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Andor season 2 episode 8

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update on this: no updates.

adventure time can make me so happy i cry. this is important.

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End Of Evangelion + House MD season 3 episode 12 - One Day, One Room

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The funniest American of his time, Mark Twain, found life for himself and everybody else so stressful when he was in his seventies, like me, that he wrote as follows: “I have never wanted any released friend of mine restored to life since I reached manhood.” That is in an essay on the sudden death of his daughter Jean a few days earlier. Among those he wouldn’t have resurrected were Jean, and another daughter, Susy, and his beloved wife, and his best friend, Henry Rogers. Twain didn’t live to see World War One, but still he felt that way.

Kurt Vonnegut - Timequake

the thing about this quote (and other similar ones by Vonnegut) is that at first it might seem like it’s just pure pessimism and hopelessness, but to me this is the basis for all empathy and compassion, because taking suffering seriously is probably the hardest to do, but without that, empathy and compassion are just incomplete and useless

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local Twitter user comes to “terrifying” realization that someone’s physical appearance does not always indicate their political beliefs

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I still quote Eugene Debs (1855-1926), late of Terre Haute, Indiana, five times the Socialist Party’s candidate for President, in every speech: “While there is a lower class I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” In recent years, I’ve found it prudent to say before quoting Debs that he is to be taken seriously. Otherwise many in the audience will start to laugh. They are being nice, not mean, knowing I like to be funny. But it is also a sign of these times that such a moving echo of the Sermon on the Mount can be perceived as outdated, wholly discredited horsecrap. Which it is not.

Kurt Vonnegut - Timequake

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“I have to tell you, though, that you are not the first person to say the game was all over for the human race. I’m sure that even in Egypt before the first pyramid was constructed, there were men who attracted a following by saying, ‘It’s all over now.’ ” “What is different about now as compared with Egypt before the first pyramid was built—” Ed began. “And before the Chinese invented printing, and before Columbus discovered America,” Jason Wilder interjected. “Exactly,” said Bergeron. “The difference is that we have the misfortune of knowing what’s really going on,” said Bergeron, “which is no fun at all. And this has given rise to a whole new class of preening, narcissistic quacks like yourself who say in the service of rich and shameless polluters that the state of the atmosphere and the water and the topsoil on which all life depends is as debatable as how many angels can dance on the fuzz of a tennis ball.”

Kurt Vonnegut - Hocus Pocus

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i feel like when talking about the concept of privilege it is meaningful to distinguish "everyone should have this but certain people don't" privilege (e.g supportive parents, relative safety) from "no one should have this but certain people do" privilege (preferential treatment in certain job fields, billions of dollars)

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Why throw money at problems? That is what money is for. Should the nation’s wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful.

Kurt Vonnegut - Timequake

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I would have recognized the opportunity for a world-class joke, but would never allow myself to be funny at the cost of making somebody else feel like something the cat drug in. Let that be my epitaph.

Kurt Vonnegut - Timequake

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jesus christ

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“Do or do not. There is no try”.

-Yoda, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

42 years later

“One single thing will break the siege. Remember this: try”.

-Karis Nemik, Star Wars: Andor

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There’s a moment in this video that just really hit me. A psychologist is talking about how parents talk to their kids about not letting species go extinct in the zoo and just this wave of emotion washed over me. This cannot be real. This is absurd. This is sci-fi. This is a Kilgore Trout short story about an alien planet in a Vonnegut novel.