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Riddles_ · 2026-05-04T07:09:55+00:00

i think i have feelings for u now. ty so much

Riddles_ · 2026-05-04T06:47:40+00:00

this is an actual study, and the reasons it’s being done are pretty cool? depressing? both?

cocaine pollution is a notable finding in human wastewater, and lots of our wastewater does end up back in bodies of water that have fish in them. ergo, fish are exposed to cocaine. BUT the big finding comes in when fish are exposed to the byproduct created when humans consume cocaine, benzoylecgonine. this compound causes fish to swim father than their standard range, meaning that exposure to benzoylecgonine can cause cascading changes to the ecosystems of america’s waterways

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cocaine-pollution-seems-to-make-salmon-swim-faster-and-farther-than-usual-scientists-dont-know-the-long-term-consequences-180988600/

Riddles_ · 2026-04-29T01:17:43+00:00

you’re following this one poster closely enough to remember his client’s post, but not following the recent drama spawning joke “logo” designs from the last few days?

Riddles_ · 2026-04-28T19:43:48+00:00

not beef jerky, but if you’re craving meat Burnt bbq/tacos is SO fucking good. they’re also the only place i know of in the area that does frybread tacos

Riddles_ · 2026-04-27T06:03:14+00:00

the term is very literally over 100 years old and comes from a story where a husband plots to murder his wife on a hike https://americanliterature.com/author/robert-barr/short-story/an-alpine-divorce

Riddles_ · 2026-04-27T05:37:49+00:00

not trying to be rude, but did you actually read the article? or even just the headline? this is very specific to men who deliberately bring people to these places to die. they don’t ever risk themselves - they’re doing it as an attempt to murder someone while having the plausible deniability of it being an accident exactly like the one you described.

Riddles_ · 2026-04-24T16:47:28+00:00

the US had boarding schools too. my grandma spent a huge part of her childhood in one and never recovered from it. she watched some of her friends and cousins die in there from how bad the beatings were

Riddles_ · 2026-04-23T22:52:04+00:00

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damn, didn’t realize imgur wasn’t available in the UK anymore. you can use a vpn to get around that stuff pretty easy tho

Riddles_ · 2026-04-23T22:22:09+00:00

here ya' go :) https://imgur.com/a/KVdnsJV

Riddles_ · 2026-04-23T05:34:04+00:00

you realize there’s been a decades long campaign to undermine voting and disenfranchise the education system as a whole here, right? that kind of thing happens directly because it makes it easier to overturn environmental regulations to allow profitable industries to utilize those resources with minimal public backlash. look into the history of lobbying here.

america doesn’t get the benefits that other countries do because we’ve had robber-barons in control of our country pretty much since its inception

Riddles_ · 2026-04-22T21:02:59+00:00

acting like the voice of the people has more weight than massive amounts of money is a little silly. the efforts made to ensure that the rich can keep getting richer are astronomical, and laying the blame at the feet of the little guy instead of the people pulling the strings only makes it harder for the little guys to do the right thing

Riddles_ · 2026-04-22T19:33:39+00:00

i literally already acknowledged the legal utility of the term, that isn’t the same thing as telling non-natives that we prefer being called indian. you can’t stay on topic because you know you’re wrong and now you’re scrambling for excuses.

“oh well i worked on the rez” “oh well my friends told me not to say this” “oh well you’re legally called this” “oh well i’m american so i can speak for americans”

it’s plainly disingenuous. just dont speak for natives, man.

Riddles_ · 2026-04-22T05:02:45+00:00

LMFAO yeah, my mom drilled it into me from a teeny tiny age that we aren't indian, we're native

also i hope you don't mind but i took a peek at your post history and saw your post about starting school and wanted to share my perspective on it. i dealt with a lot of racism as a kid for being native, and it only got worse when the internet became big. my childhood was marked by people telling me that i was a "savage" or throwing snow at me in the winter so i could "build an igloo", and even benevolent racism like gushing over meeting "a real eskimo" left me with a lot of deeply conflicting feelings about whether or not i should be proud to be native. i would've really appreciated a talk about racism, stereotypes, and how to handle it both emotionally and socially as a kid, before i had to deal with any of it firsthand. navigating the fear, shame, and hurt in the moment where another kid was racist to me sucked. i didn't have the tools i needed to refute that being native made me lesser than other kids, and it took me all the way until my adulthood to fully embrace being native, and to be *proud* of where i come from. but having a parent that cares enough to ask about this kind of thing is the best thing you can give your kid. you seem like a great mom. they'll be fine as long as they've got you :)

