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Xariphon ,

Because feeding people is Communism or something.

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Today on "things that were obvious even before science proved it"...

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Floofy baby!

That face, though, says "feelin' cute right now, but zoomies in 3... 2... 1..."

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Of course they did; genocide is the point.

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But keep telling yourselves that the genocidal occupying force with trillions in international military funds are the victims...

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My rule has always been "don't skimp on the things that separate you from the ground." Shoes, tires, chairs, beds, etc, get the best you can afford to and don't pinch pennies.

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Right, so, when do we stop sending money to the actual genocidal apartheid ethnostate, too?

Pretty sure the scale of their violence should've been a "turning point" a long time ago.

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Yeah this scene scared the hell out of little me when I first saw it.

Those invisible blue aliens that transformed Geordi got me worse though; legit nightmare fuel those things.

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Hello from New York; it's about that time for us, too.

And I am similarly grumpy about it.

The only good thing about winter is watching it go by, from inside, in my blanket nest, surrounded by cats and tea.

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Yes, let's.

(I regret nothing; your day is now more cheerful.)

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What the fuck did I just put in my brain?

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There's a special place in hell for the guys who put the save point before the monologue, a deeper place in hell for those who make cutscenes unskippable, and a special place in extra hell for the fuckers who do this.

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The little fangs!

The spotty belly!

Comfy lil derp.

Are there any prince movies for kids?

Anyone who knows about kids’ movies knows how popular princess movies are, especially Disney princesses. My child is six and absolutely loves them too. My child also loves princes and kings, but I’m having a hard time finding anything that features a character as easily beloved as Elsa or Moana for example. Even worse, a lot...

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Also isn't Callum voiced by the guy who was Sokka?

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Oh yes, my wife and I catch a bunch of those shout-outs.

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LOCK

HIS

ASS

UP

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To my mind, this sort of thing (no pun intended) waters down the entire meaning of the thing.

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I think I have an old Boy Scouts survival manual from the 50s that includes most of this.

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Cat is helping. XD

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And slavery.

Don't forget the slavery.

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...what?

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I doubt that more and more every year. I'm not young, just clueless about a lot of media.

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I mean, have you ever met a teacher who didn't act like that little box was their personal realm to be god over? I can easily imagine that anything that disabuses them of the idea would come as a shock.

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I said on the other thread too...

Just make Lwaxana talk to him. Those two deserve each other.

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Right? I'm pretty sure everyone downstream of Fukushima likes it this way. The people who are hoping we don't need an actual priesthood, or glowing cats, or whatever, to warn people about nuclear waste thousands of years in the future after the fall of all current civilizations, like it this way.

Let nuclear continue to waste away as the terrible idea it always was.

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And nothing of value was lost.

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Society's general hatred of young people doing basically anything.

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It took me far too many braincells to realize that this headline means "being mean to scabs is effective" and not "being mean to scabs is, itself, doing work."

Maybe I need to use the sleep.

Totalitarianism. What are the good things about it?

(Wikipedia) Totalitarianism is a form of government and a political system that prohibits all opposition parties, outlaws individual and group opposition to the state and its claims, and exercises an extremely high if not complete degree of control and regulation over public and private life. It is regarded as the most extreme...

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I could be wrong here -- I haven't exactly done a long-term study on this -- but my impression is that the way young people are treated (in the US at least) sets people up for this. When you wake up is dictated. What you do with most of your waking hours is decided for you, without your input or slightest consideration. What you wear, what you're allowed to say, who you spend your (increasingly limited) time with and what you spend it doing and where, even the emotions you express on your face, can be dictated to you by others who consider themselves in the right to do so.

This continues from before you are self-aware until nearly a decade beyond the age of abstract reasoning.

By the time you're allowed to make a serious decision, others have been dictating them to you for your entire conscious life. It's no wonder people never learn how to decide for themselves. I'm reminded of Brooks from The Shawshank Redemption: institutionalized. So conditioned to having no freedom that it's terrifying rather than liberating when you finally do.

Star Trek transporters

Transporters work by de-assembling something (e.g. you) and re-assembling it somewhere else. What if, when you’re dis-assembled, you die, and the re-assembled version of you is essentially a copy? Then every time someone steps onto a transporter, their final thought before death is that they’ll end up beamed somewhere else....

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This was always my take on the matter, too.

I am my memories, my experiences, and the continuity of my consciousness, not the meat prison my mind is forced to reside in. If my consciousness continues, I am alive. Whether that's this bag of meat, that bag of meat, or the Transmetropolitan-inspired nanite-cloud I wish I could live on as, I'm still me either way. There might be a difference, but from my perspective it doesn't make a difference.

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My wife has seen my photo roll; it's a shitload of pictures of our cats punctuated by the occasional shot of my baking.

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Trying to get them to cooperate, them being randomly cute, them "helping" with whatever else we're doing... So... kinda yeah. XD I wouldn't make that comparison in any other context but it works here.

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It's a two-thousand-year-long multilingual game of Telephone. How much is it even possible is left from what was originally written? (And none of it contemporary to when it supposedly happened.)

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School logic. Infinite power to punish and restrict, infinite resources to harm and burden, nothing for support or uplift.

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I did all this shit, anyway. Twenty years ago. Sacrificed everything on the altar of the almighty A. What did it get me? A master's degree I'm too depressed and anxious to ever use and a long-standing hatred of the system. Now I speak out because nobody listens to the people who are still in the system. The people directly affected by it are easy to ignore. Now I'm the demographic people listen to whether they should or not, so I'm saying what I wish people had said when it was me.

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I grew up and became a librarian instead, because I genuinely enjoy helping people find the things they are interested in, but couldn't lend my energy to a system that doesn't care about the that they are interested in part, among other flaws.

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S L O R P

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What is this "too much" of which you speak?

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And everything's going my way...

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Fuck wasps. Kill it with fire.

More U.S. school districts are shifting to a 4-day week. Here's why. (www.cbsnews.com)

When the school bell rings in Independence, Missouri, this year, 14,000 students are trying something new: a four-day week, with Mondays off. And they’re not alone. As kids head back to school this year, a growing number will be returning to a four-day school week....

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Anything that frees young people from that awful system for even a little bit longer...

'Trump isn't funding any of us': Co-defendants in Georgia case are struggling with mounting legal bills (www.cnn.com)

Some of Donald Trump’s co-defendants in the sprawling election subversion case in Georgia are trying all sorts of ways to fund their mounting legal bills – yet the costs of the 2020 election fallout may quickly exceed their abilities to pay....

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He's probably not even paying his own lawyers, so...

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Would a lawyer stupid enough to take Trump as a client be smart enough to demand payment up front? I wonder.

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"Christian"

"Torture"

I'm not even surprised anymore.

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That's a funny way of spelling "corporate greed."

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All of the above. With sausage or bacon or ham, scrambled eggs (well done; runny eggs are a conspiracy to torment innocent tastebuds), and hashbrowns.

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Isn't that just Unimatrix Zero?

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Wait, they finally got around to explaining what the veil was? What was it?

And yeah I 100% percent wish we had gotten poison instead of janky parkour. (I will admit that baiting the Sorrow Bearer into lunging off the map with Strand jumps was fun though.)

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