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yeah it's just a weird scenario for me because on paper she's everything I'd want in a friend or partner. same taste in obscure music, art, hobbies, stuff like that. but she's so hypersexual that it makes me uncomfortable. like I have absolutely no problem with sex or talking about it, but within like an hour of meeting her she was telling me about how she gives the best [bleep]s, has no gag reflex, sucked the dick of some 27 year old high school teacher, and a lot more. so it's weird to be around someone who is so bizarrely open about her sex life but has a long distance boyfriend. i don't want to be the bad guy and have her cheat on him with me, but if she just shut the [bleep] up about sex for once then she has potential for being a good friend. whatever. it's not really that big of a deal for me either way because I'm not all that physically attracted to her, so we'll probably just drift away. it'd be easier if she didn't text and snapchat me all the time, but oh well I guess.

Hung out with a girl from Tinder. She said in her bio that she had a boyfriend, and I knew that. She just moved here from the east coast and wanted to find some new friends. She seemed like a really cool person and we had a lot of stuff in common, like music taste and stuff. She really wanted to hang out so we did. She talked about sex A LOT, like everything from past relationships to porn she watches, and kept saying how she missed having sex so much (her boyfriend is back on the east coast) and stuff like that. So basically I'm trying to say that I think she wanted to have sex with me. She seems really clingy and needy, which I kind of like a little bit in girls to a certain degree, but she honestly seems a little bit crazy. Like she already wanted to hang out again tomorrow. She's just really exhausting to be around, like extroverted to the highest degree and it sucks the energy out of me. Basically I don't know what to do here. Like I wouldn't mind being friends with her but she's a lil crazy and I don't really want to be the person she cheats on her long-distance boyfriend with (she's not attractive enough to be worth it lollll). But I feel bad ignoring her. ehhhh

That's debatable.

Washington's big music festival, Sasquatch, has its lineup announced early next month. I've never been, but a couple of my friends want to go so I'd be up for it. It's 4 days long, and the ticket is like $350 + camping, and the whole place apparently gets disgusting after a couple days, but it'd be a pretty unforgettable experience nonetheless so I'd be prepared to pay the cost. Fingers crossed that the lineup is worth the $$$

Not to mention lack of racial diversity.

I find it interesting how so many people here are like 6' and above when that constitutes a minority of the population irl in most countries (inb4 saq starts blabbering about heights in ethiopia or some shit)

my last meal was stale pretzels dipped in microwaved marshmallows so I'd be fine with risking electrocution from the slow cooker in the shower scenario if I had a slow cooker and food to put in it

pee pee

yeeeeep hi elknight/jaerkd00d yeah it's a lot less of a burden to check tif when there's like 1 active thread as opposed to a page full of em like there was around when you left still probably a few familiar faces for you tho

I decided to live a little and I met up with a girl from Tinder that wanted to hang out. She proceeded to smoke a lot of weed, then drove us around in the snow at night and got in a car accident where we drove over the [bleep]in' concrete median/divider thing in the road. Luckily the only real harm done was to the front of her car a bit. Yeah, that was the highlight of the evening. Oh well ????

merry xmas you idiots

Apologies for the drunk TIFing.... That was like embarrassing. That was the worst night of drinking of my life probably. All I'd eaten that day was greasy Mongolian buffet food, but after like 8 hours (when I started drinking) I hadn't eaten anything. Then I drank god knows how much of straight rum. When I got back to my house I was lying in bed and barfed nasty buffet food everywhere like 4 separate times within half an hour and woke up my parents. All my sheets were decimated. Cancelled my morning dentist appointment because the dentist makes me nauseous even when I'm sober, so the fact that I'm still gagging probably wouldn't have ended well for whoever was standing above me. My mom's pissed but my dad's just like "lol." I can't imagine I'll have any desire for rum again any time soon. Or alcohol at all for that matter. Like that just turned me off drinking for a good while.

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Figuring out how to level the playing field of racial and socioeconomic inequality is one of America's biggest present challenges, and it's not something I have all the answers to, nor does anyone else yet really. But increased financial aid for post-secondary education for minorities, certain types of affirmative action policies, and in-school programs like the I one I work with that work with diverse, low income schools to supply information on job skills and scholarships for them for college is a good start. These help to give a social and economic boost to certain demographics that might not otherwise get that helpful extra leverage. And with those policies, the hope is to normalize diversity in traditionally white-dominated areas and ultimately level the playing field.

You managed to miss the main point of my post then. Nowhere am I saying that it's impossible to succeed as a minority or as someone in poverty. Nowhere am I saying that hard work isn't something valuable that anyone could achieve a lot of benefits from. Your family members, as well as countless others have shown that it's very possible to succeed under adverse circumstances. You're kind of inadvertently supporting exactly what I'm saying by showing how hard so many minorities in the US have to work to become successful. Like you said yourself about your own family, they had to take a lot of extra steps and go through a lot of effort to get to where they were. But all that necessary effort isn't shared by the majority of white people in the United States. Why do you think it is that, for example, Hispanic people in the US are so disproportionately represented amongst the rich in the U.S. when compared with white people? If you're asking me at least, it's due to past and present racial separation, oppression, and perpetuation of racial roles. And again, OF COURSE it is still possible to move past these barriers and work hard enough to be successful. But the role of social justice is to help dismantle those barriers and create a level playing field. Take the metaphor of a short one mile foot race. One of the athletes has gotten a head start while the other racers have to stand at the starting line, waiting 30 seconds until they're allowed to start running. Is it possible for these racers to be equal with, or surpass the first runner before getting to the finish line? Sure. Through hard work, training, and determination, they could have a realistic shot at doing just as well or better. But why is all that extra effort necessary? Why should that one runner get that unfair advantage? To me, the idea of social equality is to remove that kind of advantage so that everyone has an equal playing field.

