CuriousRefugee

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[–] CuriousRefugee@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

The song that the sailors sang in the original B&W is stuck in my head to this day. "Ohhhh, we've got this notion that we'd quite like to sail the ocean..."

[–] CuriousRefugee@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Estuans interius, ira vehementi, Sephiroth!

Das ist auf Deutsch, nicht var?

[–] CuriousRefugee@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

When I'm feeling too happy, I wonder how long it would be before someone found me dead. I live alone and work remotely, so my boss and coworkers might be confused or annoyed if I didn't login to work for days, but probably wouldn't call the police or anyone for a while. I have group chats with friends and call family, but not really on a regular schedule, so not responding for 3-4 days wouldn't be weird. I just hope my cat would find food or eat my corpse to survive.

[–] CuriousRefugee@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Jon is just a ghola that always rebels about every 20-30 years, so Garfield has to have the Tlizaxu create another one for him. Plus he has to deal with the Bene Odiesseret.

[–] CuriousRefugee@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago

They do have courses, but there's also a lot of good quizzes to evaluate your critical thinking skills at ClearerThinking.org

[–] CuriousRefugee@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Did they? This was probably after the Tobias almost kills himself out of depression but then accepts his hawk body arc, so I can't imagine why they thought it was okay to try and traumatize him again.

[–] CuriousRefugee@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Oh yeah, it was a mix of body horror, the brutalities of war, the unconscionable weight of leadership, and happy fun time seagull antics.

The time limit was 2 hours or you got stuck. And that happened in the first book to emphasize "kids, this is real."

[–] CuriousRefugee@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

Oh god I think this is from the Animorphs book where they have to fight another human, not their typical alien enemies. They gave David morphing powers, but he turned/was evil, and so Rachel has to trap him as a rat and leave him out onto some abandoned island or some shit. Those books were brutal.

[–] CuriousRefugee@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

I don't like porn. It's coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere.

[–] CuriousRefugee@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

No, the sign creates a drug-free zone. So if you even try to get near the school with drugs, an invisible forcefield stops you. Please ignore those teens smoking weed behind the school; they're obviously hallucinations.

[–] CuriousRefugee@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

Off the chart: "Fear will keep the local systems in line. Fear of this battle station."

[–] CuriousRefugee@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Would your answer change if she was actually 18? It still seems crazy manipulative. In some countries, the age of consent is 16. Would this be okay if she's 16 in one of those countries? (Let's ignore countries below that age)

I struggle between two ideas: One, where I believe that at the age of majority, a person should get full rights (voting, emancipation, legal, consent, medical, etc.) and it seems wrong to let people vote but not make choices about their body (like drinking alcohol). And two, protecting the young from themselves, like by restricting labor, or setting smoking and drinking ages higher than a majority age,, because those damage still-developing brains way more.

We can fight about what the age of majority should be (16, 17, 18, 21?). I would definitely be okay if this tweet was about a 30-year-old, but I'm not okay with it being a 10-year-old. But whether it's 16 or 18 or 22 where it crosses the line is tough for me.

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