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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Isn't deliberately missing the point also satire?

Also, to lean into it: they only took Manhattan because they didn't dare step foot in the other boroughs. Except for a bar in Williamsburg (I'd say one with skeeball but that doesn't narrow it down), they were super popular there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

With plenty of tongue.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

That's a great question. I wonder if the judge knows the owner/founder of Lighthouse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I think selling such skulls would be highly unethical.

Would you? Why? FWIW I agree that as long as there's a living person who cares about the fate of the bones then selling them would be unethical, I'm just curious as to your specific reasons - like, what is the hypothetical you're imagining, behind this statement? Are you contending it would be unethical even if nobody living cares, just due to the provenance? I can see why you would object if the former user of the anatomy believed in the sanctity of remains, for example.

I'm not sure I'd agree, but I'm not sure I'd disagree either. I'd need to think on it more. Right now, I'm leaning towards respecting the wishes of the dead as far as their remains go, because the universe is big and cruel and the only kindnesses are those we make for each other, so why shouldn't that extend as far as we do?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Some believe the original spelling of Dionysus was Dion-AI-sus, alluding to the popular god's birth from the Roman Quantum Computing Institute's Silicon Zeus programme. Fun fact: The Institute's motto, found scratched on the underside of nearly every flat surface in their office park just outside what is now Athens, was literally "We put lightning in rocks". Dion-AI-sus' ascent to godhood was the Institute's first replicable success from Silicon Zeus. Their prior creations were mostly failures; only occasionally did they "catch lightning in a bottle" as they put it (presumably to feed to the rocks).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

I think you don't understand the difference between fundamental rights and regular old rights. A right does not have to be fundamental to be a right.

And, if copyright law were about encouraging creation, it would not restrict the use of other peoples' work.

Would you do me a favour? Read back over this thread until you realise you just argued creation is "encouraged" by a category of law which only restricts the use of other peoples' work, including modifying it to create derivative works, and has been used as a club against creation to boot. Consider, how does Nintendo kill Smash tourneys? How many YouTube videos have been wrongly DMCA'd?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

That's crazy! At my job, I just help our users. I don't have to build (and then maintain) infrastructure with them.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

I regularly fix my bashrc file with Notepad. I run it in Wine because I cbf to RealVNC from my Windows CE media server.

(n.b: None of this is real, I wrote it to upset people, I'm sorry)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

With Warframe, the grind is very there but it's not the point. The point of Warframe is to learn how to slide and float around the level like an anime protagonist with everything falling to ribbons or exploding into gory mist around you, and to look good doing it. The unlocks and currency and quests all serve to open up different places and ways to do that. I saw someone saying the story is great; I dunno, it didn't make a lot of sense to me, but that just means you can ignore it if you want. I put in over 800 hours because that bulletjump traversal feels so damn good (and I hate grind, WoW made that happen years ago). My wife has over 1000 hours; we didn't have a clan, we only played together.

That's a lot of hours, for free.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (3 children)

A retired Aurora police sergeant faces criminal charges for raping his daughter and continually sexually assaulting her and his two adopted daughters, but he remains free from custody while his ex-wife is in jail for objecting to court-ordered reunification therapy meant to repair his relationship with two of his sons. The mother, Rachel Pickrel-Hawkins, said the reunification therapy by Christine Bassett, a licensed marriage and family therapist, has been harmful, abusive and counterproductive. The reunification therapist, Bassett, is conducting the therapy at Lighthouse Christian Counseling in Fort Collins, which advertises itself on the internet as “integrating faith into the counseling process.”

“We believe that, as we push into the hard and painful things surrounding us, God meets us with both grace and truth,” the website for Lighthouse Christian Counseling states. “It is our delight to extend that grace and truth to others, regardless of their faith journey.”

"Reunification Therapy" that turns out to be just psychologically and physically abusing victims into a Stockholm Syndrome-like relationship with the child rapists that abused them? From a Christian organisation? My face right now, I am telling you three times, it is the Platonic Ideal of shock and disbelief.

 
 
 

Radio Patch Notes when?

 

From the end of "That Mitchell & Webb Look", S02E01.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12008724

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Damar is 100% Kif

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

A GIF of the human "success" animation for researching Core Waste Dumps, from the game "Master of Orion 2: Battle At Antares". I actually played a game all the way through to this point to get the footage, as I didn't have it on any of my games in progress at the moment.

Not only that, but the post I made it for got buried under downvotes, so nobody'd ever see it if I only posted it there. I hope other enjoyers of this sci-fi 4X classic find a pleasant dose of nostaligia in it 🖖

 

Damar is 100% Kif

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