Dude, who even knows.
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joyrahgraalsol-deactivated20230:
I don’t think this needs to be said but I really need neurotypicals to realize driving is super hard for neurodivergent people and that driving under the speed limit is ableism
We don’t speed because we think it’s fun, we speed because we woke up 30 minutes before work(depression, minimum wage, texting girled friend, video game) and it triggers our anxiety when they are driving within the limit
Likewise when I’m driving double the speed limit in a residential area it’s because I’m on my way to fuck your mother who is also my girlfriend
We really need you to do better.
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God remember Garden State? Now there’s one that feels a lifetime ago
I mean, if you’re turning 18 next month it was…
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Ever since I became bisexual I’ve enjoyed rewatching movies I’ve seen before and being stunned to realize how attractive the male leads were.
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Recent Supreme Court decisions also reminding that to properly understand the Trump presidency and its relationship to the Republican Party and conservative movement you’ve got to keep in mind that it’s going to keep paying out in major policy wins for a while.
As vs. President Hillary Clinton filling the Scalia and Ginsberg seats (and Breyer but maybe not Kennedy), earning a lifetime of wins off that
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So, Michael Crichton wrote plots about the dangers of amusement parks (Westworld), the underwater (Sphere), wildlife parks (Jurassic Park) and airliners (Airframe)
…did the Florida tourism industry do something to hurt him?
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Anxiety receding now creating the hilarious effect that I am still concerned enough about how concerned I am to feel really relieved that I’m feeling less concerned
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Those who claim that the dollar is in decline often argue that for the last 600 years, reserve currencies have risen and fallen in tandem with their home economies. As the United States’ share of the global economy diminishes, they claim, the dollar’s role will also diminish. But the truth is that there were no dominant global reserve currencies before the U.S. dollar. It is the only currency ever to have played such a pivotal role in international commerce.
Even in a precious metals-backed era China and (proto-)Germany used silver rather than gold
(This is why the Nevada Silver Rush and the Opium Wars were contemporary – the China trade was draining European silver, so a new source was a major prize AND the British cultivated [Company-sourced] opium as a counterbalancing export to China AND they turned to force to turn terms of trade in their favor )
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Recent Supreme Court decisions also reminding that to properly understand the Trump presidency and its relationship to the Republican Party and conservative movement you’ve got to keep in mind that it’s going to keep paying out in major policy wins for a while.
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virgin airlines isn’t a great name for an airline, but imagine getting on a virgin galactic flight. christ alive. there’s a new inherent risk that simply doesn’t exist with earthbound flights: you might have to explain the concept of virginity to aliens, and then explain why you’re on a spaceship named after it
if they don’t have a concept of virginity, you’re now stuck explaining to the aliens why it does or doesn’t matter to you, which would just be an incredibly uncomfortable situation for everyone involved
after you spend several hours spent explaining things, the tall one bows his head. “I see,” he croaks in a murky voice, “but what is sexual reproduction?”
and if they do have a concept of virginity, what if they make fun of you for flying on the virgin spaceship
“we have heard of your kind only through your stray communications. would it be presumptuous to assume there is also a chad galactic we might speak with?”
70s movieception in that the Close Encounters of the Third Kind-ass musical tones that guide us to First Contact turn out to be in fact “Tubular Bells”, the release and popularization of which after use in The Exorcist was the foundation of the entire Virgin empire
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You see where the culture’s head is at with all the stuff about the affirmative action case being read in terms of the old black-white conflict and ignoring that the actual case is probably the most important Supreme Court decision regarding specifically asians since Korematsu, and represents another in a recent series of high-profile moves of Asian-American political identity away from that paradigm and it’s Dem-liberal administrators in ways similar to “white ethnics” of the 70s.
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