#is that ethical and possible?

[trans-phone-eater]

Hey so like if you just didn't care about ethics or fear of bio engineering then could you create a lifeform that's basically just a continuously growing lump of flesh and could you just keep harvesting flesh off of Gregory the flesh monstrosity

[longelk]

kc true fursona

[hashileio]

you join the cafe & meet the crew (minus one)

[philosophybits]

The cause of freedom is not that of others more than it is mine: it is universally human. If I want the slave to become conscious of his servitude, it is both in order not to be a tyrant myself — for any abstention is complicity, and complicity in this case is tyranny — and in order that new possibilities might be opened to the liberated slave and through him to all men. To want existence, to want to disclose the world, and to want men to be free are one and the same will.

Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity

[hussyknee]

I'm really not a villain enjoyer. I love anti-heroes and anti-villains. But I can't see fictional evil separate from real evil. As in not that enjoying dark fiction means you condone it, but that all fiction holds up some kind of mirror to the world as it is. Killing innocent people doesn't make you an iconic lesbian girlboss it just makes you part of the mundane and stultifying black rot of the universe.

"But characters struggling with honour and goodness and the egoism of being good are so boring." Cool well some of us actually struggle with that stuff on the daily because being a good person is complicated and harder than being an edgelord.

Sure you can use fiction to explore the darkness of human nature and learn empathy, but the world doesn't actually suffer from a deficit of empathy for powerful and privileged people who do heinous stuff. You could literally kill a thousand babies in broad daylight and they'll find a way to blame your childhood trauma for it as long as you're white, cisgender, abled and attractive, and you'll be their poor little meow meow by the end of the week. Don't act like you're advocating for Quasimodo when you're just making Elon Musk hot, smart and gay.

[flying-cat]

The richest man on Earth is, presumably, from what we have seen thus far, going to be an active part of our government or influential to important decisions and discussions at least. I think this is definitely where we start worrying guys!

[chicago-geniza]

Oh I bet Bridgerton is one of those shows where the source material is so thin that people write crazy good, sophisticated fanfiction, making a yellow brick road out of a breadcrumb trail

[faithfromanewperspective]

can't stop thinking about how it's theorised that people with the highest levels of perseverance are least likely to properly recover from burnout. how if you've known stress all your life but are good at pushing through it mentally sometimes it's the rest of your body that actually gives up, because even with the most grit and resilience none of us are invincible and your nervous system isn't something you can think your way out of the reactions of, nor is it something you can train to do superhuman things the way you can train your muscles to be super strong with enough exercise. your nervous system is always going to limit you, even if you have the fittest body or the best growth mindset and positive thinking skills

[tubbytarchia]

I've been suffering from a clogged nose/throat and shortness of breath for many years and only today managed to get recommended and sold medicine that helps (unlike everything else I've tried) and I cannot express to you guys how absolutely amazing it feels to be able to breathe again

[faaun]

my research partner and i are huddled in a blanket in paddington waiting for a too-late train i already miss you and you and you

[spurgie-cousin]

the fundie mormon patriarchal logic is so incredibly nonsensical, and like don't get me wrong all misogyny is nonsensical. But for Kody "back to patriarchy" Brown to admit that each of his wives (minus Robyn although he doesn't say that) were not only the primary caretakers for their kids but also the primary bread winners of their homes, while he still expects to be the considered the head of his family is INSANE. like what do you even do????

and I know we've known that information for a long time but I just need to know the rationality he uses to still act like these women aren't the actual back bone of "his" family and therfore deserve more respect as leaders. Kody especially has never really had a consistent job, and he certainly has never provided care for the kids while the wives are working, so I'm just dying to know what he thinks he brought to the daily family dynamic besides just being the only adult man around.

and Kody is not even unique in that regard, it's just crazy how blantaly mormon polygamy was built for the veneration of a man who does not much more than exist tbh.

[thankstothe]

[oswaldthatendswald]

How on EARTH have I not thought of a trigun Donquixote brothers AU. They are literally just. The same guys in a different font. My god. I want to put Knives and Doflamingo in a room together. I think that would be funny.

[huldrabitch]

Everytime I see anything about ozempics I think about the superior iron man comic where evil capitalist Tony releases extremis disguised as an app to make people healthy/beautiful, only to add a 100 dollars subscription fee per day making him even richer and also turning millions of people addicts desperate for money to keep the app.

[philosophybits]

Socrates did not believe in gods, so he wanted to justify virtue by reason. Kant also did not believe in God, and therefore he derived his morals from "Law." But if there is God, and all men are the children of God, then we should be afraid of nothing and spare nothing. And then the man who madly dissipates his own life and fortunes, and the lives and fortunes of others, is more right than the calculating philosophers who vainly seek to regulate mankind on earth.

Lev Shestov, All Things Are Possible

[merlyn-bane]

publicly kissing @meebles on the forehead for being extremely lovely about the inevitable byproduct of cowriting a dinosaur cowboy au with someone for whom dinosaurs are a special interest