Can you link to any good info (in English) on titoism, then? Because it's the most interesting example of real world socialism to me, but basically no info in English outside of really surface level stuff :(

You have taken on the challenge of Irish Trek, did you not also expect to take on the curse of the O'Brien? You must suffer.

But if it's any consolation, I'm sorry you're having a shitty day, and I will watch an episode of trek in your honor this evening.

These are clearly characters from studio ghibli's take on Night at the Museum.

Add into this people who love pits and own them, but also believe they will "turn," and so constantly give their dogs subtle cues to be on edge, stressed, and like something is wrong. They're no more prone to dangerous actions than any other breed, they're just very, very intelligent dogs that learn how to react to their surroundings. The myth of the aggressive pit is what causes the aggressive pit. We need real education on dogs in general, because that Labrador you love or the poodle who was your best friend when you were a kid is just as capable of snapping or "turning." All dogs can bite, and all breeds can be sweet and well behaved.

Getting my bachelor's online, and I just had to use Chicago style for the first time. I'd only used APA before now.

Holy shit did I love it. Erhmhagerd, it was so great.

This is scary as shit

"I'm vegan, except for meat, because the meat industry already exists, so the cow is already dead. When the meat industry stops existing I'll stop eating meat. That's veganism."

They're right, foraminifera pics are far too spicy for main. I nearly became overheated here on this public bus.

I don't know if it counts as a cherry tomato or not, but Texas tiny are my current favorite small tomato. They're amazing, and the size of a BB

Dozens, at least. There's a property I want, and it would be amazing for each us to work full time to buy the property, build a shit ton of cob houses on it, pay for solar installation et cetera, and then go off grid with my own clone commune, wherein we grow our own food, make and sell fiber arts and wood working to support ourselves financially, and study to get our PhD in cultural anthropology.

Hell, a few of the clones could go off to universities in other countries where we don't acquire debt and we could get PhDs in many, many fields.

There are so many possibilities. Each of us picking a target language and learning it, eventually speaking hundreds of languages. With the memory sharing, too, it would cause a lot less strife over who got down time when, and who was out studying or working the gardens. At the end of the day, we all feel the same relaxation from a few hours of light reading or tears of the kingdom. My God, imagine the orgies. I am not my type, but I know what I like.

Full time cooking clone keeps up all happy and fed, full time cleaning clones keeps us all nice and neat, full time building clones make sure we have decent housing, full time blowjob clones make sure we're all relaxed, full time priest clone makes sure we maintain our tax free status as a religious organization. It would be glorious.

Question, can I extend this gift to others? Can I let my friends or family clone themselves?

As a swamp person I can assure you there was no other way. Have you seen Stonehenge? The coliseum, the aquaducts? I mean, c'mon, it took how long for Europe to get a level of plumbing comparable to the indus valley civilization? Clearly we had help getting there. No other way.

in my best Karen voice

Oh he's always been controversial. Constantly tipping over the water bowl, peeing on the bed, chewing up slippers. If you ask me, he should never have been asked to perform at the puppy bowl, but what can you expect from this culture of tabloids and extreme headlines. The 24 hour news cycle demands their clowns, and this is what happens when you let them run amok, you get one of them shitting during the national anthem of all things! I don't know what this country has come to!

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I'm all for immediately jumping on this, but why is it all horror movies? We have an opportunity to showcase exactly why we should be allowing these properties to enter the public domain. Somebody, please, do what Disney did with all the public domain stories, and make something we can cherish. If for no other reason than so we have something to wave in front of the 3 members of congress who haven't been completely bought to show them why it's a good thing that copyrights end eventually.

Ooh, I'll try it! Thank you. :)

So, I'm going to preface this by saying I know far less about the actual conditions in Afghanistan and the political structure of the Taliban than I should, other than far right wing and fascistic. Embarrassingly so.

If women are considered property under their rule, if there were a massive labor shortage leading to the economic need to employ women in the workforce, would it not be a less extreme change to their status quo to enslave women to work in their factories, paying them nothing, or only paying their male family members (fathers, husbands), than it would be to employ the women, pay them directly, and risk women having some level of agency?

I don't know if Islam has rules surrounding slavery, but it seems that even if it is outlawed in their holy book, if it is, the Taliban is really only using Islam as a cover for extremism. They're not exactly a spiritual movement, they're a a far right political movement using the trappings of religion to get the state they want. And if it isn't outlawed, if it has conditions for the treatment of slaves, the way the Bible does, then that would make it even easier, i would think.

Again, may be talking out of my ass. I don't know much about the actual workings of the Taliban, or the material conditions of women in Afghanistan.

Electromagnets would work nicely.

I think it's a really interesting concept, and could be a very fun read. I love the idea of reading little details that show how they get along, how their world is designed differently to ours to accommodate their body styles. As someone who does disability activism, there's a concept that sometimes blows able bodied people's minds, that physical disabilities are only as limiting as they are because the world is inherently designed for a different body style or ability. If the world were designed with wheelchair users in mind as the primary, we may not even consider a wheelchair user to be disabled. I love the idea of a society designed for a 4 legged body plan.

I have no real advice on how they might or might not prove that, only that "you can't prove a negative." So it seems like the onus would be on proving that you were trying to do something, rather than proving that you were not.

But more importantly, I want to read this book. Haha. I desperately need to know how non anthro animals perform skin grafts, and what a jury made entirely of wolves is like. Is the judge a wolf? Such an interesting way of doing things, and I would love to learn more.

Thothpedia, with a little chibi thoth as the mascot. Thoth is the god of writing.