When I was a little kid, my mother told me not to stare into the sun

so once, when I was six, I did.

At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before

I kept looking; forcing myself not to blink

the brightness faded to darkness, and I was blind.

The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal. I spent weeks, alone in that darkness.

Slowly, daylight crept in through the bandages, and I could see again

But something else had changed inside of me.

That day, I had my first headache.

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It didn't fit in there, sadly.

maybe the meow did.

This was posted in <#463059337162653716> but I am bringing this to <#463054787336732683> :
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1036433598352515074

**"Hey... I know this. It ripped off stuff the the Re: Cutie Honey OP"**
https://twitter.com/yann_le_gall/status/998807233302413317
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/463059337162653716/486072731750891520/Ddx5kdsU8AAIIIk.png

damn

They are ripping off an ecchi anime, which makes the CNN tweet a biy more rich.

👀

& to add a bit more spice this dish not just is it pulling from an anime with a heroine whose clothes explodes of her honey (which I cant link because SFW channel), Honey, unlike Emara, has a love interest & here is the two of them together:

If things are not clear, she is a lesbian.

& we know how the United Arab Emirates feels about gay people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_United_Arab_Emirates

I have known about that Emara & it ripping off the Re: Cutie Honey OP for a while, but that CNN tweet & interview adds some of the thickestness to this.

What are the overall percentages of carpet munching females in SA

Lesbians in South Africa? Don't know any stats but LGBT rights are surprisingly progressive, all things considered: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_South_Africa

damn colonialism and their.. rights 😠

They have they right to be married & legally they can't be prosecuted for having sex.

I should note that it was post-apartheid South Africa under the new constitution, apartheid South Africa would most definitely persecute gays under a rather extreme sense of conservatism.

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So this aint exactly something you can praise colonialism giving them.

couldn't one theorize Fatma Almheiri is probs lowkey trying to pass ideas about womens+LGBT rights to other people in UAE by paying homage to Cutie Honey? @da britian

Unlikely based on what they pulled from the OP, that would require people to know they are paying homage a 2004 ecchi action-comedy yuri OVA anime made by Gainax.
It is kind of like if a Chinese movie is ripping off parts of Ghostbusters Iconography (their Ghostbusting gear for example) but don't fight any ghost, & equating this to them trying to kick down barriers with Chinese government have put in place against depictions of ghost. You need to know what ghostbusters to know what they are pulling from, but if you don't then you won't think of it as anything notable or even impactfull.
At best this will encourage womens+LGBT rights people in the UAE who have seen Cutie Honey, but unless it is pushing womens+LGBT rights themes, even subtly, to the general populace, it will totally fly other their heads.

Hey guys, nice to be here

Didn't know there was a community discord, just spotted it in a video description

Howdy!

I've been waiting for a Timcast discord tbf, community seems a lot more rational. Joined a Sargon Of Akkad one a few months back and yeesh, community were shitposty to an unnecessary degree. I was looking more for discussion and stuff, yknow?

Well, there are massive lines of discussion that happens here across a few channels where most of the shitposting is relagated to

Most big discord rooms devolve into shit very quickly

I feel you, I feel you

Generally Tim approaches issues differently to people like Sargon or Shapiro though, I've noticed, Tim seems to address issues more factually and at face value while a lot of other people I've watched laugh at a lot of issues instead of breaking them down. Which, like, I get, because come on, some things are ridiculous, but Tim's approach definitely has him as one of my favourites out there to talk about issues (at the risk of sounding like a kiss-arse)

Man I wrote that incredibly poorly, but there are random discussions that pop up here, even sometimes in the shitposting channels which are the nsfw ones

I feel you

It's good to have these sorts of communities out there, too. I'm pretty young so a lot of my friends aren't really interested in the big issues, or if they are they argue from emotion and sentiment a lot rather than analysis

By "pretty young" I mean starting university, for clarification, not 13

Lmao

what if one started university at 13? 🤔

busted!

I identify as 13

Dang it, foiled again

To be fair, I let him on here if he was a thirteen year old who could get into university

I identify as <:beanie:463084349642899468>

Lmao, 19 and I scraped the grades

Thank god performing arts is more audition-based than grade-based

a 13 year old in this channel? He'll end up like Microsoft Tay 😦

I identify as non-identity

I don’t identify as anything. Do not refer to me as anything.

okay Nothing

You mean they will get corrupted, turned into nazi and put down ?

