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thinking about how murderbot went from "...you may have noticed that when I do manage to care, I'm a pessimist." in all systems red to "Because I am a stupid optimist, I sent to AdaCol2, query, assistance." in system collapse like. oh my gosh.... it's a stupid optimist..... 🥹🥹🥹

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working hard at the sunk cost factory

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Every kink basically boils down to "I can finally be free from the curse of the Mummy"

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didn't want to make this post because i thought it was self evident. if you're an aspiring martial artist on a quest to confront the clan who burned your village down as a kid, you shouldn't be worried about people named shit like sun biling with flying loops, the heavenly foot of ten thousand swords clan, or even weeping demon of the forbidden devil's palm technique. you should be worried about jianfei, the guy who dresses and looks completely normal and doesn't boast of his clan or technique. this guy will absolutely rock your shit. i know you think you're invincible after learning 5 of the 10 silent palm techniques but this guy is why your shifu no longer teaches the remaining 5. submit or be cut down effortlessly like the reed you are.

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an underrecognised tragedy of AI slop isn't just that any piece of contemporary art could be AI, any news reel could be AI, it's that now just any video of something vaguely nice and whimsical happening in the world could be AI

this is about the trampoline bunnies

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one of my favorite things in the world is when i am excercising Extreme Self Restraint about something, and i want to give in and just do it but i can't, and then my wife just waltzes in and doesn't even pretend that she's gonna resist, she just Does The Thing immediately and i get to be like. ah. as eve, so adam.

two apples please.

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okay so I'm curious now:

which one would be more dangerous when encountered in the wild: a sun bear, a polar bear, a grizzly, a spectacled bear, or a black bear?

THE POLAR BEAR, FULL STOP.

all of the other bears on that list may very well attack you with fatal results if they decide you're a threat or an interloper, but the polar bear is the one that WANTS to eat you, and if you're not careful, WILL eat you.

prey is scarce in the arctic and polar bears are big animals, so they've evolved to be long-distance stalking predators that will NEVER turn down a warm meaty meal, weird opposable thumbs or no!

if you see a polar bear in the arctic, even if you're with a group, take extra care the next few days to make sure that it's REALLY gone and not just following you at a distance to learn your habits and ambush you when you least expect it!

more than one arctic researcher didn't change up their routine often enough and opened the station door for their smoke break only to find a polar bear waiting for them patiently on the other side, at which point they were dragged off onto the ice and never seen again.

I would say it's a grizzly fate, but that pun would be simply unbearable.

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So, been thinking about Avatar and the animals of Avatar, and how Zuko has kind of been dubbed by the fandom as the animal guy. Not arguing against Zuko being the animal guy, I understand why the fandom has dubbed him as such. However, I'd like to make the suggestion that, perhaps, there is another character who could also be considered the animal guy:

Sokka.

Now! I know what you're thinking. Sokka likes to eat animals. That's very true, he is the meat and sarcasm guy. But he seems to befriend, be befriended by, and know how to work with a whole lot of different animals throughout the three seasons.

Of course, there's Appa and Momo, which everyone in the Gaang gets to add to their friends list. Not surprising on its own, until you remember that Sokka started out trying to eat Momo. Clearly, Momo has forgiven Sokka of this.

Two different wild animals (enemy birds and Foo Foo Cuddly Poops) feel safe enough around Sokka enough to use his head as a perch.

He soothed wild badgermoles through the art of music and even was able to ride them out of the Cave of Two Lovers.

It is Sokka that a foxy knowledge seeker decides to help, leading him directly to the calendar in the library (and Sokka does the right thing and rewards him with a snack after).

Who is it that gives Flopsy a big ol' hug after getting everyone out of Omashu? Oh yeah, it's Sokka.

And the koalasheep just let him use them as his makeshift therapist office.

He really does ride a huge variety of animals and does so fairly well for (presumably) never having ridden an animal before Appa (which would be somewhat similar, but still require a different skill set to steer and control, and he takes to each of them so quickly). Here he is riding an eel hound, about to mount a ostrich horse, and a komodo rhino that he managed to take control of during the invasion.

And of course, we cannot forget Sokka's own beloved pet, Hawky. Look at how happy he is to have his own hawk.

So, in summary, Sokka is absolutely an animal guy that loves animals just as much as animals like him.

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i don't program. it's more of an amateur thing

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there are two competing sects on this website - one that uses the word "spicy" to mean "neurodivergent" and one that uses the word "spicy" to mean "sexual content." i do not like either of them

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“Chronic illness warrior!”

Bro we were drafted

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Happy Debian Day everyone!

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Types of brain fog:

Brain is primordial sludge & you are drowning in it

U are a ghost and nothing is real

Mental equivalent of attempting to stream some high-res video game when all you have is dial-up

The thing you want to articulate is *right there* but you're just scrabbling at it like a cat continually failing to catch the bird on the other side of the window

The Void

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fiction has given me unrealistic expectations for relationships (gettin queerplatonic with a benevolent superconsciousness)

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Heterosexual relationship culture is so alien to me and I don’t know if it’s the fact I’m not cishet or the fact I’m autistic but I hear so many things that make me go “Am I insane or are they?”

There’s a lot of hate on widowers and I saw a woman say “You cannot compete with a dead woman.” which is perhaps a reasonable statement to say if he’s constantly comparing you to his dead partner but that wasn’t what the post was about. And I realized “Oh my God, these people genuinely feel like they’re constantly in competition with their spouse’s exes and the ex being dead makes them feel insecure that they cannot best her.”

There’s also been an uptick in the ‘men and women cannot be ‘just’ friends’ rhetoric which I feel like is extremely dangerous and reflects the rise of fascism and sexism. Some of these stories of women feeling threatened by their husband’s female best friend have some merit and others are like “I feel angry that my husband still talks to the girl he grew up next door to and she and her wife are invited to family gatherings and included in family photos sometimes. Am I right to be suspicious?” No. No you’re not. I cannot imagine being you and living with that high level of stress and paranoia and constant torment and jealousy about your husband having a positive relationship with anyone who isn’t you.