The Octonaut @ TheOctonaut @mander.xyz

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Do you mean persecution? Do you understand that those are different things?

The waiter approached.

"Would you like to see the menu?" he said, "or would you like meet the Dish of the Day?"

"Huh?" said Ford.

"Huh?" said Arthur.

"Huh?" said Trillian.

"That's cool," said Zaphod, "we'll meet the meat."

...

A large dairy animal approached Zaphod Beeblebrox's table, a large fat meaty quadruped of the bovine type with large watery eyes, small horns and what might almost have been an ingratiating smile on its lips.

"Good evening," it lowed and sat back heavily on its haunches, "I am the main Dish of the Day. May I interest you in the parts of my body?"

It harrumphed and gurgled a bit, wriggled its hind quarters in to a more comfortable position and gazed peacefully at them.

Its gaze was met by looks of startled bewilderment from Arthur and Trillian, a resigned shrug from Ford Prefect and naked hunger from Zaphod Beeblebrox.

"Something off the shoulder perhaps?" suggested the animal, "braised in a white wine sauce?"

"Er, your shoulder?" said Arthur in a horrified whisper.

"But naturally my shoulder, sir," mooed the animal contentedly, "nobody else's is mine to offer."

Zaphod leapt to his feet and started prodding and feeling the animal's shoulder appreciatively.

"Or the rump is very good," murmured the animal. "I've been exercising it and eating plenty of grain, so there's a lot of good meat there."

It gave a mellow grunt, gurgled again and started to chew the cud. It swallowed the cud again.

"Or a casserole of me perhaps?" it added.

"You mean this animal actually wants us to eat it?" whispered Trillian to Ford.

"Me?" said Ford, with a glazed look in his eyes, "I don't mean anything."

"That's absolutely horrible," exclaimed Arthur, "the most revolting thing I've ever heard."

"What's the problem Earthman?" said Zaphod, now transferring his attention to the animal's enormous rump.

"I just don't want to eat an animal that's standing there inviting me to," said Arthur, "It's heartless."

"Better than eating an animal that doesn't want to be eaten," said Zaphod.

"That's not the point," Arthur protested. Then he thought about it for a moment. "Alright," he said, "maybe it is the point. I don't care, I'm not going to think about it now. I'll just... er [...] I think I'll just have a green salad," he muttered.

"May I urge you to consider my liver?" asked the animal, "it must be very rich and tender by now, I've been force-feeding myself for months."

"A green salad," said Arthur emphatically.

"A green salad?" said the animal, rolling his eyes disapprovingly at Arthur.

"Are you going to tell me," said Arthur, "that I shouldn't have green salad?"

"Well," said the animal, "I know many vegetables that are very clear on that point. Which is why it was eventually decided to cut through the whole tangled problem and breed an animal that actually wanted to be eaten and was capable of saying so clearly and distinctly. And here I am."

It managed a very slight bow.

"Glass of water please," said Arthur.

"Look," said Zaphod, "we want to eat, we don't want to make a meal of the issues. Four rare stakes please, and hurry. We haven't eaten in five hundred and seventy-six thousand million years."

The animal staggered to its feet. It gave a mellow gurgle. "A very wise choice, sir, if I may say so. Very good," it said, "I'll just nip off and shoot myself."

He turned and gave a friendly wink to Arthur. "Don't worry, sir," he said, "I'll be very humane."

The general trend of the behaviour of the userbase when it first began appearing. I'm pretty block-happy. I'm sure it's an over-generalisation but I've learned over the years that I'd rather miss out than feel constantly annoyed.

I pronounce it "this post hidden due to instance block settings".

The only way to understand their comment is that they think it's a ticket that they only printed as many as they have seats. Otherwise its a non sequitur as it doesn't explain the purpose of printing a second slip that says you don't have an assigned seat.

Read the full text. This, despite appearances, is not in itself a ticket.

The question had nothing to do with whether or not to nominate Harris or Biden for the election. The question was a hypothetical "would someone with a fully functional brain be using these 2 months productively?" question. This applies whether it was Biden that lost or Harris that lost or Bernie that lost.

The election is over and lost. You can give the "vote for anyone except Trump" hair-trigger response a rest now as it turns out they didn't.

The usual distinguishing factor is choices vs innate. If they've decided to make "cheap plastic surgery that already is outdated from cheap plastic surgery trends" their identity, that is their choice.

They both look like they've had a lot of gender-affirming care.

You haven't posted two interviews. You've posted two screenshots, and made vague contentions that they indicate some kind of conspiracy.

The first rule of this community is "Please only post links to actual news sources". When are you going yo do this?

English could be my 10th language and I think I'd be more "transparent" than you still.

Why are you posting memes to a news community, again?

(Would you like me to write in Ukrainian if you read it better?)

What's a debatebro?

Well, did you see the only question in my last comment? I know you don't like answering questions, but if you're going to ask what needs explaining, I'm fairly sure you're familiar with what, when, how, who and why.

If "fishing" means "trying to get someone to explain why he's posting memes to a news community, again"... yes.

I'm sure I'm being very transparent, Yogthos. Why would I be opaque or obtuse? Life's too short to spend a long time with some hidden agenda. For example, I'm sure if you were clearer about what you think is the direct cause and effect relationship between CNN interviewing or not a foreign leader and the decline of western civilisation, while I might not understand it, perhaps superior intellects might. As it stands, we don't know, because you haven't tried. You've just linked to a meme.

What argument? I asked you a question that you ignored. Thanks to getting to it eventually, and for answering the obvious followup that indeed you do believe this was orchestrated by "The West" (CNN). It's really shed light on your reason for posting this as it didn't seem to fit with last week's theme of how The West is in decline and America was no longer relevant on the world stage.

What's it called again when a worker steps in to take the place of a worker who has refused to do something on principle because of their rights or conditions?

Just so we're clear, you didn't answer the question. Should different individuals have a choice about whether or not to wear a headscarf?

Or is the answer that you instead believe that the choice wasn't the interviewers but instead directed by, uh, "The West"?

Are you against headscarfs as a personal choice, Yogthos?

You can disable the built-in apps.

They can't be removed as pre-installed apps are part of the OS image. It's a bit like the immutable distros now popular in Linux. Any update to the OS would just re-add them anyway.

These apps aren't exactly huge in disk size so disabling them is safe and effective. It will reduce battery and memory usage if you would ordinarily have them running in the background for some reason.

That's because Sean isn't an English word.