Chetzemoka @ Chetzemoka @startrek.website

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Rational. Objective. What on earth makes you think bigotry has ever been rational? You know that only 60 years ago in the US there were people openly opposed to the idea of black people sitting next to them on a bus, right? There was never anything objective or rational about it, just pure ignorance.

No, I think this goes to show that the whole idea that people will cry if prices are raised to increase wages is a lie. People who buy products and services want the people who are tasked with delivering those products and services to make a good living. They are willing to pay more in the form of tips; they will be willing to pay more in the form of prices. Just give people raises already ffs.

(And that's not to say that prices will actually increase all that much if wages increase because that's also mostly a lie told to protect corporate profit margins.)

The Marvels was poorly paced and I don't know if that's more the fault of the editing or the directing. But holy shit the individual pieces were so. good.

The interactions between the leads, the evolution of the fight scenes to integrate the problem and turn it into an advantage. Princesses and kittens are not my kind of deal, but they were absolutely perfect in this movie and I was thrilled to see them. Kamala Khan being a superhero with a normal, well-adjusted, loving family is one of my favorite things about her character.

My frustration and disappointment with this and with The Eternals is this had all the pieces to be a great Marvel movie, but the pieces didn't get assembled properly somehow. I don't know what changed about their production process, but if they can fix it, they still have good content to build great movies on. Haters bedamned.

Stamets, I'm so sorry. I hadn't heard. I've lost people under bad circumstances. It's not fair. The world should stop, everything should stop moving and everyone should stop what they're doing and acknowledge the depth of this person's loss. But it doesn't stop moving and that's not fucking right and it's not fucking fair.

Please do whatever you need to do to take care of yourself. Just do what's next. Your only obligation in the world right now is to wake up and breathe. Everything else is bonus points. We'll be here whenever you're ready or even if you never want to talk to any of us again.

I'm so sorry that a good person is gone.

But you can't USE that car legally without a license or insurance. Stop being daft.

One of the most powerful live performances ever recorded:

https://youtu.be/bd7fb5oQhVg?si=MwEHBknrQfvotYdt&t=1m50s

The problem with this is that people disagree about what harms others. Right wing insane people are not living in the same reality that you and I are. They genuinely believe that even seeing a gay person is harmful. They genuinely believe that the existence of gay people is harmful to others.

The original r/196 subreddit had a rule that if you visited the sub, you were required to post a meme before you left. A lot of people tried to follow the rule, but weren't able to come up with a good post title on such short notice, and started just naming their post after that rule. After some time it became a meme in and of itself to include the word "rule" in your post title somehow

I'm pretty liberal with the upvotes. I like to encourage people to participate and an upvote feels like saying "hey I see you and thanks for sharing." I regularly upvote things I don't like or don't agree with, if they are shared in good faith and contribute to the conversation.

Downvotes are for bigots and misinformation/disinformation/lies.

I think overpopulation is a non-issue because I prefer to follow the data over my own intuition. And the data shows that population is already slowing and will peak without intervention.

And I think it's extraordinarily important to reiterate that point because of the extreme dangers of any attempt at population control to devolve into outright eugenics and genocide.

https://www.pop.org/overpopulation-myth/

The most effective and the only ethical means of population control is a combination of increasing the availability of birth control, providing family planning education, and reducing child mortality. Yes this needs to be part of our climate change solutions, we're doing this, and it's already working.

We have a frequent flyer patient at our hospital who has aphasia, a brain condition which causes nonsense words to come out instead of what the person was intending to say.

We have a NO idea what this person is saying, but his tone of voice and delivery are completely normal even though the content of the words are meaningless. So I can confirm, this guy cracks jokes and is hilarious (he laughs at his own jokes and you can't help but laugh with him.)

The German memes feel similar. I don't understand the words, but the intent is clear enough for me to enjoy seeing them.

I mean. I like seeing merch from my favorite creators and sometimes I buy it. T-shirts are cool. It's easier for me to know what's available if there are thumbnails large enough for me to actually see the product.

And these links appear below the video, they are not intrusive to the watching experience in any way whatsoever. So yeah, I genuinely think this is a huge overreaction.

I pay for premium and not even once have I thought anything other than "oh cool, this channel has merch"

No, the project there referring to is run by 23andme. My whole family participates in the same research because so many of us have Crohn's disease.

This is how I feel. I don't hate Google. But I do want to see them broken up and regulated much more than they currently are.

It has to be aerosolized to do that, which isn't going to just randomly happen from opening an envelope. You'd have to do something deliberately really stupid like spray it into a theater full of innocent hostages.

Wait...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_theater_hostage_crisis

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/16/1175726650/fentanyl-police-overdose-misinformation#:~:text=%22This%20has%20never%20happened%2C%22,contact%20or%20accidentally%20inhaling%20fentanyl.%22

free speech and government oversight

That's not what I read into this at all, but something far more sinister that I see happening in the world right now. Certain power players using "government oversight" as a disingenuous excuse to attack the means for regular people around the world to speak directly to one another without the filters that favor narratives that the power players prefer, and for regular people to coordinate with one another.

The Arab Spring and BLM protests scared some people and it's showing.

No, he has 2% of that 4.6% and people are just bad at understanding how percentages work.

https://minnesotareformer.com/2021/08/11/millennials-are-the-largest-workforce-and-the-least-wealthy-why-politics/#:~:text=Millennials%20today%20own%20just%204.6,2%25%20of%20all%20Millennial%20wealth.

Not that one individual having a full 2% of the wealth of an entire generation is a great thing.