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Does anyone else experience stomach activations? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] AnotherUsername@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Digestion is basically an input=output system.

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[–] AnotherUsername@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's a very weird binary view. Do you think every situation involves one hero and one villain? I'd say many situations involve no heroes at all.

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These are getting weird in c/comics@lemmy.ml
[–] AnotherUsername@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

The modified file does not significantly change the work, and does remove attribution. You should spend some time reading up on copyright, intellectual property, and creative commons, because you have obviously not done so if you think this is arbitrary.

Anyone seen this be done in Fanfic? "The Hangover" but in different time periods and/or settings in c/fanfiction@lemmy.ml
[–] AnotherUsername@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

Also if you do this you could make it an AWESOME history lesson. Especially if you translate "hangover" into whatever common "get high" things were locally used, because not everyone drinks? But every society parties.

Anyone seen this be done in Fanfic? "The Hangover" but in different time periods and/or settings in c/fanfiction@lemmy.ml
[–] AnotherUsername@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

Do it do it do it PLEASE I will pay goddamn good money to see this.

Also please please please can we have someone trying to clean an alien stain off something and it reacts BADLY with common cleaning supplies and then with uncommon ones, and they think they are going to get in SO much trouble but it ends up being a sample of something valuable so they are forgiven

In your opinion, is space exploration necessary? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] AnotherUsername@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

From a risk assessment standpoint, space exploration is a VERY good investment. We need to be on multiple planets, preferably in multiple solar systems or even multiple galaxies.

BUT. It absolutely must be paired with NOT destroying the planet we have! This is the only planet we've got right now and the only one we've got a guarantee on habitability - if we don't fuck it up.

So yes, space is vital. But so it protecting this place.

There Are Now Over 50,000 American Troops in the Mideast in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
There Are Now Over 50,000 American Troops in the Mideast in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
There Are Now Over 50,000 American Troops in the Mideast in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
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I want Sir David Attenborough designated a UNESCO world treasure. (lemmy.ml)
 

That's all. Thanks.

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Harlan Ellison was not actually a great writer. (lemmy.ml)
 

I have just, once again, read "I have no mouth and I must scream". This might be the third or fourth time. I don't really know how many times I've read it, but I never seem to remember it later, even though I try. It just doesn't make much of an impression on me. Most of his short stories are like that; I remember the one about the dog, mostly because I learned beforehand that he hated women and that story makes that quite clear but also because I like dogs and think the ending is quite a reasonable decision for the protagonist to make. Awkward to agree with that asshole, of course.

So "I have no mouth but I must scream" - ok, I just don't think it's great. It's apparently memorable to lots of people, but I feel like that's mostly because it's about torture which most people don't get a lot of fictional exposure to, and about AI, and AI is a hot topic right now.

I might find the torture unremarkable because I read far worse as a kid reading my first communion present from my aunt. "The lives of the saints and the martyrs". I learned a LOT about torture from my Catholic childhood. I reckon kids today on the rotten side of the Internet see more graphic stuff, but I doubt it's actually worse than what was written in that little navy blue book with the gilt edges. His depiction was weirdly tame? I guess. It just didn't strike me as being quite the worst thing that could happen to a person.

Anyways. I'll try and remember this time so I don't end up re-reading the damn thing again, but I swear that's exactly what I thought last time too.

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Thou shalt not alter thy body? I don't remember that one (lemmy.nz)
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"The Accountant" has flaws, but it's still a likeable movie for me. (lemmy.ml)
 

I think the part I like is that it posits- what if autism were simultaneously painful but valuable? Useful? Even a little Heroic? Without forcing social acceptance, without making the autistic person magically able to navigate the world easily.

It's wrong on every level about reality, but most movies are anyways so that's normal for movieland.

I dunno, I liked it. It's simple and nice. What if your pain were useful for something?

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