I had fully forgotten the phrase “you’ll tie up the phone line!” And I just had a nam style flashback of sneaking internet time during the day when my mom was at work, and praying that no one tried to call

See, I know you y’all were separate people. But then y’all got Tuvix’d and now you’re just trying to maintain the illusion of the originals so you don’t get fully murdered like the original Tuvix.

What nursery rhyme taught you this?

You say that, but if the alternative is a completely paralyzed body stuck in a bed 24/7, with sores on your back, ass, and thighs, and no recourse? I’d take rectal itch and tooth rot. If I can afford a brain transplant in the US healthcare system, I can afford dentures and a calamine enema

On #6, I’ve been using a variation I read recently. “If someone said that about [friend] would you defend them?”

It has helped a lot. I’ve realized in the last month especially that the way I treat myself, the thoughts I have about myself, are borderline abusive. If I were in a relationship with someone and they expected of me what I give myself shit for doing/not doing, they’d 100% be a toxic and abusive partner. If someone openly talked about my friends the way my brain talks about me, I’d knock their teeth out. Just because it’s coming from inside doesn’t mean it’s not abusive. Don’t let your mind abuse you, because that POS will try every time if you let it.

Everybody gets together, there are snacks and drinks and music, and then at the stroke of midnight all the software turns to hardware and by 12:03 everyone releases simultaneously

“We shouldn’t be setting bones and giving people casts. Just imagine how much more reckless people will be if they don’t have the threat of deformity and lifelong pain!”

Let people have nice teeth, even if maybe they didn’t take the greatest care or them as young folks, or grew up eating highly acidic foods or drinking soda.

It’s so good, isn’t it?

Yorkshire. Jodie Whitaker’s accent. Fucking love it so much. The way she says radio in the Tesla episode? OMG. I love everything about it.

Also genuinely love Indian accents, and several southern US accents, but not all of them. Not a big fan of Appalachian or west Virginian accents, Kentucky can okay depending on the region, and coastal Virginia is pretty good. Western Virginia (not west Virginia, but the mountainous western portion of Virginia) can be grating to me.

Charleston accents are chef’s kiss, and the accent I was born into until I forced myself into a general American accent as a kid

Most people on Lemmy, maybe. The smart watches are popular as shit, as far as I’ve seen. I rarely see someone without one out in public

And on top of that, a device to track your steps that you wildly overpay for isn’t exactly comparable to a full “I can think and know all the info on Wikipedia” sci-fi future of computer-brain interfaces. I absolutely do see the brand-loyal fanatics signing up for Google Grey Matter or the apple iBrain

The whole idea behind it was radical unity, internationalism, and bringing disparate people together on equal footing. Instead of me speaking a language I’ve known since birth, and you speaking a language you are just capable of understanding, and both of us trying to plead our case to the government, the idea is that we would all have an auxiliary language to compliment (not replace) our mother tongues, and we would both be capable of making yourself understood equally.

Those ideals don’t really jive with hard nationalism and pseudoscientific ideas around superior races

Congratulations, you managed to get offended by a historical tidbit about a constructed language!

Oh, and pissing off fascists is always good. Period. Full stop. If you don’t think that’s true, perhaps it’s time for some introspection!

There’s a daughter language called Ido that’s done away with gender, iirc. And I believe there’s some gender neutral ways to get around it in the community, but it’s been a long time since I’ve attempted to do anything with it

Esperanto! Yes, there are better conlangs, yes, it’s eurocentric, and yes, there are ways to improve it or even come up with something better. But it has a cool history, it’s tied to socialist movements and anarchist movements, it is fairly easy to learn (especially for speakers of European languages), it’s grammar is super simple, it uses a system of root words and affixes that make me think of Legos, and it has real, native speakers already, meaning it is a living language that has changed over time, and is fully capable of being used exclusively to communicate efficiently.

Plus, the fascists fucking hate it

Can someone tell me what darvo tactics mean? Or tell me if I just don’t want to know. I’d Google it, but OP mentioned CP and if it’s related to that, I don’t want to Google it :(

Jokes on you, I’m medicated!

Absolutely! Do you dare speak out against the words of the prophets‽

If anyone is interested in philosophy, religion, or just want to archive it for historical reasons, IIRC sacred-texts.com has a USB version of their entire archive. They sell it, but I’m sure someone could find a work around there, if they were opposed to supporting them* for some reason. It’s a massive collection of philosophical and religious works, and I believe they even have things like constitutions and legal works, as well.

*I know nothing about the people that run it or their ideology

Honestly? Terrifying. Not to get all "mark of the beast"y or anything like that, but they’re not going to have to force us to get brain-computer interface chips, people are going to line up for them and pay for it willingly. And then after a while, actual thought crimes become a real thing. I don’t want to live in a world where I have to worry about the encryption level of my brain. I don’t want Dear Leader, whoever that may be at the time, knowing if I like them.

10 years ago, this would have exited the hell out of me. Now? All I can think about is how fucking terrifying it is.

I can’t stop thinking about it!