I would dearly love for more people to be capable of differentiating between public risk and personal risk.

Examples: drinking is a personal risk. Drinking and driving is a public risk. Going scuba diving is a personal risk. Running a scuba shop with faulty equipment is a public risk. Riding a bicycle without a helmet is a personal risk. Not maintaining public transport safety standards is a public risk. Foraging for mushrooms is a personal risk. Advertising a mushroom identification app that uses shoddy AI is a public risk. Elective surgery is a personal risk. Not wearing a mask in a doctor's waiting room when you are sick with a contagious illness is a public risk.

I could go on just about forever here. But it's a really important distinction and it drives me nuts when they get conflated, and it's so common.

"Your Liberty To Swing Your Fist Ends Just Where My Nose Begins"

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Today she is 83-years-old 💪🏼

i love 90s television all these high quality fabrics got me so turned on i almost passed out

My favourite thing in the world is seeing folks act like real human beings around big celebrity personalities

i’m a real wizard btw

Do you know any spells?

no.

You get a Sea Mullet

New Star Trek spinoff idea: This

hm

I’m weak.

I got another one

you’ve heard of Ocean’s 8, get ready for-

oh my GOD-

STOP I AM ON MY KNEES 💀

Aliens!!

I’m on season five of DS9 and season two of Voyager now (”Threshold” is even cringier than I remembered…..)

I have been informed that this is in fact… one of Them

This is the funniest fucking post on this website

Thank you, baby.

Arcane season 2 ep 7 missing scene

in all timelines, in all possibilities… I’ll wait until the day we save each other again.

(Woowee, this one take a while. There’s actually… a few extra pages, but it’s going to take forever before I can post it so…take this for now.)

Screaming crying throwing up. Mage Viktor is my weakness...

This was already fucking impressive but then he started making electric guitar noises and I recreated this image in my bedroom

The Goetheanum, Dornach, Solothurn, Switzerland, i

The world center for the anthroposophical movement.

The building was designed by Rudolf Steiner and named after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

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I think one of Pratchett's great skills in writing was being able to make silly things serious, in different ways. Like, there's a fairy godmother forcing everyone into fairystales, how fun! Except in the process, she has stopped seeing them as people. She's forcing people to live lives they don't want to because she decides that's how it has to be. Sometimes she goes so far as to violate her victim's minds and deform and puppet their bodies so they'll play their part right, and anyone who doesn't do their job gets mercilessly killed. And there's a zombie activist named Reg Shoe who buries himself every year out of solidarity for the dead, how funny! Except he is filled with a genuine passion for justice and improvement in the world, and that's why he literally refuses to die. And he buries himself on a holiday that happens to be the anniversery of his own death, and he does it next to the bodies of the friends and strangers he fought alongside, the ones who didn't get to come back, so he spends one day with them. There is still a lot of silliness in discworld, a lot that's wacky and funny, but a lot of it, when you think about it, is oddly beautiful or touching or disturbing or something else entirely.

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There's also a lot of stuff written as lighthearted jokes, like the trolls and things about dwarf culture, that he writes as surface level stuff and then comes back multiple books later as a better writer and says "Hang on, actually -- "

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Image description: image of Johan from adventure zone playing music on steps in front of the void fishe's tank. The void fish is much larger than Johann and floats in its tank.