PICARD: Data, shields up
DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy.
[camera shakes]
WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS
DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to raise shields, and I didn't
ME: fuck, this spreadsheet is going to be unreadable
ENENTARZI (Sumerian accountant whose soul is imprisoned in my Excel program): O great scribe, by the blessing of Nadu, perhaps a pivot table?
ME: hey thanks man
ENENTARZI: Truly this afterlife is a wondrous and blessed one
the most powerful wizard in all the land: i am here to save you, you poor fool of a king. your mind is being poisoned
my trusted advisor grimey snakelips: we cannot trust him, my lord. send him away
me (not listening + playing games on my tablet): youre right grimey
POV: The year is 7557 B.C. in the Andes mountains of Peru 🇵🇪. Locals have recently domesticated the potato 🥔. You are a proto-Quechua man who has a mutation for higher copy numbers of the AMY1 gene for more amylase enzyme in saliva. You digest starchy potato diets more efficiently than other dudes and are thus more energetic & nourished looking. The local Peruvian girls notice your exceptional stamina. You are about to experience natural selection 🥰
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Andor did something to me that no other Star Wars film ever could: they made me actually HATE the empire. Before they were just nebulous bad guys, but in Andor they became an oppressive violent force that exerted their authority just because they could and I wanted them to lose like never before.
I’m sorry, I know this bums a lot of you out, because you’ve built your personality on being to pro-market, pro-technology guy, but technology is just very clearly making us less happy
I go on Facebook once a year to check who still wishes me happy birthday. A few years ago I read a fascinating book on the Congolese Civil War, started looking up militia commanders who’d been interviewed, realised they all had Facebook accounts and started sending them friend requests so for a couple of years now I’ve received more happy birthday wishes from Congolese warlords than university friends.
Aitana Bonmatí representa tot el que el Barça i Catalunya hauria de representar: valors com el civisme, catalanisme i ser filla d'un membre d'una organització terrorista.