oolong

oolong OP wrote

Reply to comment by skookin in barbecue cauliflower by oolong

it's listed as chipotle bbq cauliflower at the restaurant and i'm assuming they put bbq sauce on it after they grill it. i've never made it myself v.v

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oolong wrote

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oolong OP wrote

i posted about this on the fempire as it happened, and essentially, i am really careless.

to treat cystic acne, ie to dry the hell out of it, i would dab tea tree oil onto my face but i'd use a drenched cotton swab or tissue. and i'd do it while my face was still wet. and i'd use it right above my mouth and under my nose. so that one time, a slightly diluted drop of tea tea oil got into my mouth and then i experienced numbness from the waist down and light headedness for half an hour.

i tried using the fempire as poison control (i emailed the local poison authority too, they responded to me a whole month later lol) while panicking but it was luckily not that bad. unfortunately i did not learn because i had minor repeats of this until the tea tree oil expired and my mom threw it out. i'm currently considering buying a bottle again!

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oolong wrote

i had previously read roche's other papers because i was interested in the link between language and nationalism. i speak hakka so originally i was reading work on hakka ethnonationalism. i haven't done any tertiary schooling but i've been interested in national identity formation since high school so this is just a thing i read for leisure. i often find that because i haven't done the foundational readings in an academic context that things go over my head and i have to read slowly but i find the challenge fun?

i didn't expect a reply or for you to read either article closely!! so it's fine!! thank you for your consideration!!!!

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oolong wrote

i don't have a recommendation beyond having connections outside america that would then spur you to decenter the usa then doing the whole we are human and connected and have a shared struggle thingy. like there's no point in joking about learning about american politics against my will, i have loved ones there and my local politicians get inspired by their us counterparts all the time.

god ok. so. the paper i read isn't even focused on the act of self-immolation itself but rather how language oppression is linked to death. in the context of necropolitics, the ways in which a government controls how people die (extreme simplification)(the 'killing' of a language and its deleterious effect on the speakers being above's thesis), ccp state surveillance removes typical avenues for protest such that people find themselves disappeared, jailed and/or extrajudically killed and their message erased, which is where self-immolation comes in as an act arresting enough to defy that. see here also. there's more to be explored in whether you see the act as violent or non-violent re buddhism and the ethics of its reproduction in how we (whether inside or outside of tibet/china) report on it and talk about its effectiveness.

not to crying emoji now but i'm not prepared to write an essay on this because i definitely haven't done all the reading and always feel lacking when asked to write. i hope i am making sense

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