u/Reteller79 — reddlx

Welp, I don’t know at this point then

Yesterday was my first time on a full pill of focalin (had been taking half pills for a week prior to that) and it was really nice I think, was out of the house for a lot longer than I typically was doing things like going to a gun range and cat cafe, and I really enjoyed myself. However, I was told that focalin is one of those meds that can be habit forming, and I was telling a friend about this last night. Well besides saying the text in the meme, they also said something along the lines of “getting out of the house and petting cats sounds like a great habit to have, can you imagine if meth and coke and heroin did that.” So I don’t know, still gonna try and be cautious but sometimes I wonder if I’ll ever know life outside of meds.

u/Reteller79 — 3 days ago

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Simultaneously part of the problem and a victim of it.

Always gotta be reminded that I’m part of the reason why an entire ethnicity of people have to be reminded of what was taken from them (something that nobody else on this side of the world are guilty of since their colonial histories were so much different than ours).

I’m so far removed from my ancestors country of origin I can’t ever go back to whatever country in Europe my ancestors lived in so I can’t just leave and find myself accepted by my “people”, and those same Europeans keep saying shit like “my city is older than your entire country” or “I’m glad Americans don’t consider me white so I don’t have to identify with white Americans”.

Ofc given that I live in the one world power in this part of the globe, I constantly gotta be reminded about how shitty everything we do is, ruining entire societies and cultures all for the sake of made up bullshit, not to mention the constant reminder of how non-white groups get all get damn time. A friend of mine constantly reminds me how stupid my suicidal tendencies/reasons for depression are compared to groups like black people in this country so…

And the cherry on top of it all is that I apparently have the gall to say I’m trans. What a damn joke, spend my entire life doing nothing but letting this shit happen, and then think I’m worthy of any sort of sympathy or respect.

I fucking hate it here. I wish I was born somewhere that I didn’t have to feel like shit being part of. Can’t ever be happy to be part of my community at all.

u/Reteller79 — 4 days ago

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How anti-technology were Sand People in actuality?

(Marking this legends since current canon may have changed it, and when I say sand people I mean specifically tusken raiders, not both them and jawas).

So, from what I remember from the first KOTOR game, the general lore for sand people is that they were once just like any other alien society on tatooine, but then the Rakata came and enslaved them and turned their planet into a wasteland. However, in the mythology of the sand people, they interpreted these events as their ancestors becoming too reliant/decadent on technology and disregarding the nature/land that they lived on, and the ancient builders acted as a form of divine punishment for their decadence. Because of this mythology, they are generally unaccepting of outsider technology due to their association with their mythological history.

However, how true was this anti-technology sentiment across all tribes? In KOTOR the sand people we interact with claim that they use things like moisterizers and other such technology because they were forced to adapt to such technology due to the colonists encroaching on their land and ways of life. So that got me thinking, do we have any cases of sand people tribe being generally ok with outsider technology, or even obsess over it in an obsessive way?

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u/Reteller79 — 7 days ago