Nakoichi [they/them]

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  • Technically even without surface tension, the microscopically small deviations in elevation in your floor, combined with evaporation and absorption would actually mean you would have a dry floor almost immediately.

    Surface tension is just one aspect of the molecular bonds that cause water to accumulate, and if there were no surface tension that would mean those bonds would have to be nonexistent and thus water would not be able to condense into a liquid in the first place.

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  • putting them on the same level as ICE centers and concentration camps

    You’re right they were way fucking worse than that.

    Have you actually been to a reservation? And not one of the “good ones” (disgusts me to even split hairs like this) but I mean like Pine Ridge. They are literally death camps in all but name.

    A couple years ago one elder was burning his own clothes to keep warm and not freeze to death, another elder died in his home because his fireplace went out while he was sleeping. Drug abuse is rampant kids are killing each other over scraps, there was a shooting at a powwow last year in the middle of sun dance. There is almost no drinking water that isn’t contaminated by the nearby bombing range and uranium mines.

    The average life expectancy on Pine Ridge reservation TODAY is lower than it was in Gaza before the recent bombings started.

    Oh and just to get there, the tribes around the black hills were sent on a forced death march through the badlands to settle in the least desirable land in the region.

    This is where they were sent: