GalacticGrapefruit
@GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world
- Comment on I know. Somehow, I've always known. 3 days ago:
Did we watch the same TV show as kids?? I wouldn’t call the invasion of Geonosis a ‘softball mission’.
- Comment on oh fuck 😨 5 days ago:
Should look into madness studies. It’s an entire college-level course on the cultural value of people with mental health disorders.
- Comment on Ouch 1 week ago:
Ex-Mormon here.
Mormons like to brag that their kids are healthier and smarter because their mothers are guaranteed to have had no exposure to alcohol or secondhand smoke.
Because of this, there is such a deep culture of shame around even drinking coffee or tea, because it breaks the health code of the religion. It’s treated with the same severity as eating pork if you’re Jewish or Muslim. No, not everyone does it. But the few who do will go to every length possible to hide it. I met a dude who used to call out sick and wear sunglasses and a wig when he bought caffeine pills at the grocery store. His wife divorced him over that.
If he does have FAS, I would bet you $100 right now that the only one who would know would be his mom, and she’ll take that shit to her grave.
- Comment on Interesting question. For me it would be a dead grandfather 1 week ago:
I’d want to chat with someone from the future. I want to know if we’ll make it. If we’ll be alright.
- Comment on Still better than Bubba or Dronald 1 week ago:
Ma’iq the Liar: Khajiit wares cannot melt steel beams.
- Comment on Annon punches a Nazi 3 weeks ago:
Hi. Former right winger here.
Punch Nazis. Knock out some teeth if you can.
- Comment on Which is it?. 3 weeks ago:
I love broccoli florets. The stems, I can take 'em or leave 'em. I’ve certainly eaten worse things than thick, fresh, healthy broccoli. Brocs 4 life!
- Comment on Which is it?. 3 weeks ago:
I used to boil them before I fed them to my snails.
I miss my mystery snails. They were little weird alien water bunnies, and I loved them.
- Comment on Been putting a lot of thought into this 3 weeks ago:
Taking off a chest binder.
- Comment on Dogs welcome 3 weeks ago:
Adam Ruins Everything did a bit on it. And my god, I’d forgotten how genuinely horrifying that case was. That poor old woman.
- Comment on Dogs welcome 3 weeks ago:
should read it, it’s comedy gold.
- Comment on What launcher should I replace Nova with? 3 weeks ago:
Pear Launcher is nice. Fossify Home is good, too. I prefer Pear since it lets you use icon themes.
- Comment on Cross Section 4 weeks ago:
I gotta wonder how long it took the photographer to set up this photo. I mean, they were probably sitting there with a little paintbrush gently sweeping away dirt from the roots just to get the perfect root exposure for this pic.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 4 weeks ago:
Add it to the list of reasons I’m disgusted with my country, and disgusted with myself for ever being proud of it.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 4 weeks ago:
Comparing the audience garnered by corporate media vs unethical independent media vs ethical independent media, America functionally does not actually have a free press. Take it from someone who had to stare down the barrel of a camera and get blasted on live TV for doing the right thing.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 4 weeks ago:
Do we have a free press?
I was a Palestine protestor at my college encampment. When I tell you that I lost so much faith in journalism after the lies they printed about us, I want you to take my full meaning. For persec reasons, I won’t say where or what they printed. But I remember camp being equal parts hopeful and defiant, and angry and resolute. I was one of the few with any real camping experience, so my self-assigned task was repairing tents and reviewing sleeping accommodations to make sure no one was cold or sleeping poorly. What the press made it look like was ‘group of absolutely clinically loony college kids invite hoards of homeless bums to their college and start trashing everything in sight under guise of protest’.
Without fail, it was recognizable and ‘reputable’ news orgs that were printing bald-faced outright lies about us. A few of the journalists I interacted with expressed… regret. Despair. Only one I met seemed happy to be there. The rest, the look on their faces made it feel like they were at our funeral. The ones that printed the truth? A local headshop magazine that usually covered what strains of cannabis were popular, and Unicorn Riot. The offbeat weirdos or dedicated ideologues.
It was so jarring to see a profession I regarded so highly eviscerating the truth. I’ve lost all faith in corporate media, and I will never get it back.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 4 weeks ago:
Bodies would be washing up on shore or limbs would be showing up in the stomachs of fish.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 4 weeks ago:
Finally someone mentions the fucking loophole in the 13th Amendment. Slavery is still legal in the US. It’s just illegal when anyone other than the prison-industrial complex does it.
buycott.com/…/boycott-companies-that-use-prison-l…
CostCo, John Deere, and AT&T are all on this list.
- Comment on MK Ultra 2: Electric Boogaloo 1 month ago:
Any dolt with half a brain
Can see that humankind has gone insane
To the point where I don’t know
If I’ll upset the status quo
If I throw poison in the water main
- Comment on Anon reality checks your fantasy 2 months ago:
Seriously? Their fetish is giving someone else mental scars and emotional trauma so deep they can never love again?
That is fucking disgusting, man.
- Comment on Anon reality checks your fantasy 2 months ago:
This is going to sound like a callous comparison. But I think that an elf would think of it in the same way that we think about our most beloved pet.
Your cat will die. You know that, right? Your lifespan exceeds your cat’s by a factor of 5. What’s the point of loving a cat if you’re just going to mourn them for decades after they die?
The point of love is that it has no point. It’s our most basic instinct, our deepest need. Everyone needs to feel love. And death doesn’t stop us from loving those who matter to us.
Apply the same idea to falling in love with someone who has a terminal illness. You will outlive that person. That is a guarantee. But love has no time limit. And the time you spend with that person will be something you hold close to you for the rest of your life, the same way that they’ll hold it for the rest of theirs.
Let elves fall in love. The world is lonely enough as it is.
- Comment on He was HUNGRY 😓 2 months ago:
Wow. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen Dragonlance in the wild. That’s a rare treat.
- Comment on Where do you all get your (indie) gaming news from? 2 months ago:
SUPERJUMP is nonprofit, and they cover a lot of indie games.
- Comment on Woke up this morning pondering THIS question 2 months ago:
So, the prior comment about the woman who raised a pet beaver… lemme guess, every time she takes a shower, by the time she opens the door, every non-stationary object in the house has been dragged in front of the bathroom door.
- Comment on If you are a guy living with a woman you know THIS 2 months ago:
Brothers, I am AFAB, and this picture still reminds me of one of my most infuriating roommates.
Trust me, she’d annoy me a little too.
- Comment on Amazon develops methods for inserting ads onto any flat surface in an existing video 2 months ago:
What is ‘woke’? Forgive me, I’ve been on the internet for years, but I still haven’t met someone who can succinctly define what it means. I keep getting these conflicting, confusing definitions.
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 2 months ago:
Seriously?? That’s the price of FIFA’s bribe? Not, idk, “Call off your ICE ghouls at the next match, because we need to sell tickets?”
- Comment on Choose wisely! 2 months ago:
Stellaris players: How it feels to have a Spiritualist empire on one side of your border and a Materialist empire on the other.
- Comment on Take a guess 🤣 3 months ago:
Bastard in a Pasture
- Comment on spongebob big guy pants okay 3 months ago:
TIL Deadpool is a sponge.