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A muppet dinosaur
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You can believe in magic, but watch out.
It's fun learning astrology until you start to make broad assumptions about real people's behavior based only on their birthday.
It's fun to speculate about alien civilization until you say early cultures weren't competent enough to build their own pyramids or until scientologists stalk you for every penny you have.
It's fun dressing symptoms in mystical language like "empath" or "indigo child" until you go through life undiagnosed, unaccomodated and feeling less and less human.
It's all fun and games until Tiktokkers tell you hallucinations are actually attunement with a higher dimension and that you should stop taking your antipsychotics.
It's fun to think about possession and changelings until mom starts trying to "save" her child's soul or dad kills his family for having "serpent genes."
It's fun to see natural formations as if they were manmade until you start believing cultists when they say flying saucers are Antarctic Nazis.
You can believe in magic. It's fun to believe in magic. Believing in magic is valuable stimulation. But watch out. Remember your reality checks. There's a lot of cults and scams and white supremacists out there who want to sell you something, and that longing for magic to believe in is how they get you.
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onion not even doing satire at this point
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I can't believe you did an entire video about HPMOR and never brought up the fact that Hermione is a literal immortal unicorn princess in that fic.
I edited out nearly 20 minutes of me losing my shit about things that Happen in that fic because it felt ultimately pointless. But yeah. One of them was the unicorn princes thing.
i am nothing if not a man of the people. Outtakes reel is available for my $2 patreon tier <3
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to me this is the coolest thing a female rapper has done in a photoshoot maybe ever
This is DOECHII btw. You might as well add her name if you're gonna say she did something cool.
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anyway it’s cool and powerful that a man of colour is using his position as a senator to spend 24 hours straight criticising an administration that’s made it very clear that it will go to devastating and unconstitutional lengths to make everyone who isn’t a cishet white man sit down and shut up
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"copyright is good in theory" did you know that you can digitize books and then have infinite copies so in theory every book, every piece of information ever written and published could be shared across the world basically for free but any attempts to actually do this get shut down by copyright lawyers?
they don't get shut down by copyright lawyers; they get distributed to a network of online mirrors that can expand without limit; sci-hub, libgen, zlib, ... others. they are sometimes called 'shadow libraries' and they are invincible. by the time the culture of distributing copies reaches this level of maturity, no copyright lawyer can shut it down. states are the actors who attempt to stop them, but they succeed in stopping this or that node, and never in blowing down the house of cards.
insofar as so-called piracy is this free and easy, only the ignorant or incapable are made to respect it. thus people who rely on copyright protections to make their money are like characters we find in Villon; swindlers, hoodlums, hucksters and the like, trading on the dupability of others. in fact, this is true not only of intellectual property, but all property; big agriculture and pharmaceutical companies and such may make the money they do only when they hoodwink others into thinking what is theirs isn't theirs too (and when hoodwinking fails, iron and black powder suffice).
Disagreement: the production of an item, unless stated otherwise, means the ownership of that item.
disagreement: mine. catch me if you can fucker.
It may be true for physical items that production=ownership, at least in our current society, but online? With the intangible? Mine.
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GET GRUFFALO'D, BITCH
If you haven't heard of Julia Donaldson, she's primarily a picture book author, who we can thank for extremely popular Halloween classic Room on the Broom as well as the Gruffalo.
Let this be a testament to the power of picture books.
I'm living for these jokes.
Also I need "GET GRUFFALO'D, BITCH" on a T-shirt.
