Every time I think about, “Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise? I thought not. It’s not a story the Jedi would tell you. It’s a Sith legend.” I start laughing because IT HAPPENED LIKE TWELVE YEARS AGO and THE ONLY PEOPLE THERE WERE SIDIOUS AND PLAGUEIS like there’s no way for the Jedi to even know this story existed, it’s not a millennia old tale, it was INCREDIBLY RECENT and they were Sith Lords IN HIDING, yet Palpatine just says that entire story with his whole chest like Anakin’s never going to go go the Jedi and say, “Hey, what’s up with never telling me about that Sith Legend Darth Plagueis?” so the Jedi can go “who the fuck is Darth Plagueis????” and Palpatine is RIGHT, Anakin’s brain is just like a hamster on a squeaky wheel, “oh okay I don’t know enough to tell if that’s true or not but I’m just gonna believe it”.  ABOUT A STORY THAT HAPPENED A DECADE AGO, NOT SOME ANCIENT HISTORY.  The absolute gall of Sheev Palpatine, there will never be another villain like him, he’s the bestworst.

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love david and goliath being like one of the main bible stories for kids. like yeah you might be small but with god on your side you can kill someone with a rock

Holy shit… please…take this quiz…

If moral realism is false, then why exactly do I ought to push one person onto the trolley tracks to save five people?

professional philosophers are so good at ethical reasoning most of them fail to recognise and then solve the easiest test thereof: is one less than five?

oh yeah also nine tenths of them think physics doesn't real

one third is lower than I thought but still an utterly embarrassing failure rate for another total gimme (atheism)

you cannot be aware of cosmology and evolution and believe in moral realism, come on

physics has conclusively answered the questions of theism, free will, and moral realism -- all in the negative -- and maths the trolley problem (1 is, in fact, less than 5). and yet philosophers not only can't agree with each other, but predominantly get them wrong. this is not a field or set of methods that can produce reliable knowledge.

The Doctor and The Master implies a third, less prestigious renegade timelord named The Bachelor

new thing I should start saying to people to sound unhinged is that I've never tried even a single sip of wine in my life but I know exactly what it tastes like

I watched Battlestar Galactica episodes S04E05 "The Road Less Travelled" and S04E06 "Faith" today. Overall good episodes, but I have to ask: After Kara left with the Raptor to find the dissident Cylon faction, why didn't they just jump the Demetrius back to the fleet? As I understood it the Raptor didn't have enough fuel to even return to the Demetrius, so if they failed, there wouldn't really be a point in waiting. Jumping the Demetrius back could have saved Gaeta's leg and informed the Galactica about the dissident Cylons before they jumped to the fleet.

i need feminism because when jesus does a magic trick it’s a goddamn miracle but when a woman does a magic trick she gets burned at the stake

Okay, one of the things I find very fascinating about Fulton Sheen is his subversive, purposely scandalous rhetoric.

Christ is a tempter and seducer who lures us towards Him with the promise of unbelievable love.

The Repentant Thief Dismas died repentant, but not of his thievery; after all, "may we not say that the thief died a thief, for he stole Paradise?"

Christ is the Prodigal Son, having gone out into the World and spent His Inheritance on the things of the world (i.e., us)

Imagine being the only person alive who can say this

The "fuck, marry, kill"-game always felt a little wrong to me. Like, those aren't equivalent options. The first two are a sort of ranking, because the second one will (generally) include the first. And the last one goes way too uach in the other direction. So, here are some other sets-of-3-options that I feel fit together more neatly.

"fight, flight, freeze" - either ask about the instinctive reaction or the best strategy when encountering three characters. (That one might already exist.)

"vassal, ally, liege" - place the three characters in a feudal hierarchy with you.

"wife up, set up with someone you know, sign up for online dating" - help these three characters find love ("wife up" is gender neutral in this context).

So, if you may, please send me three fictional characters and one of these three games.

I’ve noticed an overwhelming trend of 20 something/early 30s not adapting well to parenthood, and motherhood specifically (woman to woman, here)

This is the first generation of now adults that have been raised with a default state of rest. The concept of working and doing what needs to be done from sunrise to sunset is foreign, so something as demanding and difficult as motherhood seems overwhelmingly impossible.

If you view life as your default being watching TV and checking off a few things from a list during the day, you surely aren’t going to adapt well to that which forces you to actively live. It’s a complete lifestyle switch — to a life where you must do everything intentionally, even rest. Which is by far a better way of living, but it has been robbed from these younger generations.

And adding to the problem is lack of community. Folks are herded through life like cattle with little interaction with those outside their own age. They don’t have an older, wiser guide to follow through life, neither do they know how to make sense of the little ones. Enter all the atrocious baby and parenting books that do no good but cause stress and confusion for these young parents, but they eat them up because they have no other point of direction through parenthood. They’ve never really cared for the little ones outside of a four hour Saturday night babysitting gig a couple times in high school. They’ve never had to manage a household. They can hardly manage themselves.

And while this post is about a concerning trend of parents not being able to raise their own kids, it’s really just one symptom of the larger problem that I’ve already pointed out: we no longer actively live as much as we passively exist.

There are more and more people who are amazed at the concept of Actively Doing all day.

And I speak with such authority here because it’s a mindset shift I’ve lived through. I can get done in one morning what used to take me a week. And I have hobbies. And I have been learning new skills. And I have more responsibilities. And I have had no trouble taking these things in stride as life has marched on since having this mindset shift.

A lot in life really does come down to mindset. And that is the problem plaguing folks my age and younger.

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it’s sooo funny when rude customers encounter employees who can deny them service for the first time.

i was working at a little cafe where I could deny service over bad behavior, harassment etc. & mask mandates had just ended a week before & already people were being weird about me still wearing mine—an N95, the kind shaped kinda like a duckbill.

so this man walked in, looked at me sooo scathingly, laughed at me, and said “damn. never known a woman to choose…practicality over looks.”

And I just said, “oh. you can go, you’re not getting a drink.” And he said, “what???”

I said, “sir, you just walked in at 6 am & called women impractical and me ugly in one sentence.”

And he was so astonished he didn’t even argue he just turned around and left 💀🙏🏻 it was like he suddenly became self aware

Do you think that ancient people would give enough fucks about movements and nature of stars and planets if they didn't think that it would allow them to see the future?

Like it feels like before the European Naval Empires this was the only reason people cared about astronomy, and navigation was based on laws that some people described because they were certain that knowing the exact position of Mars in any moment would allow them to do better star charts

You can use the stars for things other than divination. Tracking the movements of the heavens is useful for fairly normal things like timekeeping and basic navigation on land. England did not invent navigating by the stars lol.

spending 20 dollars is easy but once you do it 5 times uh oh