Kolibri

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

I really hate police. My dad was telling me how he saw to police vehicles just sitting/parked out front of our house yesterday and it is hard not to feel a little paranoid. Especially after like many years ago when the police tried to get inside our home because they were looking for someone who didn't even live here. I hate how stressful and paranoid they make me feel just from their basic existence. Like everything probably fine, but it's hard not to feel that way.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

I heard of hexbear through lemmygrad last year. What made me stay was being able to talk about when my mom died last year or being able to vent about various stuff here. That I wasn't able to elsewhere, last year wasn't, really great.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

It's the most serious of combinations!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

You know what they say, the best defense is a good... swiftness. You don't need a shield if you can't be hit! Besides, can earth do this? oooaaaaaaauhhh

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Are you kidding me? Air can erode earth! Just takes.. millions of years, but with that power to erode Earth itself, air is best for shield. It will erode any attack in eons!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

I dunno, I think anyone not doing the wind shield combo is deeply unserious

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I just wanted to mention but people forum is doing a live stream kind of related to this, but kind of wrapping up at moment of typing this, but titled "Why The Democrats Failed, How Trump Won, What Is To Be Done?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQQOJjj5O9c

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How? considering some of the names on that like Claudia De la Cruz?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

venting about health stuff cw: issues related to eatingI seriously don't know what is up lately, but today and yesterday I been having some trouble breathing. I can't be on my feet for long. It's not too bad, I'm fine if im sitting. If it's not that, it like, when I go to eat or drink again, I start to feel very sick for hours that I end up not wanting to fulfill those needs much. Again, since this happen quite a bit last year/earlier this year, and it's back again. And lately I just feel so fatigued and tired. Like yesterday, I woke up, for like an hour, only to feel like it was too much and immediately went back to sleep for like six more hours, but maybe that just stemming from all the past sleep deprivation in the past. If not that, I keep getting random pain

but I am tired of pretty much feeling awful.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I hate this country. If it not with the blame it's other ones like I saw some takes where some are like "enjoy deportation" and like what the fuck. I would like to see those shitheads go tell that to me or my dad or grandma.

like here

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This part of a paragraph was interesting to read, especially the last sentence.

[...]Even when a man without fortune receives credit in his capacity of industrialist or merchant, it occurs with the expectation that he will function as capitalist and appropriate unpaid labour with the borrowed capital. He receives credit in his capacity of potential capitalist. The circumstance that a man without fortune but possessing energy, solidity, ability and business acumen may become a capitalist in this manner — and the commercial value of each individual is pretty accurately estimated under the capitalist mode of production — is greatly admired by apologists of the capitalist system. Although this circumstance continually brings an unwelcome number of new soldiers of fortune into the field and into competition with the already existing individual capitalists, it also reinforces the supremacy of capital itself, expands its base and enables it to recruit ever new forces for itself out of the substratum of society. In a similar way, the circumstance that the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages formed its hierarchy out of the best brains in the land, regardless of their estate, birth or fortune, was one of the principal means of consolidating ecclesiastical rule and suppressing the laity. The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the foremost minds of a ruled class, the more stable and dangerous becomes its rule.

 

They're a part of the Viverridae family and are related to civets, genets and them all. And Viverridae a part of Feliformia

Here a vid on them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Tniytx0ow0

and more can be read here to https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Arctictis/

Being solitary, this arboreal species spends most of the day curled up in the trees. Most activity takes place early in the morning and at dusk. Their large body sizes do not allow them to be agile enough to jump/swing between trees. Instead, binturongs climb up tree trunks with the help of their retractable claws and prehensile tail to find a branch to rest on. As previously mentioned, binturongs are usually solitary, but it is also common to observe a mate pair and their offspring living together.

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Letters from Xi (www.globaltimes.cn)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Web Archive link if the one above doesn't work or something.

I hope this is the right place for this. I was reading some stuff and I saw this, and it's a neat index containing like. I'll just quote the front page

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Chinese president, has managed to find time to reply to some letters from different parts of society and the world despite his busy work schedule.

Through his letters, Xi has corresponded with people from all walks of life on numerous occasions, part of a series of excellent China stories in the new era.

The Global Times traced and contacted some of the recipients of Xi's letters, to hear the inspiring stories behind the letters and their communications with the Chinese president.

But there quite a few in this index and some are really neat.

I found this really cute

One of their gifts to Xi upon their arrival in Beijing was a school flag of Muscatine High School with the words "Grandpa Xi, Here We Are" written in Chinese.

also just wanted to highlight this from the same article that was in.

"While in China, I've never felt safer and did not view the country as it can sometimes be portrayed in American media," Stoneking said.

both from this one - Xi's letter strengthens decades-long friendship with Muscatine residents, boosts China-US youth exchanges

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