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"Punishment works!!!" We're drowning in three to four generations of people so pants-shittingly terrified of ever being wrong that half of everyone has constructed a worldview wherein they never even consider the possibility that they could be wrong and the other half behaves like one wrong move will make anything or anyone explode violently into a million irreperable pieces. I don't think it works guys

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yknow i kind of forget sometimes that like. pregnancy is innately tied to sexual stuff. like "haha hey guess what. gets you pregnant" is actually kind of. a horny thing to say in fact.

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beginning to suspect one of my four elemental generals may be showing sympathy to the heroes and allowing them a fair fight instead of following my orders to destroy them at any cost

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Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, and Mark Hamill recreating the Star Wars poster

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by 理想国的爱丽丝

art republished with artist’s permission

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spend like a week planning out and choreographing my magical girl transformation and then i finally get to do it in front of the other magical girls and they cheer a little bit but not a lot and everyone else just instantly transforms without any fanfair and one of the girls gives me a haunted look. am i going to die, please be honest with me am i the sacrificial character that dies to sober up the audience and the other characters about the danger we are all in, that even with magic and hope, people we love can die?

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STEPHEN. "uhhh sorry y'all i have to go. important business lots of things to do and important people to see." and it's an aardvark he wants to draw a picture of

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a few great films that are free on the internet archive

in decent quality too!

here is the archive collection of these films so you can favorite on there/save if desired.

links below

black girl (1966) dir. ousmane sembene

the battle of algiers (1966) dir. gillo pontecorvo

paris, texas (1984) dir. wim wenders

desert hearts (1985) dir. donna deitch

harold and maude (1973) dir. hal ashby

los olvidados (1952) dir. luis bunuel

walkabout (1971) dir. nicolas roag

rope (1948) dir alfred hitchcock

freaks (1932) dir. tod browning

frankenstein (1931) dir. james whale

sunset boulevard (1950) dir billy wilder

fantastic planet (1973) dir. rené laloux

jeanne dielman (1975) dir. chantal akerman

the color of pomegranates (1969) dir. sergei parajanov

all about eve (1950) dir. joseph l. mankiewicz

gilda (1946) dir. charles vidor

the night of the hunter (1950) dir. charles laughton

the invisible man (1931) dir. james whale

COLLECTION of georges méliès shorts

rebecca (1940) dir. alfred hitchcock

brief encounter (1946) dir. david lean

to be or not to be (1942) dir. ernst lubitsch

a place in the sun (1951) dir george stevens

eyes without a face (1960) dir. georges franju

double indeminity (1944) dir. billy wilder

wild strawberries (1957) dir. ingmar bergman

shame (1968) dir. ingmar bergman

through a glass darkly (1961) dir. ingmar bergman

persona (1961) dir. ingmar bergman

winter light (1963) dir. ingmar bergman

the ascent (1977) dir. larisa shepitko

the devil, probably (1977) dir. robert bresson

cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) dir. agnes varda

alien (1979) dir. ridley scott + its sequels

after hours (1985) dir. martin scorsese

halloween (1978) dir. john carpenter

the watermelon woman (1996) dir. cheryl dune

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high performance wordplay for industrial applications

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7 days left!!!!!!!! Get your Makeship Vriska and John plushies before they're gone!

https://www.makeship.com/shop/creator/homestuck

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This video's by Patrick Boyle (hattip to @some-triangles for letting me know about the guy)is about what's going on in Russia's economy, but as part of that it also provides an excellent description of why inflation happens: "...when More Money chases Fewer Good, prices go up and up and up..."

Coincidentally(warning: I'm about to grind a historical axe here), this is why allot of Republican talk about the evils of government spending during the post-WWII era was off-base. During the 80s and 90s you heard allot of this from them(mostly quoting Milton Friedman), about how government spending "crowds out" private economic activity, and thus causes inflation(among other things). But that only happens when 1)government-driven hiring(so: gov hiring+private hiring to meet gov demand) must cannibalize private commercial hiring, 2)the national economy in question is closed, and so bringing in supply through trade is either more expensive or impossible, and 3)the national economy is either not tooled to meet private demand, or too small relative to government spending, so that its infrastructure can't service both gov and commercial demand at the same time.

None of these conditions applied to the Post-War United States. The United States in that period 1)had a big enough population, and such robust immigration, that the government could bscl hire everyone it wanted to without ever shrinking the volume of workers available to commercial production, 2)an open, ever-more-trade-friendly economy allowing imports to cover gaps in national production, and 3)massive and well-kept national infrastructure which could not only meet both public and private demand easily, but also support the quick expansion or shifting of production to meet new/growing demand.

Of course the US of now is actively trying to shrink its population through anti-immigration, anti-woman, and anti-family policies; actively discouraging trade in favor of Republican rent-seeking extortion of our allies; groaning under national infrastructure which the Republican party has largely prevented us from repairing, replacing, or expanding for the last 30 years(at least). So... :T :T :T

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Yeah. It'd be Neat bit of Meta if Aspect and Class were treated as, essentially, the kind of self-sorting teenagers are generally drawn to as an escape from the stress of being the sum total of your own decisions(and which Millennials were particularly known for due to Harry Potter), by the HS:BC team

classpect being one of the sburb mechanics that's desperately held onto unlike any of the other mechanics doesn't make a lot of sense to me. i think it makes sense that it sticks around longer than anything else but i feel like the natural progression is for characters to evolve and grow past(above?) it. or at least have it be a much more figurative(?) device than a literal one. i think i once made the comparison that it's an eggshell that they incubate in and eventually hatch out of. acting like it's gotta be this hard and fast thing feels so limiting & against what the rest of the story is about. homestuck isn't a story about sburb mechanics; sburb itself is just a framework for the deeper themes and messages. & when so much of the themes revolve around rejecting assigned roles and being able to grow & change it does not make sense to be bound to the strict boundaries of "x of y" forever. and this is not to say "well in 50 years roxy could lose her void powers or become a thief of time or whatever" roxy is always going to be some degree of "voidy" i just don't see the logic in going "well this is what it means to be a rogue so roxy should act like this" "this is what void means so this is what roxy is going to do here" etc

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microdosing macrodosing by taking a normal amount

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Sillage - T22 - Transfert

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Moth with a Monocle, Tophat, Cane, and Euro Sign cufflinks on their wingtips u_u

opens my wallet and a very large and expensive looking moth flies out of it