Did someone say …coffee 
Makes for happy bunnys
/hops around
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i’ve been watching Better than Us and that show is giving me some ideas on how to deal with the mechagnomes
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rips down tarp covering door sorry about that yesterday i was on tear after a intense protein and thislte root shake fueled workout heres some gold for a door
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Take a deep breath because we are all racist. Our brains are optimized to look for patterns, that is, generalizations. The less actual information we have the more generalized our perception is. It’s how we are wired.
It comes down the values we’ve attached to those generalizations. Are we active or passive racists? Are the values we assign born of unfamiliarity or acquired antipathy? It also gets to be complex. I’ve seen good “humanity is one race” type folks noticeably tense up around a person of color. Then there is my late uncle. In the 1950’s he worked in a mix machine shop and was fine with Black co-workers. One day one of them suggested a weekend barbecue to my uncle who calmly informed the guy he didn’t believe in having people like him in his house. I can’t fathom the betrayal and hurt that guy must have felt. For my uncle, it wasn’t personal, it was just the way things were.
Now for me, a nice white guy about five years older than Cyndilou, being the recipient of negative racial responses just isn’t a thing. The closest I can come was being poor, on food stamps with an obese mother who would send her grade school aged son to do the grocery shopping. I remember the glares and the snide comments about poor trash and stealing people’s hard earned tax money. It gave a powerful sense of being despised for something I had no control over and it really hurt. To this day, more than a half century later, I still flinch when cashiers get that look.
Does this mean I understand what people of color go through? No, because I could change things as my differences from the majority were only wallet thick, not skin deep. I have not experienced a life time of active prejudice and constant slips of the tongue and small actions that remind one that they are “different.”
So, ease up. This is a serious problem but responding to it with your own prejudices isn’t going to help. We can’t directly change others for the better. We can lead by example and show there are better ways to do things. We can use the law and company rules to deal with blatant acts of discrimination and stand up for folks.
We must continually come to see the generalizations, the prejudices we still have and face them. Don’t focus on your family, focus on the well meaning and good guy you see in the mirror and you’ll change at least your part of the world. It seems small but, like drops of rain, the cumulative effect is very powerful.
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i think God hates me…
i think i can’t do anything to please him…
i dunno.
i feel okay sometimes and other times not okay.
chrisp the sinner
accepts the gold and crosses your name off the list
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Hello everyone 
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/character/24331676/
Just leaving this here for anyone that care about ff14
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I know next to nothing of FF but it looks like a Hummel figurine my grandmother would have loved. It’s cute.
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they are like the gnome/goblin of ff14.
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Popatoes in Pajamas - new educational show for the children of Eorzea.
But seriously, she looks adorable. As much as lalas get made fun of, I have seen some pretty dope glams on them. Also, if they ever bring back the FFXV crossover event, I’m gonna make a lala strictly for the purpose of being able to drive the Regalia while standing up. Who needs to be able to reach the brake pedals, am I right?
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most adorable thing tbh. and if you crash you can give the excuse that you cant reach the pedals
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Sorry ,officer. I had to get back to the Waking Sands.
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I could…but…where is the fun in that?
/makes it partly cloudy
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Heyo everyone!
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“I Am NOT Racist.”
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you eat humans!
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But I’m a human and she hasn’t eaten me.
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“My TOON does. I DO NOT!!!”
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“That is because Cyndi Lou does NOT eat Friends.”
/smile
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hmmm, but with the right seasoning…
oh um (/hides “to serve Man” book)
Good Eating um…Evening folks - yeah, Good Evening 
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