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LillyPip

@ LillyPip @lemmy.ca

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Sci-fi & horror author, UXD, software dev, composer/engraver, gamer, seamstress/tailor, nerd, etc; she/her. Aroace.

  • First night in Crete and I already got a friend. Little fella just came in and made himself comfy on MY bed.

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  • It’s an honour when a cat happily shares their bed with you. And such a beauty, too!

  • Peter Thiel: strict AI regulation will summon the Antichrist

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  • I strongly disagree. All incarnations of Abrahamic gods have been vengeful and cruel, including Jesus.

    Believe it if you like, but a loving god is a retcon, and your own texts prove that.

    Humanism is the absence of an authoritarian deity. The reason humanism exists is because we are a cooperative species that’s helped and fostered each other for millions of years. We have archaeological evidence of this that far predates any notion of modern gods.

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  • Okay, but no gods exist, so all belief, no matter how seemingly benign, is delusional and harmful.

    It’s only a small step from seemingly benign belief to this dangerous delusion, and it only takes a charismatic leader saying the right words to turn that belief into violent fanaticism. Otherwise good people will commit or support atrocities based on these delusions.

    People don’t support horrific things because they’re moustache-twirling villains – they think they’re good people supporting good things, and these beliefs convince people to do horrific things by twisting their minds.

    That’s been the case for thousands of years.

  • Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA”

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  • Moisturise me!

  • Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say

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  • Most right-wing outrage has been driven by bots for a decade. Yeah, what’s new?

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  • I don’t disagree that it works. That’s what I mean – a disturbing number of people buy this obvious bullshit, mostly because they were indoctrinated into it, so their critical thinking was compromised before they had the chance to discern fiction from reality.

    It’s sad, and tantamount to child abuse, and now we all have to deal with the shitshow caused by people who believe in fairy tales and will make us all pay for it.

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  • Which antichrist?

    I think manipulating an emperor into adopting your kid as an heir worked once. Another time, tricking people into thinking you’re socialist then backstabbing them worked. Or perhaps whitewashing your record of abject failure by becoming a reality television star.

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  • These people are genuinely, certifiably insane, and they’re in charge.

    People who believe in fairy tales, demons, and other childish nonsense as adults should be referred to mental health services, not be given the keys to the economy and governance.

    How can so many grown adults think this is okay? It’s complete madness. They’re dooming us with their psychopathy and people are nodding along like this is normal. Fucking hell.

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  • Oh good lord.

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  • Isn’t a wildflower mix mostly weeds? Or am I whooshing?

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  • I’m not ‘lumping all Americans’.

    I’ve lived here for decades. I’m quite solidly informed.

  • Extremists are using Discord to radicalize American youth, officials warned this year

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  • Are the authors of this new to the internet?

    This warning is like 15 years too late.

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  • Americans barely know ‘acetaminophen’ , too. Some, sure. Most know Tylenol.

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  • Literally no Americans know what paracetamol is. Randomly ask anyone.

    Americans know brand names: Tylenol, Advil, Prilosec, Ambien.

    I’ll bet you could survey Americans and 999/1000 have never even have heard the word paracetamol. Or zolpidem, and slightly less often, omeprazole (though that one may be increasing due to the general state of things and subsequent need for prescriptions). Most won’t have heard anything but the brand names, and the brand names have been drilled into their heads by way of constant advertising.

    US brands have spend stupid amounts of money making sure people think of their propriety name instead of the real name of any drug.

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  • My neighbour has raised concerns about me because I’ve stopped trimming parts of my lawn to foster the bees. Apparently it’s weird and concerning to let some areas grow wild. I didn’t rake the back last year, and started to see fireflies again.

    I was going to buy a wildflower mix, but that will be too unkempt.

    Fuck HOAs.

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  • And before that, it was all kinds of slurs I shouldn’t say. It’s been here forever, we’ve only developed empathy for it recently.

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  • That’ll happen when you set the baby scale to 13,200 rpm.

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  • https://youtu.be/i8IOL5iLwG8

    Whoa. That young kid just disappeared. :(

    e: trigger warning. Nothing is visible in this video but a massive explosion, but there’s a kid in close proximity before it happens.

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  • 1: it’s not last, and 2: it’s not sad, because 3: people aren’t reading the source material. I love xkcd, too, but that doesn’t apply here.

    Just because results don’t match expectations doesn’t mean we should throw pies of satire in their face. That’s like the response in the OP of ‘no’. This is actually interesting.