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maklodes:

benevolentgh0st:

a couple weeks ago this guy posted in the chicago pagan facebook group saying that he’s a djinn and that there’s a portal between here and egypt and only he and one other person had the power to close it and there was going to be a massive sandstorm… like dude, close the fucking portal, why are you even telling us this

Surely it would be far better to build a protective structure around one or both sides of the portal than to close it! Getting from Chicago O’Hare Airport to Cairo International Airport takes almost 14 hours last time I looked, and there’s an hour layover in Istanbul. (This was the best flight I saw on Google. Many are far worse!) Think of the potential of giving the US Midwest a direct link to Northeast Africa. A flight from Cairo to Rome is 3 hours and 25 minutes! You’d rather give that up than throw together some quick concrete and corrugated steel structure that could stop a sandstorm?

(Maybe the sandstorm is too imminent to do this, but even in that case, if the portal can’t be reopened, I’m inclined to think that it would be better in the long run to just evacuate Chicagoans in the area of the portal, ride out the sandstorm, and then prepare better in the future and exploit the portal’s potential.)

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whatcha-thinkin:

You have the opportunity to travel to a fictional universe but with an important restriction. Which if any would you accept?

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roach-works:

mcu: this world but freelance cops can punch through walls. low chance of fucking an alien.

star wars: a thousand different planets to put up with fascists on. democrats somehow even more spineless and ineffective. however, very high chance of fucking an alien.

star trek: a thousand different planets to be a communist on. may get your shit kicked in by swarthy footballers or chicago gangsters. fucking an alien is inevitable

harry potter: this is just england with an even higher chance of getting hate crimed

middle earth: 50/50 chance on if you’ll get a lovely cottagecore lifestyle or some orc lops your head off. elves very unlikely to put out.

battle tech: chances of fucking an alien unknown. chances of fucking a robot not good.

discworld: not worse than our world but definitely smellier. you will be turned down, crushingly, by a beautiful werewolf. not sure i could survive this.

dune: coachella with no bands and no weed and no way home. they don’t let you ride the sand worms.

hitch hiker: you only get to fuck an alien if it is both humorous and sorta damp. not great odds.

narnia: god is real and you get to be a badger. as a jew, im honestly tempted.

fuck it i guess ill stay home: bad dragon dildos are really expensive and the economy sucks shit. reconsider.

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fruityyamenrunner:

shit, the Discworld would be a terrible place to live. the only thing that makes it worth living is having the narcissistic magical power of will to turn that shithole into somewhere you can survive. when you get like 3 inches outside the skull of one of the magic-using main characters it’s all misery barely kept at bay by the main character of the disc’s ego-defences.

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shieldfoss:

I feel like “Star Trek outside of Starfleet” is the extremely obvious choice? Yeah it’s all communism but it’s communism with the problems solved you’re not going to get Gulaged for proscribed literature because then it wouldn’t be Star Trek, it would be some tankie’s revanchist Star Trek fan fic where they reintroduced the bad parts because that’s the only way they can get hard.

Obviously you might get Borged or Klingoned or Qed or something but IRL you can get hit by a car – we’re not comparing with perfection, we’re comparing with the other options. ST is better than IRL and also better than all the other options.

(That is, for every non-IRL option my first thought would be “Jesus Christ how am I going to survive this?” but for ST my first thought is more like “Ok, time to have a good time. Transporter, one ticket to a great location where I can build my dream house thank you.”

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dagny-hashtaggart:

Also if you’re really that into adventuring and exploration I’m pretty sure there are avenues other than just Starfleet. And if you’re not, as revealed preferences suggest most of us aren’t, there’s a perfectly good near-utopia to live a long and comfortable life in.

Honestly even Star Wars probably wouldn’t be too bad. There doesn’t seem to be substantially more poverty than in the real world, life under the Republic was pretty alright and even the Empire seemed to have let the leash run a lot longer than most real world authoritarian states, and you still have a bunch of futuristic technology to improve your quality of life. Somewhat more planet-killing superweapons, which isn’t great, but honestly with there being about a million planets in known space your odds aren’t too bad.

Basically what I’m saying is that in the absence of widespread healing magic and similar (which none of the fantasy settings aside from HP really have), I feel like “access to modern or better medicine and running water” is a pretty high priority, especially if I’m not going to be the main character.

