It’s truly unnerving that our human rights, let alone constitutional rights, are under assault by the other half of the country. I’m a male, but limiting the rights of a woman to have bodily autonomy is an assault on all people’s rights to bodily autonomy. If you can tell a woman she can’t legally have an abortion,…

Wow, the person responding to you is so typical of boomer mentality - condescending, patronizing, eager to shit on the younger generations, and generally so full of themselves and their own importance. Fucking hypocrites and sellouts, perfectly exemplified by this scene:

I’m one of those (few, it seems) who think Heretics and Chapterhouse are the best books in the series. Odrade, Teg, n-Duncan, and Sheana are some of the best characters, and the Bene Gesserit are just amazing. God Emperor is a slog, but it has its moments (particularly in regard to Siona). People without prescience…

I discovered (probably 10 years ago) that I couldn’t do rides anymore. For some reason, the whatever percentage of an extra g gives me a horrible migraine. My brain no longer enjoys being squished against the inside of my skull. Getting old sucks.

That’s quite the list. I can only relate to item #1. Tried going over a jump on my bike that the local kids had set up, but I was going too fast and was in the air so long I couldn’t keep the front of the bike up. Went over the handlebars and slid on my hands for a few feet before rolling. There are still [now faint]…

Oh, I actually bit right through a piece of glass in a piece of pizza once. Somehow I managed to remove the - now 2 - pieces of glass from my mouth and avoid injury entirely. I wish I was so lucky in other circumstances.

The same neural lesions that cause amphetamine psychosis are also caused by heavy cocaine use. Once a person has gotten to that point, all it takes is for one strong dose of the substance to elicit a psychotic episode.

Uh... That really makes him sound like a cult leader.

I’m sorry. My bad. I should have researched more before using them as an example. A lot of native cultures are dying, though, as younger generations don’t necessarily want to keep speaking the languages, etc. There are individuals working to preserve languages and aspects of the culture, though. My intention is not to…

That is a good point, and also a good example of how white historians or anthropologists substitute their own concepts in the narratives they create about indigenous groups. Whenever you try to argue with someone about the genocide of these peoples one of the main counterarguments is “but disease killed most of them”.…

Ugh ugh ugh... People like this should be forced to read Black Elk Speaks and Lakota Woman, or at minimum watch Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, if they don’t want to invest the time in reading. It was a straight-up massacre - no ifs, ands, or [especially] buts. It was a heinous crime against humanity, that the US never…

The fucking unmitigated gall of this inveterate douchebag...

It’s not so much about “better”. It’s more (and this is my fault for making the comment about me, when it’s more about the “art world” in general) the principle of it, that someone can sell their work for whatever they want if they know the right people (which is a super-privileged position to be in in the first…

I don’t have instagram, so I can’t see much in the way of detail. But it reminds me of those macaroni and newspaper clippings pieces that the art-teacher loves for being so “thoughtful”, but really aren’t that interesting. How much was this one, again?

Thank you. I followed the link in the article and was terribly disappointed by the tiny wikipedia entry, but even there I could see that the 3-torus is not merely “donut-shaped”.

Something needs to be done! *runs around in circles waving arms frantically*

I was gonna say something along the lines of “stating the obvious”, but apparently it’s not obvious to a certain segment of the population...

I mean, I have had arguments with christians (the dominant religious category in the US, both in sheer raw numbers and in positions of power) claim without a hint of irony that they are “persecuted” or “oppressed”.

ACAB. Fascist pigs. These are the people that are entrusted by the State with the use of violence against its own populace. Not only are they unaccountable to the people, but quite often the State as well. And so now they’re getting protected status by the State, and actually enforcing it (admittedly, and…

Is this the phone version of GETTR?