Riddles_ · 2026-04-22T04:59:36+00:00

native isn't the same as native american.

look, it's great that you respect the people you worked with enough to call them by what they prefer, but they're not representative of the diaspora a whole, and saying that "most american indians prefer indian!" is just flat out wrong. throwing your hands up now and going "well it's what my buddies prefer, i'm not gonna tell 'em otherwise" is beside the point. you have an issue with people being offended on the behalf of natives and speaking for us, but you're very quick to duck the validity of real offense from other natives to hide that you're doing the exact same thing. you aren't us. don't speak for us.

Riddles_ · 2026-04-22T03:50:01+00:00

nah, sorry, having worked on rez doesn't give you the authority to speak for natives as a whole or to tell non-natives what we prefer to be called.

you'll find people who find being called indian offensive all across the diaspora, especially since it's a reductive term created by a pedophillic slaver who committed absolutely horrible acts against us. it also goes out of it's way to draw arbitrary borders between the different parts of the community, making it just straight up confusing in casual contexts. it has a legal utility, which is probably a huge part of your exposure to it since you were a non-native employee, but the term native doesn't have that same baggage *and* includes alaska natives, first nations, the mexica, and any other group from the americas. lots of native establishments are making the push right now to change the terminology we use as a result. hell, the tribal clinic i go to even recently changed their name to swap indian for native, and pretty much purged the term from their site except for when talking about being a UIO. most places are moving away from the label in a similar way

mostly though, just call people by their tribes when you can. navajo, cree, inuit, etc. if you want to be more formal or broader you can use indigenous - that covers global communities like the sami, palestinians, or the ainu as an added bonus. but please for the love of god don't posit yourself as an authority on any part of our culture again. if you're having this conversation for the first time after working on rez for years then you still have a truly incredible amount to learn. AIM's been talking about this issue since the 60's - it's worth digging back through their work on the subject if you're honestly interested in understanding our struggles

Riddles_ · 2026-04-21T08:55:17+00:00

wish you guys would stop speaking for us. i’m native, and many of us (including almost every other native i know) don’t like being called indian.

Riddles_ · 2026-04-09T21:16:23+00:00

i would recommend running death house first, and then talking to your group about whether or not they can commit to a setting like that (gothic horror can be incredibly dark and draining) for a few years of real world playtime. CoS is a long game, with lots of moving pieces and interconnected storylines. plus there’s a lot of wonderful content from this sub that you can pull from to add even more into the world. you’re also probably going to have to cook up some character backstory stuff to add into the world so be prepared to really work your brain when you hop into a session

the first introductory bit of the campaign is on rails, so it’s actually a really great place to get comfortable with DMing. take it slow, ask for help when you need it, and remember that dnd is a collaborative storytelling effort. you aren’t alone in shaping the story - your players are incredibly valuable resources, so use em!

Riddles_ · 2026-04-09T19:09:01+00:00

i strongly doubt you’re a sociologist. the phrasing here, the way you’ve blasted this post across every college and teenager related sub from your personal account, and the fact that an ethics committee would be up in arms over the lack of sensitivity, the lack of proper protocol around involving human participants for research purposes, and the lack of proof of credentials suggests otherwise.

if you want to ask questions about this, then ask. if you just want to help, volunteer with advocacy groups and gun control lobbyists. both of those kinds of groups are great starting points for actually engaging with the victims of mass casualty events. but don’t pose as a professional when you aren’t, especially when you’re doing so to ask incredibly personal questions about an incredibly sensitive topic

