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GraniteM

@ GraniteM @lemmy.world

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  • Artefacts [War and Peas]

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  • KNOW, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlanta and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Elon, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining forums lay spread across the internet like blue- and purple-linked mantles beneath the stars—Tumblr, 4chan, io9, Fark...

  • time is a freak!

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  • One gets the impression that men's adventure magazines were really stretching to find new and interesting animals to menace the adventurers on their covers.

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  • My story's infinite. Like the laundry, it's infinite, it doesn't rest.

  • What is an old movie that couldn't be made today?

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  • What is an old movie that couldn't be made today?

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  • Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal. No way would a studio agree to do that much hand-crafted work. They'd just have the stars reacting to a bunch of tennis balls and "fix it in post."

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  • I actually don't really care if the assassination attempt was staged or not...

    (For the record, I don't believe it was, because I don't believe this group of chucklefucks could successfully execute such an event without totally cocking it up somehow or accidentally texting their plans to the New York Times.)

    ...because I know for a fact that Trump has done so many horrifying things right out in public where we can see them that if there was any functional justice in the world he'd already be locked up for the rest of his miserable fucking life. Faking an assassination attempt wouldn't even be in the top hundred worst things that he's done.

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  • And they scoop lard instead of vanilla ice cream

  • Men with higher IQs are less conservative, study finds

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  • [H]owever much all this soothes my vanity, and however much I appreciate being vice-president of Mensa, an organization which bases admission to its membership on IQ, I must, in all honesty, maintain that it means nothing.

    What, after all, does such an intelligence test measure but those skills that are associated with intelligence by the individuals designing the test? And those individuals are subject to the cultural pressures and prejudices that force a subjective definition of intelligence. [...]

    The whole thing is a self-perpetuating device. Men in intellectual control of a dominating section of society define themselves as intelligent, then design tests that are a series of clever little doors that can let through only minds like their own, thus giving them more evidence of "intelligence" and more examples of "intelligent people" and therefore more reason to devise additional tests of the same kind. More circular reasoning!

    --Isaac Asimov, "Thinking About Thinking," 1975

  • If you could ask one question and be guaranteed the correct answer, what would you ask?

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  • "Plague."

  • If you could ask one question and be guaranteed the correct answer, what would you ask?

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  • Might get stuck with a small payout.

    "What are the winning numbers for the next lottery drawing with a payout of over $500 million?"

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  • "Can you get this thing out of me... because the batteries ran out and I need to replace them ASAP! HIYOOOOOOO!!!"

  • Trump says he’ll fire Powell next month if he stays in his role at the Fed

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  • Trump Only Fucks Up

  • Breast Envy

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  • She forgot that butts exist. And feet.

  • Things I thought were huge problems when I was a kid

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  • And cliffs! Sheer cliffs seem to be much less geologically common than my childhood led me to believe.

  • The implication of that

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  • At first I thought the American just couldn't recognize short-haired flat-chested Scandinavian moms as women.

  • The implication of that

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  • I became a knife guy. It started when I was visiting a government surplus store and I realized that I could buy knives that had been confiscated at security checkpoints at a steep discount. Then I started developing opinions about grips and blade geometries.

    Now I'm wearing a neck knife every day, and I tell people that once you start carrying a knife, you're amazed to find all the convenient uses you can find for the thing in a given day.

  • The implication of that

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  • I'll be honest, I've given real thought to the idea of trying to leverage toxic masculinity to get men to take on more domestic responsibilities.

    "What kind of real man needs a woman to cook for him?!"

    "Bro, are you telling me that a woman can change a diaper but you can't?!"

    "Dude, if you can't braid your daughter's hair and get her to dance lessons on time, are you even a real man?!"

  • Universe expected to decay in 10⁷⁸ years, much sooner than previously thought

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  • Don't worry, any stuff that doesn't fit into the universe probably doesn't matter.