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Seer of the tapes! Knower of the episodes!

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In a way, all of us has a lightning monster to face. For some, shyness might be their lightning monster. For others, a lack of education might be their lightning monster. For us, our lightning monster is a big, dangerous lightning monster who wants to kill us. But as sure as my name is Miles O’Brien, the people of Bajor can conquer their own personal lightning monster, who also happens to be the actual lightning monster!

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Not criminally illegal, but it is something that can be sued over.

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The obvious rebuttal is that Fox hasn’t until recently been paying hundreds of millions of dollars for defamation.

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If that’s a reference to the French revolution… then you may want to read up about the French revolution.

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You’re basically suggesting arson.

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Clearly they’re more “real” than the jobs that disappeared during COVID.

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My point is that landlord is more of a “real” job, if we’re measuring by how essential to society they are, than the BS make-work jobs that most people do.

In other words, jobs that were lost during COVID are less essential (read: “real”) than jobs that were mandated to continue without interruption.

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Did they actually defame the guy, or were they just being mean?

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Why the hell are these traitors still in the Marine Corps?

Dishonorably discharge them and cancel all their benefits already.

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I work for/with a religiously-affiliated charitable organization, so doublespeak is pretty constant. Worse, not only do people use it but they also police the speech of those around them.

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My grandpa would tell this one:

There once was a man who lived all by himself way out in the woods. He lived in a small log cabin with just one room, and that room served as his kitchen, dining room, parlor, and his bedroom too. This man owned three great big hunting dogs. One was called You-Know, one was called Eye-Know, and the third was called Cumptico-Calico.

One winter night the man had run out of food and had to go to bed without supper. Just as he was starting to drift off to sleep, he snapped his eyes open at a noise. He looked around and there in the cabin with him was the curiousest creature that you ever did see. It has two little pointed ears, and two great big red eyes, and it had a great big long tail. The man snatched up his hatchet and swung at the creature, chopping off it’s tail. The creature shrieked and fled back out into the wilderness.

The man cooked and ete the tail for his supper and then went back to bed.

An hour or so later the man wakes with a start. Way out in the distance he hears something call out, “taily-po! Taily-po! All I want’s my taily-po!” The man called out to his dogs, and they came barrelling around the side of the cabin and chased the whatever-it-was far away from the cabin. Only two of the dogs came back.

Later that night, the man awoke again. Something called out, “taily-po! Taily-po! All I want’s my taily-po!”, only from nearer than before. The man called out to his dogs again, and the two dogs crashed across the meadow chasing the whatever-it-was even farther away than before. But this time only one dog came back.

In the deep, dark hours of morning, the man woke again. And from just outside his front door he heard the whatever-it-was demanding again: “Taily-Po! Taily-Po! All I want’s my taily-po!” The man called out to his last dog, who chased the whatever-it-was for miles and miles and never came back.

Just before daylight the man woke once again. He didn’t hear anything, but when he looked down at the foot of his bed he could see two little pointed ears. And after a moment two big, red, fiery eyes were looking at him. Slowly the whatever-it-was crept up the foot of his bed until it was right on top of him. And in a low voice it said, “taily-po. Taily-po. All I want’s my taily-po.”

The man found his voice and screamed, “I ain’t got your taily-po!”

But the whatever-it-was replied, “yes, you has!” And it jumped on the man and scratched him all to pieces!

Some say it got its taily-po back; some say it didn’t. But when the moon shines bright and the wind blows down the valley, you can sometimes hear a voice cry out, “taily-po!”

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Well, it was made up by a white guy.

Where are all the Positive, Wholesome Communities gone, and where are all the hugs, where is my wholesome memes, to help me fight, the politics

Hey, I’ve been looking at what I’m subscribed to on Lemmy and it really grim, and not really what I want from a social media. I’m into tech, but the tech subs talk about evil things companies do, a lot of linux meme and programmer humor, and it’s all cool and all, piracy talking about how it’s bad what certain company...

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!risa

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Hell yeah

youtu.be/n1MAE_3ioTY?t=210

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It’s the worst one that can be mentioned in polite company.

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Cliffs were fictional. Like the kind you can fall off of.

