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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Public bathrooms in the US are largely nonexistent. If you need to go you usually have to go to a fast food place, gas station, etc and either buy something or hope they’re permissive about the public using their bathrooms. Sometimes malls can also be a good bet.

    Whether they’re filthy depends on who owns and maintains them. I would use gas station bathrooms last, since they tend to be the dirtiest. Random business bathrooms are a crapshoot but may be very clean, and malls are in the middle.









  • I mean, history occurred as it occurred. We still live with the effects of European colonization, it’s not an accident that you have to go through over $2 trillion of wealth on Forbes’ billionaire list before anyone who isn’t European descent pops up. That doesn’t mean anything about all white people, the vast majority being nowhere near as wealthy. But their ethnicity is far less important than the culture of exploitation and consumerism that is foisted on everyone else in order to make them money.







  • Every single culture that had the means and the opportunity to rape the land for profit has done it. The ones that didn’t simply couldn’t.

    This is wildly inaccurate and borderline racist. Your culture revolving around resource extraction doesn’t mean everyone’s does, and it doesn’t mean that’s a cope they have because they’re too stupid to figure out how to do it.

    As a single example, the Menominee developed commercial forestry practices in the 19th century that allowed them to perpetually harvest from a sustainable old growth forest instead of clear cutting everything. After decades of battling the US government over control of their forest, today it still stands. Anyone who thinks that they’re incapable of renting and operating a chainsaw and cutting everything down is just a racist. They don’t do it not because they can’t, they don’t do it because they don’t want to.

    This story isn’t unique, indigenous groups all over the world do what they can through legal systems and direct action to protect the environment. This isn’t to say every indigenous person is morally pure or has these politics, it’s just that if you deny it’s a trend that exists you’re closing your eyes to reality.