gravitas_deficiency

Heh. Another layer. Delightfully cheeky.

Man, I fucking LOVE that so many competent, intelligent, and successful women are throwing the idiot heterosectional’s “single cat lady” quip back in his face from all angles.

Works for a lot of topics that certain users around here are trying to force everyone to perceive as literally the only thing that matters.

It sucks that that one tree you really care a lot about got vandalized, burnt, and cut down, but you gotta realize there’s a whole fuckin lot more trees out there that we still CAN save. This commentary should be taken in both a literal and a figurative sense.

The fuck even is this tho?

Lmao cry more, shitass. Catch us if you can.

You can’t.

And that’s precisely the sort of logic that Putin is incredibly good at taking advantage of.

Appeasement harms far more people in the long run.

Sometimes, decisive - and yes, violent - action is genuinely the best option in the larger geopolitical context.

The lead-up to the invasion of Poland before WW2 is a highly appropriate context to use as a comparison - if Chamberlain had been able to successfully rally the UK’s allies (including the US) and convince them to forcibly oppose the Anschluss, the whole goddamn war might not have even happened as it did in history. Of course, the possibility of Stalin becoming the Big Bad of that conflict as a result instead of Hitler (vacuum of power and all that) can’t be dismissed, but at the same time, that’s all hypothetical, and similar logic could have been applied to that potential conflict as well. I am, of course, taking a HUGE amount of creative and historical liberty - there are tons of reasons why things unfolded as they did, and why what I’m saying here was deeply unlikely, if not outright impossible at the time… but still, thought experiments like this can be useful to consider sometimes.

Unequivocally and obviously yes

They’re fiber optic these days, and often include rebroadcasters and signal boosters. That cannot be considered low-tech.

Automatic (mechanical) wristwatches.

I love the idea of a truly symbiotic relationship between a thoughtfully and carefully designed mechanism and a human. I walk around and live my life, and by doing so, I give it the kinetic energy it needs to keep its mainspring wound, and in return it tells me what time it is. Always. Without fail. I just have to tweak the time if it starts to get too far off, but that’s barely even an imposition. After a good long while, it’s prudent to have them serviced, but if you’re not observing any problems, it’s generally perfectly fine, and will keep ticking along as long as you wear it regularly.

There are a lot of racist and/or psychotically greedy people in the US.

Like, A LOT a lot.

Screw that, I want a phone that folds into a fucking origami crane

Just… why…?