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stoned and autistic at a party trying to make conversation: I find the comparative lifespan of organisms so interesting. Spiders are comparatively long lived animals. Female black widows can live up to 3 years but their male counterparts rarely live four months. Some tarantulas live upwards of 20 years. The longest lived spider was around 43 years old when she was cruelly assassinated by a parasitic wasp. Domestic rats have a lifespan comparable to female black widows. To put things into perspective, there are spiders that remember a pre-pandemic world but it is likely every rat on earth was born post-COVID. There could be a spider out there born when Reagan was in office.

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identifying political ideologies by vague statements 2024 edition

• "both sides have gotten a bit extreme lately": conservative

• "i'm not really into politics": conservative

• "it's good to accept different opinions": conservative

• "i'm a conservative": 100% hitler

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one of my favourite things is to go duhhhh...Ummm...Duhhh... like a really dumb cartoon character

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EVERYBODY wants to piss off TERFs, but NOONE wants to do the one thing that is 100% GUARANTEED to piss off 100% of TERFs:

Explicitly include trans women in every single women’s space, and outright ban afab-only resources, spaces, and housing from all queer and feminist spaces.

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I think it indicates a very specific sort of chauvinism to engage in open acts of aggression against another nation and immediately follow that with "We got what we wanted and now there can be peace". You'd need to think that your country is so mighty that your victim wouldn't even think of going to war with it, that they'd accept any peace offer no matter how disadvantageous or humiliating. The idea that you can de-escalate a situation through limited violence only makes sense if you think that you're capable of a lot worse and that the target both knows and fears this.

Either that or one thinks of their initial violence as clearly justified, and so makes an offer of de-escalation less because it's likely to be accepted and more so one can take the moral high ground when their victim rightfully retaliates. Either way, the fact Trump and his clique saw it as a good idea to directly attack Iran then immediately announce they wanted peace indicates a pretty distorted view of the US Empire's current degree of material and moral superiority in global geopolitics. It's the sort of action one takes when they are or want to assert themselves as undisputed hegemon; it's a bad idea to act like that when ones hegemony can be successfully disputed. I wonder how much longer until the USA's political leadership collectively realises that they're no longer living in the end of history

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WITHOUT MY MOMMY I AM USELESS. WITHOUT ME MY MOMMY IS USELESS.

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i wish i could make people listen to the sun at full volume. sometimes.

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you just never quite know what you'll get when you open my inbox

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you just never quite know what you'll get when you open my inbox

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kenji tsuruta

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fear is 20 years old

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