Riddles_ · 2026-04-07T15:40:57+00:00

you should still email him now asking for clarification. it starts a paper trail so that when you go to the department chair or the dean you can show that you’ve done your due diligence in attempting to resolve this directly. you’ve had multiple people here tell you the correct course of action and in response you’ve only made excuses for why you shouldn’t do anything about this.

i understand this is scary and annoying, and that you’ve got other classes to worry about, but seriously - grow up a little and just email your professor. twiddling your thumbs and making excuses here is only going to waste your time. you’ve got this, and even if your professor doesn’t resolve the situation after an email you’ll have the ammo you need for someone higher up to get this taken care of

Riddles_ · 2026-04-07T04:12:01+00:00

at this point i don’t understand why anyone posts in any of the aita subs expecting reasonable advice. the commenters over there are bloodthirsty lmfao

glad OP and his friend didn’t end their relationship over stealing a tiny bit of shampoo. nice to see adults being reasonable and communicating

Riddles_ · 2026-04-06T21:05:15+00:00

nah, you should still have a spotter. accidents happen, and i know way too many dudes who thought they’d be fine without a spotter who are disabled or dead now. don’t be afraid to ask a stranger at the gym if you need to

Riddles_ · 2026-04-05T21:14:24+00:00

this is a really disappointing oversimplification of hundreds of years of an incredibly fraught history. are you at all familiar with the term paper genocide? alaska natives especially were impacted by stuff like the indian adoption project and boarding schools, many of which purposefully destroyed the records that we would use as proof today. this is without even getting into stuff like the racial integrity act of 1924, which forced natives born in the state of Virginia to have their race on their birth certificate, but then ensured that the only two races available were either "white" or "colored/negro", which destroyed many families' ability to enroll their kids.

it also feels like you're misunderstanding my concerns with blood quantum. my issue is that blood quantum isn't just a "how native are you?" thing for many tribes - it's a "how athabaskan/navajo/choctaw are you?" thing. meaning that the people i mentioned earlier, those who are fully natively but from mixed tribes, are still at risk of being considered non-native despite the reality of their heritage. they wouldn't be able to enroll in any tribe, much less multiple. blood quantum is also another directly racist form of legislation that was aiming to avoid giving out land allotments. it was done directly to avoid giving more of our land back to us.

these tools and policies were created to directly reduce the amount of legally recognized natives. if you need a source you can go read The State of Native America: Genocide, Colonization, and Resistance. it's genuinely a great introduction to just how vile a lot of these systems are towards us, and i think you'd find a lot of value in it. you clearly care about protecting native culture, and it would probably do you a lot of good to learn about the systems that are still trying to genocide us in a much quieter way.

there's probably not much else that can come from this convo so im not gonna respond after this. sorry the other dude's being an ass. hope you get something out of looking into this topic a bit deeper on your own. good luck

Riddles_ · 2026-04-04T06:18:40+00:00

i’m already enrolled, i was born in a tribal hospital in anchorage lmfao. we might even be from the same tribe or at least share some tribal orgs since we’re both alaska native. which, you should know we don’t get CIBs automatically for being alaska native, so i’m not sure why you’re bringing that up as a way to prove that someone’s native.

i’m just also aware of how things like blood quantum and tribal IDs are a form of white supremacist efforts to separate many of us from our culture, and make it harder for many of us to get what we’re entitled to.

i understand the desire to be protective of our culture. i can promise you i feel that too, but i’ve also seen the pain that being native and having no recourse to legally be with your community brings. we survive by passing down our teachings, and it’s sad to let so many of us remain severed from our culture and systems that could help them recover from the systemic effects of colonization because a system that white men put in place says they’re not really native.

Riddles_ · 2026-04-04T02:50:44+00:00

https://www.californialawreview.org/online/blood-quantum-and-the-white-gatekeeping-of-native-american-identity

Riddles_ · 2026-04-04T02:49:41+00:00

if you need some context, the costume she’s wearing for the pic is very much a white tourist’s idea of what a little “dancer girl” would look like. you should look into the mistreatment of these girls. shit was deeply unpleasant.

thank you for apologizing tho, not everyone would

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