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Korkie is definitely Satine and Obiwan’s secret love child in my eyes. There is no way he’s satines “nephew” I mean we know he’s no Bo-Katan’s kid so…

see that theory's cool, but I'm personally a bigger fan of him being Satine's actual nephew and there being a third, normal Kryze sibling that we never see

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This is so funny!

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i hate viruses so fucking much. literally getting attacked by a fucking shape. a concept. consumes no energy. responds to no stimuli. its only existence is to fuck with you. like fuck offf

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The End, by Alister Lockhart.

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Have you ever wondered how tech technicians recover data from faulty flash and memory whose data cannot be recovered by normal methods.

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God, I love Doctor Who. Where else are you going to get end credits as bananas as these?

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Gav’s Tavern Here’s the culmination of what I’ve been working on for the past couple months. It’s different from what I usually do. Also it was a lot of work, but I think I’m happy with it.

I made some Gav stickers too if you liked this.

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can i come over and do this

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I'd be one of those nerds that would get a hundred college degrees. Probably start with one of my interests, then maybe cybersecurity, so I could hack into things to protect my identity. (Probably do a stint somewhere illegal to learn how to force a fake identity, maybe be a spy?) I could learn so many languages, go into geology, biodiversity, med school, music, biology, design, physics, landscaping, carpentry, coding.

Id learn every martial art i could access, plus some weapons like throwing knifes and bo staff. I'd learn magic tricks and contact juggling, figure out how to make my hands stay smooth and steady when preforming.

I'd get really into bird watching, or searching the sea floor for new creatures, or exploring old, abandoned buildings

I would pick up so many crafts. I'd seek out old, traditional arts that are dieing out first, learn them one at a time, then move on to new media that are now available to us through technology. I'd probably end up designing my own home, then filling it with so many things it ends up liking like an art museum being taken over by plants

And I wouldn't end up alone. I'll go to school, make friends hang out with them and be fully present in the time I have with them. We make friends all the time, just as we lose them, drift away. It's tragic when people leave, but we can still text each other, can still send funny pictures and memes and things that made us smile. And perhaps, we end up so busy with the next parts of our lives that we forget to text in a while.i don't know many people who didn't have friends that drifted away like that, you just keep going

Mostly, I wouldn't be so stressed. There is so much we can do here, so much that I want to do, that I fear time running out before I can get around to it. I need to do this now, cause there won't be space to fit in later. If I had time, I could relax, spend more time doing the tedious stuff cause my time frame is forever, I don't need to rush

All that said, I would prefer just simple immortality, no vampirism. I love garlic bread too much. Also, the ability to change my physical appearance? Would be quite useful

my toxic trait is that i genuinely believe that the side effects of immortality won't affect me. i have so much stuff i want to learn i won't even notice the centuries go by. also i'm nosey as hell so the decades-deep gossip would keep myself from isolating from human society because i want to know what's going on. i would make such a good vampire i stand by this

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Idea: Addam's Family episode/movie where Morticia has an affair. Gomez is excited to be an angry husband and talks about divorce and who'll get the kids and challenges Morticia's new lover to a duel for her honor.

Lurch shows up with a box. Gomez is furiously smoking his cigar, when Morticia shows up with Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.

Gomez lets her pick the weapons, since he is making the challenge. Elvira says "pistols". Gomez says "good choice!" and tells Wednesday and Pugsley to stand back so they won't be hit by a stray bullet.

Lurch hands a pistol to Elvira, Gomez grabs a sword from a case, and Lurch hands Elvira the other pistol, as Gomez practices his swordfighting.

Ten paces... Fire! Gomez takes a hit to the chest, and goes down in a lump.

Elvira leans over to Morticia and whispers "I thought you said you have an open relationship?" "oh yes, but he loves this so. Let him enjoy this"

Wednesday is reading a eulogy. Pugsley has a shovel and is digging a shallow grave in the garden.

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So, Laika. I see people talking about her recently because it's been 67 years...

But I want to clear up some things:

1. She died for political reasons

2. They did not know how to bring her back.

3. If they'd planned to bring her back, it wouldn't have worked.

To explain: Laika was in Sputnik 2. The launch window for Sputnik 2 was chosen so it'd be the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution, which meant the rocket designers had less than four weeks to design the rocket & capsule. Politicians wanting to have a good PR of a cool space rocket story also influenced the Challenger disaster: politicians always want results faster, and space does not respect haste.

