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If you want to learn how to cook REAL Chinese food, this is the place to share the wisdom!
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Sub on Chinese food and cuisine. Mostly videos on how to cook it.
2021.02.28 20:32 ilovethegym VeganAsianFoodRecipes
If like vegan/plant-based Asian food as much as we do, this group is for you! We focus on Chinese, Indian, Thai, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Singaporean, Malaysian, Filipino, Taiwanese, Nepalese, and other East Asian vegan food and recipes.
2023.03.25 13:00 Necoso Hey there everyone,first post:). Can you give me your thoughts on this violin? This is the info provided by the seller :violin Made by French maker from Chinese company.Nicole violin 1958 model 008.
2023.03.25 12:59 Nomyad777 Jacob Macrovich Wikipedia
Jacob Macrovich Wikipedia
Jacob Macrovich, most famously known for The Jacobian Event and his reality-breaking genetic experiments, was born in Richmond Hospital in Vancouver, Old Canada on the 28th of September, 2023. Five hundred test subjects survived his laboratory in the Jacobian Event, and Jacob himself died in its fall in 2054.
Birth And Upbringing
Jacob was raised in a medium-class single-child family in the Broadmoor neighborhood, and was well known in his local neighborhood as a good kid to play with, if a bit socially oblivious. After finishing school at Blundell Elementary School and Richmond Secondary School, he was accepted and then moved across the country to the University Of Waterloo, in the city of Waterloo. Living in scholarship-given dormitory housing, Jacob proved his genius at the school by being the first person to crack the principles of the Hard Light Projector and its revolutionizing implications on various industries.
After university, Jacob would take a job at Google, and work his way up the company quickly. However, in the economic downturn in the six-month span between World War III and World War IV, he was laid off then picked up by Quantum Team Research Laboratories.
Quantum Team Research Laboratories
Jacob would rapidly rise through the ranks of Quantum Team Research Laboratories after being hired on the 14th of January, 2051 just before World War IV, and would become one of the youngest Site Directors on record when a new lab was opened in the Canadian Rockies. Here, he would pursue his dream of immortality.
As Jacob rose through the ranks, employees and subordinates reported his attitude slowly changing to a "holier-than-thou" type. After acquiring the site, it would run normally on record with few indications of what was going on inside for the rest of its short service life.
The Jacobian Event, and Death
On the 4th of March, 2051, Jacob would begin his kidnapping spree. By bribing the certain on-site staff with the results of his experiments, Jacob simply drove into Calgary and tricked his victims into helping him jump-start his car, at which point he'd inject a tranquilizer into them and imprison them inside an unauthorized-built sublevel below the research site.
Jacob would kidnap five hundred individuals from the surrounding area before stopping when the police arrested a suspect for an unrelated kidnapping. Jacob would then alter the human genome and inject these replacement stem cells into his victims bodies, who were all ten to twenty-five years old of both sexes, though as time went on Jacob found it easier to convert his entire subject pool into females to not have to work on the Y-chromosome.
As Jacob continued his experiments, an audit from Quantum Team against inspections marked his site for an additional inspection. Jacob promptly bribed the inspector, and when that didn't work, he killed him, hid the body, and then pretended the inspector hadn't properly closed a blast shield when observing an experiment and died. Another team was sent, and they didn't find the hidden access to the unauthorized sublevel; as everything else was in check, they let Jacob go.
On the fourth of May, 2054, Canada Neurogel AI would personally mark Calgary's site once again for suspicious activity. After a surprise inspection on May eighteenth from a team in which the sublevel was found, Jacob and his comrades would bribe four of the inspectors and killed the last one, but not before she got a video transmission back to Quantum Team command.
Quantum Team immediately asked for help in dealing with a rogue site director and contacted site security, as per protocol after the London Quantum Team Hijacking. Calgary's three SWAT teams would show up at Calgary site's door within an hour. After two teams were fully killed by improvised traps and weapons when attempting to enter the site to talk to Jacob, and the third lost a member, the remaining SWATT team reported back to Calgary that they were unable to talk jacob down.
A state of emergency was called three hours later after Jacob blew up one of the SWAT trucks using a high-powered laser built from site supplied. RCMP were sent to assist, and when they were also met with death in various forms, Canada declared Martial Law in the region and sent special forces soldiers.
Quantum Team cyber-security were locked out of the site by local overrides, and as such unable to provide much intel other than the site's layout and suspected entrance areas to the sublevel. On the twenty-second of May, 2054, four days after the first SWAT team had showed up, the situation turned into a hostage one as Jacob threatened to genetically mutilate ten of his subjects into "anthro pokemon" using genetic information recovered from experimentation if he didn't receive a shipment of supplies, including food. While the threat worked, Jacob converted three of the on-site staff who were also held hostage into more genetic test subjects in retaliation for it taking three hours for the shipment to arrive.
For the next couple months, Jacob would continue his reign of terror over the Calgary Quantum Team. Protocols put in place after the London Quantum Team Hijacking failed against preparation, and not even military commanders could find a way to get through to the site. Slowly, when his demands were not met, more and more of the staff were turned into test subjects until only Jacob and his inner circle were left. When the military once again refused his request to let nuclear supplies through, three anthro pokemon with cybernetic implants were locked in a room with a glass window showing them to the military outside.
On the seventh of October, 2054, when all of the genetic subjects were forced into anthro forms but were able to shapeshift into other pokemon around during their sleep at will using their cybernetic implants, Jacob managed to use other on-site materials to procure a specially-designed nuclear bomb with an approximated detonation power of four kilotons of TNT. As he finished his airborne vials as well, the last phase of Jacob's new plan was put into action.
At the same time, a military operation months into the making by Commander George Kenal dug a tunnel into the approximate location of the prison room for Jacob's victims. The Commander managed to evacuate all five hundred and forty-eight remaining alive victims and get them out safely before storming the site.
Sometime during the operation Commander Kenal was exposed to Jacob's airborne genetic drug and fell unconscious while disarming the nuke. Two of his subordinates also succumbed to the drug, but the early trigger of the drug saved many other people from much worse effects.
At 7:46 AM MST on October 7th, 2054, a hyper-efficient nuclear device was launched from the site over Calgary before detonating. While the device left behind only trace amounts of radiation due to using most radioactive particles in the initial explosion before they were blasted away by the shockwave, it killed the entirety of Calgary, and cities as far away as Thunder Bay reported sightings of a bright flash. Due to the site's far distance from Calgary, the military presence was disoriented due to the shockwave but otherwise present.
Jacob and his subordinates then attempted to take on the military outside and killed most of them before being shot to death, and did manage to kill over four thousand soldiers, before being killed in various ways. The direct cause of Jacob's death is unknown.
After Death
Jacob would sharply change the attitude of the public surrounding intentional biological tampering. As of current, it is one of the most restricted fields, even when dealing with diseases that directly lead to death or brain death such as cancer.
Quantum Team Research Laboratories would shut down all sites for over a month while overhauling them. While governmental audits found that Jacob had left behind no trace of what he was up to, and that there was no reasonable way to know what Jacob was up to, Quantum Team didn’t see it that way.
The city of Calgary was wiped off the map by the nuclear detonation, though thankfully the evacuation managed to save a number of people in the city core. Still, roughly one hundred thousand people would die, and it would be quickly deemed too expensive to repair Calgary. The city was dissolved and most of the displaced residents moved to Edminton.
Jacob himself would leave behind a legacy of what not to be, much like other historical figures.
