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Giraffes know what they did to deserve that.
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Jan 24, 2023 15:20
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If God designed the human body then why did he make it so a penis fits so nearly into a bottom I thought he didn't like that kinda thing. Checkmate creationists, either god doesn't exist or he likes the gay 
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penis fits into a surprising amount of things tbf. various levels of gumption required
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Only Kindness posted:Speaking of Japan and sperm flying everywhere, it looks like they're having a final go at fixing their birthrate problem (Reuters article). If you just correct the racist immigration problem the UK could very easily import the required manpower from any number of English-speaking impoverished nations (that also happen to be former colonies for some reason). Suspect Japan finds it harder to just import their labour given the massive language barrier (and racism).
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kecske posted:penis fits into a surprising amount of things tbf. various levels of gumption required That explains the phases of human religion as claimed in the West. People discover that penis fits into a surprising amount of things.  People decide that just because you can doesn't mean that you should.  People search for rational meanings behind those guiding principles.  People discover that you can use diathermic heating and a hole auger on a watermelon. 
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fuctifino posted:Have you tried Immune. I've been through A Lot of doctors. As you might imagine I'm motivated to. I can handle a little amitriptyline and that's about it. Cold helps though.
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Z the IVth posted:If you just correct the racist immigration problem the UK could very easily import the required manpower from any number of English-speaking impoverished nations (that also happen to be former colonies for some reason). Yeah, agreed, as mentioned we could tweak a few immigration policies here and there and basically solve the issue. Everyone Speaks English, after all. The racists will grumble but when do they ever not grumble. (We won't fix it though, tories ironically need votes and ideology more than we need a strong economy.) Japan's problems will surely need a different solution, from the outside for a prospective immigrant it must really seem, er, impenetrable. Guess they're just gonna have to a) get bizz-ay and b) make it worthwhile to get bizz-ay.
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Very late to this but I watched Glass Onion and it was good. Its remarkable how Daniel Craig went from 'boring gritty james bond with none of the silly charm of the dodgy 90s Bond i grew up with' to 'guy so based that he only agreed to be in the last bond film if they literally annihilated him into atoms at the end' to 'specifically my exact taste in fuctional detective, also he's gay probably'. On balance i liked Knives out's story a bit more but i am here for more Benoit Blanc movies especially knowing that the mildest jabs at billionares and right wing youtubers absolutely boil the likes of ben shaperio's piss. Its very funny that the moral of 'you shouldn't disrupt the energy market with dangerous untested hydrogen fuel' was enough to upset them, the movie literally opposes the bad capitalists with the wronged good one, leftist propaganda it is not.
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Tbf there's also the billionaire character being an opportunistic leech who got where he is explicitly in the text of the film by taking credit for other people's work and not through being brilliant or particularly hard working. Which I can certainly see which it's upsetting to parts of the ideological spectrum.
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OwlFancier posted:The body is very poorly thought out in general I feel. Far too many things to go wrong with it. "Inter faeces et urinam nascimur." Although I'm not sure how you would design a pipe-line for piss and poo poo to be generated, in general. I guess we have a lot of organs that deal with making things acidic and the sort, but basically it's all just stuff to get our caloric content for the day.
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Archaeology Hat posted:Tbf there's also the billionaire character being an opportunistic leech who got where he is explicitly in the text of the film by taking credit for other people's work and not through being brilliant or particularly hard working. I can see that, but i feel like a really leftist movie would have had more to say about the wronged party essentially being the co-founder of amazon (the movie kinda side steps that issue i guess). Capitalism itself isn't bad, its a specific kind of disruptive capitalism and underhanded tactics that are the issue. I guess its just another example of right wingers performatively losing their mind at something that barely scratches the surface of criticising them. I do wonder if it was the youtube lady saying she didn't want to go into right wing influencer territory as it was 'kinda a shitshow' that really got their goat though lol
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Archaeology Hat posted:Tbf there's also the billionaire character being an opportunistic leech who got where he is explicitly in the text of the film by taking credit for other people's work and not through being brilliant or particularly hard working. https://twitter.com/bobisntfunny/status/1607449550813290496
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Mr Phillby posted:I can see that, but i feel like a really leftist movie would have had more to say about the wronged party essentially being the co-founder of amazon (the movie kinda side steps that issue i guess). Capitalism itself isn't bad, its a specific kind of disruptive capitalism and underhanded tactics that are the issue. Yeah, it's a very liberal movie, it's not like it's Sorry to Bother You or something Decent christmas movie, though, very entertaining
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Jel Shaker posted:the laryngeal nerve of the giraffe is always a fun one to point out to creationists That's what happens when you start upgrading from using perfectly functional gills, millions of years of swapping parts in and out... no wonder it's a mess.
