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BioEnchanted posted:Something I'm curious about with recluses like Lovecraft - would the internet have made them better or worse? On the one hand he could have fallen into a pit like one of the many alt-right forums like Reddit and got worse, but on the other hand, if he went to twitter or something like that those sites make it impossible to be a recluse. Everything you say gets responded to, so he'd have many people calling him out on his weirder fears, and certainly there's a good chance he'd have doubled down and become a Twitter Main Character, but there is also a chance that being exposed to alternate viewpoints could have got him questioning his assumptions. Basically, if you are online you can't easily hide from the world, it's right there. It's a fun thing to think about. Definitely worse. I mean, this thread already regularly features a racist guy who's afraid to leave his house. HPL would probably make friends with Prison Paul and instead of channeling his fears into good horror stories, he'd tweet about how there are black people outside and this makes him angry.
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Antigravitas posted:I wish. Isn't it great how nazis are banned in Germany and how we definitely don't have like three nazi parties, one of which is getting double digit percentages in every election?
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d3lness posted:Just like people who work with the oppressed and underprivileged on a daily basis should have some sympathy for said groups? I'm talking about the police on the off chance that was unclear. According to certain relatives of mine, no, because you keep meeting people that suck and fit the stereotypes, so clearly this means the stereotypes are completely right. At least as long as you ignore that you'll naturally have less interaction with all the completely normal people, because they have significantly less contact with police, social services, etc.
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Jun 18, 2020 15:08
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Syd Midnight posted:Then what do they call hedge... hogs... It's Igel, which is pronounced exactly like eagle and still confuses me every time. There's a comprehensive flowchart for German animal names here: https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/funny-animal-names-in-german
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Jun 22, 2020 18:07
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Henchman of Santa posted:or using any tweet as an excuse to tell the woman how attractive she is. Scratch that "remotely sexual", I'm pretty sure I've seen a reply guy talk about a murder or kidnapping victim like that.
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Jun 28, 2020 16:44
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:About twenty billion years ago in an old iteration of this thread, there was an american being extremely hostile to a british republican (not irish, british, the republican specifically wanted lizzy 2 to not be monarch of the Paedophisles or the former colonies) because of Trump and friends ruining the word "republican." Like you couldn't be a republican anymore without endorsing fascism. Those were the loving days. In Germany, the party called Republicans is an actual nazi party, so when I learned that a major US party shared that name, I asked my parents why the US was run by nazis. They explained to me that the US Republicans are just their conservative party and the name is a coincidence. Over two decades later, we're not so sure anymore.
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seiferguy posted:LinkedIn is a loving cancer sometimes: FOURTH interview? How many interview rounds do these people except you to do? I've never heard of anything more than a second round! What is there that can be found out about the candidate during a fourth interview that hasn't already been covered during the first three interviews, unless it's how many hoops they're willing to jump through?
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Aug 3, 2020 08:35
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You, a neanderthal with primal urges: "Dat rear end!" Me, a sophisticated gentleman: "Dem tiddies!"
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Aug 5, 2020 10:02
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What does fluffed mean in this context? Because it sounds like he had lovely grades, but got into university because his parents had money.
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And he still assumes he got in entirely due to his own merit. Wow. At least I assume he does, because bragging about how you got into university because of your parents seems like a weird thing to brag about.
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Aug 14, 2020 07:56
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RFC2324 posted:I'm fond of looking pretty because it makes me feel pretty and thats a really nice feeling. Has nothing to do with anyone else. But we all know that the only reason a woman would ever try to look good is to entrap a man into paying for the babies she has with an orgy of drug addicts with huge penises!
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Aug 17, 2020 08:04
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chitoryu12 posted:https://twitter.com/mugendaiyo/status/1298081139404537861?s=21 God, we all wish this sort of thing was limited to 2020. At least that way it'd stop happening in a few months.
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What is even going on in this picture? Is that an aborted fetus in the top right?
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goblin week posted:It’s a buttprint Oooooooooh.  I... no, I actually don't see.
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Sep 7, 2020 10:01
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You know, the first guy might be on to something here.
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The Neal! posted:I feel like Wizard of Earth Sea is what happens when you take the boy goes to wizard school idea and tackle it with a sense of originality. The first couple of Harry Potter books is just a few western mythological creatures combined with a few coming of age boarding school stories that have already been told that Rowling chucked in a blender and hit pulse on. Funny thing is, the two-part movie they made of the first two books very blatantly saw that too, because they tried to make the wizard school scenes into Hogwarts Lite. Probably my favorite part is when notHermione saves notDumbledore from notMalfoy's attempt to take over the school, none of which came even close to happening in the book. The main issue with that movie is how they made everyone white, but the blatant disregard for the rest of the source material is almost comical. If you haven't seen it, it's almost worth it for Tenar, the cheerful elementary school teacher of the Atuan priestesses of light and friendship.
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PurpleXVI posted:Hahahahah, what? How the gently caress can you read any Earthsea story involving Sparrowhawk and ignore every single line that points out the protagonist's culture is explicitly not white? I figure it involved a lot of white people deciding that nobody would watch a movie about non-white protagonists, and so they made ever character white, except Ogion who can be the Wise Black Guy. Kind of like with The Last Airbender.
