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this is honestly so endearing

thinking about when i mentioned tom and jerry by title alone to my 65 year old father and his only response was to laugh REALLY hard and say "him and that fucking mouse.." while staring into the distance. and then the conversation was over

I AM NOT PAYING 500 DOLLARS + 20 DOLLARS YEARLY + 80-90 DOLLARS FOR A CARTRIDGE THAT DOESNT EVEN CONTAIN THE GAME DATA JUST TO PLAY A GAME, NINTENDO.

Chat is this real?

UNFORTUNATELY, YES.

might i suggest donating to standing together, now more than ever? if there’s going to be zero pressure from the US on netanyahu going forward, groups within israel pushing for change will need even more help and support in these coming days and years

they’ve also been doing a lot of on the ground work making sure aid trucks actually make it into gaza

everyone here when i post quotes from The Alternian Candidate

the context is rose got high on sopor slime and started quoting her terrible teenage writing project.

is it ever explained what happens to the replicator rations of people who die on the Voyager? like, do they get added back so everyone gets 0.1 more of a ration or, more likely, is that energy simply used for something else from then on?

or, funniest option, it's passed down to the person they were closest to on the ship. like, sorry your bestie died, now you get to replicate twice as many things!

I think the number one cure for self image issues is going to a kink club and just making friends cause you will find the most wonderful and sexy old fat disabled transgender queer and freaky people in the whole entire world that you will never see on TV and they will all have a line thirty miles long of dreamers openly begging for a piece of that

yknow i really dont feel like i should have to say this but um. stop referring to kinks as degenerate

like really just stop using that word ever but *especially* don't use it here

this has gotten its fair share of buffoon comments but my favorite one is the now-deleted one that was like "well the people who use it in the bad way are such a small minority that we shouldnt let them dictate our language" and its like

shoutout to the OTHER now-deleted comment asking if they could reclaim it (and then going “wait i dont need permission”) and then doubling down when they were told it was nazi rhetoric no matter how they use it

saying “yeah yknow what i am the reason society is falling apart!! hell yeah!” is not doing anything to challenge the fundamentally fascist, eugenicist idea that deviant sexual behavior (originally race mixing but i have seen neonazis apply it to lgbtq+ people too) is responsible for societal and artistic decay

nazi word. stop using it. if you wanna do that so bad just call yourself a pervert like everyone else

only need 1 more shonen guy and then they can... no i shan't say it

being orthodox online is wild you'll see the most issur deoraisa kefira you've ever seen in your life and everyone is like lol classic judaism

#very early conversion student here#the pop culture conception of Judaism here is insane. I had someone tell me that Judaism had no concept of martyrdom#Do you sing something different on Yom Kippur...?

See you get it. I don't know what religion you're doing my my Judaism 100% has a concept of martyrdom

Hello??? Tf??? Like if you don't know halacha don't confidently declare it as if it is???

Everyone loves to talk about píkuach nefesh but no one wants to talk about the exceptions

“Pikuach Nefesh” “tikkun olam” “judaisms six genders” “your intentions over your actions” “Judaism does not do martyrdom” “Judaism is about inclusivity”

It feels weird to say, but I feel like a lot of “classic Judaism” seen especially online is just buzzwords that are easily manipulated into appearing as modern leftist values. Just as long as yk, you don’t,,actually know much about the topic at hand.

Pikuach Nefesh has exceptions. The six genders thing isn't genders, it's about souls and is extremely kabbalistic and should NOT be watered down nor frankly discussed by people who have no idea what it actually is about. Intentions in Judaism has weight but actions speak louder. And as for martyrdom there are literally situations that you are supposed to die al kiddush Hashem.

Judaism is a deep, deep well of information, debates, discussions, and laws. If you try to twist it into something shallow and general for your own gain, it turns Judaism into something that I believe to be antithetically not.

*I cannot speak on tikkun Olam. I believe it's mainly a Chabad thing? And I am not Chabad and thus didn't grow up being taught much of anything about it.

OK so I'm not an expert but I am pretty sure the six genders thing is not about the soul or Kabbalah. It's about what the legal obligations are for people with different intersex conditions.

see also

"judaism has no heaven and hell"

"there are no clear answers in judaism because we argue about everything"

"judaism is about fighting god in a denny's parking lot"

also, not exactly the same thing, but i find "shake a lemon at god" to be extremely irritating

Yeah this is a good contextualization, and might be what some people mean when they say Judaism has no concept of martyrdom, but... it's still frustrating.

judaism is diverse, like any religion.

okay it’s come to my attention that absolutely NONE OF YOU know ANYTHING about how cutie marks work. let me say this simply. a cutie mark isn’t a job being assigned, it’s a special TALENT OR SKILL that the pony enjoys. Most of the time it has a directly transferable job for that skill, like if you enjoy baking and are super good at it WOW! baker. If you are really good at writing and telling stories, author. However, there are some cutie marks that could go multiple ways.

twilight sparkle has exceptional magic ability, so she became a scholar, but she could really do anything that required a good magic skill. same with rainbow dash, her weather controlling job isn’t directly linked to her cutie mark, but it does fit the bill for the job.

i was posed the question of what would a murderer pony’s cutie mark be and wouldn’t everyone know. NO. if somehow murder were to be a special skill, the cutie mark might be something like a knife or a shovel. other ponies might just assume you’re good a cooking or gardening. now with cutie marks like apple jacks, their family has a ‘green thumb’ kind of deal so obviously the cutie mark would be hereditary.

so, the reason i made this post. walter white pony’s cutie mark would NOT be blue crystals. it would be a CHEMISTRY FLASK.

so the Beta Kids are the Way They Are in my fic supposedly because of their home situation, but their home situation is much different from canon and they are kinda acting like they did in canon. which just goes to show something.

i guess that's the problem with any AU that delves into the character's psychological depth

as much as this story might blame Betty Crocker for June Egbert's problems, in canon she didn't raise June so what's June's excuse there?

then again canon doesn't have June really interact with ordinary people outside of her friend group and this fic does and we see June sucks at that.