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Shaking my fist at the apocalypse

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andrewstroehlein, to random
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Why are authoritarian-minded rulers so thin-skinned?

In Uzbekistan, for example, authorities are increasingly imprisoning people for “insulting the president online.” The criminal charge could get you 5 years in prison. It’s absurd.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/05/30/uzbekistan-imprisoned-insulting-president-online

rancoisse,
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@andrewstroehlein There's no such thing as total control, and this is another example of the absurdity and harm that results from trying to achieve [total control] through brute force. They can't win, but they can do a lot of damage while they're losing

rancoisse, to random
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Worth adding my name to: https://action.choice.com.au/page/125428/petition/1?locale=en-AU

rancoisse, to random
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Was starting to think I'd missed out @decryption

RickiTarr, to random
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What embarrasses you the most?

rancoisse,
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@RickiTarr My membership of the human race

DrALJONES, to Israel
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    rancoisse,
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    @DrALJONES They can't win - they're fighting illusions. It's horrifying how much damage that can do.

    DrALJONES, to random
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    rancoisse,
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    @DrALJONES That reminds me of a certain decreasingly admired Prime Minister who said, apparently straight-faced, that there was no evidence of corruption in Canberra.

    luciedigitalni, to random
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    Went to Aldi for some cheap yoghurt so obviously I bought some gardening gloves instead

    rancoisse,
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    @MarkAsser @luciedigitalni wot no ski gear

    rancoisse, to random
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    And now, thanks to @pluralistic, I've discovered Carl von Clausewitz. He "saw history as a vital check on erudite abstractions that did not accord with experience"
    QED.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_von_Clausewitz

    luciedigitalni, to random
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    It seems pretty self-evident that this guy should not have been able to get through psychological screening and get anywhere near a government-issued weapon

    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/23/a-grim-find-led-to-a-worse-end-the-case-of-two-missing-men-that-horrified-sydney-over-three-days

    rancoisse,
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    @treleanor @luciedigitalni @MarkAsser Um, Fauziah Ibrahim hasn't been arrested for double murder.

    HeavenlyPossum, to random
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    When I was a teen, I was aggressively anti-theist, imagining myself quite clever for demonstrating how silly religious beliefs are.

    But life is fucking hard and I learned not to begrudge anyone any solution they’ve come up with to make life a little more comprehensible to them.

    I don’t share anyone’s religious beliefs, but it’s not as if I’ve figured out how to run my own life successfully. I shouldn’t be in the business of telling other people how or how not to handle the world.

    rancoisse,
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    @HeavenlyPossum @Radical_EgoCom Acting according to our finite conceptions, religious OR otherwise, in an infinite reality, will tend toward absurd results. That absurdity becomes harmful when resources are applied to the futile effort to force reality to conform to the belief.

    Resources on the scales deployed around the eastern Mediterranean...

    rancoisse, to random
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    Oh what fun we had

    bigzaphod, to random
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    Gonna celebrate tonight by having... pizza from a gas station! LIVING LARGE! (Well, two larges, actually, there's 5 of us.)

    rancoisse,
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    @bigzaphod Why do Americans call petrol "gas"? It's a liquid 🧐

    RickiTarr, to random
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    Dear Comedy Special Directors,

    I don't need to see what the Comedian was doing backstage before their set. I don't need to watch their ass walk up to the stage. Just the Comedy is totally fine, thanks.

    rancoisse,
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    @RickiTarr And how about all those documentaries where they show 5 minutes of bits of the film before the opening titles

    kcarruthers, to random
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    At the dentist. Pain relief is so good nowadays. Not like when I was a kid when they often didn’t use any kind of painkilling at all.

    It’s why so many of my generation are scared of dentists and have PTSD.

    rancoisse,
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    @kcarruthers I sure remember that! The memory still gives me shivers.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    Did people used to look older?

    rancoisse,
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    @isotope239 @RickiTarr @NormanDunbar I outlived my father on the exact day the Mayan calendar ended

    RickiTarr, to random
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    Okay, so I'm going to type out a sentence, and I want you all to finish it, but instead of doing deep thinking about it, just type the very first thing that pops into your head. I know this will be hard for many of you, but try it! LOL

    If I could do whatever I wanted to right now, I would _________.

    rancoisse,
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    @RickiTarr navigating myTardis past the supernova cascades by Metabele III

    rancoisse, to random
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    No, windows, I am not in the slightest "curious about chatGPT and Bing"

    Mrfunkedude, to random
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    Let's take a moment and remember that Halloween isn't just for kids to collect candy.

    Halloween is rooted in the idea that the life of those who have passed, should be celebrated.

    When you die, how will your life be remembered? Will you be remembered for your compassion, humility, or zest for life? Will you be remembered for your cruelty, your anger, or your pessimism?

    Take this time to look inward. In a world constantly in turmoil, how will you be remembered when your time has come?

    rancoisse,
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    @Mrfunkedude My version of the hereafter is that everyone goes to the same place. There are no secrets there. Hell for some perhaps?

    rancoisse, to random
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    No, my name is not Jasmine.

    dasharez0ne, to random
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    GET DA SHIRT AT DASHARE.ZONE - HTTPS://DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

    rancoisse,
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    @dasharez0ne You left the apostrophe out of pickle's; tch

    rancoisse, to random
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    Up yours sincerely
    In there and shout
    Whatever the rest is

    SwiftOnSecurity, to random

    Imagine me wanting to read posts you wrote knowing your uncle will see them. I might as well ask ChatGPT what it thinks about banana bread.

    rancoisse,
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    @minimaxir I asked the valley of echoes if he loved me
    I sighed inside as the hills replied he loved me

    shantini, to random
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    People boost the most random shit on here

    rancoisse,
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    @shantini Boosters are selected from only the very best kids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyFfWnlZ-8k

    dianor, to random

    Been thinking about this whole business and the way it seems to stand in the way of meaningful solutions, proper mitigation and often the same applies to all the "fixes" that get sort of watered down under our current policy. Been thinking about the "why".

    After understanding that our current regulations all favor economic growth and free competition as the very first principle, there can be no "fixing the things" under this model.

    1/

    rancoisse,
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    @dianor @pixelherodev What is that feeling in your chest when you realise what that means. I've been saying all my life (I'm 64) that I was staying till the end. It was a joke (I think) at first but it's no joke now.💔

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