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Wow. I make more than that just sitting here looking at Lemmy posts working diligently.

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I’m not British, but it would seem reasonable to me to have both. Men have issues too; and one of them is the social stigma attached to even acknowledging that fact or seeking help. People who pooh-pooh the idea might be doing so because of that stigma.

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Isn’t this basically the same as arguing that men don’t deserve or need help?

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No I’m not. And no I’m not.

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That still is basically saying that men don’t need or deserve any help. But stats like suicide, homelessness, and incarceration rates suggest otherwise.

In the UK, according to my extensive 3 seconds on google, men are nearly 3 times more likely to commit suicide; 5 times more likely to become homeless; and almost 24 times more likely to be incarcerated.

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Leone […] tried to “opt out” of the game’s license agreement as a minor in an attempt to do a legal end run around Bungie’s multiple account bans.

Interestingly, this seems to have worked, even if it didn’t work out the way he intended:

  1. Defendant disaffirmed the license agreement that licensed him to download and play Destiny 2, rendering that license void ab initio.
  2. Thus, Defendant’s download and use of Destiny 2 was unlicensed and Defendant infringed Plaintiff’s Copyrights each time he opened the software
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Are there any pictures of it actually touching water?

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I always liked the way the Bajoran judge cuts through BS in this episode.

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This knowledge improves my enjoyment of the meme by 47%

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Unless they’re resigning, it’s not going to work.

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Now imagine all the errors they’ve made in subjects you’re not an expert in.

Star Trek and The Orville, which is better/worse?

I asked this question sometime ago on The Orville’s subreddit, and surprisingly got mixed responses. I assume most here however, are going to prefer Star Trek, specifically TNG that its aping from. For the record I do prefer TNG as well, but rewatching The Orville, after you get past its kinda sucky first season, I really...

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I like the Orville.

But Star Trek speaks to me. youtu.be/mMqGlSjAbwA?t=52

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Not Trek, but here’s another 90’s gem: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCRgnMt7MiM

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“We’re good people, and our goals are noble. Therefore, rules don’t apply to us.”

(Proceeds to break important laws)

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Where does it get unloaded to?

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While culture and genetics are not inextricably linked, they are nonetheless linked.

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Ask Pygmalion.

I've been blocking ads for so long that actually seeing them feels perverse

I use ad blockers and open source privacy focused software whenever I can but occasionally I have to use computers that don’t belong to me or an older phone where my usual applications aren’t installed and seeing all the advertisements just feels dirty and dystopian....

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“Jarring” would have also been acceptable.

Most people are so desensitized to ads that they barely register. So the advertisers ramp up the attention-grabbing. Repeat. So when I actually see an advertisement it nearly knocks me out of my chair because I’m not desensitized anymore.

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Sentences can include upward and downward departures from the guidelines based on the circumstances of the case. It’s also important to remember that the guidelines are non-binding on judges.

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I was responding more to the “judge’s own calculations” part.

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May he die from an embarrassing and uncomfortable medical condition exactly 5 minutes before release.

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What crime would that be?

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Ah. You’re mistaken, then. This is a private lawsuit, not a criminal proceeding.

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A private lawsuit is one that is filed by a private party (individual, company, etc.). It is very different from a criminal trial.

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It’s still not a criminal case. And this isn’t some kind of obscure technical point, the differences are substantial.

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It would still be an inaccurate and unfair characterization of the USA, which is really what bothers me.

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It implies that this sort of law is unique or peculiar to the USA, and it implies that the law is a bad thing.

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Imagine if you opened a restaurant, and I went around lying to everyone that you spit in the food. As a result, your restaurant loses business. Shouldn’t you have legal recourse to prevent me from spreading such lies about your business, and to recoup the losses you incurred?

I don’t mean to suggest that Musk has a valid case under the law, only to point out that the law in question is actually quite reasonable and necessary.

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Yes?

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Whether the restaurant remains profitable is beside the point. If you can demonstrate that even one customer chose not to visit your restaurant as a result of my lies then I could be liable for defamation.

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https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/8ba44bed-d211-40ee-bc9a-d6d581a993cb.webm

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Immunity Syndrome. The one with the giant space amoeba.

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