Idk where you’re getting those numbers. It’s predicted that up to a one quarter to a third of the country could be underwater by the end of monsoon season.
Nearly 500k homes have been destroyed and as of this article published this morning, August 29th, more than 3.1 million have been displaced.
Here are some aid organizations you can donate to (don’t worry, I looked into them and checked Charity Navigator and stuff). You can also call on your country’s government to provide aid and if you live in a country participating in the IMF you can urge them to send IMF aid too https://www.imf.org/en/Countries
Tahu drops the broken remains of a large Pyro Blade in the center of the room.
Tahu: So, who broke it? I’m not mad, I just wanna know.
Onua: …I did, I broke it-
Tahu: No, no you didn’t. Lewa?
Lewa: Don’t look at me! Look at Kopaka!
Kopaka: What?? I didn’t break it!
Lewa: Huh, that’s weird, how did you even know it was broken??
Kopaka: Because it’s sitting right in front of us, and it’s broken.
Lewa: It’s suspicious.
Kopaka: No, no it’s not!
Pohatu: If it matters, probably not but Gali was the last one to use the armory.
Gali: Pohatu! You know I don’t use fire weapons!
Pohatu: Really? Than what was all the crashing earlier?
Gali: I was fixing my hooks! They got bent on that stupid giant spider, remember?!
Onua: Okay let’s not fight, I broke it, let me fix it Tahu-
Tahu: No! Who broke it?!
*Dramatic silence*
Kopaka: …Tahu, Takanuva has been awfully quiet-
Takanuva: OH REALLY?!
Kopaka: Yeah really!
*Incoherent arguing noises as Lewa, Gali, Pohatu, Kopaka and Takanuva start fighting*
Tahu, whispering to Onua: I broke it. It cut my hand so I punched it. I predict in ten minutes they’ll be at each other’s throats with their Golden Kanohi on full blast and a Bohrok head on a spear.
i have never met an unpsychotic person who knows what it actually means to “not encourage the delusion” …not a single one
what “don’t encourage the delusion” means:
don’t argue with or challenge the delusion—attempting to disprove someone’s delusions is not helpful at all and will result in that person not trusting you
assure the delusional person that they are safe; be open and honest at all times
encourage them to verbalize their feelings and offer protection to prevent injury to
themselves or, possibly, others
start building a trusting relationship with them rather than acting on a desire to control their symptoms
do not confirm or feed into the delusion by asking questions about it when the person is not experiencing a psychotic episode
what it does not mean:
insisting to a psychotic person experiencing psychosis that what they’re experiencing isn’t real
I don’t mean to trivialize psychosis by making a weird comparison, but this guide also serves as a handy checklist for helping someone through a bad drug trip. In both cases your number one priority is to get the person through whatever they’re dealing with unharmed.
i don’t think it’s trivializing at all, nor a weird comparison—as a psychotic person who has had psychotic episodes inadvertently triggered by drug use and/or worsened while trying to self-medicate with drugs, i think this is an important addition.
y’all better hype this up because this is BIG and is evidence that the berlin patient wasn’t a fluke, and this could revolutionize medicine (there’s already cases of cancers where methods similar to these have worked), and while you’re at it, please join a bone marrow registry!! (especially poc bc these therapies usually only have been done on white patients due to genetic similarities, and the more poc we get in registries the more access poc patients can have to this for cancers, SSS, etc)
I…tried to make a meme and got carried away and made A Thing that is like partially unfinished because i spent like 3 hours on it and then got tired.
I think this is mostly scientifically accurate but truth be told, there seems to be relatively little research on succession in regards to lawns specifically (as opposed to like, pastures). I am not exaggerating how bad they are for biodiversity though—recent research has referred to them as “ecological deserts.”
compliments about your appearance are cool, but when somebody compliments you as a person, the way you think, your laugh, your personality, how genuine your heart is, that hits different.
amazon’s entire schtick is to run other businesses into the ground by undercutting prices then ruling over their peasant customers.
FedEx just refuses to deliver to my house. It’s too rural. They just won’t do it. The USPS is gutted. If I need supplies or food or any emergency anything, am I going to risk the package being destroyed or never getting to my house, or grit my teeth and go with the chaotic evil monsters who will nonetheless give me the food or medicine I need?
And guess what? Amazon is directly and indirectly responsible for both the state of FedEx and the state of the USPS. They were allowed to create a monopoly and they were PREPARED for the further gutting of the USPS we’ve seen in late 2020. In my rural area, with a pandemic on? I think people don’t understand what I mean when I say I have no choice sometimes, the same as I have no choice but to buy Comcast internet even tho it’s overpriced and unreliable.
It. Is. A. Monopoly. By. Design. We’re being given no choice. The solution isn’t to attack the consumers; it’s to force the government to undermine the company and to actually support its citizens with things like the USPS.
Ethical consumption is a luxury afforded to the rich.
You guys speaking like every country in the world has easy access libraries smh
Great point — if only there was a way to access books for free if you don’t have access to a library. But what could that be? It’s surely not linked in the comment directly above you
not to be rude but some of y'all need to look on the bright side sometimes. like, yeah sure the world is fucked and people suck and we all die whatever, sure, but like. go outside.
ok i phrased this poorly, hang on.
i’m not saying the cure for depression is touching grass. however, if you surround yourself with sad things and talk about how terrible life is and how much you’re suffering and never take a breath and remember it’s not all bad, you’ll end up making yourself worse.
I have a bad leg. Exercise will not cure my leg. Inappropriate exercise will hurt my leg further. But no exercise also hurts my leg. If I sit around lamenting my leg, refusing to do (safe, appropriate) labour with it, because I have a bad leg and it’s not going to get better, that does just as much damage as ignoring it.
Mental illnesses are the same. The amount to which someone’s depression is a result of things they can control varies wildly, like leg strength, but things within your control ARE a factor. Sunlight and exercise and good food and face-to-face communication and physical work done with your physical hands are major influencers for anyone’s mental state, whether or not other factors are present. Control of your thought patterns, maintaining mental variety and not allowing yourself to get addicted to anger or hopelessness or grief in a world where it’s always being offered to you like a fictional drug dealer in a cartoon alley, is a major influencer of your mental state, whether or not other factors are present. You have a responsibility to cultivate happiness in your mind. It’s basic maintenance.
