CeruleanRuin @ CeruleanRuin @lemmings.world

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No, I think it's because they want to hug the mountain, to envelop...that mountain.

Saganumenousness.

She's 14, you weirdos.

Technically it was a train, and they were experiencing a transcendent connection across time with their older selves, in a deliberately unsettling and transgressive scene meant to evoke the rawness of adolescence being laid bare before the worst cosmic horror -- an eldritch carrion-eater who feeds on destroying the souls of children -- as a way of reclaiming strength from vulnerability. At any rate, depiction is not endorsement.

But yes, considering how many actual adults misinterpret and mischaracterize that scene, I don't recommend that particular book to children -- not because they'll be damaged by it, but because they won't have the wisdom of age to understand it.

There's a YouTube short that strips out the autotune. Might be useful for driving away rodents from inside your walls.

I appreciate the record-straightening here. You're doing good work

But of course the anti-war protests were also inextricably tied up with civil rights protests happening at the same time.

There a vending machine on the Mars base in For All Mankind.

You underestimate how stupid these people can be.

Meh, she's a dingbat and a narcissist, and while it's unfortunate that she screwed up so bad on her quest for attention that she became an internet byword for dumb blonde, narcissistic dingbat, take your choice, she was always a right-winger and a supporter of people of Vance's ilk, and so this is just another case of chickens coming home to shit on the roost.

It's a bankrupt culture that sends its youth into danger for entertainment and profit. It's sick.

"We never thought it could happen to us."

You say you want a revolution, well you know...

Elections are not the time to be "fixing things". Elections are for deciding on who has the best tools at the moment to fix things once the election is settled. Jill Stein doesn't have any tools at all (unless you want to be crass and call her and her supporters tools), so all she can do is criticize what the other guys have and hope maybe they'll get mad enough to drop some at her.

What a twat.

Idealism kills.

You're deeply misrepresenting the position. We're not desperate to keep the duopoly. We're desperate to keep it from collapsing into a dictatorship, and you're over there trying to kick its legs off.

Nonsense. If you work outside of the system that exists, you won't ever make meaningful change on that system. You'll only ever make it harder for the people who have accepted reality and are working from within the system to change it. You can't do that from the outside short of a full catastrophic collapse, no matter how much noise you make.

Well then, you are part of the problem. It's a cliche, but it's no less true in this case.

In this case it's not who you're fighting for. It's what arena you're fighting in. We're fighting in reality. You're fighting in an imaginary storybook world.