JUST AS A FUN LITTLE EXPERIMENT: My second week of work I decided I was gonna start saying the word “gander”. Like “oh I’ll go take a gander at that and see if we have any”
Yesterday(week 7) my boss was like, “hey let’s go take a gander at that”
I HAD THE BIGGEST GRIN
I have a totally unreasonable faith that the world is on the brink of becoming a lot better. We're going to be healthier, we're going to live longer, our lives will have more peace. We'll be as flawed & human & awful as ever, but we'll suffer less. I feel it in my bones
Imagine being an explorer in the fifteenth century and having to deal with this BS. Only on the green lines did their compass *actually* point due north.
The next flood will not be water it will be noise and no one will drown they will just forget they ever had a voice. and the ark this time is silence and almost no one is building it
These people truly believe they are a higher caste.
Lindsey Graham has spent years voting to let the government spy on you without a warrant, rubber-stamping programs that vacuum up the calls, texts, and emails of millions of ordinary Americans.
When it was your privacy on the line, he called it necessary, patriotic, a small price to pay. The moment the machine he helped build points at him, it becomes “crap” and he wants tens of millions in damages.
That is the mindset of the ruling class. Surveillance for you, payouts for them. They do not see you as fellow citizens. They see you as acceptable collateral for a system that must never, ever inconvenience them.
Both of them. The Iliad is not a work of hackneyed moralistic dualism. Hector and Achilles are both great heroes and were both seen as model men by the Greeks.
A virus that can infect cells all over the body will not have a "narrow" set of symptoms. This is why denying what we call Long COVID is no different than denying SARS-CoV-2 exists at all. If you understand anything about the virus, you understand why the symptoms are so varied.
@theLifeofJerryB@chris_j_paxton Perhaps, I could agree that time travel shenanigans providing human tech could allow a future civilization to industrialize