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https://twitter.com/TheMeetingPodCo/status/1617813585555763200 So hyped for when we can seal them from the outside and I can just order a preboxed officeperson to be dropped in by bridge crane until it runs out of water or sandwiches or whatever #madeinbritain Jedit posted:"Nietzsche hosed a melon lmao." Just Another Lurker posted:That's what happens when you start upgrading from using perfectly functional gills, millions of years of swapping parts in and out... no wonder it's a mess. 
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To imminently become known as 'the fartbox'.
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Mr Phillby posted:I can see that, but i feel like a really leftist movie would have had more to say about the wronged party essentially being the co-founder of amazon (the movie kinda side steps that issue i guess). Capitalism itself isn't bad, its a specific kind of disruptive capitalism and underhanded tactics that are the issue. Also, the punishment for not-Musk for murdering someone, and the rest of the crew being complicit in her ratfucking and coverup, isn't being blown up by there own bad decisions and hubris in the solid hydrogen explosion... it's just being laughed at on twitter for blowing up the mona lisa, and not being part of the rich boys club anymore.
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smellmycheese posted:In more exciting late stage capitalism news… The next stage after this is the supermarket secretly putting it back on the shelf
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Those pods look like chopped up bits of containers. Haven't checked the link so maybe they are. Maybe theyve got bits of containers stuck on for the aesthetic but I doubt theyre real complete sections of a container cos how would you get them in a typical office? Need to be flatpacked I would think. also the floor looks flush rather than the 8inches up in the air it would be.
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Gonzo McFee posted:Getting pulled up in front of HR again for screaming "WE ARE THE FUTURE CHARLES, NOT THEM" from my plastic cube. "Your performance has been sub-par Gerald, we also noticed you were discussing your pay with colleagues around the printer earlier today.." *Doors deadbolt and vent flips open*
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Good thread on a detail that makes the already-incredibly-weird Ghislaine Maxwell interview even weirder: https://twitter.com/brokenbottleboy/status/1617893519250821122?s=46&t=Lry0UaN1mYMeR59xZQXskw
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Hey thread, popping in with an idea for trolling arch-prick Jacob Rees-Mogg that struck me last night. No idea if the intentionally aniquated twerp has a Twitter account or similar. If he does - and you are prepared to engage - the next time (hell, every time) he makes some regressive and uninformed pronouncement about "those wacky kids/transfolk and their corrosive repudiation of respectable societal norms" Please spam the hell out of his replies with this quote:Young people are searching for values and for sincere human relationships, individual and social, as never before and their destructiveness is directed only at the falsities and hypocrisies of the older generation Source spoilered for the hilarity, try and guess if you don't know. It's from his father William Rees-Mogg's semi-famous 'Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?' '67 Times editorial on the drug bust sentences of Jagger and Richards. Unexpected correct thought from Mogg senior. I'm quoting it from Mick Farren's autobiographical account of counter-culture adventures, 'Give the Anarchist a Cigarette'. Essential reading imo. *********************** Couple of things from some pages back. Sorry, catching up in stolen moments rn Bladerunner chat. Yeah, I'm another to chip in and say that for the time it was an incredible movie experience. Two friends and I went to see it three times in the cinema, the third being explicitly to ignore the story and just soak in all the great details in the background. Still really like it tbh. Clockwork Orange chat. One of my high school friends (a beautiful brave individual who flatly refused to hide his gayness as a teen in the 70s), got stopped in the street by the Polis in '78 or '79 for, "Dressing aggressively" (direct quote). Nothing came of the collar, they just gave him a - baffling to him at the time - strict lecture about the need to avoid overly alarming street wear. He was wearing; straight leg white jeans, white T-shirt, a formerly white denim jacket he'd intentionally stained light pink by washing with red things, and his beloved hand-painted light-grey Doc Martens (you had to make your own colour variants back then). We eventually worked out that they had thought he was trying to be a droog. He's half Roma and his lush jet-black eyelashes probably added to the whole image. Re: cassettes, there is a mainstream resurgence but they never went away in the world of small independent labels/artists. One thing keeping me busy rn is sorting out high def artwork scans and digital rips from original gig tapes for a guy who wants to make a replica re-release of a cassette of my brothers' band from back in the '80s. His label is so hard core on replica faithfulness that he's even