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txttletale:

i don’t even give a shit if they pack the site with algorithmic garbage to appeal to new users i dont look at the ‘for you’ page anyway and xkit blocks out all that other dumb shit but the phrase ‘the outdated decision to focus on the following page’ is like if one million canaries marched on stage with red flags and died in perfect synchronization with each other

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ankle-beez:

whencartoonsruletheworld:

whencartoonsruletheworld:

hey 2000s kids do u wanna know smth that’s gonna make you feel old as fuck

frozen will be ten years old this year

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(andaisq)

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sweetbabyrayray:

pocket-deer-boy:

pocket-deer-boy:

pocket-deer-boy:

I’m a cis man sure but i also wanna opt out of the gender binary. None of that shit is my fault or my responsibility and i don’t want any part of it

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Believing the gender binary is stupid horseshit doesn’t require me to change my gender actually

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Yeaheyah you get it. Not trans but i believe in their beliefs. Sometimes i remember people form gender complexes around what alcoholic beverages or colors they like and i just wonder how they’re not fucking exhausted from keeping up this stupid fucking horseshit. Just do whatever you want forever

@nimagine i know u reblogged this from me but ur so correct 🙏 get peer reviewed

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transgenderer:

so i normally wear sports bras but i tried on some normal bras a couple days ago and like. how does anyone wear these all day. theyre so uncomfortable. they have like…textures??? and a hard part at the bottom??? and latches and shit?! literally why would you not just wear sports bras. if you wear one thats not like tight they dont even make your boobs look much smaller

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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

felren13:

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

an atheist ghost. they refuse to move on to the afterlife on the grounds that the afterlife does not and should not exist

they only respond to ouija board summonings in order to lecture people for participating in non-evidence-based belief systems

exorcisms dont work cause they dont believe in them.

“yeah sure I could ‘go into the light’ as you so eloquently put it, but let’s be analytical about this. worst-case scenario, the afterlife is real and I get cast into some version of Hell for being a nonbeliever. slightly better-case scenario, it’s a reincarnation-based afterlife, which means I end up having to do the whole Existence thing all over again, which frankly seems like a huge roll of the dice. enormously risky, given the low quality of life many people experience, and that’s setting aside philosophical issues of identity, e.g. without the memories and experiences that shaped me, would I even still technically exist as a version of myself I could identify? reincarnation aside, let’s bear in mind there’s no actual evidence there’s even a so-called ‘afterlife’ waiting on the other side–for all we know, my consciousness will just dissolve into nonexistence. again, huge roll of the dice. and even in the best-case scenario? wherein I somehow pass an Arbitrary Morality Test I didn’t sign up for and get accepted into some sort of magical Heaven or whatever? well. consider it from my point of view. all of a sudden I’d be a member of a strange and unfamiliar society, subject to a completely new set of rules and regulations that I probably don’t get a say in. Is ‘Heaven’ a democracy? will I still have access to free will? will I have meaningful choices regarding lifestyle and occupation? what do the holy books say about that, huh? I could be forced to spend a literal eternity worshiping a deity who has made some extremely questionable and problematic decisions regarding the universe. I’m not signing up for that! how is that any better than my current situation? listen buddy, I spent 80 years living in a capitalist hellhole before death Itself finally freed me from all the obligations and restrictions of modern existence. I don’t work, I don’t pay rent or taxes, I just wander from place to place keeping my own schedule, doing my own thing, beholden to neither laws nor peer pressure. as purgatories go, that’s a pretty sweet deal! and what guarantee do I have that any damned afterlife is going to be more tolerable than my current not-existence, huh? none! none whatsoever. skeptic? damn right I’m skeptic! not to mention this whole Heaven-and-Hell dichotomy seems extremely manipulative if not outright abusive, as moral systems go. that’s no way to parent a species! nope. just, nope. this whole religious afterlife nonsense sounds like a whole lot of unnecessary stress and risk. I’m perfectly comfortable staying right where I am, thanks ever so, so you can tell your exorcist to write that out in latin and shove it up his ass”

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andmaybegayer:

eightyonekilograms:

Look, I am sorry, Thinkpiece Writer, but the Depp/Heard trial is not even remotely “impossible to escape”. I’ve barely read a paragraph about it and I’m not even making any particular effort to avoid it.

how to curate your experience

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