Cat over moon

has anyone figured out how to turn off the thing where you love your pet so much it slides inexorably into grief-borrowing

“For me this glass is already broken. I enjoy it; I drink out of it. It holds my water admirably, sometimes even reflecting the sun in beautiful patterns. If I should tap it, it has a lovely ring to it. But when I put this glass on the shelf and the wind knocks it over or my elbow brushes it off the table and it falls to the ground and shatters, I say, ‘Of course.’ When I understand that the glass is already broken, every moment with it is precious.”

In retrospect it's a good thing The X-Files debuted five years before the fraudulent Wakefield study dropped, because given how the show's early season are about addressing contemporary social issues, there 100% would have been an episode about how vaccines cause autism because of aliens.

I'm just glad it came out in the comparatively narrow window where "episodes about conspiracy theories being real" and "addressing contemporary social topics of discussion" didn't mean episodes about evil aliens pretending to be Jews or something

Oddly enough, those are basically the same bullet dodged, timeline-wise. While the idea of secret societies of shape-shifting lizard people had been around since the early days of pulp fiction, it didn't specifically become associated with antisemitic conspiracy theories until David Icke popularised his Reptoid Hypothesis in the late 1990s; the Wakefield study and Icke's The Biggest Secret dropped less than a year apart.

a truly disturbing idea

i support universal free healthcare for one simple reason: if you are diagnosed with a terminal illness you should quit your job. quitting your job is the correct response to terminal illness. but you can’t do that if your healthcare is tied to your job

listen if somebody knows that they will be dead in a years time, and you are forcing them to continue to come into work, that’s fucked up. terminally ill people should be able to quit their jobs and live their last few months to the fullest. i don’t get how that’s a controversial opinion

It is extremely rare that I get unintentionally rickrolled. It is extremely common that I look at a link and think to myself, that's a rickroll, and I click on it. Then I get to enjoy the satisfaction of being correct, as well as the entirety of Never Gonna Give You Up. That shit is a banger. If someone offers me a link directly to that song you think I'm not gonna take it? No. You know the rules and so do I. It's Astley time.

now that's a friend indeed

"Ignore the long Elmo" no I don't think I will