were not just thrown up and left abandoned in an urban desert like so many faceless suburban housing projects throughout the Western world. The government instituted a socio-political planning strategy which prescribed that each new housing complex would include the necessary infrastructure of schools, nurseries, sports facilities, polyclinics, shops and restaurants. This meant that the new tenants would have everything they need within walking distance and could begin to build good neighbourly relations very quickly. [...]

The right to adequate housing has long been enshrined in the UN Charter of Human Rights as a basic human right, yet few countries do more than pay lip service to it. In the GDR it was a reality – everyone had a roof over their head and security of tenure or ownership.

Stasi State or Socialist Paradise? The German Democratic Republic and What Became of It by Bruni de la Motte & John Green with Seumas Milne (Contributor), 2015.

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she's so lucky

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being trans is so fucking expensive no matter how you identify, epecially if you're dysphoric and pursue social and/or medical transition. name changes. hormones. hormone blockers. surgeries. shaving products. the Pink Tax on everything feminine. makeup. starting your wardrobe over from scratch. finding clothes that don't make you feel like you wanna crawl out of your own skin, but also fit you. prescriptions, vitamins, lotions, surgery recovery supplies, and supplements to assist with medical transition. binding, tucking, and packing supplies. facial/body reconstruction procedures. laser hair removal. hair re/growth medications. breastforms. the list just goes on and on. we have to pay in order to be ourselves in the most extreme ways possible. there's a tax on gender & biological sex.

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My absolute hottest take is that, from a culturally relative perspective, no food is bad. None of it. It's an expression of culture, art, history, ecology, material conditions, subjective taste. It's all inedible pap to somebody and the taste of childhood for someone else. Americans be eating cheesed burger. Pea wet is as good as gravy in Wigan. The French eat snails and the Inuit eat seal, the Germans eat sauerkraut and the Russians drink kvass, the Inca ate cavy and the Romans ate flamingo. People around the world have been eagerly awaiting their serving of simple bread or thin porridge or fermented milk product or pickled whatever-the-fuck since we learned to cook food over fire. We all love the slop we grew up eating. Food is a reflection of millennia of culture and loving human artistic expression. Attempting to extrapolate largely harmless online food banter into actual serious comparative rankings or half-baked critical analyses of cultures based on how much you subjectively don't like what they eat is a miserable way to live. Live a little. Peace and love on the only planet with food.

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As a wheelchair user I'm trying to reframe my language for "being in the way."

"I'm in the way," "I can't fit," and "I can't go there," is becoming "there's not enough space," "the walkway is too narrow," and "that place isn't accessible."

It's a small change, but to me it feels as if I'm redirecting blame from myself to the people that made these places inaccessible in the first place. I don't want people to just think that they're helping me, I want them to think that they're making up for someone else's wrongdoing. I want them to remember every time I've needed help as something someone else caused.

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people are way too comfortable being dismissive of children and teenagers. if a toddler comes up to you and starts explaining skibidi toilet lore or if a 13 year old asks you if you want to hear about their mha ocs you have to listen with utmost sincerity or at least pretend to. this is the only way you will get into heaven.

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bro you have litterally singlehandedly made me fall in love with the idea of gordon and gman being buddies im just fghdnjeskjh RAAAAAAAAA <33333

HEHAHH GOOD because I have MORE OF THEM TOGETHER WRHAAA !1!!!

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cant wait until the day people on here finally manage to achieve an actually useful middle ground between just never acknowledging or discussing any of the factors involved in being considered to pass as cis and just giving into agreeing with and repeating wildly transphobic everyone can always tell ywnbaw type fearmongering.

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So sorry to be the one to tell you this… But sexy bitch disease is incurable. Doesn’t matter how much your body changes, if you gain weight or wrinkles or scars, doesn’t matter how much your personal style or presentation evolves, or if your body can’t do all the things it once could… The sexiness lives inside you forever. I’m so sorry. Trust me I am a doctor

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i hate the cops so much, so much. they are never there for you, they will never help you, they are never on your side. you can trust on their appearance to take a situation from bad to catastrophic. they are the same everywhere on earth, just presented with different means and opportunities. they beat their women. they are stupid and don't understand directions from higher up, and they won't obey them if they don't want to anyhow. they will lie, and they will lie in court. they rape their own colleagues. they brutalize prisoners. they will murder any good apples. they are not just aligned with white supremacists — they are white supremacists. they are worse than trumpists. and they hate you, personally! everyone using this website is a target. they will go after someone even if they're on their side. they are vermin, human scum. the most neutral position you can take is to steer clear of them.

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maybe im just a hater but i feel like that chocolate guy's videos are getting way worse, not in terms of how impressive the sculptures are or anything it's just that they get like two cuts a second and every second cut HAS to show his face so you're just kind of spinning all around the room. I just think they're edited badly like they make me dizzy and a little nauseous to the point where i can't sit through a whole chocolate guy video anymore. like it's not an issue of the content just the editing seems way worse. maybe they were always edited like this and I just got sick of it idk.

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In case you have little choice on having to use Windows 11.

Option 1: Guide to basic install de-bloated Windows 11 (by Chris Titus, with video and blog article)

Option 2a: Use a script to de-bloat Windows 11 (by simeonsecurity. more digital literacy. check "how to install" section)

Option 2b: Use a script to de-bloat and harden Windows 11 (by simeonsecurity. more digital literacy. check "how to install" section)

Note: If choose Option 2, choose either 2a or 2b. not both.