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2023.03.25 12:59 ManyAcanthaceae1094 Group therapy needed: Dealing with a problematic member in our weekly jam
A member recently joined our weekly jam, but we are starting to feel uncomfortable with his presence. He has shown emotionally and mentally unstable behavior and his humor is based on mockery, which is becoming increasingly annoying. He receives financial support from the state and doesn't participate in the group's activities, making us feel like we are his servants. Moreover, he seems ungrateful for the food that we provide each week.
We are considering dropping him from the group, but we are unsure how he will react given his history of mental trauma. We are also concerned that he knows where we all live. We want to handle this situation sensitively and respectfully while prioritizing the safety and well-being of the group.
We would appreciate any advice on how to approach this situation and make the best decision for our group.
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2023.03.25 12:58 Complete-Mess4054 My flatmate likes to monitor my food even though he knows I have an ED
I've asked him so many times to stop commenting on my food intake and to stop telling me to eat different things or less or whatever. I'm underweight and I'm not eating that much right now out of stress. He is into eating healthy and very anti-coffee, anti-sugar. I struggle with stress and fatigue and I do drink coffee, and he will tell me every time that I shouldn't be having that. I told him I have an ED and to stop and he was like 'here's some pics of someone way skinnier than you if that makes you feel better' and tries to give me like advice on how to recover. We were sat the other night and I made a joke that I have bad concentration and he said 'maybe if you cut out that coffee you might get better. If you had just stopped eating sugar like I told you to months ago, you wouldn't have that problem, and now look at you' If I have a snack late at night he makes comments like 'maybe if you stopped eating after 6pm you'd sleep better and wouldnt be here late at night' I'm really losing patience with him because I'm a fully grown adult and I dont need him telling me I cant have certain things in my life or I have to stop eating at certain times and only eat x,y,z. It's infuriating. Despite knowing I've had anorexia and I'm still umderweight, he keeps encouraging me to restrict and telling me that if I eat certain things I'll ruin my body. It's genuinely like having a real life version of anorexia in my flat and it's just driving me nuts
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2023.03.25 12:57 Valkieboo I had a dream and now I'm ????
For context: I'm mtf pre hrt, but out to all my friends and they all accepted me no questions asked :3 My mom knows too but the rest of my family doesn't yet. They probably would, if i wasn't dependant on my parents for housing again -.- that's a different problem though
So i had a dream last night where i went to a big family gathering. Nothing special these happen every few months and are super chill. Food, beer, card games, music and about 40 people. The party had already started when i got there, but for some reason I showed up in this cute red dress! And everyone stared at me! Some questioned as I walked by but i just smiled and giggled and they let me be. When i got to my cousins, who i usually have around they asked me questions, but accepted me quickly like my friends and everything was good! It was all an awesome experience! Besides that everyone still referred to me as "he" for some reason...
Anyway now I'm sitting here like a bit confused cause the feelings i have now aren't sadness or joy or euphoria... I have some strange feeling in me but i can't place it? It's like an anxiety but also a lil happy? It reminds me most of fear but idk of what?
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2023.03.25 12:57 Nomyad777 Jacob Macrovich Wikipedia
Jacob Macrovich Wikipedia
Jacob Macrovich, most famously known for The Jacobian Event and his reality-breaking genetic experiments, was born in Richmond Hospital in Vancouver, Old Canada on the 28th of September, 2023. Five hundred test subjects survived his laboratory in the Jacobian Event, and Jacob himself died in its fall in 2054.
Birth And Upbringing
Jacob was raised in a medium-class single-child family in the Broadmoor neighborhood, and was well known in his local neighborhood as a good kid to play with, if a bit socially oblivious. After finishing school at Blundell Elementary School and Richmond Secondary School, he was accepted and then moved across the country to the University Of Waterloo, in the city of Waterloo. Living in scholarship-given dormitory housing, Jacob proved his genius at the school by being the first person to crack the principles of the Hard Light Projector and its revolutionizing implications on various industries.
After university, Jacob would take a job at Google, and work his way up the company quickly. However, in the economic downturn in the six-month span between World War III and World War IV, he was laid off then picked up by Quantum Team Research Laboratories.
Quantum Team Research Laboratories
Jacob would rapidly rise through the ranks of Quantum Team Research Laboratories after being hired on the 14th of January, 2051 just before World War IV, and would become one of the youngest Site Directors on record when a new lab was opened in the Canadian Rockies. Here, he would pursue his dream of immortality.
As Jacob rose through the ranks, employees and subordinates reported his attitude slowly changing to a "holier-than-thou" type. After acquiring the site, it would run normally on record with few indications of what was going on inside for the rest of its short service life.
The Jacobian Event, and Death
On the 4th of March, 2051, Jacob would begin his kidnapping spree. By bribing the certain on-site staff with the results of his experiments, Jacob simply drove into Calgary and tricked his victims into helping him jump-start his car, at which point he'd inject a tranquilizer into them and imprison them inside an unauthorized-built sublevel below the research site.
Jacob would kidnap five hundred individuals from the surrounding area before stopping when the police arrested a suspect for an unrelated kidnapping. Jacob would then alter the human genome and inject these replacement stem cells into his victims bodies, who were all ten to twenty-five years old of both sexes, though as time went on Jacob found it easier to convert his entire subject pool into females to not have to work on the Y-chromosome.
As Jacob continued his experiments, an audit from Quantum Team against inspections marked his site for an additional inspection. Jacob promptly bribed the inspector, and when that didn't work, he killed him, hid the body, and then pretended the inspector hadn't properly closed a blast shield when observing an experiment and died. Another team was sent, and they didn't find the hidden access to the unauthorized sublevel; as everything else was in check, they let Jacob go.
On the fourth of May, 2054, Canada Neurogel AI would personally mark Calgary's site once again for suspicious activity. After a surprise inspection on May eighteenth from a team in which the sublevel was found, Jacob and his comrades would bribe four of the inspectors and killed the last one, but not before she got a video transmission back to Quantum Team command.
Quantum Team immediately asked for help in dealing with a rogue site director and contacted site security, as per protocol after the London Quantum Team Hijacking. Calgary's three SWAT teams would show up at Calgary site's door within an hour. After two teams were fully killed by improvised traps and weapons when attempting to enter the site to talk to Jacob, and the third lost a member, the remaining SWATT team reported back to Calgary that they were unable to talk jacob down.
A state of emergency was called three hours later after Jacob blew up one of the SWAT trucks using a high-powered laser built from site supplied. RCMP were sent to assist, and when they were also met with death in various forms, Canada declared Martial Law in the region and sent special forces soldiers.
Quantum Team cyber-security were locked out of the site by local overrides, and as such unable to provide much intel other than the site's layout and suspected entrance areas to the sublevel. On the twenty-second of May, 2054, four days after the first SWAT team had showed up, the situation turned into a hostage one as Jacob threatened to genetically mutilate ten of his subjects into "anthro pokemon" using genetic information recovered from experimentation if he didn't receive a shipment of supplies, including food. While the threat worked, Jacob converted three of the on-site staff who were also held hostage into more genetic test subjects in retaliation for it taking three hours for the shipment to arrive.
For the next couple months, Jacob would continue his reign of terror over the Calgary Quantum Team. Protocols put in place after the London Quantum Team Hijacking failed against preparation, and not even military commanders could find a way to get through to the site. Slowly, when his demands were not met, more and more of the staff were turned into test subjects until only Jacob and his inner circle were left. When the military once again refused his request to let nuclear supplies through, three anthro pokemon with cybernetic implants were locked in a room with a glass window showing them to the military outside.
