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Cake day: July 21st, 2023

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  • I’m not particularly bitter about it, it’s just a fact of life at the moment. What I do take exception to though are people who like to condescendingly suggest that all life’s problems could be solved by just heading to the Caribbean or Europe for a few weeks. If I could afford to just pick up and go wherever whenever I felt like it then most of my issues would already be resolved lol




  • From Wikipedia:

    The English word artichoke was borrowed in the sixteenth century from the northern Italian word articiocco (the standard modern Italian being carciofo). The Italian term was itself borrowed either from Spanish alcarchofa (today usually alcachofa) or directly from the source of the Spanish word—medieval Andalusi Arabic الخرشوفة (al-kharshūfa, including the Arabic definite article al). The Arabic form kharshūfa is still used in Maghrebi Arabic today, while other variants in Arabic include kharshafa, and Modern Standard Arabic khurshūfa. These Arabic forms themselves derive from classical Arabic حرشفة (harshafa) singular word of the plural حراشف (ḥarashef) meaning “scale”. Other languages which derive their word for the artichoke from Arabic include Israeli Hebrew, which has the word חֻרְשָׁף (khursháf). The original Hebrew name (see Hebrew: he:ארטישוק) is קינרס kinars, which is found in the Mishna.



  • Well, it’s pretty clear that this is a way for the DEA to get other people to spread propaganda for them. They know the idea is unpopular so they’re paying children to do their dirty work for them. They know there are at least a million kids on Instagram who will just do this for a free gift card regardless and they’re trying to exploit them.

    Also it absolutely reeks of desperation. They’re trying to force a viral movement in the most inorganic and insincere way possible. It’s like if an unpopular teacher offered to pay her students to go around telling their friends about the benefits of doing extra homework.

    And it’s worth mentioning one more time, they’re exploiting children to spread their lies.