NataliePortland @ NataliePortland @lemmy.ca

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It’s more that cities tend to make people liberal. Some folks in small towns have never met a Muslim person or a Korean person. They have only a family tradition of racism in their small white racist town. People in cities have to live alongside many different types of people, and get to eat different foods and have different experiences. That cures racism.

Too easy! Also you were so right when you said "NataliePortland, you need to make Gwyneth the icon for this community so that she can hold our sanctuary to become who we are growing to become." and I honor and respect you for sharing your truth with us.

I love that use of Proud Boy! That's hilarious.

Does it have to be a published article? It's an opinion piece that I wrote. Why can't we have political discussion here?

Ah thank you so much.

I like to mix some fruit juice into seltzer. It’s nice to have something bubbly and it’s more refreshing than just drinking straight juice. Juice is too strong! I can’t do full strength!

He died from exposure to toxic burn pits. Democrats passed a measure extending healthcare to veterans exposed to toxic burn pits and republicans tried yo block it

I just finished it too and I have mixed feelings. It was such a page-turner I couldn't believe how quickly I inhaled it! Then when it ended I felt so let down. Blackthorne said from the start that he would have revenge on Omi-san for the peeing incident, but that never came. He said he would have revenge on Yabu-san for torturing Pieterzoon but that never came. There was so much double-dealing with Toronaga-san and everyone in his sphere that I felt like nothing said could be trusted. Every deal would be reversed, everything that was 'kinjiru' wasn't so 'kinjiru' after all. Toronaga would order someone to commit seppuku and they would be like 'no I don't want to', so Toronaga says "okay you disobeyed me. I respect that. You can live, plus I'll double your fief."

When the ending came I had no idea whether Toronaga would win the war or not, or whether anything he said or arranged was real or not. Was Blackthorne going to get a ship? Was his brother going to backstab him?

Also Toronaga took away Omi's wife AND Kiku and gave them to Blackthorne. Then Blackthorne was just going to live in Omi's fief as a vassal? WTF? How was that supposed to work?

I enjoyed the book. I realize that was a lot of complaints, but I really loved reading it.

Which Native American tribe specifically? Native Americans aren't one single culture. Are you offended on behalf of someone you can't even name?

Cool! I saw a bat in Caldas da Rainha

My work blocks lemmy.ml but not many other instances. Unfortunately all the heaviest memes are on lemmy.ml ! I just want to look at fun memes instead of my lame ass patients what’s wrong with that

I've had a few ghost encounters in my life but this one is the easiest to share. In Copehnagen I was couch-surfing on a 3rd floor flat. The roommates told me the building was haunted. At exactly 1:30 every night you could hear someone walking all the way up the 4 floors in the stairwell then all the way back down and the door would slam. I heard it every night that I was still awake. The steps had a distinct limp which was noticeable and also interesting how the door would slam. That door had a hydraulic on it- it couldn't be slammed like that if you tried. The roommates cautioned me not to open the door to look as this would "upset him" and then they would find their things go missing. After 'upsetting him' in the past, they found their wallet in the VCR, the remote in the freezer- things like that. So I never peeked.

Then one night we had another couch surfer. Up at 1:30, he hear the limping step and asked about it. I said "That's the ghost" and as I said the word 'ghost' our front door FLEW open and the footsteps stopped. It was so freaky.