On the seventh of October, 2054, when all of the genetic subjects were forced into anthro forms but were able to shapeshift into other pokemon around during their sleep at will using their cybernetic implants, Jacob managed to use other on-site materials to procure a specially-designed nuclear bomb with an approximated detonation power of four kilotons of TNT. As he finished his airborne vials as well, the last phase of Jacob's new plan was put into action.
At the same time, a military operation months into the making by Commander George Kenal dug a tunnel into the approximate location of the prison room for Jacob's victims. The Commander managed to evacuate all five hundred and forty-eight remaining alive victims and get them out safely before storming the site.
Sometime during the operation Commander Kenal was exposed to Jacob's airborne genetic drug and fell unconscious while disarming the nuke. Two of his subordinates also succumbed to the drug, but the early trigger of the drug saved many other people from much worse effects.
At 7:46 AM MST on October 7th, 2054, a hyper-efficient nuclear device was launched from the site over Calgary before detonating. While the device left behind only trace amounts of radiation due to using most radioactive particles in the initial explosion before they were blasted away by the shockwave, it killed the entirety of Calgary, and cities as far away as Thunder Bay reported sightings of a bright flash. Due to the site's far distance from Calgary, the military presence was disoriented due to the shockwave but otherwise present.
Jacob and his subordinates then attempted to take on the military outside and killed most of them before being shot to death, and did manage to kill over four thousand soldiers, before being killed in various ways.
After Death
Jacob would sharply change the attitude of the public surrounding intentional biological tampering. As of current, it is one of the most restricted fields, even when dealing with diseases that directly lead to death or brain death such as cancer.
Quantum Team Research Laboratories would shut down all sites for over a month while overhauling them. While governmental audits found that Jacob had left behind no trace of what he was up to, and that there was no reasonable way to know what Jacob was up to, Quantum Team didn’t see it that way.
The city of Calgary was wiped off the map by the nuclear detonation, though thankfully the evacuation managed to save a number of people in the city core. Still, roughly one hundred thousand people would die, and it would be quickly deemed too expensive to repair Calgary. The city was dissolved and most of the displaced residents moved to Edminton.
Jacob himself would leave behind a legacy of what not to be, much like other historical figures.
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2023.03.25 12:56 informationtiger Is the western world really raising interest rates to 'break' Russia as youtuber Jake Broe claims?
Youtuber Jake Broe said that he's "the only one on youtube talking about the Fed's interest rate and it's effect on the Russian", implying the Fed (and other western central banks) are raising interest rates in order to break the Russian economy.
I suppose there's a reason he's the only one talking about this, but my lack of economics knowledge does not allow me to make a thorough analysis.
So what do you think? What is your analysis?
Here's the video in question:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DqMfvg_KzU He gets up to 1M views on his videos.
And here's a comment that I pretty much agree with:
I kinda doubt your "break Russia" argument for raised interests rates. There's no real evidence for that besides speculation, as the only job of the central bank is to basically control inflation and unemployment. Secondly, while yes the US Fed might be doing that without openly saying it, I doubt all these other countries are on board. Imo you're SERIOUSLY underestimating the effects of inflation - it's tough here in Europe... Not everything needs to be seen through the lens of the Russia-Ukraine war. Yes, sure it might be a factor. But honestly it's economics is so complicated that no one event alone can take credit, especially not as prominently as you claim, when there's a very very real inflation problem. And if they are doing that for the sake of Russia, harming their own citizens, the inflation problem aside, there's no way to justify it. It's more of a lucky double whammy I suppose.
EDIT: I'm gonna add something speculative as well... The Western world does NOT want Russia and it's economy to collapse. Not only will that harm innocent citizens, but there will be a sever shortage on other things that Russia produces besides oil: a food shortage worldwide, fertilizers etc. A collapsed Russia also means a power vacuum for a regime worse than Putin's, or a disintegration with nuclear weapons falling into wrong hands. During the Cold War tensions were way higher than they are now, yet behind all the talk of the enemy of the free world, no one legitimately wanted the USSR to collapse. A Russian collapse is a threat to the Western world, and it's leaders know it! They just can't say it publicly while they're trying to stop the war. And honestly the fix is pretty simple: get rid of Putin. It's literally that easy. No need to have another post-USSR anarchy moment. It's like trying to break America just because Trump was in power. Well guess what? He's gone now and the country is still intact and stable. Good.
So yeah, feel free to analyse/break apart all of the above arguments.
Looking forward to hearing your views!
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2023.03.25 12:54 HeatherDiadem Resources for housing/food
Hi folks. I have seen quite a few posts about the above issues over the months/year and just wanted to share a list I made last April.
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APRIL 2022 (sorry if not all current, I can reach out and find out more about specific things if anyone needs, dm me)
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Here is a list for housing/meals I compiled in April of last year. I hope most of the info is updated. Hope this helps.
https://smap.bchousing.org/ The link to the map itself to find which shelters are available. Can filter by location and other info
https://www.bchousing.org/housing-assistance/homelessness-services/emergency-shelter-program - great page lots of info. Click on Find a shelter
A typical stay at an emergency shelter includes a bed with linens, hot meals, showers, laundry and support services.
https://www.bchousing.org/housing-assistance/homelessness-services - list of all programs
https://lookoutsociety.ca/project/al-mitchell-shelte - list of Lookout shelters. They have 341 beds in nine shelters that serve Vancouver (both the Downtown Eastside and Central Vancouver), Surrey, the North Shore, Abbotsford and New Westminster. Pet friendly, secure storage for belongings, 3 meals a day.
https://www.thekettle.ca/homeless-outreach-program The Kettle’s Homeless Outreach Program (HOP) is open to anyone who is experiencing homelessness, or is at risk of homelessness. They help people to address immediate physical and safety needs by providing food and water, warm clothing, undergarments, shoes, and outdoor living supplies. Provides Assistance with BC Housing applications and Income Assistance and Referrals to Kettle services and outside services
Location: 1725 Venables Street, Second floor, Vancouver, BC V5L 2H3 Hours: Monday-Thursday 9:30am to 2:30pm; Closed 12pm-1pm daily for lunch Phone: 604-251-5275 Ext. 2
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MEALS
- The Door Is Open is a drop-in ministry that provides food, clothing, counselling, shelter services and referrals, and a warm and safe environment.
https://www.thedoorisopen.ca 255 Dunlevy Avenue, Vancouver, BC (604) 669-0498
Meal Schedule
Monday 11:00 am Lunch Tuesday 11:00 am Lunch Wednesday 8:30am Women's Breakfast 11:30 am Women's Lunch Thursday 11:00 am Lunch Friday 11:00 am Lunch Saturday 11:00 am Lunch
- Lookout Society's Powell St. Getaway - 1 main meal plus Snacks daily. 528 Powell Street Vancouver. Daily at 10:30am, 12:30pm, 2pm, 4pm & 6:30pm. Serving 10 people at a time during COVID.
- The kettle society meal program - 1725 Venables Street. meal program serves a hot lunch, snacks, fruit, tea, and coffee daily. They also have a health clinic on second floor and have hot showers, laundry etc. https://www.thekettle.ca/community-services
***You can also go to any Sikh temple and you can have meals there. You have to cover your head (scarves are provided) and most require you to remove your shoes. Just do not be under the influence on premises.
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2023.03.25 12:52 Bragior Civ of the Week: Australia (2023-03-25)
Navigation
Check the Wiki for the full list of Civ of the Week Discussion Threads.