making 8-track copies of some things! Liquid Sky Huge thanks to Jaeluni for that archive.org link for this! Saw it in the cinema when it came out and have wanted a chance to revisit the weirdness. Neanderchat Some of you have been kind enough to say you'd like more. I do want to share the story of the Neanderturd and the wonderfully human vignette it allowed us to reconstruct, so I'll do that when I've time. Deep thanks for your interest all! You are really helping me finally get a handle on my "parasocial anxiety" (if you get me) over being judged for what I write anonymously online. Brains are loving weird. OwlFancier posted:If you were of a mind to, you could probably make a bit of cash writing a book called "neanderthal mindset" where you try to come up with ways in which you can be a big strong early hominid by not cleaning your room and keeping everything on the floor in a big pile. Truly great idea! Not one I'd want to write personally but I'd happily help out with research. I even have some experience behind the curtain of the New Age "lets co-opt ancient cultures to With some careful expansion on the theme you could piss off Jordan "pick up your room" Peterson while simultaneously mocking all the Palaeo-diet freaks' stupidity. Guavanaut posted:I thought the current assumptions are more that the most socially inclined made it out, and the asocial withered as we domesticated ourselves. Not so much the liberal individualist idea of the survival of the most ruthless, nor the Abrahamic idea that we were in a state of nature and then decided to poo poo it up on purpose. There is a bunch of evidence for pre-anatomically moderns being pretty drat social actually. Arguably they'd have to be to survive as soft bodied, very poorly naturally equipped opportunistic foragers. *sabretooth tiger voice* "Call that a tooth? This is a tooth!" Think meerkat dynamics, groups of hominins gathering food on the savannah with a few standing watch ready to shout "Lion! gently caress off quick everybody!" We* may be smug about our (allegedly) sophisticated social networks and skills, but that doesn't make the earlier chaps asocial. *the general human "we" not casting aspersions.. There's a lot more on this in the truly excellent book by Penny Spikins 'How Compassion Made Us Human: An Archaeology of Stone Age Sentiment: The Evolutionary Origins of Tenderness, Trust and Morality.' Love that title. My earlier comment on more evidence for early hominins looking after each other than attacking each other had this book in mind. I urge you all to read it. It's a very important book imo, not just for what it shows about what we come from but even more importantly what it says about actual "human nature" and what we could and should be right now. It is a very accessible read, she has avoided unexplained opaque archaeological terminology commendably (the only exception I spotted being ficron a name for a particular type of long narrow, pointed hand axe). Neanderthals were pretty social and their extinction probably had no obvious single cause and more a complex of lots of little things coming together. They were hyper-specialised for Ice Age survival so the end of that probably caused changes in the environment that they couldn't adapt to quickly enough for one. Much how we are starting to think that mammoth extinction was partly driven by increasing forest cover making it harder for them to follow the strategy of tundra grazing that they had evolved for. There have even been suggestions that the Neanderthal's big (and seemingly getting bigger through time) brains may have caused problems in childbirth. (Ouch!) Pistol_Pete posted:Naah, Neanderthals are endlessly fascinating! As I said before I see no reason why old European folklore (and all folklore globally too ofc) can't include traces of stories about extremely ancient contacts with our near relatives. Oh to have some sort of time-telescope that allowed even silent peeks into what must have been a fascinating world. Right, Enough, or Too Much! to quote Blake. See you all in a bit. EmptyVessel fucked around with this message at 20:50 on Jan 24, 2023 |
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EmptyVessel posted:the Neanderturd Good username this
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keep punching joe posted:Isn't gislane maxwell in jail, why is she giving interviews? Are you confusing prison with some kind of Phantom Zone imprisonment where no contact with the outside world is permitted?
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keep punching joe posted:Isn't gislane maxwell in jail, why is she giving interviews? Charles Manson did prison interviews. It's America
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Darth Walrus posted:Good thread on a detail that makes the already-incredibly-weird Ghislaine Maxwell interview even weirder: It's amazing that the entire network that Epstein was a part of is still there and operational, it's just a handful of people who got burned to keep the whole thing going.
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Jeremy Kyle interviewing a child sex trafficker. What a time to be alive
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Guavanaut posted:https://twitter.com/TheMeetingPodCo/status/1617813585555763200 nice try but grandfather paradox
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