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Many things I can command the mirror to reveal…and to some I can show what they desire to see. But the mirror will often show things unbidden, and those are often stranger and more profitable than things we wish to behold. What you will see, if you leave the mirror free to work, I cannot tell. For it shows things that were, and things that are, and things that yet may be. But which it is that he sees, even the wisest cannot always tell.

Galadriel, on her mirror

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justification for the terse 'false' I wrote on previous img; the above from chatgpt as I did not know precise proportions just that the quantities of anaerobes (from aerotolerant to obligatory, basically either using fermentation to generate atp or having a proper electron transport chain only without an oxygen at the terminus) are significant and not outnumbered by obligate aerobes

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five stages of human decomposition

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Dropped Dead

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difficile est longum subito deponere amorem, difficile est, verum hoc qua lubet efficias

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remember, to saw off the arm of a giant, if one could manage such a feat in the first place, would make it the more vicious. now read:

this post began rather well but it does not make sense to lay all of this at the feet of police. american police and most police generally have too much power, and I've read that the american police forces have policies that positively select for employment individuals who perform worse on a sort of intelligence test (the theory being, one supposes, that stupid people are easier to control). but scum that some coppers undoubtedly are**, police forces primarly enforce law, meaning the entire force is simply a cog in a larger machine. one could even argue that the noisy leftist disparagement disinclines people who sympathise with leftist ideologies to seek employment with the police -- another way american liberals love to self-sabotage

**& any that aren't scum spend their lives attempting to run upstream, and the whingeing rabble will leave those few unsupported

also I thought liberals were supposed to accept that literal retards can't help being retarded but anyway, just treat people who don't share your views as if they're rabid dogs; that'll solve all your problems eventually

american liberals want to disarm the masses. there is some sense in this but it's purely hypothetical (1. firearms are not required for murder 2. increased arming of citizens increases arming of police and military but it doesn't follow that the inverse is necessarily true). any attempts at demilitarisation won't work on the united states where guns are too beloved and it's rather a waste of time when there are other issues for leftists to fight over, the most pressing being environmental catastrophe

american liberals love to vent their outrage but baulk and vacillate when they catch a whiff of actual revolutionary actions (cf snowden -- whoever killed this businessman has already taken actions whose power would be reinforced by a second similar hit; certainly this industry owes a far more massive blood debt than will ever be paid by a single ceo and he was spared a prolonged death by heart disease or cancer and probably had every opportunity to enjoy his life in any way he liked before he died so there's not that much lost apart from for those whose ideology is clinging to life in any form at any cost for as long as possible... which I've never understood)

what's the point of talking so much if you don't see the upshot of what you stand for

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You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesnt mean anything. You’ve become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left.

The Sunset Limited, 2006

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"A new report from the United Nations is taking the tech industry to task on its lack of diversity, in part criticizing smart speakers and AI programs for being gendered as female and perpetuating gender stereotypes. The report finds a number of reasons for this, including the fact that women are not well-represented on the teams working on helper AI, and because gender stereotypes lead those teams to assume that female voices are more appealing to users.

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The result is that “constantly representing digital assistants as female gradually ‘hard-codes’ a connection between a woman’s voice and subservience.” All four of the leading voice assistants from Amazon, Google, Apple, and Microsoft launched with only female voices, and in almost all cases, the female voice is the default."

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my hand had drawn him back from that dark valley in which all paths meet.

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle [1893]

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Nisus ait: “Dine hunc ardorem mentibus addunt, Euryale, an sua cuique deus fit dira cupido? Aut pugnam aut aliquid iamdudum invadere magnum mens agitat mihi nec placida contenta quiete est.

Aeneid

[J Conington's 1866 translation]

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gender troubles: the butches (2016), dir. lisa plourde

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and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in the chimney

'The Five Orange Pips', The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle [1892]

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