Australia
- Required DLC: Australia Civilization & Scenario Pack
Unique Ability
Land Down Under
- Cities founded on coasts gain +3 Housing
- Building pastures expands the border to adjacent land (culture bombing)
- Holy Sites, Campuses, Theater Squares and Commercial Hubs gain additional yields depending on appeal:
- +1 yield in tiles with Charming appeal
- +3 yields in tiles with Breathtaking appeal
Starting Bias: Coast (Tier 2); Pasture resources (Tier 5)
Unique Unit
Digger
- Basic Attributes
- Unit type: Melee
- Requirement: Replaceable Parts tech
- Replaces: Infantry
- Cost
- 430 Production cost (Standard Speed)
- Maintenance
- Base Stats
- 78 Combat Strength
- 2 Movement
- 2 Sight Range
- Bonus Stats
- +5 Combat Strength against anti-cavalry units
- Unique Attributes
- +10 Combat Strength when fighting on coastal tiles
- +5 Combat Strength when outside of Australian territory
- Differences from Replaced Unit
- No strategic resource requirement
- +3 Combat Strength
- Unique attributes
Unique Infrastructure
Outback Station
- Basic Attributes
- Infrastructure type: Improvement
- Requirement: Guilds civic
- Base Effects
- +1 Food
- +1 Production
- +0.5 Housing
- Adjacency Bonuses
- +1 Food from every adjacent Pasture
- Upgrades
- Provides +1 Production to every adjacent Pasture upon researching Steam Power tech
- +1 Production from every 2 adjacent Outback Stations upon researching Steam Power tech
- +1 Food from every 2 adjacent Outback Stations upon researching Rapid Deployment civic
- Restrictions
- Must be built on flat Grassland, Plains, Desert, or Desert Hills tiles
Leader: John Curtin
Leader Ability
Citadel of Civilization
- +100% Production if they have received a declaration of war in the past 10 turns
- +100% Production if they have liberated a city within a certain number of turns:
- (Base game, R&F) Within 20 turns
- (GS) Within 10 turns
Agenda
Perpetually on Guard
- Likes civilizations that liberate cities
- Dislikes civilizations at war that are occupying enemy cities
Civilization-related Achievements
- A Smashing Victory — Win a regular game as John Curtin
- Wood for Sheep — As Australia, build a Pasture over Sheep and steal an adjacent player's Lumber Mill
Useful Topics for Discussion
- What do you like or dislike about this civilization?
- How easy or difficult is this civ to use for new players?
- What are the victory paths you can go for with this civ?
- What are your assessments regarding the civ's abilities?
- How well do they synergize with each other?
- How well do they compare to other similar civ abilities, if any?
- Do you often use their unique units and infrastructure?
- Can this civ be played tall or should it always go wide?
- What map types, game mode, or setting does this civ shine in?
- What synergizes well with this civ? You may include the following:
- Terrain, resources and natural wonders
- World wonders
- Government type, legacy bonuses and policies
- City-state type and suzerain bonuses
- Governors
- Great people
- Secret societies
- Heroes & legends
- Corporations
- Have the civ's general strategy changed since the latest update(s)?
- How do you deal against this civ if controlled by the player or the AI?
- Are there any mods that can make playing this civ more interesting?
- Do you have any stories regarding this civ that you would like to share?
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2023.03.25 12:52 Mean-Doughnut9577 AITA for saving a childs life?
Pls bare in mind English isn't my first language , and i don't live in the US. Also to protect my identity, i will be giving false names i don't want my family and neighbourhood seeing this!
Hi guys! So i (56M) (6'7, millionare, grown up, owns 7 businesses) I'll call myself Brad pitt. , was in my 7 bedroom mansion (Located in 710 E Commercial St, Los Angeles, CA 90012, United States) with my GF, (20F) (5'5, Perky A cups, Big round booty) we'll call her Ericka Ratjoskia. we were celebrating our 8th year anniversary, and while we were having sexual contact involving the insertion of my erect 9inch cock. I randomly hear a scream. At first i thought it was our dog Baxter (4M) who occasionally likes to lick our feet while we're doing the dirty. But it wasn't. It was a dirty little snotty cumpet disgusting child who we'll Jackson Micheal (6M), now at first i tried to ignore his cries for help, as i believe all children are disgusting and should die. But the loud noise was really putting me off giving my GF, Ella Rawking a good plowing. So i get up and see what's happening, now his mother (76F) (Obese, bad skin, smells bad, single, pregnant, has a disability, and is transgender) who we will call Diana Ross, was saying that her cumpet was choking on a grape (serves him right, abusing his child privileges and thinking he has a right to eat.) I sighed, and decided to use my Military avengers Marines FBI MI6 Justice league background to use and perform cpr on him, so i can get back to plowing my GF Elisa Redworka. Suddenly, as i'm saving the little bastards life, i noticed a chain with a mini jesus fell out of his pocket. I, as a strong believing atheist and occasional redditor, have 0 respect for losers who believe in skydaddy. I believe christianity is an oppressive cult that has 0 respect for womens, religion is a scaretact used to kill and strip people out of their basic rights and freedom. So while i'm debating what to do next, my GF Emily Ratajkowski tells me to hurry up. I yell at her to "shut up silly bitch", Now i'd call myself a rather accepting person. I do not discriminate. I accept all nationalities. (Unless your a Jew, Russian, Korean,Indian, Pakistani, Chinese, Polish, Nigerian, Mexican, Lebanese, Muslim, Canadian, Catholic, Irish, Vietnamese, Jamaican, German Mongolian,Cat,rabbit)
So long story, i end up choking the kid to death as i simply do not want skydaddy worshippers on this block.
Now his mother, my family, his family, my dead relatives, his dead soul, my neighbours, my neighbours cat, are all blowing up my phone.
AITA?
INFO: we're all on the Keto diet if that matters.
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2023.03.25 12:52 LongjumpingGap1636 you must make it happen ..
this decades long journey through this life of mine has been quite the ride .. too many zillions of things to share that made my life what it has been / is / will be to mention here however there is ONE common thread which has followed me since forever: the quest for knowledge, the insatiable thirst for the truth
not quite sure why that was the first of so many epiphanies I was to experience: at 15y old, I awakened one day and had the deep understanding that basically everything I've been told up to that point was a big fat lie or at the least, was a massive dump of half truths, folklore, ignorance and downright misinformation based solely on the ridiculous archaic philosophical reasoning of 'that's the way we've always done it'
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I'm not saying that the education, social protocols, customs from the region where I grew up were intentionally malicious; doubt that .. it's as simple as the elders (parents, grandparents, teachers etc) all just 'did as they were told'
now, this actual form we call the human being ... the physical biological entity created with blood, bones, muscles ... which also contains the entire universe living beautifully within the cellular walls of the self ~ possesses far more talents and gifts than anyone has been lead to believe
and if anyone DID challenge why we genuinely encouraged jealousy and competition, and yet never encourage innovation .. why we hide the truth, lie about history, god, food and science .. or why we never properly educate our youth ~ if they challenged, they were executed 😔
I M H O: a large component of the genetic manipulations, which have occurred countless times over the millennia, were the limitations of certain functions of both the physical human structure and the spiritual, more emotional and intellectual energy ~ consciousness ~ itself: in other words, that the human is predestined to take the lower path, to be easily manipulated; that they lack the ability to fully grasp consciousness, even on the most basic level, and to effectively deconstruct any obvious attempts to render submissive their own universal gifts of telepathy, astral projection, time travel, telekinesis .. is undeniable proof we have been compromised and continue to be compromised
both by those not of this planet and especially, by other humans who have succumbed to the worst of all delusions ever .... the false promise of power by the ego
why? I have no idea .. makes zero sense to have a planet full of ignorant, emotionally unstable souls
OPEN YOUR OWN EYES .. those who do will progress forward .. those who don't, won't
I am in completion phase and am thrilled .. and content AF
think about this and reply .. I always love questions, comments, alternative points of view and tidbits of interest from anothers perspective
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Memory transcript: Tarlim, Venlil civilian. Date: [Standardized human time] September 2nd, 2136 I awoke in darkness.
