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Tracersmith
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A cute picture of several foxes in a cuddle pile. With text at the top that says. Good at diary management? Love tabletop games that need many players? Attracted to people regardless of gender or sexuality? Think people should sleep in piles? In the middle is pansexual plus polyamorous. At the bottom it says saving on rent the ENM way
December 21, 2024 at 5:32 PM
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First picture: People aren't "celebrating" an assassination. Second picture: people are "denying a claim" for sympathy that's out of their emotional network.
December 21, 2024 at 5:25 PM
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December 17, 2024 at 6:41 PM
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December 17, 2024 at 6:41 PM
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Was listening to one of my podcasts and they quoted this. I immediately knew who had said it. And I think it is even more important today than when he wrote it.
"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness... The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance" Carl Sagan - a demon haunted world
November 19, 2024 at 7:02 PM