@felicityguillen Ube “ice cream” in the Philippines is not ice cream as is understood in the United States so it’s irrelevant.
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Miriam
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@andromachean
Biologist // ☧ // Socialist // She/Her // 2A Defender // Free Palestine
End Monocultures Katılım Ocak 2019
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it’s the way that white man framed he was “improving” a cultural product (by making it vegan) to celebrate aapi heritage month and when filipinos rightfully said that ube ice cream in the philippines is already vegan, he bitch and moans and condescendingly questions
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more like “I developed a spaghetti recipe made from fresh tomatoes for italian heritage month” and italians going, “that’s just how spaghetti is made”
soggy broccoli@soggybrocoli
“i’m developing a new spaghetti recipe for my restaurant and it’s really tasty!” “you didn’t invent pasta and you have offended every italian with this”
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@j_eyes1 @MuseBaker If you lose 5-10% of flock or herd to cats you’re a bad rancher and should go out of business.
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@andromachean @MuseBaker I’m sure that stat would make the ranchers who lose(at times) 5-10% of their flock/herd to cats feel better
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Politics aside, killing an animal like this just for fun is legitimately psychotic.
I understand deer and bison and stuff if you eat it, but sport hunting a beautiful cat like this signals major mental issues.
PatriotTakes 🇺🇸@patriottakes
Jaxson Dart, who introduced Trump as his rally, once posted a pic holding a slain mountain lion while tagging rival football team Penn State which uses the animal as its mascot.
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@AlexDunlapNFL @MuseBaker No they don’t kill the exact numbers they need to. And many agencies have a poor grasp on what their populations even are.
California banned puma hunting an they have less conflict and livestock losses than states with similar mtn lion populations
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@MuseBaker 1) Hunters eat them. 2) It’s done for population control and monitored extremely closely by state fish and game agencies. They kill the exact number they need to. If it wasn’t for people hunting them your tax dollars would have to pay for sharp shooters to kill them
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@j_eyes1 @MuseBaker Less than 0.005% of livestock are lost to mountain lions annually.
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@MuseBaker As an outdoorsman, this is totally reasonable. The amount of monetary damage these cats can do to farmers is outrageous.
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@RPGanda1f @MuseBaker There’s no evidence that hunting of apex predators better the population or offers any ecological benefit. Even wildlife agencies will tell you that.
Also tags are ridiculously cheap
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@MuseBaker You literally have zero idea how conservation and wildlife management works if this is your take. You can’t hunt without buying a tag. The amount of tags are based off metrics designed to promote healthy populations for all animals in that specific area. Proceeds go 2 conserve.
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@PabloVaritas @MuseBaker Apex predators do not need lethal management.
Mountain lions do not live in prides and their populations are determined by their prey populations. Quit assuming apex predator populations operate like prey species
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@MuseBaker Do you realize what happens when herds and prides are not thinned out?? “Tell me you don’t understand wildlife management without telling me you don’t understand wildlife management”
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@brokeblokee @MuseBaker Completely made up bs. Mountain lions do not destroy livestock populations. Something like 0.0001% of cattle are lost to mountain lions every year.
Also hunting doesn’t even reduce depredations
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@MuseBaker Are you fucking stupid? This is legal and it’s now only for fun but part of animal control. These predators can destroy live stock populations if not controlled through hunting.
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Miriam retweetledi
Restaurants should actually charge extra if you were in the military
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@alyssaleann My favorite pair of strappy platform sandals broke and I lost the strap so I can’t repair them and I can’t replace them and all the sandals for sale rn are so ugly 😔
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Reading through the replies (bc I went on this journey a month ago and GAVE UP) and lmao I am frankly glad I’m not alone
The sandal landscape is bleak. Y’all are recommending 2004 homeschooler shoes with a straight face!
Sophia Benoit@1followernodad
my google searches recently: summer shoes. normal summer shoes. Sandals that are under $100. Walkable shoes under $100. Block heel sandals under $150. Normal shoes. Normal raffia sandals under $200. Walkable sandals under $200. Shoes that look normal. Please. Shoes please, shoe
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@MrsCMFrancis Of course, but don’t complain to me that the property taxes are a burden and you should be able to keep the expensive house and not pay your fair share of taxes on it too
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I’m getting so tired of this.
It’s such a socialist mindset to just assume that “they don’t need it why should they get it keep it”.
