possibly

we need to hibernate

rizz and charisma are related but different things, with rizz being specifically romantic. it's a good word tbh

Possibly the most work safe jackoff devices ever made.

they are actually soft cubes Lol

When I think about this kind of thing my mind goes to "what's the next useful thing I can do?" It's never as easy as that sounds but it's a good goal. You can't be responsible for ending suffering, but you can do useful things.

it was sad December, crappy Christmas. Lol

the evil is defeated

it's not "gets to" it's "must"

something that's real and something corporations will take as fact are often completely unrelated

Anything to do with physical media tends to get so much worse over time, it's really depressing. Like there's something of a resurgence of records and cassettes and you can't get a decent one of either of those, they just stopped making them. So yeah probably happening with disks too, at least ones for computers

So I went in knowing that this was important and that might have made it easier for me to calibrate my theme brain: the book that the main character's mom bought for him, "How Do You Live?", is like load bearing for the themes of the movie. There was a mini controversy because the Japanese title is just the book's title, people thought the title change was an adaptation choice but it turns out it was a Ghibli creative choice. I haven't read the English translation of the book, though my understanding it's barely a novel, basically a lecture, and is about the importance of liberal arts and finding understanding of the world around you in the cosmos. Lots of passing on education between generations stuff.

So yeah, there's this big hole in the understanding of the movie that basically everyone who hasn't grown up with the book is going to have. I do think even without that there's a few keys to understanding things that can help:

• The protagonist is very clearly just Miyazaki this time. Other than the specific dead mom stuff, the dad is really just Miyazaki's dad, the childhood is just his childhood, and that's about the time he read "How Do You Live?".

• It's really really funny to me that he's making it really clear in that all of the stock Miyazaki female characters who show up here are just reflections of his mother. Freud is right again.

• All of the stuff with the building blocks is both metaphor for creating art and creating political systems. The movie itself is deliberately an assemblage of references, and it is itself a tower like the one the uncle builds.

• I think it's probably important that while the characters are debating how to make better art, and better structures, and admitting that they'll never create a paradise without human malice, the fascists come in and destroy everything.

Hope this helps a bit, Lol

Yeah I saw it dubbed and it was a real banger that way

There's a real "seconds before disaster" vibe to the original Toast Post

This might ruin it for you, but it's an old Something Awful Forums in joke. The forum they're talking about here is the rules relaxed one where they allow flame wars and goatse

FYAD is the cool place to hang out. You can find most of the cool people there. In FYAD you can just chill and do whatever and totally relax. "Take it easy" is the FYAD motto, for example, that's how laid back it is there. Show up if you want to have a good time. Another good reason to show up is if you want to hang out with friends.

The joke specifically is that you should probably not post in FYAD if you're looking for a good time, Lol.

For better or for worse, a lot of SRS/Fempire/Just Post stuff is wholesomely repackaged Something Awful stuff. This includes the name Just Post itself. I'm not an original puppy

because you are a FOOL

It's November

and they're dating

thank you, this will come in useful

yeah

because posts are your master

I'm not sure if it fits all your criteria but UNRWA is the one I've seen mentioned the most. 4-star on Charity Navigator, tax deductible. About a hundred of their workers have been killed in Gaza because Israel is unfathomably evil.