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sourquincelog [he/him]
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Cake day: May 5th, 2022
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21·2 days agoStuff for adults to argue over that the students will never notice cuz they’re looking at their phones
Still better than the “supporting a family by being shift lead at taco bell” situation that exists in every fast food franchise in America. Basically being on-call 24/7 for $45k/yr
Backbone of society
2·5 days agoMini veyron
Haha I remember this, I was still in high school. My girlfriend’s (boilerplate conservatives) parents were complaining about wasteful government spending and my dad said, “yeah can you believe how much they’ve spent on the Reagan funeral tour?” Shockingly, they didn’t agree
10·18 days ago
tired of sharing a planet with dumb, angry, selfish people. Tired of hearing their awful opinions in my head
To start https://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_myth_of_tiananmen.php
There was also a Portuguese(?) ambassador who gave a first hand account that pretty much disproves the “accepted narrative” but I’m not looking up sources on my lunch break
Damn, she’s getting the “head of state visit” treatment
3·24 days ago“we’re keeping Kuya Bert, but you can have Gary, that guy fucking sucks”
I follow a twitch streamer who is from Ukraine; I knew he fled the country at the start, but didn’t know where he ended up. Recently learned he made it to Canada and has been streaming a lot since he can’t legally work. Happy for him
6·25 days agoI learned of the insane life of Otokichi
15·1 month agoMy favorite bit of bear lore is the etymology of the word “bear”
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The English word “bear” comes from Old English bera and belongs to a family of names for the bear in Germanic languages, such as Swedish björn, also used as a first name. This form is conventionally said to be related to a Proto-Indo-European word for “brown”, so that “bear” would mean “the brown one”.[1][2] However, Ringe notes that while this etymology is semantically plausible, a word meaning “brown” of this form cannot be found in Proto-Indo-European. He suggests instead that “bear” is from the Proto-Indo-European word *ǵʰwḗr- ~ *ǵʰwér “wild animal”.[3] This terminology for the animal originated as a taboo avoidance term: proto-Germanic tribes replaced their original word for bear—arkto—with this euphemistic expression out of fear that speaking the animal’s true name might cause it to appear.[4][5] According to author Ralph Keyes, this is the oldest known euphemis
I think about the ethnic enclaves that immigrant communities made in the US as the opposite of atomization. People brought together due to circumstance who develop a system of support to watch each other’s kids, cook for another during illness, help each other get jobs. Really just the basic concept of community. America is designed to dismantle that stuff. Some of those immigrants’ kids acculturate and assimilate and “move up” in society to be lonely suburb dwellers with more material wealth than their parents, but none of the community.
When I worked/lived in the East Bay in a very working class, diverse neighborhood, the Abuelas would check in on everyone constantly. At least once a week, they’d knock on my door to make sure I’d eaten that day.
Cringestians
Damn teach me your ways
