Noice

hahhaha u looked

@CatPNG tyty

naw its cute tho

@aiimorsx thx :>

@AlolaSpheal tyty

Nice! c:

BALLS

@jaspers_monologue so true

it gives me some edgy vibes-
BUT I LOVE IT-

@KirbyVibin thx lmao

good yeeeeeee

oh my-

@IdioticLemon i-

@EchoHere wha-

@TheRealYTStarMoon shhhhh

I like the colors ^-^

@crimson_666 ty :D

np :D

@SugarSkulllz Heya, went back through your gallery to find a drawing that looked good, but no one had commented on in a while so I could ask how you are doing, is there anything you'd like to talk about, and would you like any of my advice or jokes/facts to give you something pleasant to read?

@Peripheral_Pillar skdsdjdjf that's sweet of you
um there's nothing really i could talk about without talking behind ppls backs
i'd appreciate a random fact tho ^^

Cats were domesticated by humans after humans started farming. Farms attracted rodents & birds and the rodents & birds attracted the wild cats. The farming humans loved having an animal that ****** the creatures that were eating their crops and stored grain. And unlike snakes, cats were not dangerous or scary to humans. It was probably only a matter of time before people actively invited the cats inside their barns and homes to continue to hunt inside.

I guess I need to remember to use the word "deathed" instead.

@Peripheral_Pillar oh wow that's really interesting

do you know if they were domesticated before or after dogs?

@SugarSkulllz Dogs were domesticated thousands of years before cats. Dogs were from an extinct species of wolf that we teamed up with back when humans were hunter gatherers. The wolves probably were used to corner prey, then humans would come to finish the hunt. It is assumed that humans would then share the hunted food with the wolves until a tribe of humans and pack of wolves would travel alongside each other. At some point we started affecting their breeding until traits we favored repeated ~

@SugarSkulllz ~ themselves and started becoming the first domesticated dogs. Cats, being a farmer's friend, would start hanging around humans until we started growing crops. So we started domesticating some plants (like grains) before we domesticated cats.

Had to find the info again, but we started trying to breed the wolves we worked with about 36,000 years ago. The earliest dog skeleton was found to be about 14,500 years old. Next thing on the list is probably plants. About 11,000 years ago we domesticated rye grains. Domesticating cattle was close behind at 10,500 or 10,000 years ago thus providing guaranteed meat, but more likely farm work. Poultry birds would probably be next, 10,000 years ago (just read that chickens were about 7,000 years ~

@SugarSkulllz ~ ago.) Cats were at least partly domesticated something like 7,500 years ago, but things say we didn't make a large effort to breed traits into the until aboit 200 years ago.

@Peripheral_Pillar wow. thanks, i have gained a lot more knowledge <3

@SugarSkulllz And video games only started being made for money about 52 years ago. Before then the human race was 100% non-violent. : D

@Peripheral_Pillar those damn video games making the kids violent smh

that's crazy to think abt tho
i know people who lived before video games were even conceptualized

Video games were conceptualized decades before then, but no one could find a way to mass produce them and make money off of them until later. A very small number of people tried coming out with a commercial video game before 1971, but failed.

@Peripheral_Pillar ah okok

So a mother was about to take her 4 year old son to a baseball game when she told him, "I'll just need to breastfeed your little brother and then we can go."
"Can't grandma do that?" he complained.
"No, she doesn't have any milk." the mother replied.
The little boy looked perplexed. "What, does she have juice or something?"

@Peripheral_Pillar i giggled at that

"Q" is the only letter that does not appear in any US State's name.

@Peripheral_Pillar i didn't realize that-

A casket is rectangular. It is only a coffin if it has six sides (bowed out in a semi-diamond shape.)

@Peripheral_Pillar is there a reason that they're two different things?
like is one older or better or something

I know that coffines were shaped like that to accomodate the torso and arms. Maybe they changed it cause it's easier to have bars to carry a rectangle, but I've never looked up reasons for either shape.

@Peripheral_Pillar yeah that would make sense i suppose

The symbol that people have been calling the hashtag (#) has a real name. The Octotroph.

@Peripheral_Pillar hashtag sounds better
is it the octotroph because of the 8 points?
also why did we stop using the correct name

Don't know why we stopped. Maybe we never started. The sign was probably invented and had so little use that the people naming it never spread the word of what it was called. Or maybe it was invented from a different language. Like the period (.) is called the "full stop" in France and Italy. When I was a kid the hashtag was called the "pound" sign by everyone, including automated telephone voices。The infinity sign (∞) is called a lemniscate (spelling?) And ^ a carrot cause it's a rocket ship.

