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Something that I get chills about is the fact that the oldest story told made by the oldest civilization opens with "In those days, in those distant days, in those ancient nights."

This confirms that there is a civilization older than the Sumerians that we have yet to find

Some people get existential dread from this

Me? I think it's fucking awesome it shows just how much of this world we have yet to discover and that is just fascinating

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I was thinking about how I have grown to value mandatory voting over a system that allows allegedly more freedom. Because in country, mandatory voting means I just have to send in a ballot. It can be empty or filled with the write in ballot "pickle farts" if I want.

If I go to the voting station all I have to do is get my name checked off. I don't have to vote if I don't want to.

But it means it is much more difficult for the government to try and suppress voters. Because voters have a legal obligation to go to the polls, so you can't restrict them or try tactics to dissuade them.

Voting polls are open long hours with access to food and water being a fairly standard staple. You don't need any form of ID, you have to be given time to go vote in work hours without penalty if you cannot do it after work hours.

Every now and then a politician tries some small way of voter suppression but it isn't as easy. And so I have learned to appreciate it.

But when I googled, out of curiosity, if the USA had ever had anything like that I was met with a barrage of websites talking about freedom and justice and the absolute liberty of Americans. I thought an eagle was going to bust out of the screen.

Going through some of these I noticed they were think tanks connected to billionaires, one of them was funded and created by the Koch brothers.

Gotta love how often the American "freedom" is actually used as a way to further deny actual freedoms, both linguistically and politically.

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to be seen without performing. to be heard without screaming. to be missed without disappearing. to be enough without proving it. to be held without falling apart. to be understood without explaining. to be wanted without conditions. to be. to be.

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Happy winter solstice! The light begins to return tomorrow!!

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The worst part of human adulthood is being your own zookeeper

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No, app on my phone, I don't want to edit it with AI. I don't want to generate with AI. I don't want to ask the AI. I don't want to make AI wallpapers. I don't want to rewrite with AI. I don't want t-

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i hope every single one of you outlives these hateful fucks on the news right now. i hope each and every one of you is able to find joy and support throughout these tumultuous times and i hope you get to live so fiercely as yourself. i hope you wake up one day to news that you’ve outlived those pieces of absolute shit and whether that brings you joy or relief or hope or what have you, i hope you live to see that day

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if this gets 100,000 notes then i, the worlds greatest space agency will personally shoot donald trump into the sun

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the secret to organising any kind of trip with your friends is to become the benevolent dictator. do NOT wait for everyone to provide a consensus on things before you book anything. do it and then ask for feedback after. do not ask people what they would like to do just tell them what is happening and let them all nod along like the sheep they are. this is the ONLY way to coordinate a group of adults in their 20s/30s

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from Autopsy by Donte Collins

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My husband said he kept forgetting that Dracula was the bad guy. And I was like, yeah that’s the point. What I love so much about Dracula (the novel) is that Dracula (the character) acts like a normal person (for the most part) when he’s being especially horrible to Jonathan. Yes the supernatural elements are there, but what makes Dracula such an evil villain to me is what he does in the capacity of a regular man. He uses etiquette to trap Jonathan. He pretends destroying letters is fine (when they both know it’s not) the manipulation Dracula does to Jonathan throughout his stay at the castle is what makes Dracula scary to me. Because anybody could do that (and they do.)

And how do they defeat Dracula in the end? Through friendship. Through communication. Obviously there is still that supernatural element, but they couldn’t have pulled it off if the Harker’s had stayed isolated. And that is how normal life people get out from under abusive and manipulative relationships. By communication, and friends supporting friends. Anyway I just think it’s really cool.

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Finally figured out how to permanently disable google assistant on phone

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"I know chatgpt is bad but you just don't really have any choice" you literally do. Don't use it. Have some moral backbone.