They get to keep it cause it’s theirs, and private property still exists in this country.
satan’s niece@87shenanigans
Genuinely though, why can’t seniors downsize. If they’re living in like a 3-4 bedroom house… why
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The day you catch me trying to make my self important or demanding respect based on my granddaddy is the day you should put me down
PoIiMath@politicalmath
I'm a mess, which is a bad time to tweet. It's Memorial Day, which means I've spent a lot of today thinking about the past, about the lost, about the people who built the world that we have inherited. But I've also been thinking about @xwanyex recent commentary about the nature of immigration and who "deserves" a country Today is Memorial Day. I went to the graves of my brother and my grandfather. I owe them so much. So does everyone. They did a lot of underappreciated work. Many of the immigration tweets Wanye points to are people saying "I succeeded in your country while you failed. Ha ha ha, I'm awesome and you suck". And, sure, this might be a particularly caustic example of that attitude, but is it really that rare? If immigrants love this country in particular, do they love the people who made it? Because they don't frequently say so. And if they love the people who made this country, the country that enabled them to have all the good things that they brag about, do they love the children of those people? Are they thankful to the grandchildren of the people who built the country that enabled their wild success? Or do they hold those grandchildren in disdain? How would a grandparent who built a world of tremendous opportunity and success respond if they saw someone who benefitted from that world telling their grandchild that they were a piece of garbage because they didn't build a billion dollar company? I'm thinking about this a lot now, largely because it's being shoved in my face. I'm not feeling particularly forgiving about this topic.
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Maybe I am very stupid, but is it possible to actually sign a pdf digitally without paying a subscription somewhere? Does this exist anymore?
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Miriam retweetledi
@politicalmath @xwanyex “You have to be grateful to me, a guy who runs a monetized shitpost account with stolen Calvin and Hobbes branding, because at some point in the past one of my ancestors did something productive” really does sum up the nativist attitude.
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@politicalmath @xwanyex Why would they need to be thankful to you simply because of who your granddaddy was?
I don’t understand this weird self-importance by association from people who claim to want a meritocratic society
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I'm a mess, which is a bad time to tweet. It's Memorial Day, which means I've spent a lot of today thinking about the past, about the lost, about the people who built the world that we have inherited.
But I've also been thinking about @xwanyex recent commentary about the nature of immigration and who "deserves" a country
Today is Memorial Day. I went to the graves of my brother and my grandfather. I owe them so much. So does everyone. They did a lot of underappreciated work.
Many of the immigration tweets Wanye points to are people saying "I succeeded in your country while you failed. Ha ha ha, I'm awesome and you suck". And, sure, this might be a particularly caustic example of that attitude, but is it really that rare?
If immigrants love this country in particular, do they love the people who made it? Because they don't frequently say so.
And if they love the people who made this country, the country that enabled them to have all the good things that they brag about, do they love the children of those people? Are they thankful to the grandchildren of the people who built the country that enabled their wild success?
Or do they hold those grandchildren in disdain? How would a grandparent who built a world of tremendous opportunity and success respond if they saw someone who benefitted from that world telling their grandchild that they were a piece of garbage because they didn't build a billion dollar company?
I'm thinking about this a lot now, largely because it's being shoved in my face. I'm not feeling particularly forgiving about this topic.
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@ashleyschendel “They didn’t suddenly get richer because Zillow says the house is worth more”
Except they did, having higher valued assets makes you richer.
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Seniors should not be priced out of a house they already paid for because the area around them got more expensive.
They didn’t suddenly get richer because Zillow says the house is worth more. Most of them are living on fixed income, paying higher insurance, higher utilities, higher groceries, and then the tax bill shows up like they somehow got a raise.
People can argue all day about how to fund schools and services, and that part does matter. But making older homeowners keep rebuying the same house every year through property taxes is exactly why so many people feel like ownership is never really ownership.
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@Keifreibierrr @GreenPlusAnE Are older people wealthier on average yes or no?
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@andromachean @GreenPlusAnE You've got it backwards followed by a confirmation of what I said is wild
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@Keifreibierrr @GreenPlusAnE You’ve got it backwards. It should be on an individual basis, but so long as we’re talking about lumped age groups then it’s just a fact that the elderly are on average wealthier
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@andromachean @GreenPlusAnE Which is also flawed reasoning. If you think wealthy people should pay more tax, then stoll taking age as a proxy for wealth is nonsensical
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@Keifreibierrr @GreenPlusAnE No the reasoning is that seniors should be the last ones to be tax exempt because they are able to afford it more than other age groups
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@GreenPlusAnE So just because they have money, they should pay taxes?
I agree with your conclusion that everyone should pay the same taxes, but the reasoning that gets you there is extremely flawed.
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@ShanaMaillard @JulianKJarboe Because it’s for an American business. No offense but I think it’ll sell better as vegan ube ice cream rather than “dirty ice cream”
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@JulianKJarboe 1. Developing is about the same as innovating not just inventing
2. If you are trying to get it close to the original filipino recipe why not call it by it's actual name sorbetes or dirty ice cream instead of "vegan ube ice cream"?
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@Apnae192506 Yes because being childfree or delaying having children is normalized and rightfully so, not because it is marginalized
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@andromachean @iammarina_100 This is the first period of time where there are less teenage pregnancies than women over 40 getting pregnant. Also adding the lowest birth rates ever seen in some countries, this is definitely new.
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Being childfree is not normalized or common. I still get told to this day at 30 years old that I will change my mind or regret it. People see childfree women as worthless to society. We are told all the time that we contribute nothing of value to the world if we don’t have kids.
Miriam@andromachean
@iammarina_100 Not when being childfree is not only common, but quite normalized. No one is oppressed or even really a made a pariah for not having kids. Most people will not care that you choose to not have kids, and there is no systemic penalty for you choosing not to
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