@muggi and Ring, you're both making gross oversimplifications that are essentially the "just pull yourself up by your bootstraps" myth. The idea that racial minorities and people living in poverty can just go ahead and start working towards leading a successful life is a nice idea that completely ignores the reality of most people's situations. I volunteer at what's widely regarded as the most ethnically diverse high school in the country, where about 80% of the students receive free lunch from the government due to the fact that they're below a certain income level. I primarily work with them to help them achieve post-secondary goals, be that a university, community college, technical school, or whatever else. This includes educating them about financial aid, scholarships, proofreading essays, etc. The point of me bringing this up is that these kids lead significantly more difficult lives than you or I, and making claims that they should just go ahead and start working harder/smarter to ultimately achieve equality is about as useful as telling the president to "work harder" to fix the economy. One of the students I work with, who's a girl who moved to the US from the Philippines a few years ago, has just one living parent who's disabled and can't work a job, is attending community college and high school at the same while working part time and playing a sport, has no source of transportation other than the school bus, and is relying on government assistance to do pretty much everything from eating to paying for school stuff. She works harder than I ever have in my life, and is getting better grades than I did in high school. But she herself has told me that she'd have no idea what she'd be planning post-high school if it wasn't for the help of the program I work with. But these sorts of programs are rare, and many students like my mentee can't make use of them because of family issues, needing to work after school to make money for their family, etc. While these problems aren't unique to minorities, they're much more prevalent due to the feedback loop of systemic racism and economic inequality that Alg alluded to earlier. Your posts themselves make great examples of the essence of the idea of privilege. You have the privilege to assume that these kids have the information to know about those kinds of opportunities (such as working a sales job, knowing that going into the military is a good segue to being a police officer). You have the privilege to assume that these kids have the ability to get reliable transportation that would make these opportunities possible. You have the privilege to assume that, while they're an ethnic minority from a low socioeconomic background, they would be fairly considered for positions that they ultimately seek out. It's easy to make those kinds of assumptions as a white heterosexual middle-class male (all of which are categories I belong to), but they're based purely on the experience that we have living lives that are fundamentally different than those experienced by minorities. While there are opportunities to succeed in America for minorities, the ingrained, systemic inequalities that have been perpetuated for centuries make things far from the equal playing field that many see the country as being today.

I have a hard time taking anyone who uses the term "SJWs" seriously. Now it's basically just a pejorative term used to generalize anyone who shows sympathy for minorities. Subreddits like r/tumblrinaction are poisonous circlejerks that point to a few dumb posts by impressionable teenagers, shout "SJW! SJW!" then expand the term to anyone who speaks out for things like feminism or racial equality.

So yeah, I needed to get a 2.5 or above to pass. I got a 2.6 [bleep] yesssssssssssss I've never been so happy to get a crummy grade before

Oops my bad, switched the two names somehow. Yeah you're right, I mean that I'd switch to a BA from a BS. Apparently the degree distinction doesn't actually matter much for grad school which was why I gravitated towards the BS in the first place.

Waiting for my final grades to be posted for autumn quarter. If I got below a 2.5 in my math class, my short-term academic future is really gonna be a pain in the ass in terms of reorganizing my winter quarter (since I already signed up for the next course in the sequence which I couldn't take if I did get below a 2.5). Retaking the class would be literal hell, but I think my only other option would be to switch from a BA to a BS. And my GPA already took a hit from that class regardless, so I feel like I should just power through. The final was so insanely hard and I know I did terrible on it. Pre-final I had a projected 2.8 in the class, but the fact that the final was worth 35% of my grade and the fact that I think I did so badly has me preparing for the worst. I just really, really hope the curve is in my favor and everyone else did horribly too. Welp I'll find out within a couple days I guess. The point of this post is that math can go [bleep] itself

Saturday math final, Tuesday linguistics final, then winter break. I really really need to study hard for math, shiiiit

An Amazon gift card is perhaps the most boring present you could give to someone. The point of Secret Santa isn't to give the most useful/applicable gift, it's to have fun. Just don't get some really weird specific thing that no one would have a use for, but don't just give them the equivalent of money.

Tomorrow is going to be crazy. Just finished my 7 page philosophy paper that's due tonight, then I register for next quarter's classes at 6AM (and hope I get in to everything I need), then I have two really important midterms (math and philosophy but namely math) that I need to do really well on but as of now I am quite shaky on. Then after that I have to go straight to the high school I'm mentoring for for like 3 hours... then I'm seeing Julian Casablancas and Mac DeMarco that night! I'm really excited for that. Okay I have to study more now [bleep]

some dude who lives in the same cluster as me in my dorm got [bleep]in' arrested/detained by the university police department for forcing his hand over the mouth of some girl lmao wtfff sort of a shock to wake up to police banging on the door. i came out of the bathroom in my underwear, awkwardly stared at the two cops, and walked back to my room it's weird cuz he seems like a nice guy (he's this gay asian dude from san francisco) but he apparently has a history of getting really drunk and verbally (and now physically i guess) abusing people

I want in on this Skype drinking competition.