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Literal TEARS in my eyes rn

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why wouldnt you increase municipal taxes on rich people. itll make it more prestigious if its more expensive. rich people love wasting money in exchange for intangible prestige

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My friend claimed he could play Flight of the Bumblebee and accompany himself. Then he did this.

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Was just informed that "any sufficiently deep enthusiasm is indistinguishable from academic rigor" and hoo boy we are really in a crisis of anti-intellectualism.

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I noticed you answered a question about an unexpected nest of construction workers outside someone's home. This morning there was a fire in my apartment complex, and the smoke attracted a large flock of firefighters. We were expecting them to fly over, do their usual rituals, and carry off the fire to eat later. The fire is gone now, and there's only water to deal with, but it looks like they've built a temporary nest in the parking lot and it's scaring off local symbiotic species (managers, caretakers, janitors, maintenance) while attracting parasitic visitors (cops, landlords, rubberneckers). Is there anything I can do to encourage the firefighters (loud and messy, but incredible plumage! so friendly!) to pack it up, so we can get rid of their toxic worsties?

if you start another larger fire nearby, they will be attracted to that one and will abandon their current site.

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it's

bitch

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Another side effect of human culture being emergent is that there is never a true "core" to any culture or group, positive or negative. There's just what everyone agrees that it is, which an ever-shifting battlefield that can reference the past but not settle it thereby.

There isn't, for instance, a True Spirit of America as either a Racist Colonial State or Shining City on the Hill. There are historical facts, sure, about the actions of the government and the people, but those don't prove anything about the True Spirit of America, then or now. Plenty of American denizens were able to sew but that's not ever brought up as reflecting some deep truth because no one ever gave a shit; it's all Being White or Immigrant or Christian or Tolerant, because those were/are the big arguments of the day, and everyone wants their values to be considered the American Spirit.

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Another side effect of human culture being emergent is that there is never a true "core" to any culture or group, positive or negative. There's just what everyone agrees that it is, which an ever-shifting battlefield that can reference the past but not settle it thereby.

There isn't, for instance, a True Spirit of America as either a Racist Colonial State or Shining City on the Hill. There are historical facts, sure, about the actions of the government and the people, but those don't prove anything about the True Spirit of America, then or now. Plenty of American denizens were able to sew but that's not ever brought up as reflecting some deep truth because no one ever gave a shit; it's all Being White or Immigrant or Christian or Tolerant, because those were/are the big arguments of the day, and everyone wants their values to be considered the American Spirit.

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me when i have to put proper citations: ugh this is so annoying who even cares what i do in the footnotes

me when i can't find a source because it hasn't been quoted correctly: i am going to track down the authors and they will answer to me. i will find out who caused this suffering. there will be blood.

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Megabats cleaning themselves looks like some kind of cryptid transformation

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i love illegal immigration like yes bitch get in here

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Wild that folks keep saying beekeepers abuse bees as if bees are not both venomous flying animals and fully unionized

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I think the best part of Murderbot is its staunch belief that it’s average at its job, and it only does better because it doesn’t have a working governor module

It’s always like, I’m just a SecUnit, the only reason I’m better is because humans somehow have worse judgement than me in my very narrow field of expertise, and I have the ability to process multiple things at once, and I don’t die when I get my shit wrecked. None of these are advantages over other bots, so I’m actually just average as far as skills go.

Meanwhile, Murderbot’s track record is something like ‘regularly takes out other SecUnits, regularly hacks fairly complicated systems, takes out multiple hostiles while saving and protecting clients/hostages, beat two Combat Bots in succession, and went toe to toe with a Combat SecBot while taking out two other SecUnits, rounding it off with inhabiting spaceships and crushing the incredibly difficult and malicious killware infecting them.’

That’s not even counting the guts, skill, and determination it takes to hack your own hardware/code which is fully capable of frying your brain in the first place

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imagine if there were aliens on the moon and we could just see each others civilizations and buildings and lights and we both knew the other one was right there for ages and ages and all of our civilization for millenia is wrapped around this question of What If We Could Visit Them and then at some point, probably sooner than 1969, we finally make it up there and theyre all fans of Alien Mr Beast. would that be fucked up or what

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where's that masterpost of quotes that have no right going as hard as they do. I'd like to submit "Protagonism is best left to teens and the insane"