Strange. Why haven’t my blinds opened yet? I shook my head and gave a yawn as my mind caught up with itself. I could barely see my finger in front of my eyes. I reach my foot out to turn off the fan proactively, but my paw only manages to swat the air.
What? Wait… My mind, jarred by the odd circumstances, finally relayed my current whereabouts to me. I’m not in my room or on a train. I’m in Jacob’s room!
Those blackout curtains work great! Though, they don’t have the option to automatically open.
“Hmgh,” I hear a mumble down by my tail, “muh huh?” A feminine mumble!
My memory rushes back in full. I helped Sharnet calm down yesterday. Jacob and I talked for about a quarter of a claw, or an “hour” in his time. By the end, I had found myself yawning. The train had basically come in during the end of Sharnet and I’s wake cycle, and our bodies were telling us it was time to sleep. I had wanted to stay awake and talk, but he noticed and basically demanded I get some sleep. “We will have plenty of time to visit on the ride over and at Dawn Creek,” he had justified. Then he offered both me and Sharnet his bed.
I tried to object, but he wouldn’t hear of it. Said there were plenty of places he could “crash for the night” as he closed the curtains. Kept saying it was the least he could do. I wish I would have argued more, but as soon as he showed me the light switch, the darkness of the room made me dead on my feet.
Those instincts hit HARD. He then just wished me a good night and stepped out of the room.
I had to hurry to remove my braces before I completely passed out.
If I remember correctly… I don’t. Oh well. “Sharnet?”
I felt her jolt against my legs. She had basically claimed my tail as a pillow when we crawled into the bed last night. I bet she’s momentarily forgotten our position as well. “Wha! Who, where…?” I heard the flap of her ears as she shook her head. “Right. Hey Tarlim.”
“Hey,” I responded. “Could you get the lights or curtains? I can’t find my braces.”
A grunt of agreement sounded, I felt weight disappear from my tail, and then I heard the sound of claws on wooden flooring. With a rustle, the curtains opened and light flooded into the room. I had to squint to let my eyes adjust, but soon I was finally able to see where I left my braces.
There they were, lain haphazardly in the middle of the room. Must have accidentally tossed them farther than I meant.
Just… barely out of reach. Sharnet saw me reaching and stepped towards them? What is- she picked them up and handed them to me! I… I hadn’t even thought to ask!
“Th-thank you,” I stammered before moving to place them on my legs. Sharnet watched silently as they self-tightened against my legs. Once they were done, I stood up from the bed, not a bit of pain in my joints.
“So…” Sharnet said with a yawn, “what now?”
“Now,” I responded, striding to the corner that we had left our packs, “is first-claw grooming.” Opening my pack, I pulled out my trusty brush.
“Oh!” Sharnet exclaimed, before she began to fidget. “I, um… I don’t have one. I just used the brushes they provided on the train.”
“That’s-
nngh-okay,” I responded, removing a particularly stubborn tangle in my head fur, “I can help you groom.”
“Really?” She raised her ears in surprise. “You… you would groom me?”
“Of course!” I responded, removing some lint from my chest. “Miss Paly taught me how to do a ‘Quick and Proper’ grooming, as she calls it. Get out the lint and tangles, three times over before moving, long smooth movements, and there we go!” I posed myself to show I had made my torso fur properly flow.
“Wow.” Sharnet looked at me impressed. “Are you… and are you okay with grooming me?”
“Why, yes!” I swung my tail over to more easily brush its tip poff. “It would be rude not to. Isn’t that like what your parents taught you?”
Sharnet said nothing for a while as I continued to brush my tail. “They taught me, but I never really had anyone to go through with it,” she finally said. “I had always been moving after I moved out. Always after information for an article. I… I only ever used salons or combed myself.”
“Well then, I suppose this will be new for the both of us.” I waved my tail, feeling the swish of my smooth fur. “Even when Madam Pala was teaching me, she still cared for her own fur.” I sat down so I was more on her level. “So please forgive me if I’m a bit awkward. I will try my best.”
I held out my brush as Sharnet stared at me. She gripped the fur against her legs.
Anxious. Did I misread the situation? Am I overstepping? Sharnet soon shook her head with a huff and stepped forward, turning her back to face me. “Could you… start with the back?”
I felt my tail wag. “Certainly.”
I set the brush against her neck and drug it down til I reached her tail. I could see her muscles tense beneath her fur, but by my second pass she had begun to relax. By the time I had reached her snow-touched shoulders, I heard a purr. She even started turning so I could brush the rest of her. This… this was good. Like I was part of a herd. A small herd, but a herd nonetheless.
As I was getting the final tangle out of her tail, I heard the sound of someone tapping against wood. I flicked my ears to listen.
What was that? The tapping came again, but this time I noticed it came from the door. Curiosity got to me, and since I was done with her back, I handed Sharnet my brush. “I think I’m done, but you can detail to your preference.”
“Oh!” She took my brush in her hand, seemingly disappointed that our grooming session was done. She gave a light bow. “Thank you for that.”
I signaled her “your welcome” with my tail and strode over to the door. The tapping began a third time as I reached down and swung it open. A blue spaceman stood with his arm stretched out, explaining the source of the sound.
“Ah, Howdy!” Jacob’s speaker sounded, “ Ah know y’all don’t need as much sleep as us, so ah hope ah didn’t keep y’all waiting!”
I flicked my ears in greeting. “no, actually, we only recently woke up. How long were we asleep?”
“Way-all,” he drawled, placing his glove against the chin of his helmet, “ah only just got myself so… about seven hours… a claw and three quarters?”
My ears flew up in surprise, and I heard Sharnet give a stutter of confusion.
We slept that much? “I guess y’all slept in,” Jacob commented, “well ah was just wanting to let y’all know that breakfas-ah, “first-meal” is being served in the cafeteria! Most people have already headed down. Some human recipes, but everything is Venlil-safe! And ah do mean
everything! Y’all want to come?”
I wagged my tail delightedly. “Absolutely! One sec first.” I left the door open as I strode over to my pack and pulled out my pill bottles.
Heart strengthener, hormone blocker, painkillers! Just toss in the mouth and swallow.
“Tarlim,” Sharnet whispered to me, “are you sure about that? I mean, I’m able to handle just being around a human, but…” She looked back towards the door and pulled my head down to her level, which I allowed. She spoke in barely a whisper.
“This would be them eating! What if they can’t resist…you know?” I thought about her words. This would be a dangerous situation according to what most believe. But those “most” were following the words of people that allowed the correctional facility to exist. They were wrong about me, so I had complete confidence they were wrong about the humans, too.
“Remember Kaeden?” I whispered, “I don’t know if you noticed, but when he came out of the room, he had his mouth uncovered. You saw, right?”
She was shaking, but she affirmed with a flick of her ears.
I returned the gesture. “And his companions showed no signs of fear. Even from someone who considered themselves a monster.”
Sharnet lowered her ears in slight shame, so I allowed my tail to rest against her back. I thought back to my first meeting with Jacob, and I suddenly realized something.