@Peripheral_Pillar that makes sense.
i only recently learned that ^ is called a carrot and it just happened because i had tts on.

So a father was getting out of the shower when his 4 year old daughter barged in on him.
"Do not come in here right now! I'm naked!" he said.
"It's okay," she replied, "I won't laugh at you."

@Peripheral_Pillar ouch lmao

I had never thought about it until I read it and it made sense. It is estimated that 3% of the Antarctic glaciers are made from frozen penguin urine.

@Peripheral_Pillar that makes a lot of sense
weird to think about though
all the media that's like 'wow Antarctica is a beautiful frozen desert' and it's just penguin píss

Okay, just came across this fact and I hope I remember to look up more about it when I wake up. Female ferrets pass away if the go 12 months with procreating.

@Peripheral_Pillar WHAT??
i've been trying to convince my parents to let me get ferrets for literal years and i didn't know that?

Okay, so I looked up the information on it. A female ferret (known as a Jill) starts to develop some serious health issues if they do not breed do to an overload of estrogren. The most common problem is that this prevents their bones from producing red blood cells giving them anemia (but there are other health problems.) The mortality rate according to the one website that I read said that its about 30% fatality rate and 50% rate of severe health problems for not breeding in a season. Males ~

which go by the calling of "Hobs" do not suffer from the non-breeding health issues, but they do become noticably more aggressive. Both genders can be cured of this simply by breeding, but there are alternatives. First is just to let them breed, but the website made it clear that the males are very aggressive during breeding. Neutered males supposedly don't go into breeding patterns. Females seem to require more than just neutering (like we do for cats and dogs I suppose.) They have to have all~

of their breeding organs removed to avoid their non-breeding health problems. But this method has a smaller chance of giving them other health problems. There is also a surgical "pill" that female ferrets can get that gives them a slow time release that will last for several breeding seasons, but there is a simple injection, known as a Jill Jab, that will solve their problems for one season with no ill effects mentioned on the website. As for un-neutered males, they are healthy, but aggressive ~

during mating season and they produce a heavy "musk" smell.

@Peripheral_Pillar that's very very interesting. i did know abt the males getting stinky during mating season (ferret are already slightly stinky) they also smell really bad if you bathe them too often due to their bodies having to work hard to reproduce their natural oils

Here is a fact I knew about a long time ago, but forgot. It concerns Star Trek (The Original Series - years 1967 - 1969.) Actress Nichele Nichols, who played Lieutenant Nyota Uhura, and William Shatner, Captain Kirk did the first interracial kiss shown on TV.

@Peripheral_Pillar wow. that's crazy

Back in 1925, the hobby of solving a new type of puzzle, the crossword puzzle (introduced in 1913), was being denounced as unhealthy, for mentally unstable/lazy people, and causes bouts of violence in their fans. Even getting directly blamed for at least one murder.

Just seems that there is a pattern of what the young crowd does that the old crowd grew up without being blamed for physical and mental unhealthiness.

@Peripheral_Pillar that is absolutely insane, imagine being that heated about a crossword puzzle

that does seem to be what happens, history has a way of repeating itselv

So the manager of an apartment complex was really big on residents helping out to keep the place looking nice. So she posted a news bulletin to remind everryone to pick up the debris and trash in in their own areas with the words,

"Please remember to keep your private area clean. If do not know where your private area is then come to me and I will show you."

@Peripheral_Pillar JQKDHKHJSHFDJHC??

@aiimorsx

whar

John "Motormouth" Moschitta Jr (born in 1954) became famous when he started doing advertisements with his extremely fast speech. He received the record of articulating 586 words per minute. In addition to ads, he also provided the voice of some cartoons, most notably the transformer Blurr. He was well known as the "Micro Machine Man" doing dozens and dozens of ads for the miniature toy line. Since then, his record has been surpassed by two others who ended up being far less famous, but being able to speak at over 600 words per minute. If you want to see John "Motormouth" Maschitta Jr in action, I'm sure his Micromachine Man commercials have been uploaded to YouTube.

ad...ver...tise....ments? Did that get censored??

@Peripheral_Pillar idk why that would censor but i've heard the term motormouth before, i didn't know it was connected to a specific person

I've heard it as an actual nickname for two people so far. Other than that, its just used to describe a chatty person. But it seemed everyone knew the "Micro Machine Man." Even adults would make references to him and try to imitate him.

