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The true difference between captain Picard and captain Kirk.

[ID: Top half: Jean-Luc Picard says: "No! I can’t have personal relationships with my crew because it’ll ruin my impartiality as captain!!". Beverly Crusher and Nella Daren look at him with exasperation. Bottom half: Jim Kirk says: "Bones, we need to risk the entire ship to save Spock". Leonard McCoy answers: "Dammit Jim, it’s the fourth time this week". /end ID]

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My head is full of soup

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not even "boycott the lilo and stitch remake for moral reasons" but just "have some standards for movies." like yes having moral convictions for boycotts is important because, what, if it was good would I think people should see it? no, of course not. but that's the thing, innit? it's not going to be good. youre getting slop. let's worry about clearing the very low bar of "not slop" first. you deserve better. don't waste your ticket money on sequel/remake/rebootquel/Expansion Of Our IP slop and you won't even have to expend the emotional effort of sticking to your principles.

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Cowboy Bebop Settei

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Gonna chill out the rest of May and then change my entire life in June. Possibly July if that doesn't work out. Certainly no later than September or October.

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hi, a lot of you need a perspective reset

the average human lifespan globally is 70+ years

taking the threshold of adulthood as 18, you are likely to spend at least 52 years as a fully grown adult

at the age of 30 you have lived less than one quarter of your adult life (12/52 years)

'middle age' is typically considered to be between 45-65

it is extremely common to switch careers, start new relationships, emigrate, go to college for the first or second time, or make other life-changing decisions in middle age

it's wild that I even have to spell it out, but older adults (60+) still have social lives and hobbies and interests.

you can still date when you get old. you can still fuck. you can still learn new skills, be fashionable, be competitive. you can still gossip, you can still travel, you can still read. you can still transition. you can still come out.

young doesn't mean peaked. you're inexperienced in your 20s! you're still learning and practicing! you're developing social skills and muscle memory that will last decades!

there are a million things to do in the world, and they don't vanish overnight because an imaginary number gets too big

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“Authors should not be ALLOWED to write about–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative

“This book should be taken off of shelves for featuring–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative

“Schools shouldn’t teach this book in class because–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative

“Nobody actually likes or wants to read classics because they’re–” you are an anti-intellectual and an idiot

“I only read YA fantasy books because every classic novel or work of literary fiction is problematic and features–” you are an anti-intellectual and you are robbing yourself of the full richness of the human experience.

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“National teacher shortage” is a fun way of saying that the USA has made a passion driven job so ungodly inhospitable that even people who “just care about teaching, not the money” don’t even care about teaching anymore.

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