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GraniteM

@ GraniteM @lemmy.world

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  • Pinatas

    The tape they stretch across race finish lines

    Karate dojo boards

  • Ken Burns is in your future

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  • I listened to Hardcore History's series on World War I in that window, so that was my assigned war of interest.

  • Simpler Times

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  • "Where the women are strong, the men are good looking, and all the children are above average."

  • The Right-Wingification of UT

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  • I was wondering what happened with Unreal Tournament.

  • Republicans and RFK Jr. have embraced psychedelics. What could go wrong?

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  • I think that if you get a position in Congress / the White House / the Supreme Court you should be required to pick from a menu of ego-shattering experiences before you take office. Psychedelics are on the list, but there can be other options in case drugs are no good for you. Things like extended fasting, a round in a sensory deprivation tank, a trip to orbit, being present for an organ donor having their organs removed... I'm sure we could come up with a list of drug-free experiences that would be transformative and drive home that you aren't the center of the universe.

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  • The entire world is covered in a fine layer of poo particles. Really, anything that isn't covered in poo is the outlier and ought to be highly suspicious.

  • Scotty doesn't understand the future

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  • I'd say Symbiosis was the DARE episode:

    Wesley Crusher: Data, I can understand how this might happen to the Ornarans. What I can't understand is this: Why would anyone voluntarily become dependent on a chemical?

    Lt. Commander Data: Voluntary addiction to drugs is a recurrent theme in many cultures. Regrettably, having had no firsthand experience with such dependency, chances are I cannot give you an appropriate response.

    Wesley Crusher: That's all right, Data.

    Lieutenant Tasha Yar: [jumping in] I believe I can, Wesley. In the first place, nobody wants to become dependent. That happens later.

    Wesley Crusher: Still, if people know it happens, why do they even start?

    Lieutenant Tasha Yar: Remember what I told you about life on my home planet? There was so much poverty and violence that, for some, the closest thing to an escape was through drugs.

    Wesley Crusher: How does a chemical substance provide an escape?

    Lieutenant Tasha Yar: In the real sense, it can't... but it makes you think it's doing so. You have to understand that drugs - can make you feel good. They put you on top of the world. You're happy, sure of yourself, in control...

    Wesley Crusher: What's the point, though, if you know it's artificial?

    Lieutenant Tasha Yar: Because it doesn't seem artificial until after the drug wears off. Then comes what they call a "crash". You feel just the opposite of the way you did earlier: sad, insecure, like everything's coming down on you and there's nothing that can be done about it.

    Wesley Crusher: [DELETED LINE] Doesn't that wear off, too?

    Lieutenant Tasha Yar: [DELETED LINE] Ultimately, yes - but the trouble is that a lot of people can't wait for "ultimately". It's got nothing to do with common sense; they simply don't have enough willpower to ride out the crash. So they take more of the drug to cope, to feel the way they did before. The problem with doing that is, your body adapts to the drug as you keep taking it.

    Wesley Crusher: [DELETED LINE; doing the math] ... Meaning you'd need larger and more frequent dosages to get the results you wanted, wouldn't you?

    Lieutenant Tasha Yar: Indeed. On the other hand, using more of the drug more often also leaves you feeling worse - and for longer - after it wears off. That's how you get trapped. Before you know it, you're taking the drug... not to feel good, but to keep from feeling bad. At that point, all you care about is getting your next dosage. Nothing else matters.

    Wesley Crusher: I see how it all works, Tasha, but I'm still not sure I understand it. Sorry.

    Lieutenant Tasha Yar: Wesley. Don't be. In fact, let's hope for your sake you never do.

  • Anon tries watching nu-Trek

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  • Because if he didn't, he would wind up looking like Hector Salamanca

  • Could you spare some change?

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  • Just because we have chiselled abs and stunning features, it doesn't mean that we too can't not die in a freak gasoline fight accident.

  • Asking her to go out

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  • [WorkChronicles] You are loathesome

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  • The Montgomery Scott model of productivity.

  • Reckless

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  • If you could go back in time for 24h, no consequence on the timeline, what would you do?

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  • (Assuming that "no consequence" also means that I won't die on the trip...)

    • Witness the Tunguska impact.
    • See a Beatles show when they were just some small time dudes playing in a crummy club.
    • Visit the Great Exhibition of 1851 and go inside the Crystal Palace

  • Trump said to lift all military restrictions on Israel on 1st day in office according to reports

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  • I voted Uncommitted in the primary so that Biden and the Democrats would get a count of how many people took the issue seriously. Primaries are a great place for message votes.

    I also donated, volunteered, and voted for the Biden and then Harris campaigns, and didn't hold back any support in public. I had no illusions about how bad it would (now will) be with Trump in the Whitehouse.

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  • Smile and grin at the change all around...

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  • There are people who, disturbed by "big government" today and its tendency to curb the advantages they might gain if their competitiveness were allowed free flow, demand "less govern- ment." Alas, there is no such thing as less government, merely changes in government. If the libertarians had their way, the distant bureaucracy would vanish and the local bully would be in charge. Personally, I prefer the distant bureaucracy, which may not find me, over the local bully, who certainly will. And all historical precedent shows a change to localism to be for the worse.

    —Isaac Asimov, Nice Guys Finish First, collected in The Sun Shines Bright, 1981

  • 'When presidencies go wrong': Economist says Trump may fall into trap that will 'doom' him

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  • We need never be afraid of the vote of informed Americans. It is only the ignorant voter we have to fear, ignorant politically, no matter how fine his house or how expensive his schooling. Such people have never experienced democracy; they have merely enjoyed its benefits. It is hard to explain what democracy is; it is necessary to participate in it to understand it.

    —Robert A. Heinlein, Take Back Your Government

    Unfortunately, there seems to be an awful lot of ignorance out there today.

  • Democrats are trying to work out what went wrong. On the left a consensus is forming

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  • I wish 10 Republicans would eat racist for lunch, because then we'd be down to 9 Republicans!

  • Bernie Sanders doubles down that people are ‘angry’ with Dems after Pelosi said she didn’t ‘respect’ his remarks

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  • Which indicates that policy is secondary to messaging. On every substantive policy metric, Democrats are better than Republicans. People even say they prefer Democratic policies over Republicans' when polled, by wide margins. So it must be the messenger and the way the message is being conveyed that is losing elections. That's not to say that policies don't matter, they absolutely do, but if you've got great policies and shit messaging, then you're not going to win voters over, no matter how much better you are.