If China needs any American civilians to take to a camp, but the camp is like cozy in the mountains somewhere getting to eat home made soups, noodles, and rice dishes where I get to study kanji DM me. I’ll teach you the secrets of anglo grappling for a local Sanda school.

Just installed them. Didn’t realize how much I was advertised to in the home page

In order to use YouTube I need:

DF YouTube (Distraction Free) - no sidebar, no recommendations at the end of the video

Clickbait Remover for Youtube - thumbnails are a couple seconds into the video, titles are in all lower case

Hide shorts for Youtube™

ClearURLs - gets rid of tracking from URLs

Decentraleyes - I’m not positive but I’m pretty sure I need it

uBlockOrigin - ad blocker that you can also use to delete elements that it misses otherwise

SponsorBlock for YouTube - Skip Sponsorships

Shit is fucking crazy, comrade

I’m not mad, just disappointed.

The same way Aikido is, in theory, the most effective martial art, but the human body isn’t capable of harnessing it to its full potential so it ends up laughably bad, this middle manager’s methods actually make for a mindblowing business model, but their customers’ morals fail them so the store ends up unable to use technology.

Not reading the article or the comments, it’s one piece

One Piece

Polypropylene or foam swords are sick for rough housing. I’d also recommend foam knives/sharpies + white shirts for wrestling one another.

I feel that. For me, that struggle to overcome and push harder was something primal and I suspect is what you’re talking about. You need to push the energy beam or you need to punch so incredibly hard.

This is always my go to answer where your biggest worry is how you can afford to feed a big ass monster.

If I actually had powers and strength comparable to a protagonist, then I’d get a little more adventurous with it and go One Piece for the endless adventure.

Are you thinking of Lucci and KKKakkku? It would be different because they’re military personnel so the argument would be that they fucked around and found out.

edit: which would mean that I misshaped the argument in the post above!

In a nutshell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QoGyzSXAJ8

He doesn’t like taking hostages or going after non military targets making hostages out of non-military targets. As if the argument would formally be “Luffy beats up oppressors, but the ship crew wasn’t oppressing anyone and now the pirates are being oppressors.” The closest equivalent I thought of was Caesar the clown who was one degree off of military because he was contracted under a shichibukai. I can sympathize because it’s not a chill situation for the crew who, even if they get out unharmed, might have been kept from providing for family or responsibilities. I hope for a peaceful resolution and, like Rashid said, freedom for Palestine.

Hasan was interviewing one of the Yemeni pirates on his stream and I excitedly went to my group chat to talk about how the 19 year old had been watching One Piece since he was a child. Then it turns out one of the guys had a big opinion about not comparing Houthis to the Strawhats.

I don’t think that’s entirely true. Luffy was pretty adamant that the people of Wano should be able to eat until their stomachs are full every day. I can’t find the citation and if someone could help me I’d appreciate it. There’s also the evergreen moment where he punches Charlos because he was being an oppressive asshole.

Which is to say that even if Israel gave him hummus, he has a habit of going to go see what’s going on in Gaza and it doesn’t leave him feeling conflicted when he fights for Palestine.

except it’s Luffy’s face

“Glorified Pokemon snap with rougelike elements. Fix your dogshit game, Nintendo”

1. gratitude is very important

Not just existentially for a chance at being, but just muster as much of it as you can for the people around you, for every kindness shared with you, and for the beauty you get to experience. Even for bad shit that teaches you a lesson you can say thank you. It’s literally free.

2. helping others

If your own shit is fucked, you might get a little humility, space, and grace by thinking about others. Check in on your friends, find an opportunity to volunteer, donate if it’s in the cards for you.

3. hydrate and get enough sleep

When in doubt, these two might help

4. spend some time in nature

It should feel good to do this, so I wouldn’t prescribe an amount of time, but at least 30 minutes of touching grass

After you have those four settled, I think it’s worthwhile to start thinking about how you put your life together. In my mind, if you reach for things that resonate with you and you pursue it by doing things that you enjoy, you’ll maximize your enjoyment, miss out on things that aren’t for you, and meet the right people along the way. The consequences of your actions aren’t permanent for you, sure, but if you live authentically and kindly, you’ll affect others positively so that they’ll have a better trip hurdling through space. Being as joyful as possible will have costed you nothing to help and, on the contrary, gotten you as close as possible to having your struggles be worthwhile.

I suppose I just spend less time thinking and more time feeling - smoking life like a loose cigarette from God on a balcony overlooking meaningless and the void. Alan Watts has a very romantic view of being the universe observing itself that never quite landed for me, but you should check out his lectures. They’re very entertaining while being existential. Eckhart Tolle is a and is a little more self-helpy, but is still a fantastic source of knowledge about ceasing to create your own unhappiness.

Write your own stories. I have an entire canon that I can draw from and more ideas for novels than I can publish in a lifetime. It’s one of the few practices I’ve ever engaged in that I’m proud of.

China’s jets ended up in Chinese airspace lmao