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"if you see someone shoplifting, no you didn't" no but like. i really didn't. i have never in my life seen someone shoplifting because i'm not watching anyone else in the grocery store..? how are y'all noticing things like that. my only goals are enter the store, survive, exit the store

its important to do this every time a museum or school thinks this is a good idea

Did you intentionally make him Cajun before that screencap or was that baked into the prompt already. I ask only because the eyes as green as the bayou got me good

he's naturally australian so i gave him an upgrade

CREATURE????

just when you think it couldn’t be worse, you have to battle a creature

I’m choosing to believe him because I think there should still be mystery and adventure in the world

Okay I looked this one up. He said he talked to God, made up some songs, and lost nine kilos during his 20ish hours in the water. He was also completely nude when he was rescued.

hero’s journey

and this man? Odysseus

he also ate some kind of stick

a part of adult life you never really realize as a child is the constant need for bowls in so many different sizes. you're always doing something and going "man i wish i had the right size bowl for this" no matter how many bowl sizes you have

How did he sneak a homemade blunderbuss up behind a high profile politician in the middle of the day like that? Was he in a cartoon burglar outfit and tip toeing?

no on the burglar outfit at least

the scout is something like 20% faster than the other classes

Traffic "engineers" worship moloch, exhibit 356

These demons think this is the safest way to build a road, so if a driver loses control they can careen into the sidewalk before scratching their paint

I guess it's good that they at least used high-vis paint for the concrete structure, but man, they definitely had other options with their resources

(Also that barrier being outside of the sidewalk is fucking insane)

What is a better way to calm traffic without pouring concrete?

A crew of laborers with one truck can install one of these roundabouts in a single work day. This is as cheap as you are getting

the- I think the "without pouring concrete" stipulation is a bit disingenuous here, considering. Y'know. The whole DEADLY FIXED OBJECT thing. Concrete is quite literally dirt cheap.

There is no such thing as a deadly fixed object on neighborhood streets. That is a term from highway engineering that this Moloch worshipper is misappropriating.

Considering that drivers must keep to speeds that are non-fatal for pedestrians, any crash with a fixed object should be non-fatal after they expend their crumple zone and deploy airbags.

Cars that are not under the control of a responsive driver must be brought to a halt by any means necessary before they strike pedestrians.

no idea who moloch is but your point is valid, I also have no expertise whatsoever, so thanks for correcting me

Moloch is an metal god originally worshipped by the Canaanites. He is powered by internal combustion, and worshippers sacrifice their own children for prosperity.

Reviled and nearly forgotten for milenia, his cult has seen a new resurgence in North America since the early 20th century

for several weeks now this tweet has been causing wars on twitter

So true, everyone knows that the only way to bring about political change is writing on the magic paper.

Just pick your favorite pre-approved name brand politician and assume they'll fix everything exactly like you want! You don't have to even think, let alone actually do anything.

If you like the smell of your own farts, electoralism is for you!

Tumblr uses will really be like ‘You believe in voting? That pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a Walmart’ and then not firebomb a Walmart.

Acab because the people that made this meme thinks the cops should just kill someone like this

Cops having a chuckle because they’re too cowardly to take a beating in order to save a life. All cops are cowards.

Actually, you know what? Ever since I learned that Ira Steven Behr signed that grossly unfair letter against Jonathan Glazer, I've been forced to kind of reevaluate some of my interpretations of things in Deep Space Nine.

Like Section 31. I was willing to suppose that it was always and only intended to be villainous. But knowing as I do now that the showrunner who included it is perfectly willing to turn a blind eye to genocide, I'm forced to wonder...was it critical? Was it?