The super famous doll called Barbie actually originally bore the full name Barbara Millicent Roberts.

@Peripheral_Pillar i've been told something along the lines of 'woah slow down there motormouth' when i was younger so that's where i heard it

AND I DID KNOW THE BARBIE FACT *does that thing where u like fist bump the air* i consumed a loooot of barbie media as a kid so i know a bit.
im excited for the movie that's coming out this year

I should try playing the NES Barbie game just to see its end bosses. I think I have the game in my collection.

@Peripheral_Pillar yooo i didn't even know the nes had a barbie game (ive never owned a nes) i just googled it and it looks very similar to mario gameplay wise lol

The man credited with inventing the manga and anime art style of today, Osamu Tezuka, got his exaggerated large eye idea (to show expression easier) from the animated film Bambi.

@Peripheral_Pillar i've never seen it, it looked boring /lh

Yeah, its plot is basically just "let's watch a deer grow up." Later films focused on a clear villain and usually some item that is being fought over. Although the most memorable scene in Bambi is memorable for a reason.

In the 1978 Godzilla cartoon made by the Hanna-Barbera the monster has an offspring called Godzooky that travels with the humans.

@Peripheral_Pillar i haven't seen godzilla either. so was gadzooky like harmless towards the humans? or was it like a sympathetic creature that just didn't feel the need to hurt them?

I looked up another source of info because I only remember seeing small parts of the show that must have re-aired long after it was cancelled. Godzooky was Godzilla's cowardly nephew, not his offspring. He was about as threatening as Scooby-Doo (very similar role I think) and was only slightly taller than a man. He was there for comic relief and was able to speak English. The show seemed to be a mix of tones from Johnny Quest and Scooby Doo pushed through a low budget. The humans were scientists that would summon Godzilla with the press of a button to solve whatever monster problem they were having that episode. Godzilla also could shoot laser beams out of his eyes.... cause yeah.

LMAO
sounds like a very silly show

The word gymnasium comes from the Greek "gymnos" meaning "nude" and fully translates to "school for naked exercise."

@Peripheral_Pillar did they actually.. exercise in the nude at one point?

Ancient Greece, yes they did.

A common form of exercise, if the Discovery channel was right, was wrestling with another person (same ***, opposite ***, didn't matter.) Let me know how long you'd last after several of those matches. Although I can believe that without any device to wash loads of clothes, clothes were not washed frequently. So might as well take them off for activities that didn't need them and involved lots of sweat.

Oh... I guess I could have used the word "gender" instead of s "***

So I tried Banana Ketchup today. It is a good bit sweeter, less tangy, and thicker than tomato ketchup. It goes good and VERY salty food but tastes rather "bleh" by itself. It is a Philippines thing where they were low on tomatoes during the war and decided to use basically the same recipe except using bananas instead of tomatoes. Banana ketchup might sound very weird, but ketchup used to have nothing to do with tomatoes.

Ketchup has been argued about where it began, but regardless of where it began it seemed to always contain two basic ingredients. Vinegar and fish. In fact, the origin of the word "ketchup" seemed to indicate that is was basically called "fish sauce." Tomatoes did not seem to be commonly added until the early 1800's and even then anchovies were still in it. I remember reading (but cannot find any articles on it now) that the top selling ketchup type that tomato ketchup had to beat was clam ketchup.

@Peripheral_Pillar wow
idek what to say just wow

im probably never gonna try the other kinds tho lmao

Trying to figure out the first video game protagonist that is female is (like finding out many "firsts") a game of splitting hairs. One requirement is that the character actually appears on the screen and not in a vehicle or anything. Ms. Pac-Man is a very early contender appearing at the start of 1982. She was created because the original Pac-Man was one of the first games to garner a huge female player base. But before her was an arcade game that we know little about simply called "Score" (1977) which not only seems to be the first game to let you play as a female, but the first game to let you choose your gender. However, that female was unnamed so even if we had screen shots, it would probably be excluded.

Then comes the condition that sometimes people require it to be an obvious human female, who appears on screen, that the player controls, and has a name. With those parameters, a console game on the Atari 2600 has the player character "Billie Sue" from "Wabbit" (late 1982.) A few scant few small titles came out after that with female protagonists, but the next big hit was "Girl's Garden" with a character sometimes known as Papri. The two designers of "Girl's Garden" eventually went on to important roles in Sega. One because one of the creators of Sonic the Hedgehog, and the other a respected musical composer for the system.

