so, facebook won’t let me report this girl because she blocked me. what do i do? normally i’m lax about this kind of stuff but what the ever living fuck
Day 21: One of your own theories you’ve conjured up?
It’s never directly stated, but I think there are implications in Majora’s Mask that Mikau is the father of Lulu’s offspring. I feel that his fierce determination to bring her eggs back safe and sound is not just a friendly gesture, but a paternal instinct. The band mates also imply that the two of them are “very close”…
I’VE ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT.
Man. If I was a wealthy parent, I’d totally make some of these for my kid.
Saving this for more interesting lunches~!
Day 2: What game would you consider to be your favorite, why? When did you first play this game?
Oh gosh, I don’t even know. There are SO MANY GREAT WONDERFUL THINGS about every title I’ve played (even Minish Cap, though that one’s my least favorite so far), that my “favorite” switches…
And that’s pretty much exactly why I love Majora’s Mask. I’ve never been able to explain it so thoroughly before the way you have, but this sums it up perfectly. It’s just… different. Different in an amazing, wonderful way.
For those who don’t already know…
…William proposed. I said yes. YAY! Hilarity/wedding will ensue. :D:D:D:D
1. You’ve Been Psychologically Conditioned To Want a Diamond
The diamond engagement ring is a 63-year-old invention of N.W.Ayer advertising agency. The De Beers diamond cartel contracted N.W.Ayer to create a demand for what are, essentially, useless hunks of rock.
2. Diamonds are Priced Well Above Their Value
The De Beers cartel has systematically held diamond prices at levels far greater than their abundance would generate under anything even remotely resembling perfect competition. All diamonds not already under its control are bought by the cartel, and then the De Beers cartel carefully managed world diamond supply in order to keep prices steadily high.
3. Diamonds Have No Resale or Investment Value
Any diamond that you buy or receive will indeed be yours forever: De Beers™ advertising deliberately brain-washed women not to sell; the steady price is a tool to prevent speculation in diamonds; and no dealer will buy a diamond from you. You can only sell it at a diamond purchasing center or a pawn shop where you will receive a tiny fraction of its original “value.”
4. Diamond Miners are Disproportionately Exposed to HIV/AIDS
Many diamond mining camps enforce all-male, no-family rules. Men contract HIV/AIDS from camp sex-workers, while women married to miners have no access to employment, no income outside of their husbands and no bargaining power for negotiating safe sex, and thus are at extremely high risk of contracting HIV.
5. Open-Pit Diamond Mines Pose Environmental Threats
Diamond mines are open pits where salts, heavy minerals, organisms, oil, and chemicals from mining equipment freely leach into ground-water, endangering people in nearby mining camps and villages, as well as downstream plants and animals.
6. Diamond Mine-Owners Violate Indigenous People’s Rights
Diamond mines in Australia, Canada, India and many countries in Africa are situated on lands traditionally associated with indigenous peoples. Many of these communities have been displaced, while others remain, often at great cost to their health, livelihoods and traditional cultures.
7. Slave Laborers Cut and Polish Diamonds
More than one-half of the world’s diamonds are processed in India where many of the cutters and polishers are bonded child laborers. Bonded children work to pay off the debts of their relatives, often unsuccessfully. When they reach adulthood their debt is passed on to their younger siblings or to their own children.
8. Conflict Diamonds Fund Civil Wars in Africa
There is no reliable way to insure that your diamond was not mined or stolen by government or rebel military forces in order to finance civil conflict. Conflict diamonds are traded either for guns or for cash to pay and feed soldiers.
9. Diamond Wars are Fought Using Child Warriors
Many diamond producing governments and rebel forces use children as soldiers, laborers in military camps, and sex slaves. Child soldiers are given drugs to overcome their fear and reluctance to participate in atrocities.
10. Small Arms Trade is Intimately Related to Diamond Smuggling
Illicit diamonds inflame the clandestine trade of small arms. There are 500 billion small arms in the world today which are used to kill 500,000 people annually, the vast majority of whom are non-combatants.This is one of the worst things involved in the marriage system. Please, if you choose to get married do not involve a diamond ring in it. Do not accept diamonds as a gift and do not buy it for a loved one.
Fucking THIS. If you’re going to put a ring on it, no diamonds. Even the lab grown ones, which are far less cruel, are far more expensive than their worth.
To be honest, I’m not sure I entirely agree. Yes, I do believe the mining conditions and the diamond wars are absolutely horrible (I’ve read about them many times) and the monopoly that’s held over diamonds is ridiculous, but I would never turn down a diamond ring from my boyfriend if he proposed to me with one. It seems to me like it would be a slap in his face to refuse such a heart-felt gift that someone I love so much worked tirelessly to buy for me. “Yes, honey, I’ll marry you, but can you return that [probably non-refundable] diamond ring and get me something else, even though I know you put a lot of work and thought into this proposal that I just pretty much derailed?” And telling him beforehand not to get a diamond wouldn’t work, either, because I know he has his heart set on getting me the perfect diamond ring and, honestly, so do I. Why should other people’s (i.e. De Beers) assholery ruin our plans?
By that same token, isn’t gold pretty over-priced, too? The resale value isn’t much better. A pawn shop or “cash for gold”-esque website or shop will buy anything gold based on weight and give you pennies on the dollar, then ship it off to have it melted down. The mining conditions aren’t much better than those in the diamond mines, either (and I’m obviously not talking about the mines in America).
