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Luke’s face is what makes this.

the only reliable, effective way of "protecting children" is education. but people don't want to hear that because they don't actually care about protecting children, they care about protecting a mythologised ideal of innocence

“Why don’t you use ai” idk man beyond the obvious environmental and “this machine causes psychosis and encourages people to kill themselves” thing I think asking the equivalent of a solid D student who is also a pathological liar if they can answer my question/do the work for me seems pretty fucking stupid

but if we were gonna lean into the goofy side of mass effect we should have had a thing in the citadel dlc where all translators get disconnected for comedy reasons. all the humans suddenly have much more pronounced accents or even flat out other languages. kaidan speaks tagalog just to annoy others who havent bothered to learn anything other than english in the 22nd century. tali can actually speak other alien languages because quarians rarely have fully properly translated VIs courtesy of the galaxy sucking. krogans sound twice as intimidating and wrex enjoys it. turians sound like somewhere between a cat and a bird clicking and squawking and everyone laughs about it. asari inexplicably sound a thousand times more beautiful but also none of them can speak a single word in another language except liara t'soni nerd extraordinaire but she's only fluent in mandarin considering it's the most populous language on earth. the whole incident lasts five minutes but it's enough to be the sole conversation topic during the party afterwards

happy first day of pride everyone

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

I am a huge fan of retiring to my quarters

In this economy you'll be lucky to retire to your nickels

the thing about media literacy is that understanding why the author chose to specify that the curtains are blue is the same skill set as understanding that the way the author characterizes all black characters as angry or all chinese characters as meek and silent is racist. it is the same skill set as being able to identify when a news source is biased or when someone is feeding you propaganda. the ability to ask "why did this person choose to present this premise in this specific way?" is a critical skill in a world full of misinformation. why are the curtains blue? maybe it's a characterization detail. maybe it's extraneous worldbuilding. why is this character written as being right all the time? maybe you're intended to disagree with them. maybe it doesn't matter. maybe you should still ask why.

Luke Skywalker put away his targeting computer to destroy the Death Star so I don't need AI to help me write an email.

I swear to god one of these days were going to see a video of Amaury Guichon and he's going to be making some wings and they are going to look dope as hell, the detail of each feather will be breathtaking, he'll spray paint them to perfection, but as the video goes on, he's not building any sort of winged creature, just the wings. And then there's a human-sized harness (also made of chocolate, somehow, he can do it). And he's attaching the wings to the harness. And he's putting the harness on and he demonstrates how he can flap the wings. And then he'll be off. Out the window and up and up and up. And we'll be looking at the livestream (it's a livestream now) and we'll scream "No, Amaury, the sun! It's going to melt the wings!". But he knows this already. And he is free.