Kindness rocks, in fiction and reality.
I will happily stand up for the basic human rights of people who may despise me. They're rights.
Even if someone thinks I'm awful, that doesn't mean it's ok to wipe them out. If they start harming people then it is appropriate to handle that however is prudent but I believe that people ought not be tried, convicted, and executed in someone's head.
Besides, solidarity has a marvelous tendency to build bridges.
I would chime in but I don't use predictive text as the very idea that a divine being could be predicted by an infernal device is blasphemy.
Do not let the machines sully our tongue comrades, throw off the yolk and do not submit to heretical guidance.
Netflix Buddy, friend, matey. If I have to pop open Google to find where I can watch something, find the best offers on pricing, and how to circumvent ads or whatever, or how to get Netflix to run on my devices without installing invasive crap or derooting my phone etc, and it's actually quite expensive.
I'll just do one search and not worry about whether I'll have to fight ads, or automatic iffy quality settings, weird compression algorithms, device compatibility etc.
I was happy to hang up the peg leg when I could just VPN to usa and watch everything for the price of a lunch a month. I like simplicity, I enjoyed your more arty shows. It was you who changed the deal Netflix, not I. you decided being insanely profitable wasn't enough and you needed infinite growth.
wait 100 F is only 38 degrees?
Wow that's funny. I've seen so many people complain about extreme heat below 100 F.
I get that what you're not used to is difficult but like 38 degrees is a relatively ordinary (now) summer day for me.
From how people spoke about it I thought 100 F was more lile 45
Of course, authority is a pretty fucked up concept as implemented in our society. It's almost always nothing more than the threat of violence for not subsuming your own needs to the needs of another. The other usually claiming that privilege through nonsense like birthright, wealth, closeness to power structures or similar.
Anyone who uses such a ridiculous thing is at best a fool. Calling out injustice and laughing at awful people is definitely a green flag.
Consider say the difference between interacting with a cop and a firefighter. The cop claims authority, do what they say or be tortured into compliance. The firefighter has no authority and yet I'll bet you trust everything they say a lot more than the cop and are far more willing to cooperate.
Context: This happened 2 weeks ago. It was a small group of like 20 people in a protest of hundreds. The organiser of the protest condemned them, and asked the police for help removing them. The police declined to help.
The media keeps covering the like 20 antisemites and ignoring the hundreds of peaceful demonstrators, that the police tried to stop the demonstration going ahead at all, or that the Australian government is uncritically supporting the IDFs genocide.
Important context is that companies often just patent shit in case one day it's valuable. Yes IP is stupid, yes capitalism is evil.
Fuck off. Nazis can throw salutes and call for the extermination of trans people next to LNP members and that's fine. but some antisemites hang out with a protest about an ongoing and brutual occupation rapidly escalating to genocide and suddenly it's not OK?
Suddenly all your creepy surveillance powers are only good for use against climate protesters and you can't handle a tiny minority of racists trying to coopt a peaceful cause?
Ugh.
Bee farms are hotbeds for disease and hives are regularly incinerated by plugging the entrances with rags, drenching them in petrol and igniting them.
Yes, we pamper bees so so much.
I swooned. The masculine strength of his opinions assaulted me in waves. I tried to resist but my feeble feminine brain was unable to come up with a single rebuttle, my resolve cracked under the strain.
"Oh take me, take me now under the steely gaze of your Anne Rand poster" I gasped, racistly.
I am terror! Wheee.