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There’s a bunch of right-wing people posting memes about “”DOGE”” making the government more efficient by removing funding from “”dumb bug researchers”” and I am now realizing how little the average person knows about entomology and its importance

Excuse me while I get sad .

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can we all agree that it's pathetic when so-called "friends" try to sabotage your opportunities? you're clearly jealous that the amulet of eternal darkness chose me and no amount of "please fight it, i know you're still in there somewhere" is going to change that. crab bucket mentality. grow up.

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This page is excruciating. "You won't last (training against me)" highlights (one of) Steph's biggest insecurities— not being good enough for the Batfam. "You won't last (being my best friend)" highlights (one of) Cass' biggest insecurities— being unable to actually connect with people. I'm probably reading into it but idk. They're just such perfect foils for each other.

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This is just sad. The amount of ppl who either

1. Voted for trump because of vague reasons like "the economy" (what's his economic plan, buddy?)

2. Had no clue his policies are bad for everyone, including them

3. Didn't know what was going on AT ALL/ believed propaganda (the dude who voted to cut his own healthcare because it was nicknamed "obamacare" and republicans sold him on obama= bad)

Just, look at the demage you can do if you believe inflammatory rhetoric and don't do any research.

are we feeling the schadenfreude today?

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לדעתי היו צריכים להוריד תקטע שניסים שובר לאנטולי את הבלנדר- זה שהוא עם צמיד העצמה ואנטולי עם בלנדר זה צדק

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Watchin batman the animated series has led me to ask: were there no laws to protect endangered species in the 90's? why are all these ppl building shit on top on endangered plants and animals?

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I went to the small pizzeria in a nearby village last month and asked for a calzone, and when she brought it to me the owner had a look on her face I can only describe as bitter.

Naturally my first assumption was that she was judging me for my food order (maybe calzones are too easy compared to other pizzas and she felt under-challenged as a pizza chef?), but then I looked at my calzone and the more I looked at it, the more I felt like it might have been a failed attempt at a cat calzone.

(I didn't ask for a cat calzone, just a calzone.)

If I had immediately identified it as a cat calzone I would have of course said something about it, such as "Aww that's so cute! You made it in the shape of a cat!! Thank you!" — but it was too late. I hesitated too long, and it was just failed enough that I wasn't sure it was meant to be a cat.

I think this poor woman knew her cat calzone was a failure and I wouldn't be able to recognise her effort for what it was, hence the bitterness in her eyes when she brought it to me.

I asked my friend if my pizza looked like a cat to her, and she said "Are you saying this because of the olives? I think they were just placed randomly."

no, I think they were meant to be eyes, and a cat nose. And those are the ears. Wait, I'll turn it in your direction so you can see

Friend: "It's just a pointy calzone... Maybe you should ask the chef if she meant to make it a cat?"

If I tried to make a cat calzone and the recipient of this gift went like 'hey, sorry, is this weird-looking thing meant to be cat?' I would sell my pizza restaurant and drown myself in the river.

After considering this, my friend said we could brainstorm a better phrasing—but then we ended up agreeing that since the chef didn't go 'haha sorry I tried to make a cat and failed!!' when she brought my pizza, the options were a) she didn't try to make a cat; b) she feels humiliated by her failure, and either way it's better to say nothing.

But I felt deeply curious about this unresolved mystery, so this week when I went back to the pizzeria I asked for a calzone again.

The options were now: a) the chef brings me a better, recognisable cat calzone and I immediately remark upon it and she's happy and we erase the failed cat calzone from the historical record and never mention it ever;

or b) the chef brings me a normal calzone, which suggests that the vague cat shape from last time was accidental and just another instance of chronic cat pareidolia.

(I refused to consider option c) The chef brings me another failed, hardly-recognisable cat. She just doesn't seem like the kind of person who would let that happen to her twice.)

Here's the photo of the failed cat calzone from last time, which, according to my friend, just looks like a pointy calzone with randomly-placed olives and not a deliberate attempt to make a cat:

And here's what the chef brought me this time:

THAT'S A CAT.

I knew it!!!!

And it looks so sad!! This cat calzone looks like it will burst into olive oil tears if you once again fail to identify it as the cat that it is

But I didn't; I was so ready this time. I went "A cat!!!!! It's so cute!" and the chef went like yes!!! I tried to make one last time but it looked weird :(

I said I was pretty sure it was a cat last time and apologised for not bringing it up and she said no, it's my responsibility to make it a decent cat. She also said she was glad I'd come back and ordered another calzone because she was really bothered ("vraiment embêtée") by that first failed attempt, and wondering if I'd noticed an attempt was made (and failed)

That's so relatable. It's like when you make a really embarrassing spelling mistake in a text and you're not sure if the other person has seen it and is judging you for it. Should you bring it up? Can it go unnoticed if you don't? It's the cat calzone equivalent of that. I'm so glad we were able to clear the air.

