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remember elementary and how it was a million times better than bbc sherlock and how they had a platonic and lovely friendship between a man and a woman and how moriarty was the plot twist of all plot twists and how it showed people dealing with addiction in such a humane way and how there was no moffat misogyny. also sherlock named a new bee species after watson because he loved her.

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Greg Abbott is a literal demon from Hell.

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just saw this clip and i think itd make a funny reaction image what do u think... does it have potential

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Truly despairing. The lack of empathy. The self-interest of patriarchy.

Boys should not need girls to make themselves smaller.

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I love the massachusetts subreddit. it’s so fucking brutal. everyone in there is exactly as mean as you’d think they’d be. someone from California made a post the other day about solidarity between blue states and the top comment was “fuck off” and as far as I can tell the whole post has since been deleted. and to be fair they were bullying ca bc apparently they voted to continue having slavery in prisons. big mass W. what a magical state.

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The Musk Administration Nanny State is the perfect name for what's coming because:

It'll piss off Trump to suggest he's being controlled by Elon Musk.

It'll piss off MAGA to suggest Daddy Trump is being controlled by Elon Musk.

It'll force MAGA to defend being fans of a Nanny State. Force MAGA to tell red-blooded American patriots why they can't drink soda with high fructose corn syrup.

It'll associate MAGA with Big Government (aka commies) which will help dissociate the far-left from the Democrats; it doesn't matter that the admin is fascist, that doesn't land with the normies in America like communist does.

The acronym is MANS, which feels appropriate given the exit polls from this election.

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Admitting that ever since he joined the campaign trail the billionaire tech mogul had refused to leave him alone, President-elect Donald Trump reportedly locked the bathroom door Tuesday so Elon Musk couldn’t follow him in again. “All right, Elon, out,” an audibly frustrated Trump had said moments earlier as he stood up from the toilet and grabbed Musk by the scruff to throw him out, the SpaceX founder having barged in through the slightly ajar door, sat at his feet, stared into his eyes, and loudly whined. Full Story

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death of subcultures and death of third places are directly connected and you can’t convince me otherwise

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Drafted a couple posts because I'm not sure how to say this. Young people are inexperienced and frequently obnoxious. This has always been true. Cultural shifts and new technology only mean they will be inexperienced and obnoxious in different, more visible ways. You aren't beating the grumpy old hater allegations by cloaking your kids-these-days bitching in tiktok scapegoating and alleged youth tech illiteracy.

You have forgotten all the embarrassing ways you were inconsiderate at 18. You might still be your old manager's go-to anecdote for crazy oblivious interns. All the forums you posted on begging for answers instead of reading the fucking sticky or googling it are lost to time. But nah this generation is uniquely stupid and rude, for real this time.

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One of those insidious little things I notice sometimes is how much the window of 'appropriate for children' content has shrunk within the past 20 years. The range of things it is socially acceptable to show a 10-year-old has never been more limited, and it's happened incredibly quickly.

Take, for instance, Star Trek: TNG. I grew up watching TNG. I was a little young for it as it was airing, but it got syndicated almost immediately and they would show an episode most weekday evenings on the Space Channel, and I'd watch it with my lifelong Trekkie mom. This was a very common thing. I was by no means unusual for watching Star Trek as a child.

Star Trek: TNG has lots of sex in it! It's never explicit (unless you have a particularly niche interpretation of some of the borg stuff) but on many an occasion you'll have a few characters doing a bit of making out followed by a closing door or fade to black, and then they wake up in bed together. If you know what sex is, you know that is what is being implied here. Even my 8-year-old self, whose understanding of the subject mostly came from books of ancient mythology that used words like 'ravish' and 'the pleasures of the couch' a whole bunch, could tell that what was happening was sex.

And I am not bringing this up as a 'see, I watched all this inappropriate stuff and I turned out just fine!'. I'm bringing it up to argue that TNG's level of sexual content is not inappropriate for children (I'm not using the legalese 'minors', because I think that lumping children and teenagers together in this conversation would make it nonsense. Star Trek is obviously appropriate for teenagers. Don't use 'minors' when you mean either children or teens, it just muddies the waters).

The point is that Star Trek: TNG was very obviously designed to be watched by children and teenagers. There's a whole character in the main cast whose role in the show is to be an audience insert for children and teenagers. The moral tone of TNG, its occasional dips into 'don't do drugs, kids' type messaging, and its general avoidance of graphic violence all scream 'we are designing this with an audience of children - but not just children - in mind'. It's a family show. It's supposed to be watched by the whole family.

Which means that, until at least the end of the 90s, this amount of sexual content was generally considered appropriate for kids to see. It's not pornographic - it's not even graphic. Maybe the very most conservative parents wouldn't let their kids watch TNG, but that might have had more to do with all the socialism and atheism.

So, why did that change? Why do we now have such a strong bullwark between 'things kids are allowed to know about' and 'things for GROWN UPS ONLY 18+ Minors DNI', and why have we relegated even the most discreet references to sex to the second category only?

And the next time you find yourself experiencing that knee-jerk 'think of the children' reaction, consider: would what you're looking at have been ok on Star Trek: TNG in the 90s?

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rb to give the previous person a fucking break because life aint life-ing the way its supposed to life and it fucking sucks.