Cool and nice

yes

and demand kikes, furnaces and race-wars 😛

Well I was told that I can’t identify as Steve, not as a sexual orientation, not as a legal name, not as an age, & not as a nationality.

I identify as conservative-gender! 😛

I'm Trans-conservative? 😛

The Latin base trans does not make sense with that...

https://youtu.be/M-FW4keEzwk

Anyone know more about this guy?

wait .. what was that last bit? .. lemme see that again....

lol

ok I thought thats what he said....

is that a parody thing or something?

no. its effective marketing of an independent candidate.

hmm yeah.. got himself on the root 😛

and business insider :/

whats wrong with his face?!

wait wait WAAIT

did he just say "I wanna be your nigger"?!

nothing... racist! 😛

he's got balls

he'd have my vote

😛

i'd have to look at his policies - but i would look at them

WHAAAAAAT

That's hilarious

Oh my god

What's his marketing strategy with that

Why drop that in, I don't get it at all, it's brilliantly confusing

it would have gone more viral if he was whitey

hes half white... he could have said "i want to be your cracker"

Yea, I'd look into his politics more, but he sounds like a chill dude

You think it's just shock value viral-hunting then?

absolutely

i endentify as the statement that their are only 2 genders

So you identify as Gender realism? 😉

Honestly I don't care about peoples' genders as long as they're genders, as in as long as it's a discernible commentary on their sexual identity I don't really care. Where I start getting uneasy is when it's like, on that "Complete List Of Genders" thing, when it doesn't actually tell you about the gender at all. E.g. just looking on the list, "Aethergender- A gender that feels very wide, commanding, breathtaking and powerful." What the hell does that even mean

I'm M1A1 Abrams tank

Like, does that mean you're a dude who's astounded by masculinity or what? It's not *saying* anything, and it's nothing to do with the concept of what a gender is. It's an adjective to describe your gender, rather than being a gender

I need 40k for my patron to buy jet fuel

To snort

I've actually seen people online be like "I sexually identify as asian" and I'm like, what

That's... not a sexual identity, it's nothing to do with sex or gender, yknow

Or I've seen otherkin say their gender identity is Captain Jack Sparrow or Batman, and that confused me because surely that means if they identify as cis male...

people who sexually identify as asians

have a small penis 😉

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12906/multiculturalism-britain-july

A Month of Multiculturalism in Britain: July 2018

penis realism dr wol? how rude

Nah, the Dr. is just woke

how dare you imply i'm out of money! 😛

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My school has a Multicultural Week or some shit

I don't know what it is exactly but sounds bad

you should read sharia law, and tell people what to do all the time

when they complain, tell em they are not being multiculti enough

sandpill some normies

i have to say, there are few things in this world that I actually hate and burning man is one of them

Why?

is "burning man" a band or something, or are you talking about burning someone at the stake

if it's not a band then I'm taking that name

careful tim... Hate is illegal in some countries

ILLEGAL OPINION

question is, which emotion should be banned next? anger?

is lust an emotion

sure

if lust isn't already banned, I think that's next

lust causes a few scuffles... love causes wars

this is kind of an old quote of mine but I still really like it

"I need feminism because I want to control other people's thoughts and sexual desires"

>Tim retweeting Prager U videos
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAf0QnLFS7Q>

What even is Burning Man? I thought it was a music festival and then I saw pictures and now I'm not sure what it is

It's this weird thing for pagan hippies

Oh okay so they just sorta hang out in the middle of the desert because they're so edgy that they need to find an inhospitable environment just so they can bring attention to the fact that even mother nature herself oppresses them?

Is that it? Like I genuinely don't have a read on it

Something like that

They build big wooden statues and burn them

I googled it and the first news story is "People at Burning Man are fascinated by this enormous, shiny orb" (won't link the article because it's a "buy a pass or gtfo" from Business Insider)

Why would you put a giant reflective thing in the middle of the desert with the sun out all day

I'd like to go one year to document it

omg

I'm reading these tiers for Tim

Like, correct me if I'm wrong but that's pretty dumb, right

"I am a rich person and Tim is great"

dying atm

It's very dumb

It grew from a group of like 50 to 70,000 over the years

I just wanted to make sure I had more of an idea of basic thermodynamics than 128 kickstarter backers who sent it there

*indiegogo

Does Tim have any tier 4 or 5 people?

