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There's a couple guys, econ policy wonks or libertarians, who are aware that immigration systems of most countries are the countries shooting themselves in the foot because of Nativism and idiocy. They would really like a lot more immigration, because it's for the best for everyone, including the locals. But the voting base as a whole is tepid at best and xenophobic at worst, so it's a hard sell — like a cake that people believe is poisoned because it has green frosting.

So they're like "what if we allowed more immigration but we spat on them when they entered" and the obvious response is "that's pointlessly cruel and unnecessary?" And they say "oh yeah I don't want to do it, but it is better than being prevented from immigrating at all and if it's theatrically cruel enough the median voter might be fine with it"

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something i am utterly obsessed with is the physical copy of dracula that i recently purchased that has , as part of its foreword , some of the original idea notes that bram stoker had about what dracula’s vampiric powers/traits would be.

one of these is that dracula’s likeness cannot be captured in a painting , he always looks like someone else.

which only leads me to imagine a scenario in which the count lines many of his castle hallways with paintings of himself throughout the centuries but none of them look the same and none of them look like him but jonathan can’t help but notice they all somehow look eerily similar.

he brushes it off , assuming they are simply counts of generations past.

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Video games peaked in 2006 when in lego star wars the original trilogy, they couldn't have the iconic dialogue of darth vader telling luke skywalker he's his father because lego games didn't have dialogue at the time. So they just had to have vader point to a fuckin photograph of anakin and a pregnant padme

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A trial trip on the broomstick. 

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Broomsticks (most of them enchanted) are collected here.

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I love picking up my cat and then setting her back down in the exact same spot except I've rotated her 90° on the z axis

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You there! Federal museum professional educator or FEMA climatologist or NOAA metereologist or CISA cybersecurity specialist or Army civilian logistics employee. How would you like to work for ICE? No? Not interesting? You’re working for ICE now. You’re working for ICE or you’re quitting. You don’t get a choice. You’re an ICE brown shirt or you’re out of a job.

This is not hyperbole. This is happening across the entire United States government.

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JD Vance getting booed everywhere he goes so he has to ask the secret service to evacuate the entire city block so he can go to a restaurant is one of the few good subplots we have right now

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trans bears are literally stronger than any US marine

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foxes!!!!!

a bunch of fox stickers i made as some discord stickers (y'all are free to use them, with credit preferably)

i shoulda started the timelapse cuz i drew five of these this evening lol

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every time i get close to someone i feel like a stray dog trying to live in a house. like i don’t know where to put my body or how loud i’m allowed to be.

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Ive been employing the east coast version of "let go of what does not serve you" which is something like "well whats this shit doing for me anyway"

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I'm reading the scriptwriters' guide for TOS and it's cracking me up in many places. It's so obvious that, from the very beginning, they were already aware of so many of the issues people complain about today.

First there's a multiple choice quiz, what's wrong with this scene?

Answer: C! Absolutely Kirk would not hug the yeoman at this point! That's unprofessional!

The Prime Directive gets explained. As I keep telling people, it's not never broken, it's just supposed to only be broken for very good reasons.

For people wondering how to write a stardate: you make up some numbers!

No saluting! Yes optimism!

There is so much "think of the budget" in here. Yes you can use the shuttle bay but only if it's relevant, we have to use miniatures. Yes you can have a space suit but please don't ask for zero gravity. And where aliens are concerned, you can have some makeup but please focus on the interior differences not just tentacles!

Honestly I think Spock is a better alien than, say, Jabba the Hutt, because as human as he looks, he's much more different on the inside. People like to dismiss Star Trek aliens as "forehead of the week" but it's kind of a stage shorthand for "we're about to discover a unique culture, these people are different from you in ways you might not expect."

And to wrap up:

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trust that everything will fall into place without you forcing it there.

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every major structural social problem right now is basically "we don't have enough skilled workers on the ground" and the reason is always "well we've been intentionally underpaying and understaffng them for decades to increase corporate profits" and somehow the news always just mentions the "shortage" without digging into the cause

air travel is a mess? shortage of air traffic controllers - for some mysterious reason

logistics a mess? shortage of truck drivers - for some mysterious reason

public transit can't meet demand? shortage of bus drivers - for some mysterious reason

We even mysteriously have shortages of doctors, nurses, teachers... FOR SOME MYSTERIOUS REASON

FUCKING PAY PEOPLE AND HIRE ENOUGH STAFF