"Jenny of the Prarie" was also another early contender AND one of the earliest survival games. But Toby Masuyo (nicknamed "Kissy") from "Baraduke" is the first game that seems to have put a female in a violent warrior role. Being in 1985, it is around a full year before Samus appeared in Metroid.

There was not much story to "Baraduke" (known later as Alien Sector) and the protagonist didn't aquire much personality or backstory until way later. So I guess if you're looking for the first female warrior video game character with a specific name that is human and who appeared on a home console and started off with an okay amount of story and plot and gained even more rather quickly... okay, NOW Samus is the first.

I was going to tell you about a candy I remember seeing a long time ago called "SNOT" that you would pick the gooey, chewy stuff out of a large plastic nose via the nostrils.

But I can't really find much information on it anymore. Everytime I try to look it up, it lets me know about this new candy called "Reindeer Snot" that I guess is sold around Christmas time. Both seem to be sour flavored, so maybe they taste the same?

@Peripheral_Pillar
wow to all of the female video game character stuff im learning things (please tell you didn't type all of that on a switch)
also does the reindeer snot come out of a reindeer nose?

So a woman was talking to her friend whose children had recently gotten married just a few weeks apart.
"So what kind of man did your daughter marry?" the woman asked.
"Oh, he is the best. He works hard so she can sleep late, go to the beauty parlor all the time, and he takes her out to restaurants each night." the friend said.
"That is great, what about the woman your son married?"
"Oh, she is terrible and lazy. My son works hard and his wife just sleeps late, she spends too much time at the ~

~ beauty parlor and she doesn't cook so she has them going to restaurants each night,"

@Peripheral_Pillar :sob: :sob: i mean if they're happy together

just the duality that a person can think. "oh, one person I like did this, so it is great. but another person did the exact same thing so they are horrible"

Mother to Daughter: "So who is your new boyfriend? Is he a good man?"
"Of course he's a good man, mom. He has a good job, he doesn't smoke or drink, his wife is quiet, and he has three well behaved children."

@Peripheral_Pillar wow jeez you're right. I forgot if it had a specific name other than like just bias but yes people are more likely to excuse behaviour from those they hold in high regard

A preacher was asked to give a talk at a women's health symposium. His wife asked about his topic, but he was too embarrassed to tell her that he was going to speak about the topic of intercourse. Thinking quickly, he replied, "Oh, um, I'm going to be talking about sailing."

"That's nice." His wife said.

The Next day, at the grocery store, a young woman who had attended the lecture noticed the preacher's wife.
"That was certainly an excellent talk your husband gave yesterday," she said, "He has a really well informed perspective on the subject."
Surprised, the preacher's wife replied, "Really? That is funny. He's only done it twice. He hated getting wet and the first time he threw up."

inn tear coarse..... of screw it (works as well) s 3 cks

@Peripheral_Pillar HELPSSKFJD :skull:

A wife was outraged when, at the reading of his will, she found that he had left almost everything to a younger woman that she had never heard of.
The wife drove straight to the funeral home and demanded that they change the description on his tombstone.
"Sorry, ma'am," they said, "but we've already inscribed, 'Rest In Peace' on the stone and can't change it now."
"Fine," she fumed, "then add on the end, 'Until We Meet Again.'"

@Peripheral_Pillar :sob: :sob:

honestly that's so messed up but like atp there's not really anything u can do abt it

A knight was riding his horse away from an overwhelming enemy when the horse stumbled a bit and he slid out of the saddle and crashed to the ground, breaking his leg.
Unable to mount his horse and afraid of the approaching enemy, the knight lay in the dirt for a bit before calling towards the heavens, "Will all the angels in heaven please help me get onto my horse again!?"
Then, with a superhuman leap, the knight jumped using his one good leg. He cleared the entire horse and landed back in the ~

~ dirt on the other side.
The knight looked around for a moment, then turned his face towards the heavens again.
"O-kay... how about only half of you this time?"

@Peripheral_Pillar it is like 1 am or something right now and i had to reread that like 3 times to understand it but i giggled when i finally did

A customer at a restaurant was growing impatient as he had been seated for over half an hour and still no waiter had come by to even take his order. A few more minutes pass and the man leaves. The waiter comes by the table after a couple more minutes to take the man's order and just finds a note that reads, "Gone to lunch"

:skull: :skull: :skull:

What is a sure way to realize that you're using a bad airline company?

The pilot becomes unalive by a heart attack and air traffic control talks a stewardess through take-off.

