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Cake day: February 20th, 2025
  • Ragdoll X@sh.itjust.workstoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*
    22·
    15 days ago

    I set fire to my house because of a Cartoon Network ad.

    At some point there was this animation that Cartoon Network used as an intermission between shows or ads. IIRC it was just stop-motion of some gray clay or play-doh thing that changed shapes, and became various characters from the CN shows, then in the end it transformed into the CN logo, but I was a very young kid so I’m really not sure I remember all the details correctly.

    Anyways, one day when I was around 6 or 7 years old an aunt and uncle of mine were visiting, and they were smokers. I had just watched the aforementioned intermission and was wondering how I could get that magical grey mass that transformed into the various CN characters. Everyone else was in the 2nd floor and my uncle was showering, so I looked around the 1st floor trying to find something that I could use to create this magical play-doh.

    When I saw my uncle’s lighter on top of some cabinet, for some reason my 6 year old brain thought that I could set some styrofoam on fire to get the magical grey mass. The styrofoam box was on a shelf made of wood and straw, so you can probably guess how well that went.

    After holding the lighter against the styrofoam I saw that the flame started spreading on its own, so I put the lighter back where I found it and ran upstairs to make sure that nobody had seen what I was doing. After 2 or 3 minutes I walk back downstairs and without even entering the laundry room where I had started the fire I see a ton of smoke in the kitchen. After that I ran back upstairs and told my mother that there was a fire (only after asking her several times if she would get mad at me). The main entrance and the laundry room’s back door were blocked by the fire, and the kitchen exit was already being engulfed in smoke, so instead she opened one of the windows in the 1st floor and put me and my younger brother outside through the window.

    I don’t know what exactly happened after that since I was just scared and running around the house confused, but from what my mother told me my uncle ran out of the shower in a towel and the neighbor noticed that something was wrong as well, so with the help of my mom and aunt they were able to put out the fire with the water hose we had in the backyard. Most houses in Brazil are made with bricks and concrete, but our house had some parts that were still made of wood since they were part of an older house that my parents bought and reformed, but thankfully the fire was mostly contained to the concrete side of the house, with only the laundry room, as well as some of the wooden parts in the kitchen and some wooden doors catching fire.

  • Ragdoll X@sh.itjust.worksOPtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•Empathy for me, but not for thee
    63·
    4 months ago

    Some large-scale surveys suggest that about 40% - 41% of trans people have attempted suicide at least once in their life. There are studies that report even higher rates, and I’ve occasionally seen transphobes also use “43%” instead of “41%”, but the latter estimate is the most famous one.

    Of course, such a high rate of suicide attempts isn’t met with any empathy or concern from conservatives, but with false claims that gender affirmation is harmful for trans people, and often outright glee as well.

  • Ragdoll X@sh.itjust.worksOPtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•what was bro even thinking lmao
    962·
    6 months ago

    Also:

    This also reminded me that in his short story “The Jaunt” Stephen King felt the need to include the following lines for no apparent reason:

    Ricky and Pat were watching him seriously, his son twelve, his daughter nine. He told himself again that Ricky would be deep in the swamp of puberty and his daughter would likely be developing breast by the time they got back to earth, and again found it difficult to believe.

  • Ragdoll X@sh.itjust.workstoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•I am shocked, I say. Shocked! Well, not that shocked.
    338·
    9 months ago

    Funny how there’s a bunch of people in the comments essentially just unironically repeating the meme: “Well this must be wrong because I believe this and I’m actually a centrist!!!”

    That’s the point, buddy. You’re the butt of the joke. The idea that the far-left and far-right are equally bad or warrant the same amount of scrutiny and criticism is a right-wing belief.

    To make the point more obvious instead of using “left” and “right” look at specific political beliefs that the far-left and far-right have:

    1. Equality across social and demographic groups vs. State-enforced racism, sexism and other kinds of bigotry

    2. Abolishment of bourgeois property and money vs. Complete privatization, oligarchy and corruption

    3. Globalization, peaceful relations and a right to live where you want vs. Complete isolationism and xenophobia

    4. Right to self-governance and no government with a monopoly on violence vs. State sanctioned violence against those considered undesirable or traitors

    Hopefully I don’t need to explain which one is obviously worse. To equate what the far-left and the far-right advocate for one must misrepresent the left, so both-sides-ism inherently has a right-wing slant.