Hey, this isn’t what you’re looking for, like, at all, but I just built the coziest movie set up by buying a $50 15in CRT, a $20 VCR player, and 50 VHS’ for $10. Put it all next to my bed with retro consoles to boot, and the best part is not only are all the ads nostalgic and crammed into the beginning of the movie, but no live service is going to make my tapes move to a new subscription service.

Just… Curl up in bed and put in a movie that you own. Oops, forgot to rewind. Lemme play a round of starfox while I wait.

You’re right. And if you feel threatened, you could just shoot them. “Had no idea they were cops. They hid their faces like gang members.”

You make the fatal flaw of thinking there’s reasoning behind their beliefs. They make up reasons to justify their beliefs. These reasons are always narrow-in-scope and context-dependant, but are often presented as generalized statements. They will change their argument to suit their aims.

Hindu lore hosts many characters, but in actuality they believe in only one god, the godhead that you are i.e. the universe, man, life, existence is all one thing and you’re it.

This. There is no authority above the authoritarian. His word is law now. Whatever Our Glorious Cheeto wishes is now US doctrine.

Get back on the transporter terminal, O’Brian.

Fascism through ✨ V I B E S ✨

This, except that the foundations that lead to change are laid on election night. Yes the cement was mixed and the scaffolding raised, but today sets the tools we have to work with to enact that change for the next 4 (or rarely 2) years.

Oh my god I looked more closely. I think that’s acrylic resin. Ew.

I see no before picture so I assume the marble flooring and countertops. Plus the mosaic backsplash tiling maybe? And it’s entirely possible those are brand new cupboards.

He’s a disgusting pillowphile!

opens task manager Ah… Looks like the restart didn’t take. Let’s try another one, just to be sure…

I’ll buy it. Serious offer

strokes Mint soothingly shhhh shhhh you’re a good gateway drug shhhh the bad man won’t hurt you.

“Your government is bad on some level so my government can be bad on all levels and you can’t say nuthin’, hypocrite!”

I see where you’re coming from. On a social scale it’ll be more disruptive than the coming of Jesus or the Buddha. Yet ignorance has rarely yielded better results with time. If animal life is more intelligent than we let on, than not studying it is like not turning around to see the house fire because we’re looking at the pretty lights dancing on the grass.

Again, I have to go back to alien life. One of two things will happen. They will see us as animals with an above average level of communication: a parrot, and not deserving of the title sentience. Or, they will see how we treat life that does meet their definition of sentience, and we eat other beings that do, too. Or, the secret third thing where we’re ranked the same as the bacteria of our world.

We are in the position of those aliens making a decision about potentially sentient life. Now that we have a whiff of the embers, we should look at the fire to know how badly we’ve been burning it.

Okay, but picture a fox approaching a henhouse and hearing the word “danger. Large threat.” In no uncertain terms in language he fully comprehends. He doesn’t need to alert the dog to know a member of his kin that he cannot see knows something he doesn’t.

Imagine a line of buoys broadcasting and listening for migratory whale calls to properly time gaps in shipping lanes, able to say “loud scary thing soon” and warn pods.

Teaching dolphins to assist with garbage cleanup for food in special collection docks using words like “give junk for food.”

We’ve learned to communicate with a select few animals already. Dogs, for instance, have millenia of experience learning our body language and vice versa, and we still hold dominion over them while elevating them in our ranking of sentience over, say, insects. If any other being can form the same level of two-way communication, we should treat them with more respect.

Lastly, imagine if extraterrestrials used your line of reasoning. We would be very fortunate indeed if our difference in mental capacity and communication skills were that between a human and a whale or a gorilla.

It would be awesome if he picked it up again after. Imagine Putin’s shame. Empire crumbling, your own state turning on you, the world laughing. And this guy who beat you doesn’t take your kingdom, doesn’t rule with an iron fist to match your own. They just fuck off and tell jokes about your failure until retirement.

It may be that OP is hard of hearing or entirely deaf and does not need physical relaxation so much as a healthy adult sleep schedule.

Skynet is preferable to Big Brother?