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"'I don't know' isn't an answer" alright man then I'll just. Fuckin. Enter my philosophical mind-palace and check the fuckin akashic records. Real quick lemme just catch and cook and eat the Salmon of All Knowledge. Tell me ur question again so I can real quick climb to the highest branches of the Yggdrasil and lay it at the feet of Freda the all-wise Queen of Heaven. Dickhead.

"'I don't know' isn't an answer" isn't an answer. It's not an argument. It's not a reasonable statement. It's not a logical chain of thought. It's a thought eliminating exercise. It's a slogan. It says "Don't think about what's true or false, just tell me what I want to hear." It trains people to speak without thinking rather than show ignorance or insecurity. If anyone had said that to me as a child, I'd have stopped speaking. As an adult, I'd probably just stop speaking to them.

I always think of the description I saw years ago: Self-imposed deadlines don't help me, because I know the person who set them, and they're full of shit.

My mom taught me to never confuse pretend and reality when I was like 4 cause she worried I might kill myself emulating the Brothers Lionheart or Superman, and now I'm supposed to pretend I can't simply buy myself candy unless I "deserve" it for cleaning the windows? Like, maintain a delusion of my own design day after day as though it would have real effects? Come on.

There seems to be a real chance of Trump dying on camera. Trying to remember a recent photo of him where he’s fully conscious.

It would be ideal to avoid 2-3 months of the party pretending he's still alive honestly

If I remember correctly his whole beef with Anish Kapoor was over a misunderstanding about Kapoor was making sure no one could use vantablack as opposed to the reality that Kapoor was the only person who was licensed to handle vantablack due to its dangerous radioactive properties. Pretty dumb. Also, I kinda like cloud gate, it's neat looking in person.

The lab which actually owns Vantablack (which is not a pigment but a substance that has to be applied in a lab) chose one artist to work with to demonstrate its properties. The exclusion wasn't Kapoor's choice. He was just the artist they chose.

Everyone said, specifically, Kapoor trademarked the exclusive use of vantablack for artistic works because he's a vain headline-chasing poopoohead. Wouldn't be the first time society has fallen for a bald-faced lie designed to assassinate a person's character for corporate interests, obviously. And it doesn't seem to hold up.

i hope i think of this video in the last moments before i die

"I'm not sure I can even explain it, Craberta. It was so big that just seeing it, just trying to grasp the size of it, made the world turn upside down. Over and over. It reached out and made things right side up again, for me, but then I tried to look at it again and everything went the wrong way. Eventually it thundered off into the horizon, I think just to protect me. I met a creature bigger than the world and it didn't eat me."

Curiosity peeking out of her bag to shame mankind

yeah the hero lead our whole party into a forcefem dungeon so thats why we're all girls now. to be honest its fine. we're all happier this way, but it has messed with out synergy. our knight turned into a shortstack and now her old armor doesnt fit, but she refuses to buy a new and just uses her shield to defend herself. it works but her tunic leaves nothing to the imagination and its really fucking distracting

our cleric is dealing with the fact that it was only so easy to keep up her vow of chastity because she hated the idea of having sex as a man. we keep telling her that her magic has nothing to do with not having sex but i guess its a lot of shame to unlearn. unfortunately she is REALLY horny and keeps getting lost in fantasy and thinking out loud while healing us.

the hero is the worst of it. shes mostly normal until we're fighting any women, and then shes so eager to give up. she starts acting like we have no chance and we need to give up and surrender. then she starts taking off her armor and clothes. she often does this after taking out any men we're fighting on her own so no one really buys, but they're so confused im able to blast any one left with magic, but i dont whats gonna happen if she does this with a woman i cant take out.

No, I am NOT jealous that im the only one the forcefem dungeon left "flat chested." Im not even flat! I have b cups!

“character who gained weight to show how they are healthy now” trope my beloved

that's literally what the motherfucker who invented "vaccines cause autism" did.

Imagine if you could like, get an automatic citizenship claiming to be a refugee from the Burger Kingdom. But noo we can't have AI in charge of important shit like keeping a firm line between Foreigners and Real People, it's only good at automating meaningless paperwork exercises like medical research and writing science textbooks.

I so rarely have fondue, and now it's ruined

hey don't cry. on december 3, 1926, agatha christie went missing for eleven days and because the uk police didn't know what to do they recruited sir arthur conan doyle, creator of master detective sherlock holmes, but all he did was conduct a séance to try and contact her distressed spirit

When you tell people Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Harry Houdini and Howard Phillip Lovecraft were good friends despite their unending arguments over rationalism vs spiritualism, no one ever guesses which ones held what side

It's my favorite bit of bigot logic, "my prejudices are correct some of the time, so if I assume they're correct all the time I'm correct some of the time, so I don't have to waste time and energy judging people by their words and deeds." How do you counter that? Maybe you can explain how this reductive thinking diminishes and dehumanizes people and prevents the bigot from seeing individuals who they may have some common ground with. Maybe it's enough to just let them talk through this argument until they hear how absurd it sounds. Unless they don't care.