YELP

You,have probably heard that Americans call them potato chips (chips for short) while British call them potato crisps (crisps for short.) But there is a food in America that bears the name potato crisp. If the potato is slice into thin layers for cooking, it is a potato chip. If the potato is broken down into powder or mush and -formed- into its shape for cooking (like the ones that come in tubes and they are all the same shape and size), then it is a crisp. As an extra note, Pringles ~

~ (at least now) do not contain enough potato product to be classified as chips or crisps.

@Peripheral_Pillar oh wow that's interesting

A small plane with a flight instructor and student comes down for a landing, hits the runway and bounces a bit before swerving all over the runway. When it finally comes to a stop the instructor turns to the student.

"That was a really rough landing. You need to work on that."
The student looks back with wide eyes, "Me!? I though YOU were the one landing!"

i would be so scared to fly a plane

A man walked up to his preacher to ask for forgiveness for cussing.
"Well, what happened?" asked the clergyman.
"Me and my friend were playing a hole of golf and when we were only 100 yards from the green I bet my friend $200 that I could get it in the hole in two shots." the golfer said, "So I lined up my shot perfectly and badly hooked the ball into the woods."
"Ah, and then you cursed. I see, well with so much money riding on the shot I'm sure it is understandable that you-" the preacher said

"No no no," the man continued, "The ball hit a tree and ricochetted off into a sand bunker next to the green."
"Ah, and when it went into the sand bunker, you swore." nodded the clergyman.
"Nope," said the man, "it hit a rake that had been left in the sand and bounced up onto the green and landed only 12 inches from the hole."
The preacher looked puzzled for a while before angrily yelling, "Don't tell me you missed the F****** PUTT!"

:sob: :sob:

I stayed up all night to see where the sun came from. Then it dawned on me.

lol

I shot an arrow into the fog. It mist.

@Peripheral_Pillar this reminds me about a song that a youtuber named 'MALINDA' i think made about puns :>

Ah, I had to watch that video after you mentioned it. It was a good one. And at least two of her pun lyrics were going to be ones I was thinking about sending you.

I don't know if you watch amvs on youtube often, but one of the maker of amvs "Jasi Amvs" does some good ones. I guess I would suggest her anime mix on the song "Awaken" first.

@Peripheral_Pillar oooh i'll check it out and lyk

Btw, YouTube didn't exist until February 2005. So it only recently turned 18.

Oh, and been reading over stories from others on AIT forums. It has reminded me of some of the things I heard, experienced, said, or did while in.

One of them that apparently got passed around Drill Sergeants was, "Private, you are uglier than a sloth that headbutts belt sanders! I mean it! STOP BEING UGLY OR THE WHOLE BARRACKS WILL DO PUSH UPS!"

@Peripheral_Pillar it is only a year and 11months older than me that's crazy

also help??? i don't know if i would laugh or cry

Laughing or crying will both guarantee push ups. So will staying quiet.

And yeah. I immediately though of some of the stuff I've looked up on YT over many, many years. Poor YT has seen some stuff growing up.

:face_with_raised_eyebrow:

According to studies that didn't list their sources, it takes 364 to 411 licks to reach the center of a tootsie pop.

Why is life on Earth so expensive?

Because it includes a free trip around the Sun every year.

i smiled

@Peripheral_Pillar also i watched the amv and forgot to mention it but it was super cool, i don't usually watch them but yeah i liked it

i haven't seen like 80% of the animes that were in it tho :skull:

Yeah, I don't think I've seen 99% of the anime in it. But usually I find myself drawn to an anime series when I see it briefly shown in an AMV. I know other AMVs that I'd like to show you, but I'll space them out.

Anyways.... did you know that the Eiffel Tower gets approximately 6 inches taller during the summer because its metal expands from the heat. It also wobbles a few inches from heat expansion. Whatever side the sun is shining on expands more than a shaded side. Wobbling as the sun moves

yea i did know that actually- does that happen with all metals or just the one it's made out of?
@Peripheral_Pillar

Most everything expands with heat. Metal does it more than other things, also it does it faster since metal conducts heats better than most things. Even concrete and/or pavement expands as it heats up and needs spaced lines cut even now and then to stop it spiltting or buckling super easy. This is one of the reasons ice seems so unique. Water does expand as it heats up and contracts as it gets cold. Right around the time it freezes, however, the molecoles suddenly line up in a specific pattern ~

~ and thus water, when it turns solid is a type of crystal. And its crystal form is actually more spread out than its cold, liquid form. Thus the same amount of water takes up more space (less dense) than other water. This is the reason ice floats. Otherwise all ice in your glass or the oceans would be at the bottom of water.

