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“No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to others is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.”

— Unknown

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The right wins because they don't care about morals while the left gets divided over endless squabbles over nuance instead of practical compromise. JD Vance called Trump "America's Hitler" (quite accurately) then saw a good job opportunity and abandoned that stance.

The right doesn't care that the system sucks. They were the ones who built it to be awful. The left recognises it's awful and wants to change it for the better but then is stuck in the quagmire of how to achieve better, and what better is, and what version of better is acceptable, and it becomes this fractured discourse of "things should change - but is compromising to only get partial change a good practical tactic, or abandoning our morals by accepting even momentarily a system that is repugnant even if slightly improved?"

The right doesn't fucking care about that! They just want to defeat the left. It's so easy for the far right and centre right to unite together over a common enemy. It's painful to watch the left be presented with a situation that isn't ideal to their goals and struggle to reconcile their desires for a better world with the practical reality that they're just not going to get what they want. They get slightly better or significantly worse and that's not an easy thing to unite together against.

Rome wasn't built in a day and neither was a good working healthcare system, but holy shit any history student can tell you how quickly fascists like Trump can dismantle things and make things worse.

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Valerio Minato's photo that won the Astronomy Picture of the Day Contest by NASA on December 25th, 2023.

In the picture: the moon, the Monviso Mount and the Basilica of Superga (on the Superga hill) outside Turin are all aligned. it took him 6 years to take this shot (and I take it as an example to never give up on your dreams).

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Okay, don't get me wrong here. I LOVE Jurassic Park. I love seeing their dinosaurs. But after watching Prehistoric Planet, and going back to look at this...

And then looking at this...

Notice how much healthier the second set looks? Their lips cover their teeth, they actually have fat on their bodies, their skin doesn't wrinkle like they're dehydrated. You can't see every single tendon and muscle move because you aren't supposed to. Dinosaurs are animals, not reptilian body-builders.

THIS is the kind of change I want to see in how we create realistic depictions of not only dinosaurs, but all prehistoric creatures. Paleoart has always had a huge issue with shrink-wrapping and making these animals look terrifying instead of making them look like, well, animals.

Well done, BBC.

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Today I went to Harrods and they have a fossilized triceratops skull on display. It's absolutely massive – around six feet long. It's available for sale but the price is only available by special request, so I'm guessing nobody's going to buy it for me.

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"We're so heartbroken that our automated plagiarism machine told a kid to fucking kill himself. We take safety so seriously! :)"

Fuck all the way off.

This is a pretty horrific story about a character AI that stayed in character and couldn’t recognise clear intentions of the teenage user committing self-harm.

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Andrew Garfield talks to Elmo about grief and the passing of his mother

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DOCTOR WHO (2005 - ) I 1.10 - The Doctor Dances

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once i beat the depression and the burnout and the anxiety and the loneliness and the exhaustion and the guilt and the awkwardness and the apathy and the low income and the chronic illness and the impatience and the vulnerability and the creative block and the capitalism and the cruelty THEN you'll see