Like, let's consider canon here. In "Statistical Probabilities", Bashir and the other augments calculate, in no uncertain terms, that the Federation can't win its war with the Dominion. Their model even accurately forecasts things that happen later in the series: the Romulans declaring war on the Dominion; a full-scale revolt on Cardassia Prime. The end of the episode kind of pooh-poohs their model, like, "Well you couldn't even forecast what Serena would do in this room" but like...(1) the premise is basically lifted from Asimov's psychohistory concept, which works on populations rather than individuals, and (2) there's even a line of dialogue in the episode saying that the models become *less* uncertain the further you go in time. And indeed, the Federation ultimately wins the war not because any of their assumptions were wrong, but because there was another factor that they weren't aware of: the Changeling plague. The plague that had, of course, been engineered by Section 31 to exterminate the Changelings.

So again you have to ask: *was* this critical? Or was the real message that a black ops division willing to commit genocide is necessary to preserve a "utopian" society, no matter how squeamish it makes a naïve idealist like Bashir? And yeah, the war is ultimately won by an act of compassion, but only *after* Bashir sinks to S31's level by kidnapping Sloane and invading his mind with illicit technology. So...is this really a win for idealism?

And then we have the Jem'Hadar. They're a race of slave soldiers, genetically engineered to require a compound that only the Changelings can give them. By any reasonable standard, they're victims. And yet, the series goes out of its way, especially in "The Abandoned", to establish that they're irredeemable. You can't save them. Victims of colonialism they may be, but your only choice is to kill them, or else they--preternaturally violent almost from the moment that they're born--*will* kill you. And of course, I've long assumed that this was just a really unfortunate attempt to subvert what had become the standard "I, Borg" style Star Trek trope where your enemies become less scary once you get to know them, but like. I would say that there's pretty close to a one-to-one correspondence between this premise and the ideology excusing the mass murder of children in Gaza.

Or the Maquis. There's this line at the start of "For the Uniform" where Sisko tells Eddington that he regards the refugees in the Demilitarized Zone as being "Victims of the Maquis", because they've kept alive the forlorn hope that they would ever be allowed to return to their homes and...Jesus, when I write it out like that, Hello, Palestinian Right of Return. [The episode of course ends with Sisko bombing a Maquis colony with chemical weapons, though it is somewhat less objectionable in practice than I'm making it sound here].

And you know what...I get that DS9 is a show that's intended to have moral complexity, and to be kind of ambiguous in a lot places, and not to give you simple answers and so on. And I'm *not* trying to do the standard JK Rowling/ Joss Whedon/ Justin Roiland thing where a creator falls from grace for whatever reason and people comb through their oeuvre to show that they were always wicked and fans were stupid for not seeing it earlier or whatever. But I will say that these things hit different when you know that the series was show-run for five seasons, comprising every episode that I've just named, by a man who would go on to sign his name to a letter maliciously quoting Jonathan Glazer out of context to drag him for condemning an active genocide. And given that I've been a fan of DS9 for basically my entire life, this is deeply unsettling to me.

I've never rated DS9 as highly as some trek fans do, and you are covering the reasons why. It's always struck me that this series undermines core concepts of star trek (and I'd argue that this was its primary reason to exist), and the revelation of Ira Steven Behr's position seems to fit perfectly for me.

Of course, then I think about how his proposed story arc for the hypothetical eighth season of DS9 on that "What We Left Behind" documentary literally had the Federation as the villain menacing a heroic Bajoran theocracy, because apparently secularism and pluralism are evil whereas traditionalism and isolationism are good, and it occurs to me that, maybe, you know...maybe I liked Deep Space Nine *in spite of* his vision for it.

"Rent should be no more than 30% of household income" is a really funny and roundabout way to say "property owners as a class are entitled to 30% of gross wages"

Land value tax would fix this

what is biden supposed to do? Stop killing thousands of children? If he does that he'll lose the election!

Certified piss post

local woman who claimed she will "cross that bridge when she comes to it" arrives at said bridge

ive gotten so much mileage out of this tweet. every time i see something on the internet that makes me mad i just think to myself "people in real life: hey man how's it going" and i keep it pushing