A bit strange, but it just might work! I patted Sharnet’s back with my tail, prompting her to look up at me. “Here, let me show you something.”
I opened my mouth slack-jawed, letting it hang open in front of Sharnet. As expected, she looked at me confusedly. “Why are you opening your mouth at me?”
I attempted to speak mostly without the use of my teeth, which was harder than I had anticipated, so I just closed my mouth and pointed to my teeth. “My teeth are bigger than his! What can he do that I can’t?”
I watched her face. For a moment, I was afraid it wouldn’t work, or even backfire as she looked even more confused. After a moment, though, it seemed to click in her head. Her ears rose again in realization. “You…You’re right.” She sounded almost in awe at the revelation. “Kaeden’s teeth were pretty small, yeah! I doubt they could even break skin!”
I brushed my tail against her back in confidence, “And you heard his companions. They both fought him and held their own! You should be able to…” I trailed off as her expression fell again.
Right, loaded topic. Dumb brain. I shook my head and restarted from the top.
“If anything happens,” I said, “I promise I will stop them. You have my word, Sharnet. You’re safe here with me around.”
I looked at her, and for a brief moment, I thought I saw a hint of orange appear in her ears. “Th-thank you. I… I think I can go.”
I wagged my tail at her enthusiastically. “I knew you would.” I stood up from the bed. “I think that we’ve kept Jacob waiting long enough.”
With a wave of her tail, Sharnet moved to grab her belt pack and holopad. Once it was secure, we ducked out of the room. Jacob clapped his hands together. “Right then! Ah’ll lead y’all to the cafe!”
Apparently, it was on the bottom floor. I was about to enter the stairwell, but Jacob put a damper in those plans as he guided me to the elevator. I was surprised to find that I could technically fit inside with only a crouch instead of the borderline acrobatics I usually have to do.
The cafeteria was to the side of the lobby. Jacob led us through the door and I stood to get a look. It was rather sizable. Humans and Venlil were sitting at tables together, there was a small line at a food counter and… and…
What in the name of the Tenants is that sun-blessed smell? I took a scenting breath, and there it was again. Salty, earthy, some cut grass, and a slight burn that seemed only to enhance the whole profile. Jacob was saying something, but I didn’t hear him as I strode forward, following the wonderful smell. It came from the counter. The people in the line parted as I strode forward.
Where was it coming from? This? This? No… THIS… Before me was a platter consisting of 6 large green leaves holding a mixture of brown cubes and small pieces of white grains inside them. The server was a human wearing a white apron pelt, and they looked up at me as I practically drooled over the food. “Uh… can I help you?”
“What,” I pointed to the food, “are those things?”
The server looked between me and the unknown meal, thinking on what to say. “It’s… i-it’s tofu and rice on a lettuce leaf. Do you… want one?”
I wagged my tail before remembering who I was speaking to. “Yes. Very much, please. As soon as possible.”
One of the others in the line passed over a plate, and the server slid one of the leaves onto it. He added a spoon and handed it to me apprehensively. “Is there, uh, anything else I can get you…sir?”
I didn’t answer as I grabbed the plate. I scooped up a spoonful of the sticky grains and one of the cubes and, after only a moment of hesitation, slid it into my mouth.
Salty. Savory. Toothsome. Firm enough against my teeth, but not so firm as to crunch. Something in this sung sweet songs to my tongue. Satisfying a craving I barely knew I had. Something beyond my craving for Stringfruit. Like part of me declared that I had never even eaten before now. I placed the plate onto the platter.
“Sir,” the server spoke, “if it’s not too your liking you-”
He cut himself off as I picked up the platter. I needed it.
This was mine now. I felt everyone starting at me, but I didn’t care. I
couldn’t care. There was an empty four-seat table nearby that had the chairs detached, so I pulled one out with my food and sat down to feast.
“Okay,” I heard Jacob speak before I could properly dig in, “so you were definitely hungry.”
I looked at him and Sharnet. His eyes were hidden, but Sharnet’s expression held enough surprise for the both of them. Sharnet.
She must know this ecstasy. I slid the one I had already started off the plate and replaced it with a fresh leaf and held it out to her. “Eat,” I practically demanded. She was taken aback by the forcefulness of it, but gingerly took the delicacy from my hand. With a satisfied huff, I picked up a full leaf from the platter and began to imitate a vacuum.
Oh, Glory! What wonders the humans could make! If I were to be served such a meal every day, I would kiss them on the mouth, predator or not! I had just finished my third leaf when the world once more came into focus around me. Jacob had gotten some kind of whiteish slurry and sat across from me with his helmet removed, a visor mask obscuring his eyes. Sharnet was next to me mostly staring at me in awe, having only eaten about half of her own portion.
But what caught my attention the most was the crowd around our table. A herd of no less than thirty humans and Venlil combined stared at me from around our table. The voice in the back of my mind told me I should be scared or nervous, but it was promptly silenced by another bite of tofu.
“Excuse me,” I heard a human step forward. He was male, his skin as dark as Noah’s appeared in the images. “Are you some kind of… Venbig?”
I swallowed my mouthful. “I’m sensing a pattern with that joke. But I assure you all that I am pure Venlil.”
The Venlil in the crowd seemed to relax at that assurance. Even though they were obviously comfortable being near humans, my presence still seemed to make them nervous.
Wait, did THEY think I wasn’t a Venlil? Distracting me from the sobering thought, a human with multiple pigments on his face stepped forward. “How are you so big? I mean, you’re huge!”
“It’s a condition,” I explained as I took another bite of tofu. “Marklen-Jauntes Syndrome. It’s very rare, but basically I never stopped growing.”
“Ah’m curious,” Jacob spoke, swallowing some of his white paste. “Bout how rare? It’s got a name an’ everything, so there’s musta been more like you.”
I wagged my tail. “From what I remember, recorded history shows about 301 individuals. That’s including myself.”
“What about now?” The dark skinned human asked. “Are there any others like you alive?”
“Yes, actually.” I moved to grab my pad, but I felt nothing on my shoulder. I remembered I had left it upstairs in my pack. “Well, I was going to show you, but I guess you’ll have to look it up. There is this white and tan woman somewhere on the leeward side of the planet towards the night. I haven’t met her, but if I remember correctly, I think she’d come up to my chin.” I tapped my snout. “I think her name was…”
“Lylina” I heard Sharnet say next to me, looking at her holonote. “That’s her name, Lylina. Says here that she lives near a small fruit town.”
“That’s her,” I swayed my tail towards Sharnet. “I got a no-reply message from her a year or so back with a well-wish inside. She’s the only other one with my condition that I personally know of.”
“And she only comes up to your chin?” A light-skinned man spoke. “You must be the tallest Venlil to ever exist!”
“Third, actually.” I finished another leaf’s worth of rice and tofu. “The tallest lived about 50 years ago. I’m about… four centimeters shorter than him.”
“The largest alive still ain’t no small feat, Tarlim!” Jacob praised.
“Yeah,” a man with blood-colored hair agreed, walking forward with a human data pad in their hands, “you must be famous! Can I get a picture?”
Famous. The translator gave it a positive meaning. I saw several other humans pulling out their small data pads and beginning to ask if they could get a photo as well. Even… even a couple Venlil did the same!
They… wanted to be around me! They wanted me to be in a herd! I wagged my tail and stood while I flicked my ears in a gesture of acceptance. The Venlil in the crowd caught on and started forwards, followed closely behind by their human partners. I was soon inundated with camera flashes and the sounds of lively conversation around me. These people didn’t cower away in fear or keep their distance. They were pressed against my fur, taking pictures with me and their human partners. Talking to me and answering in return! One kind Venlil even complimented me on my fur! It felt completely unreal, a dream made real!
