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I get that this is mostly a me thing but seeing so many posts making fun of "holy blood cannibalism pomegranate deer" style writing just makes me sad ;-; . guys that's a lot of people's first stab at poetry that's hobby art that's a vulnerable thing to post those are passion projects...

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I really wish that the actual newspapers would adopt this model.

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There are two ways to Wigan, by land or by sea. Those who approach Wigan by land will see it's chippies as the trunks of tall ships, it's gravy as citrusy tartar spiced with treasured herbs of far off lands. Those who approach Wigan by sea will view it's chippies as soaring concrete car parks, iron locomotive bridges, and comley promenades, it's gravy will be that of inland country fare, of rustic mushroom, aliuns, apples, and all the tastes of home.

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Tasteful bulge? Yeah I would like a taste f- [I am interrupted by the sound of a dry twig snapping. This is impossible, as I am in the infinite linoleum bathroom dimension for this joke.]

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Nikola Sarić, The Incarnation (2017)

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bay area tech bro getting into monarchism call that regency bias

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Hey friends, baby Marxist here! I’m starting to feel like technology corrupts the pure soul of man. Has anyone tried turning back the wheel of history so that we can return to a state of perfect innocence?

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George: They're platonizing me Jerry! Platonizing me! I have a perfectly good temple cult Jerry, but they keep talking about Henads and Monads. I can't keep up!

Jerry: The nerve of some people. You know, a Buddy of mine had to syncretize his temple cult. His statue god is one of Zeus's daughters now.

Elaine: Look on the bright side, if you learn Greek you can slip your own theology into Christianity. It'll be like you never left.

Kramer: Jerry! Jerry! A new prophet was born in Mecca!

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daily affirmations:

i am kind

i am in control of my emotions

it does not bother me when someone is in the kitchen while i was planning to be in there alone

everyone in the house has the right to be in the kitchen

i am kind and in control of my emotions even when someone is in the kitchen while i was planning to be in there alone

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A beaver dam in British Columbia showing its ability to hold back sediment pollution during heavy rainfall.

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pope francis it is your moral obligation to make the entire ocean holy water. the devil cannot be allowed to surf

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my brother always knows how to catch my vibe it’s such a skill of his

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Let's imagine that you're trying to fix American politics by making a George Washington gambit, or perhaps a Dwight Eisenhower gambit.

Your goal here is to transcend our dysfunctionally-polarized moment by taking the two big political parties and smashing their heads together until they stop moving. You are trying to unite a supermajority of Americans behind a sane, stable, viable-consensus Middle Way - maybe through third-party shenanigans, maybe by hijacking and parasitizing the Republicans or the Democrats, whatever can be made to work.

Let's further assume - arguendo - that you have some good reason to think that you might be able to achieve this, given the right setup and the right resources. We don't need to have the argument over whether it's just a stupid idea from the get-go, that's not the point. (We also don't need to argue over what the sane stable viable-consensus Middle Way would actually be, in terms of policy prescriptions, branding, etc. Fill in your own favorite answer.)

You'll need a figurehead. A presidential candidate. Someone who can, in his person, stand in for the idea of "we're better than all this and we're actually going to set things to rights." Someone who won't immediately be treated as just another shill for the existing left/right.

A real American hero, ideally. Someone who seems like a good, trustworthy leader to as many voters as possible?

...any nominees?

Seriously. I mean it. Anyone at all? I'm coming up pretty short, and that fact scares me.

We tell jokes about God-Empress Taylor Swift (RIP @kontextmaschine), but of course that would actually be a bad idea for our project. She's popular, she might conceivably have the charisma and the intellect and the cultural-manipulation chops, but it doesn't matter; there's no escaping the fact that she's a pop star rather than anything else, and too many people would see her as inescapably frivolous. If she won, it wouldn't do the thing. Same goes for anyone else in the "celebrity performer" category.

War heroes are often good for this kind of role. Do we have any generally-accepted war heroes these days?

A scientist or high-culture artist might do. Are there any who are famous enough, and also not closely tied to an existing political faction?

I'd suggest "civil rights hero / activist leader" except that there are obviously none of those who aren't closely tied to existing political factions.

The best I can come up with on short notice is, like, Chelsey Sullenberger. Which is not super great.

(Admittedly I don't know enough about sports to say whether there's a sufficiently beloved-and-respectable athlete floating around. That would also be sort of an inherently weak choice, not much better than a celebrity performer and maybe even worse, but I can imagine really good spin doctors making it viable.)

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>be me >medieval Europe supervisor >in charge of making sure the medieval European setting is, in fact, medieval >occasionally have to go down there and check if the medieval European setting is still medieval >one day i go down there and the medieval European setting is no longer medieval >the medieval of the medieval Europe setting is now a centralized monarchy with nobles of the robe, a large merchant class, widespread literacy, and non-bonded tenants. >distress.jpg >ask my boss what to do >he says "just make it medieval again" >i say "how" >he says "i don't know, you're the supervisor" >rage.jpg >quit my job >become early-modern supervisor >first day on the job, go to the new setting >its medieval

I have no clue what the context for this ask is anymore but honestly I feel ya; my rage at the anachronism of medieval concepts in fantasy media is my very own supervising of a bottomless hole -_-

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People say shit like "when I took acid, I could see the atoms making up everything" and they feel like they've pulled away some illusion and are seeing reality as it really is. But, of course, atoms are too small to see for unavoidable physical reasons. If you take acid and feel like you're seeing atoms, that's the illusion. The "atoms" are something produced by your mind, (maybe some kind of visual processing artifact, similar to visual snow), not an actual feature of external reality.