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-orb-at-burning-man-2018#/ Like, here's the indiegogo

They asked for $50k, got $35k, sent it there anyway

That thing looks sick

saw pics

It's literally a reflective ball, though

I don't see the artistic value

And that's not me being ignorant of art, I'm a singer/songwriter

Description on indiegogo is really pretentious too

Idk, I might swing through Burning Man if I'm ever stateside but honestly yeah it looks like I'd get annoyed

Awesome.

Hope this helps, Tim. ;)

burning man used to be cool

its was this anti establishment thing where ppl could do fun shit

Quiznos shot a commercial there

rich ppl show up in campers with AC

its as establishment as it comes now

Yeah :/

It's when things go mainstream

ppl who go to burning man are sheep pretending to be shepherds

The music that comes from these kinds of gatherings are still good.

Goa, PsyTrance, etc

I like the thought that alternatives to Burning Man will pop up as a result of Burning Man becoming too mainstream and capitalized to hell.

@Timcast didn't it used to be free and now it's pay to enter?

not sure

I should do some research on Burning Man

as long as Ive known about it has been dominated by the type of people who go to spencers and buy "nerd" hats

Yes

I think thats the best way to describe how I feel about it

its the "nerd hat" equivalent of a festival

hahaha

$390 per ticket and $80 vehicle pass

That's sad I always think of the better days of Jimi Hendrix when I think of it

So Burning Man is TomorrowLand for hippies.

It's not that now though

got it.

source: https://burningman.org/event/preparation/ticket-money/

is that like glastonbury?

https://www.tomorrowland.com/global/

@4zehorde literally corporate sponsors

perhaps having a venue only accessible on foot would be a defense against commercialization. like a plateau or something.

Says it second paragraph

From what I'm hearing, Burning Man to actual artistic freedom/individuality is like what Five Seconds Of Summer are to punk music

😂 😂 😂

Wish I had money to sponsor, but I'm starting university soon so funds are low

University is way to expensive

@tmg copper it says those are examples of things they *don't* do

"Examples of revenue that Burning Man opts out of:"

Damn I guess I read to quick

I Am Fake News

feel like glastonburys kinda lost it... there was 135k people there last year

How the world has fallen...

world? or west?

some countries seem to be on an upwards trend

I mean, to be fair there's still good artistic events. Metal concerts are still booming

True

seems like the so called "culture war" is trying to change value from capital to social status

feels like that study about baby girls looking more towards people and baby boys looking more towards objects and systems might be relevant

A lot of people are being lifted out of poverty apparently.

I don't think everything is falling.

maybe with more women in high places the west shifts from valuing capital to more of a social status kinda thing being more important

until its somewhere in the centre

which is where a communist system would work better for them... where money is less important than status

the meritocracy comes from who merits higher social merit

or "becomes" rather

"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a finger clicking on a downvote button - forever."

- a pessimist

Why does youtube even have thumbs down in the comment section anymore

That stopped working years ago, it's like holy shit

Just remove it.

Probably as a placebo so that people will feel less inclined to write comments to people they disagree with

Or maybe it counts as something of a soft-report with people who consistently get tons of downvotes becoming more likely to be banned

But yeah, it's dumb. I really dislike the whole comment rating thing to begin with

Well.

I think there should be some form of downvoting.

Because I do like upvoting. Just not... when it slants so far one way.

How do you correct idiocy when it has 700 thumbs up. It biases whoever sees it

Everyone knows that whoever writes the biggest wall of text is the one who's the most right.

I think that indicates who is wrong, usually.

When you respond with 3 lines

And then you get 3 paragraphs

They are ALWAYS shoving words in your mouth.

Go into the future with this theory in mind

See how it always turns out to be true.

Tim hates mint chocolate chip unsub noe

Is it good? Never tried

Every YouTube update makes the site worse

How has the market not killed it yet?

Come to Bitchute. I've moved 80% of my viewing there.

🤔can we get PewDiePie on board 🤔

The market hasn't killed it yet coz it's not profitable. YT loses millions a year.

🤔🤔🤔

Are there thots on bitchute?

Google pay for it for all the info they can get from it. They are pouring money into AI. Can you think of a place you'd rather train a AI.

And Susan sells your DNA

Or her sister 🤔

Haven't looked.

The one that owns the DNA shit

Should I get back on twitter? Since they are starting to stop shadow banning...

OK, mint chocolate chip is pretty good, but it pales in comparison to peppermint icecream

Our program is almost done if anyone wants a looksee

Twitter sucks