If I am dreaming now, I don’t ever want to wake up! It took time, but all too soon I was posing for the last group. The humans had discovered that I could lift them onto my shoulders, so two asked me to do so at the same time. It wasn’t hard, and the crowd cheered my strength. After their pictures were done, I looked around to find my companions. I saw Jacob talking to a few humans. My ears caught him saying that his suit was a great idea and easier to wear than those masks. A couple touched their own visors as he showed off his helmet.
So glad he’s having fun. After a short glance through the crowd, I spied Sharnet talking to a pair of gray Venlil with her holonote held out. Her body language screamed nervousness.
What were they talking about? Once I said my last good biddings, I shuffled closer to them so as not to disturb them.
As much as I can, anyways. “Yeah,” a gray male commented, “I can honestly say that this program has been an overall success. Empathy tests passing, the humans happily eat plants, anyone who denies those facts would have to be as bad as that captain who tortured Marcel and Slanek!”
Torture? That caused my ears to perk. “Hey, sorry to interrupt,” I strode over to them, “but did you say someone was tortured?”
The gray Venlil turned their attention towards me, and immediately I saw the telltale signs of fear that I’ve grown accustomed to. It’s lesser, but still there nevertheless.
Guess he’s not in the exchange program. Must be an employee. “O-Oh, uh, you didn’t hear?”
I signed a no with my tail. His ears fell as he continued. “Marcel and Slanek had disappeared after the Arxur raid. They were thought dead like so many others, but it turned out that they got captured by a Federation ship! They held Marcel and brutally tortured him! Clawing at his eyes, starving him, beating him, they even threw Slanek in the same room with the full intent of watching him being eaten! And when he obviously wasn’t, the Gojid captain tried to shoot Marcel! The only reason they survived was because a Kholshian stood up to their captain and helped the two escape!”
“And thank god for them!” I heard Jacob speak behind me. He must have seen us talking and decided to come over. “Ah hope more people in your Federation act like that Kholshian than the Gojid! He ought to be a hero to his race!”
“I know!” The Venlil was quick to agree.
Definitely used to humans. Just not me. “Can you believe it? How could someone just hold someone in one place to torture for their own amusement?”
I felt my expression fall.
I can believe it very easily. “Y-yes.” Sharnet stammered, gripping the fur on his legs, “It is horrible what some people can do.” She shook herself and took a more professional stance. “Do you mind if I quote you on that?”
“Sure, that’s fine with me.” He turned to his grey female companion, “what about you?”
The woman hadn’t said anything in the portion of conversation I had been present for. She had been staring at Sharnet with a contemplative look on her ears. “Have we met before?”
Sharnet flicked her ears in confusion. “I don’t… think so?”
“I’m sure we have. Those white spots on your head. I’ve seen them before…” the woman’s eyes widened in realization, “I loaded you onto the outgoing shuttle! What are you doing here? You were kicked out and sent to resocialization!”
Sharnet visibly shrunk at the accusation. “I, uh, I just…”
“Did you ditch your officers?” The woman continued, “they were supposed to collect you at Wayward Prime!”
Sharnet continued to stutter as my mind went back to the spaceport. Some officers near the entrance were asking if I caused a stampede, and then Sharnet and I walked out the building in a herd.
Those officers had gotten there faster than they should. “That, uh,” I spoke up, “that might have been partially my fault.”
“That doesn’t matter!” The woman exclaimed, pointing at Sharnet, “You are supposed to be with resocialization!” She pulled out a holonote from her own belt pack, “I’m calling security! You shouldn’t have been allowed in here in the first place!”
I looked down at Sharnet. She was breathing heavily and her eyes were darting all over the room. Her focus began to shift to a window facing outside. Tail twitching. Legs tense. The gray woman was calling in security, and Sharnet was...
She was going to try and run! With barely a thought, I reached down and picked her up. She jolted around in my arms and cried in surprise, but fell silent as I pulled her to my chest in a hug. “It’s okay,” I whispered in her ears, “you don’t need to run. I’m here. Focus... Breathe... Calm…”
As the seconds passed, her breathing slowly settled into a steady rhythm alongside my mantra as I repeated it back to her. Thankfully, my comforts seemed to be enough to stun the gray-furred woman into not completing her dial.
I didn’t feel like having Sharnet escorted out in cuffs. “You don’t need to call that, ma’am. I’ll escort her out myself. We were just about to leave anyway.”
Jacob leaned back in surprise. “We are?”
I swayed my tail stiffly at him. “Yes. Since we slept for seven hours, you and I will need to head out soon to catch the next train to transfer back to Dawn Creek.”
“Dah!” Jacob exclaimed, “What da hail we waitin’ fer? C’mon!” He dashed right past the female guard heading out of the cafeteria.
I set Sharnet back on the ground and made to follow him.
Wait. One last thing. I turned back and waved to the crowd. “It was great meeting all of… Y’all! I hope your time here on our planet is a good one!” I received a few cheers from the crowd, several giving joyful cries of “see ya Venbig!” I wagged my tail at the widespread acceptance and ducked out the door behind Sharnet and Jacob.
“Thank you for that,” Sharnet whispered, “again.”
I swayed my tail to signal that it was no bother. “I meant what I said, Sharnet. ‘If anything happens, I would stop them.’” I scratched an itch under my fur to give her a chance to respond. She didn't. I sighed.
No avoiding it, I suppose. “So, you were supposed to meet some officers when you landed?”
Her ears pressed against her head as we all huddled into the elevator again. “I never got charged, but they did ordain that I had to go through at least 40 paws of resocialization.”
Jacob seemed to count something on his fingers before he tensed with realization. “Why, that’s about a month! S’pose it’s better than gettin’ charged for aggravated assault, though. What does… ‘resocialization’ entail?”
“I have to spend a set amount of time each paw with a herd chosen for me by the government. I’ll have to report to them every paw. Normally I could register my own herd, but my job sent me wandering so often that I never really…joined one.”
“Way-ell,” Jacob drawled, “what about your parents?”
She gave a short laugh. “It was deemed that direct family might reinforce certain undesirable behaviors rather than correct them. The herds are supposed to have at least some initial level of separation so that everyone actually socializes.”
I noticed a slight bitterness in her words.
Something was being left unsaid. Possibly directed towards her parents, but whatever it was, she wasn’t ready to say.
The elevator opened onto the fifth floor and we stepped out to head back to the room. Jacob took the lead again as I talked to Sharnet. “I know you will be able to pass,” I told her as we walked. “I am, and always will be, blessed to have met you.”
Her tail sagged at my words. “You have done so much for me, Tarlim,” she whispered.
We reached the room to see Jacob come out of the bathroom with a small box. He then pulled a large, roughly cylindrical bag out from under the bed and started going through it. He nodded in approval before placing the box inside the bag and hefting it onto his shoulder. “Well, I’m all ready to go! Never unpacked, so it’s all still in here!”
I wagged my tail as I strode over to my shoulder pack. I easily slung it onto my back and faced my companions. “We can drop Sharnet off with the officers and then walk to the station.” I pulled out my pad and opened the train schedule. As I ducked out of the room. “Our train doesn’t depart for a bit, so we should have time for the trip.”
I looked back to see Jacob slip his other arm into a second sling and pull the bag so it balanced completely against his back. “Sounds like a plan,” he grunted at his first step. “Let’s get moving!”