Secondly, this was the SECOND ARTIFICIAL SATELLITE EVER. No one in the world knew how to safely return anything to earth, so from the moment launching a dog was chosen, it was always going to be a one way trip. They tried to make it as comfortable as possible for the dog, yes, but they knew if they launched anything it wouldn't come back. They didn't even know if she'd survive in space? Can animals live in the low-gravity high-radiation environment of space? We didn't know if it was even possible before Laika!

Thirdly: if they had planned to bring her back, it wouldn't have worked. They planned for her to have seven days of food, and the last days of food was poisoned. She'd be gently euthanized.

It didn't work. The rocket core didn't properly detach from the capsule, which fucked the thermal regulation. The capsule overheated, and she died within 5-7 hours of the launch.

If they'd planned some elaborate untested return system, it would have activated after the seven days of the planned orbits. Laika would have been long dead by then.

My point is not to say they did nothing wrong (even one of the scientists who designed Sputnik 2 has said it wasn't worth it: they didn't learn anything useful from sending Laika up), but that you shouldn't misunderstand the context. This was a highly experimental launch, it was politically motivated, and even if they'd tried to bring Laika back, she'd have ended up dead.

And the scientists knew that last bit was likely the case when they decided to do this! They knew they didn't know how to bring animals back to the earth, so they didn't try. If they'd tried, the same result would mostly happen: a dead dog in space.

It wasn't just a matter of "not caring" about her life. They thought this could be a useful contribution to science, the first animal in space... They were wrong. And they were always regretful that Laika died for science, especially since they got so little from it.

All future launches with animals were designed to be returned to earth, and those helped pave the way for humans in space. Dogs were used to to test the Vostok spacecraft that later carried Yuri Gagarin to orbit, making him the first man in space.

My point is that they were never uncaring of the safety of Laika: they thought this was the best of a bad situation and then it got worse. This experiment was not repeated and Laika was mourned. If you need to blame anyone, blame Khrushchev.

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The knight returned from his quest.

"Did you succeed?" the king asked. "Is the dragon slain?"

"I could not find it. I rode to where you said its lair was, but there I only found a huge wise old bird, who said there were no scaly dra-"

The knight halted.

"Dragons have feathers?"

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I debated on whether I should subject my mutuals to this, but ultimately decided they followed me so now I'm gonna make it their problem.

Do you love the Eras of the Earth?

Which One?

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I'm learning ASL right now, and our class is entirely voices off, so we end up doing this all the time. Of course, ASL is a little different, I'm sure it would be a bit more challenging to learn most other languages like this, but still. We explain things a lot, and our teacher explains new signs, without ever having to resort to using our voices (which is good, cause our teacher is half deaf)

It's super fun cause the class is not silent in the least. There may be no words, but there is constant giggles and gasps and grunts of disagreement and its all so lively. But if I forgot the sign for door, I might draw a door, open it, and finger walk through, or if I wanted to say nervous, I might bite my nails. It makes conversations so much more entertaining

I actually really like the thing when you're starting to get the hang of a new language, enough to understand and say simple sentences but you gotta get creative to get more complex thoughts across, like a puzzle. I remember a time in the restortation school when a classmate who wasn't natively finnish and did her best anyway dropped something and sighed, telling me "every day is monday this week. I have had four mondays this week." And I understood.

I don't think I speak much of spanish anymore, but in the nursing school training period I did there, I did manage to get by with making weird Tarzan sentences. I got a nosebleed at some point and startled another nurse. Not knowing the words "humidity" or "stress", I managed to string together: "This is ok. It is hot, it is cold, I have a bad day, I am sad, I have blood. This is normal for me." And she understood.

And sometimes you just say things weird, but it's better than not saying it. One time, I was stuck in a narrow hallway behind someone walking really slowly with a walker, and he apologised for being in the way. I was not in any hurry, but didn't know the spanish word for "hurry", but I did know enough words to try to circumvent it by borrowing the english "I have all the time in the world."

The man burst into one of those cackling old man laughters that they do when something in this world still manages to surprise them. He had to be somewhere between 70 and a 100 years old, and I guess if there was one thing he wasn't expecting to hear today, it would be a random blond vaguely baltic-looking fuck casually announce that he is the sole owner and keeper of the very concept of time.

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I like this perspective. It's all fine and easy to say to just ban AI, but any line not clearly defined and solid is a very thin line, and at that point, you are standing at the tip of a very slippery slope.

starting to suspect that tech bros actually just don’t know what reading is

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