๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ช๐จ๐ณๅผ ๆฎฟๆ๐จ๐ณ๐ฉ๐ช๐จ๐ฆSO offered to write a computer program that would solve these puzzles for me after seeing me struggle with the 3-hold version for today.
I almost took him up on it.
This was hard.
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I just today became the proud owner of the most difficult #PackingPuzzle I've ever seen all because of left-flavoured white supremacy.
Let me explain.
I showed a picture of this puzzle, where half of the pieces are shaped like a #swastika, from the shop to a strongly left-flavoured Discord community. The owner of the community (who was not part of the fracas!) is a transwoman and, naturally, the community is going to be left-leaning, given that right-wing transphobes would either a) newp the Hell out, or b) get booted out for transphobic statements. I carelessly didn't put the photo under a content warning because 22 years of living here has dulled my sense of what will upset westerners. Instantly a moderator pounced on the image and ... well, this is where the left-flavoured white supremacy enters the picture.
"Whatever its ancient meaning, in the modern world it is only a symbol of unspeakable hate."
I can only take two things from this statement: either this guy is an ignoramus, or he thinks India, China, Japan, Vietnam, Korea, ... are not modern peoples. Either way it's a bad look. But his subsequent rantings basically hammered the second point home. It's bad for a (half-)Chinese person to think the swastika is just fine in a non-Nazi (and non-European, for the most part) context.
But nope. I was a bad person for being interested in a difficult packing puzzle, half of whose pieces (roughly speaking) are swastika-shaped. I should "know better" (presumably because of my half non-Chinese upbringing). Stunning white supremacy: brown-skinned people are ignorant because they don't care about the "feelz" of (chiefly) white folk.
I'm not a member of that community anymore, naturally. Because I'm tired of white people thinking white issues are the only things that matter. Are you upset about the existence of the swastika in places that have an unbroken line from prehistory to now using it as an emblem of peace and good fortune? Look away.
Let me explain.
I showed a picture of this puzzle, where half of the pieces are shaped like a #swastika, from the shop to a strongly left-flavoured Discord community. The owner of the community (who was not part of the fracas!) is a transwoman and, naturally, the community is going to be left-leaning, given that right-wing transphobes would either a) newp the Hell out, or b) get booted out for transphobic statements. I carelessly didn't put the photo under a content warning because 22 years of living here has dulled my sense of what will upset westerners. Instantly a moderator pounced on the image and ... well, this is where the left-flavoured white supremacy enters the picture.
"Whatever its ancient meaning, in the modern world it is only a symbol of unspeakable hate."
I can only take two things from this statement: either this guy is an ignoramus, or he thinks India, China, Japan, Vietnam, Korea, ... are not modern peoples. Either way it's a bad look. But his subsequent rantings basically hammered the second point home. It's bad for a (half-)Chinese person to think the swastika is just fine in a non-Nazi (and non-European, for the most part) context.
But nope. I was a bad person for being interested in a difficult packing puzzle, half of whose pieces (roughly speaking) are swastika-shaped. I should "know better" (presumably because of my half non-Chinese upbringing). Stunning white supremacy: brown-skinned people are ignorant because they don't care about the "feelz" of (chiefly) white folk.
I'm not a member of that community anymore, naturally. Because I'm tired of white people thinking white issues are the only things that matter. Are you upset about the existence of the swastika in places that have an unbroken line from prehistory to now using it as an emblem of peace and good fortune? Look away.
And that's January brought to a close.
Eleven more months to go.
Oi.
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Eleven more months to go.
Oi.
#puzzles #PackingPuzzle #calendar
And that's January brought to a close.
Eleven more months to go.
Oi.
#puzzles #PackingPuzzle #calendar
Eleven more months to go.
Oi.
#puzzles #PackingPuzzle #calendar
I know this is all I've been posting lately, but that's because it's Spring Festival and everything is on hold here. Once things pick up again and life returns to normal I'll be in a position to show off more.
And believe me, when spring has sprung, there'll be LOTS to show!
#puzzles #PackingPuzzle #calendar
And believe me, when spring has sprung, there'll be LOTS to show!
#puzzles #PackingPuzzle #calendar