Closing the door one last time, we headed back to the elevator for our final trip back down. “Tarlim?” Sharnet brushed her tail against my leg to get my attention. “You really have done so much for me. I just want you to know, when we next meet, I hope to have done something for you.”
I flicked my tail in appreciation at those words. Before we split for good, I decided that I should send her off with a proper goodbye hug. I knelt down and pulled her close as we entered the elevator. She purred in my arms.
Even if we never met again, I would never regret this time we three spent together. “Wait a minute!” Jacob broke the moment as the doors closed, “did you say we’re
walkin’!?”
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2023.03.25 12:52 Low_Ring_2369 Should I grow up this brachiosaurus or sell it?
2023.03.25 12:52 lovelyjess143 Seems accurate lol
2023.03.25 12:51 LongjumpingGap1636 you must make it happen ..
this decades long journey through this life of mine has been quite the ride 🥳 too many zillions of things to share that made my life what it has been / is / will be to mention here however there is ONE common thread which has followed me since forever: the quest for knowledge, the insatiable thirst for the truth
not quite sure why that was the first of so many epiphanies I was to experience: at 15y old, I awakened one day and had the deep understanding that basically everything I've been told up to that point was a big fat lie 😂 or at the least, was a massive dump of half truths, folklore, ignorance and downright misinformation based solely on the ridiculous archaic philosophical reasoning of 'that's the way we've always done it'
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I'm not saying that the education, social protocols, customs from the region where I grew up were intentionally malicious; doubt that .. it's as simple as the elders (parents, grandparents, teachers etc) all just 'did as they were told'
now, this actual form we call the human being ... the physical biological entity created with blood, bones, muscles ... which also contains the entire universe living beautifully within the cellular walls of the self ~ possesses far more talents and gifts than anyone has been lead to believe
and if anyone DID challenge why we genuinely encouraged jealousy and competition, and yet never encourage innovation .. why we hide the truth, lie about history, god, food and science .. or why we never properly educate our youth ~ if they challenged, they were executed 😔
I M H O: a large component of the genetic manipulations, which have occurred countless times over the millennia, were the limitations of certain functions of both the physical human structure and the spiritual, more emotional and intellectual energy ~ consciousness ~ itself: in other words, that the human is predestined to take the lower path, to be easily manipulated; that they lack the ability to fully grasp consciousness, even on the most basic level, and to effectively deconstruct any obvious attempts to render submissive their own universal gifts of telepathy, astral projection, time travel, telekinesis .. is undeniable proof we have been compromised and continue to be compromised
both by those not of this planet and especially, by other humans who have succumbed to the worst of all delusions ever .... the false promise of power by the ego
why? I have no idea .. makes zero sense to have a planet full of ignorant, emotionally unstable souls 😐
OPEN YOUR OWN EYES .. those who do will progress forward .. those who don't, won't
I am in completion phase and am thrilled .. and content AF 🥰
think about this and reply .. I always love questions, comments, alternative points of view and tidbits of interest from anothers perspective 🕊️✨🪐💋💥
have a beautiful day 🦋
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2023.03.25 12:51 LongjumpingGap1636 you must make it happen ..
this decades long journey through this life of mine has been quite the ride 🥳 too many zillions of things to share that made my life what it has been / is / will be to mention here however there is ONE common thread which has followed me since forever: the quest for knowledge, the insatiable thirst for the truth
not quite sure why that was the first of so many epiphanies I was to experience: at 15y old, I awakened one day and had the deep understanding that basically everything I've been told up to that point was a big fat lie 😂 or at the least, was a massive dump of half truths, folklore, ignorance and downright misinformation based solely on the ridiculous archaic philosophical reasoning of 'that's the way we've always done it'
😬
I'm not saying that the education, social protocols, customs from the region where I grew up were intentionally malicious; doubt that .. it's as simple as the elders (parents, grandparents, teachers etc) all just 'did as they were told'
now, this actual form we call the human being ... the physical biological entity created with blood, bones, muscles ... which also contains the entire universe living beautifully within the cellular walls of the self ~ possesses far more talents and gifts than anyone has been lead to believe
and if anyone DID challenge why we genuinely encouraged jealousy and competition, and yet never encourage innovation .. why we hide the truth, lie about history, god, food and science .. or why we never properly educate our youth ~ if they challenged, they were executed 😔
I M H O: a large component of the genetic manipulations, which have occurred countless times over the millennia, were the limitations of certain functions of both the physical human structure and the spiritual, more emotional and intellectual energy ~ consciousness ~ itself: in other words, that the human is predestined to take the lower path, to be easily manipulated; that they lack the ability to fully grasp consciousness, even on the most basic level, and to effectively deconstruct any obvious attempts to render submissive their own universal gifts of telepathy, astral projection, time travel, telekinesis .. is undeniable proof we have been compromised and continue to be compromised
both by those not of this planet and especially, by other humans who have succumbed to the worst of all delusions ever .... the false promise of power by the ego
why? I have no idea .. makes zero sense to have a planet full of ignorant, emotionally unstable souls 😐
OPEN YOUR OWN EYES .. those who do will progress forward .. those who don't, won't
I am in completion phase and am thrilled .. and content AF 🥰
think about this and reply .. I always love questions, comments, alternative points of view and tidbits of interest from anothers perspective 🕊️✨🪐💋💥
have a beautiful day 🦋
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2023.03.25 12:50 LongjumpingGap1636 you must make it happen ..
this decades long journey through this life of mine has been quite the ride 🥳 too many zillions of things to share that made my life what it has been / is / will be to mention here however there is ONE common thread which has followed me since forever: the quest for knowledge, the insatiable thirst for the truth
not quite sure why that was the first of so many epiphanies I was to experience: at 15y old, I awakened one day and had the deep understanding that basically everything I've been told up to that point was a big fat lie 😂 or at the least, was a massive dump of half truths, folklore, ignorance and downright misinformation based solely on the ridiculous archaic philosophical reasoning of 'that's the way we've always done it'
😬
I'm not saying that the education, social protocols, customs from the region where I grew up were intentionally malicious; doubt that .. it's as simple as the elders (parents, grandparents, teachers etc) all just 'did as they were told'
now, this actual form we call the human being ... the physical biological entity created with blood, bones, muscles ... which also contains the entire universe living beautifully within the cellular walls of the self ~ possesses far more talents and gifts than anyone has been lead to believe
and if anyone DID challenge why we genuinely encouraged jealousy and competition, and yet never encourage innovation .. why we hide the truth, lie about history, god, food and science .. or why we never properly educate our youth ~ if they challenged, they were executed 😔
I M H O: a large component of the genetic manipulations, which have occurred countless times over the millennia, were the limitations of certain functions of both the physical human structure and the spiritual, more emotional and intellectual energy ~ consciousness ~ itself: in other words, that the human is predestined to take the lower path, to be easily manipulated; that they lack the ability to fully grasp consciousness, even on the most basic level, and to effectively deconstruct any obvious attempts to render submissive their own universal gifts of telepathy, astral projection, time travel, telekinesis .. is undeniable proof we have been compromised and continue to be compromised
both by those not of this planet and especially, by other humans who have succumbed to the worst of all delusions ever .... the false promise of power by the ego
why? I have no idea .. makes zero sense to have a planet full of ignorant, emotionally unstable souls 😐
OPEN YOUR OWN EYES .. those who do will progress forward .. those who don't, won't
I am in completion phase and am thrilled .. and content AF 🥰
think about this and reply .. I always love questions, comments, alternative points of view and tidbits of interest from anothers perspective 🕊️✨🪐💋💥
have a beautiful day 🦋
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