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Oh im so normal about this im so very very normal about this in other unrelated news how much is it for resident evil f

i just saw the phrase "unregistered molotov cocktails" in a news article and im really enjoying imagining this world where you have to register molotovs to the state

i just saw the phrase "unregistered molotov cocktails" in a news article and im really enjoying imagining this world where you have to register molotovs to the state

I actually think that science fiction has done everyone a disservice by presenting escaping to another planet as a remotely feasible near-term solution to problems on Earth.

Like, I’m sorry, but if terraforming Mars is an option then why can’t we just terraform the Earth?

(I mean, this last bit isn’t actually a great argument, because a lot of techniques proposed for terraforming involve such things as smashing asteroids into planets, blocking out their view of the sun for decades at a time, or seeding the entire planet’s surface with novel extremophile bacteria, which would be unthinkable on Earth; but the point still stands! It would be vastly easier to restore Earth to a healthy climate than to make Mars even as habitable as the peak of Mount Everest)

As Mars is fuck-off far away, it’s really expensive to send even a robot the size of a compact car there, half of all uncrewed missions there fail, and we don’t even know how to land a crewed one yet.

Did you see anything about how china returned Przwalskis horses to it’s steppe and effectively halted desertification bc keystone species can do stuff like that? Technically terra forming, perfectly doable to engineer/ restore all sorts of earth ecosystems, and SO MUCH MORE FEASIBLE than anything that can be done on Mars.

Yeah just do the math on fuel and life support. Even getting one horse to Mars is a logistics nightmare!

I think the Mongols actually get close but their space program lost funding once Kublai Khan died.

sorry i rear ended you. my car is.. in heat

Yeah its kind of a compliment i guess. that it wants to fuck your car. so just tell your insurince that

every time i see mark bittman's name i think about that recipe for pad thai where he says to use ketchup instead of tamarind since going to the asian market is scary and i want to attack him like a wild animal

friend who went to bed is a type of dead wife

maybe im just a hater and i never really engage with true crime content outside of the few times i was forced to in high school but whenever people are like "yeah its just fascinating.... to hear how killers think.... its so interesting to know their thought processes..." and well. 99% of the time its "they realized they had the chance to hurt somebody and took it" and they werent some misunderstood genius it was 1. police incompetence & people not caring about the victims and 2. most serial killers are white guys. and white guys can get away with a hell of a lot

like all of my ethical problems with true crime aside its just not that interesting is it. these are not compellingly written movie villains with complex personalities and genius plans and thrilling characterization. theyre just people who decided to hurt other people usually for the reason of "because i wanted something from them" or "because i could get away with it". i love horror movies i love violence in fiction. but in real life this shit is always just devastating and not nearly as quirky or fun as podcasters wanna make it out to be. i dont care about John Murder's twisted psychology and the fascinating reasons why he killed a bunch of women. i think he did it because he didnt like women and he could get away with it because we live in a society that doesnt care about women. true crime is just completely uninteresting to me

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The prevailing view of suicide and self harm to most parents is basically rapid onset internet illness. Which is ironic given nearly every single person I know who has self harmed or tried to kill themselves has been in large part because of their family, but also not surprising because yeah no shit they're not going to think about their own personal role in making their property kid miserable.

Thing is, right, the economic incentives for independent artists to start with are "don't be an independent artist, do literally anything else with your time" and so any analysis that pretends these are Economic Actors Purely Motivated By Power Relations is going to fail

The sources of independent artists doing Some Bullshit over time seem to be more about failing to adapt to the reality that they've become a business with employees rather than still being a friend group having fun together, and so failing to recognize, for instance, that there are power dynamics.