Trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.

Nope, nothing in there about masculine.

Unfortunately the aforementioned list will never contain the most “stone cold killer”, most dangerous predator species of 'em all, because it’s a list kept by that very species themselves.

nods knowingly

Wallabies…

He’s quoting the article.

Dumbasses so desperate for just a small hit of copium. You think that over the course of the last fucking decade, something would have sunk in for idiots to realize they’re being fed horseshit, but no. They’ll keep believing the house of cards is totally going to fall down any day now because they read some bullshit tweet and are too fucking stupid to look up facts for themselves.

I’ve seen like half a dozen articles asking questions like this in the last week.

Money.

The answer is money.

The answer has always been money.

The answer will always be money.

There is no point in asking this question because everyone already knows it’s money.

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It sure is! Don’t get mad when someone holds a mirror up to you making the same pathetic excuses Disney does for their failures.

No, that’s the shitty excuse Disney executives like to hide behind. “PEOPLE ARE JUST MAD WE FEATURED A WOMAN/BLACK PERSON/GAY COUPLE!”

No, people are mad because your writing is shit. Most people are actually A-OK with minority characters, as long as you give them a reason to like the characters. (Except China, but Disney knew that so they made sure they didn’t feature the problematic black character over there). Make them interesting, don’t make them a Mary Sue, don’t build their plot up only to yank it away at the last second and turn them into just another background character.

But no, Disney can’t do that because they are terrified of trying new things. So they made the blandest, most milquetoast, characters possible and made the plot Baby’s-First-Starwars in the first sequel, took what the fans loved about Star Wars and literally burnt it in front of them in the second sequel (while telling fans they were stupid to ever like that part of Star Wars in the first place), and then backtracked HARD into Baby’s-First-Starwars again in the third sequel when they were shocked to discover that fans didn’t like being insulted.

So many issues with the sequels, complete corporate ignorance to just chalk it up to a “toxic fandom”.

Make a ring in your mind, have it spin about one of its axis.

Make another ring inside the first, have it spin on a different axis than the first.

Make a third ring, put it inside the first two, have it spin on a different axis than the second.

That is as far as I can go, it’s hard, but I can make it look right if I concentrate, and it has to be in one particular orientation. I absolutely can not get a 4th ring into the mix, the details get fuzzy and I can’t get it to move right. How far can you go?

How about the one that happened the same day Charlie Kirk was killed?

No, it’s a cheap desk toy.

Is that a labradoodle?

Boiled in a big pot with potatoes, carrots, and a large slab of corned beef and spices for several hours.

If it’s all propaganda and nothing happened, then why the fuck is China so draconian about preventing any and all conversation about it?

I mean, if it was all made up lies, certainly they would want people talking about the truth of the matter, rather than banning and prosecuting anyone who dares mention that it was anything other than a normal day.

Now, some people might see this and easily be able to tell that something stinks and clearly there is something they are trying to cover up. We call this “Not having the critical thinking skills of a dead goldfish”

Do they? I mean, I’m sure some people do. But some people also think shoving chili peppers up their anus is pleasurable. We don’t go around saying “People now think shoving hot peppers up their ass feels good.”, because while it’s technically true, it’s disingenuous considering how few people fit into that category.

Does Lemmy have a way of blocking sources?

I mean, he probably won’t fly commercial passenger flights anymore, but there’s a good chance he could still be a bush pilot in Alaska.

Shrooms might be out of your system, but there can definitely be after affects that come about hours after you think you’re “done” tripping. Anecdotally, it happened to me. Took some shrooms with friends one day, had a great time, came down without issue. Later that night (roughly 16-18 hours after the trip) I experienced something that broke my psyche for a while.

I won’t go into details, but I 100% believed I got sucked into a horrible alternate reality and was trapped. I wound up jumping out an open window on the second floor to “escape” and had a full on psychological breakdown. After several days of ego death, I decided it had to have been residual effects from the shrooms, because I just don’t think I can accept the alternative.

Granted, that is not a full 40 hours like this pilot. But before my experience I would have told you it’s not possible to have hallucinations from a psychedelic hours after the trip had ended. Psychedelic’s literally make new connections in your brain, it’s not like those all just disappear when it leaves your system.

Part of me agrees with this, part of me thinks that these people are too far into the weeds to know what’s possible. Change brings chaos. And when you’re at your stressful job with a shitty machine that you are constantly trying to keep running, eventually you reach a point where the thought of turning off the machine is unthinkable.

From an outside perspective, it seems obvious. The machine is bad. We should get rid of it and try something different. But that concept is terrifying to the people who work on the machine. Turn it off? But they’ve spent years learning how to work with the machine! They know how to sometimes get the machine to do what they want! If they replace the machine with something else, what if they can’t figure out how to work the new system? Maybe someday they can replace the machine, but right now? In the middle of everything else? No, no, far too risky. Best to try to keep working with the same old machine.

Ok, but only to an extent. Prisoners 100% get fingerprinted. Not sure if they collect their DNA too, but I wouldn’t be at all surprised; to the point where I already assume they do.