@Peripheral_Pillar i didn't know that it was a crystal that's really cool

Yes, ice is very cool too. I left that fact out.

DJGDHSJDSJ

A bit more ice and water facts.

Comets are usually mostly ice mixed with dust. The Sun (or any star) heats the ice until it becomes a gas. After that the solar winds push the dusty gas away from the comet. So a comet's characteristic "tail" doesn't usually trail behind a comet, instead the tail will move away from whatever star is heating it. So a comet could even be travelling into its own tail.

Now for bottled water. It is calculated to be A $20 billion industry in the US alone. Yet ~

~ somewhere around half of the bottled water came from the same city water that people can get by turning on their taps. Maybe they filtered it again or added something, but it is common for it to be treated no more than any other city water that was at its bottling plant.

Some tags to look for on bottled water include "mineral" water which means that a specific amount of dissolved solids are in the water. "well" or "artisan well" water means that a hole was dug or drilled in the ground and ~

~ water was pumped out from there. "Spring" water means that water came up from the ground from pressure by itself (no digging needed) at a specific point on the planet. "Naturally Sparkling" means that there is a minimum amount of dissolved CO2 in the water that was already in the water before anyone touched it. If it is not "naturally sparkling" then it could simply have the carbonation added by whomever.

sobs so hard id typed out a whole response and it didn't send

@Peripheral_Pillar i didn't know the sun had winds that's really interesting- is that how like all comets travel? like by the waves of heat? and the ones that we can see from earth, are they from our galaxy? (i really like space facts aldjjsdjsjd)
also that's crazy about the tap water, i hope they do filter it an extra time.

i didn't know that water could be naturally carbonated? huh. Do you like sparkling water? i personally would rathr have soda

oh yea my rant about water bottles that got deleted-

summing it up to: all of that money and they still don't wave an environmentally conscious way to mass produce water bottles. There has to be other alternatives that aren't just putting it in nonbiodegradables and adding more plastic to the earth.
i could probably go on about how it's probably really closely connected to capitalism but im prone to ramble in that area

Too many dripping thoughts inside head. Was going to look up information to share with clarity, but dark fog swam though my brain and hours were used for disturbing progress and searches. I'll spit out whatever I meant to seek.

There are multiple types of ice that all have different properties, I specifically was remembering hot ice and how we, as a species, have formed it for study.

Solar winds are not wind like we normally think (no air in space) but they can push things.

Plastic bottles. ~

~ I'm sure you're award of the incredibly old idea of the "milk man" who would deliver fresh milk to doorsteps everyday. I'm assuming that was a pre-ww2 thing. Anyways, they were dropping off glass bottles to houses and when the house used them then the bottles would be left outside for the milk man to collect. The used bottles would be washed and refilled with milk for someone else. Not much waste there. I heard soda bottles also got re-used. After working with German's in NATO they told me ~

~ that they still do that in a lesser way. Cardboard packaging to hold the bottles can be trashed, but if you bring the glass bottles back to the seller your next case of soda, milk, beer, whatever is cheap-ish. But 8f you are missing a bottle then you are paying a ton more as a processing fee for making more bottles or something. Inconvenient whenever you change brands or anything, but much less waste and manufacturing.

Capitalism isn't bad, but the entire world is getting away from the ~

~ spirit of capitalism (where you work and are paid on how well you do) and have drifted over to working hard so your boss gets paid more.

i think people shouldn't have to work to survive, people shouldn't be living paycheck to paycheck without the means to support their families, i think they government should be able to provide things like housing and food for the living breathing human beings that are in America. It's been shown in other cultures that people aren't naturally lazy and will work, not because they have to to survive but because they have a genuine care for their community. That's the issue i have with capitalism

capitalism (here at least) is optimized for neurotypical, cisgender, able-bodied, white, males and even then some of them aren't getting by. And can you blame corporations for taking the cheaper, easily mass-produced, even if not environmentally friendly option if it means financial security for those involved? We're taught that money is just as essential as food or water, if not more because it provides those things for you. Making money shouldn't be what you live for, it dismisses all the

other amazing values humans have and i think that's really sad tbh. I don't know what America needs but everyone being seen as customers or employees before being seen as people isn't it.

really if we just got rid of the homelessness problem i think we could get rid of plastic bottles entirely because it'd be easier to use refillable ones with the water in your home but whatever yknow.

anyways.

@Peripheral_Pillar hope your head clears up, have you been getting enough sleep and proper nutrition (im gonna assume no so input me telling u to try and do that)