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Midnight Voyager posted:Tombs of Atuan doesn't involve him much at all, it's mostly about Tenar, maybe they just read that one and- oh wait no, they clearly did not. But but but Tenar is the female lead, so she has to be super nice and not do much of anything and fall in true love with the hero, because that's how stories work! Watch the videos that were posted earlier for scenes of Tenar in a brightly colored nun outfit, hugging adorable orphans and making out with Ged. I was so excited when I found out that there was an Earthsea movie. I had my mother tape it for me because I wasn't at home when the first part aired. She later told me she'd watched it while taping and kept asking herself what I could possibly like in that story. Cloacamazing! has a new favorite as of 20:19 on Sep 15, 2020 |
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:https://twitter.com/glennbeck/status/1307472038123073536 Is this some "repopulate the US after COVID kills everyone" effort?
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StillFullyTerrible posted:ah, dominic deegan logic I hate you so much for reminding me this plotline exists. 
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Oct 2, 2020 11:21
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The Chick Fil A example is kind of flawed there. People don't say "Okay, their views are horrendous, but those chicken sandwiches are just SO GOOD I will turn a blind eye to them." They say "Okay, I guess they said some horrible poo poo, but it doesn't concern me and the sandwiches are good, so why bother finding someone else?".
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Oct 18, 2020 10:03
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Assuming it actually ends at this point: Yes, it does.
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Oct 20, 2020 09:12
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I'll have you know that regular baths in 5G are very relaxing. What else do you want me to bathe in, dead water? I do add a little fluoride though, for the feeling.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:https://twitter.com/NYDailyNews/status/1318929803702132738 To answer the article's question: If he had been caught having sex on camera during a zoom call, people would judge him for that, yes.
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Inceltown posted:
But he didn't ask when Australia day is, he asked where it is. We all need to look for it.
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Oct 22, 2020 09:23
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GreenMetalSun posted:I think it has something to do with the blue Satan horse with the giant penis. I googled Denver International Airport pictures and yes, I definitely do have questions now.
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Oct 24, 2020 08:04
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there wolf posted:So when a baby rips it apart, does the vagina just reset or what? Yes, because that is the natural purpose of a vagina. Dick goes in, baby comes out. It's only problematic if more than one dick goes in. Multiple babies coming out works fine, though. It's one of nature's mysteries.
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Oct 28, 2020 15:46
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Why are all the volunteer lawyers for Trump twelve?
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Data Graham posted:What I would give for some competent leader, like say someone in the position of the President of a country with global reach or something, to make the firm and repeated case that the mask is not so much to prevent YOURSELF from getting covid, it's to prevent OTHER PEOPLE FROM GETTING IT FROM YOU IF YOU DON'T KNOW YOU HAVE IT YET aaaaaaa They know this, they just don't give a gently caress about anybody else. It's definitely not helping that health institutes have started claiming that masks also protect yourself in order to get more people to wear them. That just made their initial statements look suspect to people looking for excuses. That reminds me, last week or so Germany's leader of the medical board said on TV that he had found no evidence that masks do anything against Covid. The next day, he made another statement saying that he had found evidence now, likely from his colleagues yelling at his stupid rear end. All our Covid protesters are now making really smug statements like "You sheeple keep saying we should listen to the medical experts, well we're listening!".
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zakharov posted:Ok give me your hot take on cats I can't find it, but wasn't there some post about cats being part of an anti-white conspiracy, because women would get cats instead of babies? I think they were referred to as "the purring jew", but thread search yields nothing.
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Nov 14, 2020 08:48
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Skwirl posted:Like, there's no one in Germany with ancestors that fought in WW2 claiming "heritage not hate" while flying a nazi flag. Ahahahahahaha. God, I wish. This isn't even a hell year phenomenon, there was a huge nazi march in my hometown, with flags and all, several years ago. Apparently they filled out the correct forms, so the government just had to let them gather. That's what they claimed at least.
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Catpain Slack posted:nothing can stop the arrival of I think that might be what they're trying to guard us from.
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Skwirl posted:I feel like Fanfic communities are both easy targets and often so specific that they are largely incomprehensible to outsiders. Dumber. The 13 year old saw a porn fic of her favorite character and two others, all of them teens (but "aged up" for the porn) and had the audacity to complain about it. Now the presumably adult author and their friends have written a giant doc about how she sucks for disliking their porn.
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CordlessPen posted:Hey, what do you know, it's an actual study! A study about a single experiment performed by the guy who wrote the paper and who also wrote a book on the subject. On the other side, according to this study, he managed to produce a million photons, so who knows what's the truth!
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I know, I know, Matt Yglesias, low-hanging fruit. But. I mean, he's completely right, it's becoming more and more difficult to distinguish between a Republican mob and a nazi mob.
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ultrafilter posted:Yeah. Yggles says a lot of stupid poo poo, but he gets some stuff right, and this is one of those cases. I don't think he meant it that way...
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Laopooh posted:Here's the best soup I've ever made! mmm And how exactly is this going to fit throught the tubes? The eggs will get stuck!
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Woozie66 posted:This Twitter thread just gets worse. (For anyone who doesn't click through.) Has anybody told this guy that it's possible to be trans AND lesbian?
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Bismuth posted:Im literally not saying that, i'm not saying she should appear in a way shes uncomfortable with or that she is wrong in any way, i'm just surprised that it seems like she didnt see this coming. Keep in mind her job probably doesn't allow her to react too much to these creeps. Polite disapproval is likely the most she's allowed to do, because they don't want the face behind their advertising tell people to gently caress off.
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