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Ngl it takes a lot of cojones to say that to the one person who can and has handily kicked your ass time and time again.

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spoiler thinks super heroes are bad and her alternative is... superheroes. Think about it, she shut down the bat signal, showed up to the crime scene instead of batman and did his work for him, and then fled from the cops, overriding them, she literally did a batman, minus taking the credit.

a lone vigilante taking down the villains before they kill anyone, great idea steph! where did you get that one?

her not taking credit might make ppl trust cops more, but the cops would still be depending on a vigilante to save them. even if they don't know it was her the next time, they'll know someone solves their problems for them, so why bother?

I returned to detective comics and to the 'superheroes are bad because when they fight supervillains there's collateral damage' arc and, like, do they think if heroes won't exist, the villains won't either? if you wanna be meta then yes, but in the dc universe gotham was riddled with crime prior to the creation of batman, and batman existing didn't create the rogues, he's the only thing standing between said rogues and civilians, the only time I can think about when batman created a problem was in war games, and that was the exception to the rule (finding out Batman created the war game was a big reveal).

also, do you wanna see a really bad line?

if you're ever in the back of an ambulance, you're probably having a heart attack- ambulances cause heart attacks

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so I was wrong, it WAS about batman, but u can't tell me that 'hurts ppl to get into batman's rogue gallery' is a real thing most villains do

Steph does make a good point in the pink rectangle- this is the kind of operation that you could handle quietly, without a show off. but not every villain has a suit you can hack into, and not every fight is a case where giving said villain attention is the last thing u should do. if Stephanie stayed on the team she could've offered her strategy to batman

I returned to detective comics and to the 'superheroes are bad because when they fight supervillains there's collateral damage' arc and, like, do they think if heroes won't exist, the villains won't either? if you wanna be meta then yes, but in the dc universe gotham was riddled with crime prior to the creation of batman, and batman existing didn't create the rogues, he's the only thing standing between said rogues and civilians, the only time I can think about when batman created a problem was in war games, and that was the exception to the rule (finding out Batman created the war game was a big reveal).

also, do you wanna see a really bad line?

if you're ever in the back of an ambulance, you're probably having a heart attack- ambulances cause heart attacks

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so to justify their position the writers have a villain that's basically here because of batman- he wants to kill batman to get to the top of the Gotham food chain, and he only wants to kill ppl on camera, for the attention it brings. so if the heroes don't give him attention, no one will get hurt. superheroes bad.

but here's the thing:

this dude is the exception, most villains aren't robbing banks and killing people for attention (Joker sometimes does, but he would have chosen to hurt ppl even if batman never existed)

if batman never existed, this guy would've just killed someone else to prove he's the top dog, u know how I know that?

he told us! it doesn't have to be batman, as long as it's sensational enough.

like there's an argument to be made that batman has made cops complicit by covering their asses, but I'd argue it's a GCPD problem rather than a bat problem

I returned to detective comics and to the 'superheroes are bad because when they fight supervillains there's collateral damage' arc and, like, do they think if heroes won't exist, the villains won't either? if you wanna be meta then yes, but in the dc universe gotham was riddled with crime prior to the creation of batman, and batman existing didn't create the rogues, he's the only thing standing between said rogues and civilians, the only time I can think about when batman created a problem was in war games, and that was the exception to the rule (finding out Batman created the war game was a big reveal).

also, do you wanna see a really bad line?

if you're ever in the back of an ambulance, you're probably having a heart attack- ambulances cause heart attacks

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I returned to detective comics and to the 'superheroes are bad because when they fight supervillains there's collateral damage' arc and, like, do they think if heroes won't exist, the villains won't either? if you wanna be meta then yes, but in the dc universe gotham was riddled with crime prior to the creation of batman, and batman existing didn't create the rogues, he's the only thing standing between said rogues and civilians, the only time I can think about when batman created a problem was in war games, and that was the exception to the rule (finding out Batman created the war game was a big reveal).

also, do you wanna see a really bad line?

if you're ever in the back of an ambulance, you're probably having a heart attack- ambulances cause heart attacks

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Arguments about what's canon and what's not in SW fandom are kinda pointless, I know for a fact that every fan has their personal frankensteined version of canon based on what's best for their own blorbos. I love picking up a random licensed book to sneer at half of its ideas and then steal the rest. Some shows and books and comics and whole movies are simply not incorporated into my belief system. That's how we roll

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בואו נציע לארח כנס אצלנו, הדבר הכי גרוע שהם יכולים להגיד הוא 'לא' - האגודה למען הלהט"ב

מאכזב אך לא מפתיע 🫠

ואגב, עברתי על הרשימה של ארגונים החברים לפי מדינה, וכמובן שארגונים רוסיים וסינים חברים.

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i wonder if actors ever get their scripts and are like

well this is fucking stupid

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The funny part about this first encounter is Steph is left wondering "geez, what'd I do to piss her off?" and meanwhile Cass is walking away thinking "she seems nice. I am so good at giving helpful advice."