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Most of life is about compromise. You can't always get what you want for dinner. You have to go to bed at a reasonable time. Sometimes you have to let the other guy win at a merge. By playing nicely with everyone else, we can keep civilization ticking nicely along. When someone fucks up this simple social contract, we shame them, and optionally burn them alive at a stake. It's that last part that we've lost.

Back in the ancient era, dickheads used to fear a public mob. You'd get a bunch of your drunkest buddies together and go torch the prick's house because they keep stepping on your pansies. Perhaps not the most reasonable way to deal with the problem, but it got the job done. Nowadays, that's not so acceptable. We established courts to make sure that we only fairly form an angry mob, for good reasons, and consistently.

Then the courts got really busy. They started picking up all these other laws that we had to worry about. Unnecessary shit like automobile equipment laws. Tail lights? I don't need tail lights! That's like three extra wires to run, man! All of a sudden, that little squabble you had with your neighbour is "not important enough" for the justice system to bother with. Even the cops won't come out, and point their guns at your oppressor for mashing a couple gladiolas with his AliExpress Doc Martens.

Back to vigilante justice? No. Remember, the entire reason of the court system is to provide the "proper" alternative to your drunken buddies torching a house for potentially-imagined slights. They're gonna take that as an existential threat, and punish your dumb ass substantially. Just like when you were working and then the junior intern came in and started doing that crazy new shit in PowerPoint that you don't know how to do, and your boss looked at you in the same way you look at a pile of human excrement on the sidewalk, and you had to do something and then he got fired for a bunch of crazy emails he sent to your boss while he was in the bathroom and his computer was unlocked. Just like that. What even is "WordArt," anyway?

In order for society to heal, we have to find a way to deal with these little petty grievances without alerting the attention of law enforcement. It is for this reason that cars exist. Remember, the courts are busy, and people get into car accidents all the fucking time. It's boring. Pretty much any moving violation will merit no more than a ticket, and that's only if you get caught. So go ahead: pay your Dodge Rammest buddy to do some donuts on the neighbour's lawn until you feel better. It's either this or total anarchy.

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I wrote an alt history story about this.

I changed the ending. The story is titled "The Ride For The White House."

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Shit like this is why I am gonna die broke.

No I can fucking find in the states it's a USB desk fan !!

Closest I could get without 3d printing

Toy's educational purposes you decide

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USS MISSISSIPPI (BB-41) being modernized in dry dock at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia.

Photographed on June 24, 1931.

Norfolk Public Library: smc_mss0000187_000601_013, smc_mss0000187_000601_015, smc_mss0000187_000601_016, smc_mss0000187_000601_017

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I feel like I should mail them a book just out of awe.

On the one hand, deciding to do a herringbone pattern probably increased the floor renovation project time by 4-5 hours. On the other hand, my library floor is going to look bomb as hell (just as soon as I run to Home Depot for more flooring because I ran out 😬). We’ll do black grout in here as well. And once the floor is done…I can start building bookshelves 🎉🎉🎉

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"Taking control of the powers of unnatural forms of decay and using them on himself, he has corrupted himself into an unspeakable thing. Altered, unnatural and horrifying, but beyond the reach of a natural ageing and death. Though not immortal, he has nonetheless given himself an unnaturally long lifespan."

"So he has... Curdled like cheese?"

"What?"

"The wizard king. He became a human cheese."

"I fucking hate it when you talk."

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Bought the complete series Battlestar Galactica (2003-2009) a few months ago and finally found some time to watch it. Got almost to the end of season 3 so far.

These two annoy me so much. I love them.

So have some quick and radom Kara & Lee aquarelle sketches.

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Equipment has been built for the purpose.

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We aren't doomed yet.

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🤔

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The German one is legit. Was Hasso von Manteuffel to I.D. White after the war.

My favorite set of quotes. Not sure if they're real but I don't care. Americans make a habit of being ridiculous in war.

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Corsair Sunset

@Sylvia70485099🇫🇷🇺🇦via X

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I'm wondering how she's getting paid.

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this is, honest to god, one of the funniest ads ive seen in a long time.

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I'm shocked.

Well, no, not that shocked.

It's difficult to overstate how serious I'm being when I say that there is a terrorist cell operating out of Columbia University and no one is doing anything about it. I am not being hysterical. I am not exaggerating. There is a terrorist cell operating out of Columbia University. This is a matter of totally open record and no one is doing anything serious to deal with it.

-The Columbia chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine was shut down after an investigation into their funding under the Biden administration found that they were being partially funded by Hamas.

-This resulted in no arrests or expulsions, and the organization was allowed to rebrand as CUAD under the same leadership.

-Student organizers from the Columbia branches of SJP, CUAD, JVP, WoL, and other organizations are currently being sued in federal court for allegedly knowing about the Oct 7th terror attacks in advance.

-Court documents show that these student leaders had produced propaganda supporting the Oct 7th attacks before they had occurred, and were using Hamas's code name for the attacks before it was made public.

-THREE separate hostages have now gone on legal record stating that Columbia students were extensively coordinating with at least one member of Hamas who kept them captive, and that this member of Hamas told them that their coordination with Columbia University student leaders (and other student leaders) is/was extensive.

-The Columbia student defendants in this lawsuit have not denied that they coordinated with members of Hamas, only claiming that they were "unaware" he was a member of Hamas. This is despite the fact that the Hamas member who kept the hostages captive, Abdallah Aljamal, was completely open about his affiliation on social media.

This does not even scratch the surface of the raging antisemitism, overt Hamas support, and felony level hate crimes that Columbia University students have engaged in en mass over the past year and a half. It's also not even scratching the surface of the broader connections many of the parent organizations of Columbia "activist" branches have to terrorist organizations (nearly all of them have been caught funneling money into terrorist organizations.) This is just focusing on the direct involvement of Columbia student leaders specifically, with Hamas and the Oct 7th attacks.

Genuinely, what is going on right now? All of this is public information and yet it isn't being reported on at all? A lot of these students should be in federal prison, and yet they're not even being suspended, and the media consistently presents them as peaceful protesters who are being unfairly called antisemitic.

I don't know what to do anymore, I really don't. Even the broader Jewish community doesn't seem to be aware of what's going on here and just how literally Columbia University students are operating an actual terrorist cell. But it's happening whether people talk about it or not! I can't take this anymore.

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I probably read more nonfiction for research but in the process of writing fiction, so it's kind of a wash.

LibertyCon this weekend in Chattanooga. It's sold out, but I'll sell you a book or sign one anyway.

literary kinsey scale time

i’m just curious what mix of fiction and nonfiction the average tumblrina is consuming