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ContriteErudite

@ ContriteErudite @lemmy.world

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  • I'm not even gay

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  • I think it was directed at the second party. But also shouted at the boundless void in the hope that someone, something, anything with the power to make things make sense hears us. Just like most of my posts.

  • A new ‘solution’ to student homelessness: a parking lot where students can sleep safely in their cars

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  • Paraphrasing a quote I head years ago: Americans will always do the right thing, after exhausting all other possibilities.

  • What's the oldest video game you still find yourself playing?

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  • Darklands - a cRPG released in 1992 by Microprose. It's set in medieval Germany; you are a party of fledgling adventurers looking to build fame and money, and somehow you get pulled into a battle against the forces of the apocalypse. Instead of magic, you invoke saints and use alchemy to craft potions. I loved it when I was younger, and I still, somehow, enjoy it today.

    If you hate the following things, then I highly recommend checking it out!

    • great graphics
    • good music and sound design
    • easy to understand game mechanics
    • stable, bug-free game play
    • yourself

  • Hillary Clinton Says Young Americans Are Pro-Palestine Because They Watch ‘Totally Made Up’ Videos of Gaza Horrors

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  • My guess is some sort of SEO to correlate those terms to this post.

  • Tucker Carlson: Trump Shooter Was a Trump-Backing Radical — and the FBI Covered It Up

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  • In a video with Ben Shapiro he questioned if the news we were hearing regarding Israel and Gaza could be trusted. Shapiro looked mortified that a fellow conservative would even entertain such a thought. It's been alluded that was the moment that Kirk sealed his fate.

  • Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco

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  • There are also a lot of people out there that will intentionally swerve to hit an animal. Mark Rober made a video a long time ago where 6% of drivers went out of their way to hit animals that were just chilling on the shoulder.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-Fp7flAWMA

  • Terrible idea

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  • They are referring to when New Jersey had a huge problem with needles washing up on the beaches back in the 90s.

  • Terrible idea

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  • Hell yeah! Where all my New Jerseyans at?

  • Chapel in the Woods

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  • The 1980s summed up in a single photo.

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  • Licking restaurant ashtrays is just what we kids did back then. We didn't know any better!

  • Bernie Sanders floats AOC as potential 2028 presidential contender: ‘Very good politician’

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  • ...and we still put people like Caligula into positions of power.

    We're not going to make it, are we? :(

  • Hardest version I've seen yet

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  • Was all said tongue in cheek. I was taking the piss because they were being hyperbolic. Appreciate you.

  • Hardest version I've seen yet

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  • Right, so you’ve seen that, have you? Watched some gullible sap throw cans of food at the cat until one sticks? Perhaps if it's a newly adopted pet, then yes, you have to put in some work to find the kind of food that the cat prefers. Research has proven that kittens actually build a preference for the food that their mother ate during gestation and nursing, and it takes deliberate care on the owner's part to move them over to a different kind of food.

    I once had a golden retriever inhale half a pound of salami, vomit it across the linoleum ten minutes later, and then like some greasy ouroboros of shame, it ate the same spewed-salami again. Twice. It's like comparing apples and oranges, except I bet my dog would have eaten those, too.

    And then there’s the cat, not having any of it. Doesn’t fetch, doesn’t beg, doesn’t need humans' approval; which I bet drives certain people mad that it's primary motivation in life isn't to be their own personal dopamine dispenser.

    Sarcasm aside, I do get where you're coming from. Cats and dogs aren't variations of the same theme; dogs are social, cats are solitary. Some people understand that and don't expect their pets to be anything more than what they are. Me? I like both cats and dogs. I don’t expect them to be little humans or to stroke my ego. I’m their caretaker, not their cult leader. If they’re happy, safe, and healthy, that’s the win. Anything beyond that is a bonus.

  • He almost missed it

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  • party hears rumbling from deep beneath the mountainObiwandalf: "I've got a bad feeling about this..."

  • What is your most "Fuck you, this is actually awesome?" take?

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  • All-Star is what made me change my mind on Superman. I never really liked him when I was younger, and it was for all the same complaints that people have already listed above. But All-Star was a blast to read, not in spite of it's (at times) cheesiness, but because of it. All-Star Superman is relatable because he embodies the best traits in all of us; he is incredibly intelligent and kind, leveled and patient. Without going into spoilers, I think what I love most about All-Star is that it shows that even the best among us have our weaknesses, and that it's not the huge, planet-level threats that define who are and what we do, but the small, innocuous things that can most affect who we are in the moment.

  • So effective it made stupid people

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  • They’re not shoulder-to-shoulder with the rest of us at Costco, or waiting for hours at an overcrowded clinic, or sending their kids to schools packed past capacity. They live in a separate world, where exposure to the mess the rest of us deal with is minimized.

    When illness does fall on them, they get top-tier healthcare; faster, smarter, better than anything we’ll ever see. It’s a tiered society, where wealth and influence dictate your caste. They’re not digging graves; they’re building bunkers.

  • Good news. :)

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  • Has anyone seen RFK Jr. and one of Nurgle's Great Unclean Ones in the same room together? I don't think so...

  • Rising inequality is turning US into an autocratic state, billionaire warns

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  • Game theory, pure and simple. At its core, it is nothing more than the mathematical codification of self-interest. Within capitalism, it becomes one of the most powerful tools for justifying and even glorifying selfishness and greed. By reducing human interaction to competitive strategies designed to maximize personal gain, it frames cooperation, empathy, or long-term collective well-being as irrational or inefficient. The result is a system where decisions that harm the many can be rationalized as “optimal” so long as they benefit the few who hold power and wealth.

    Most people recognize the absurdity of this: we are essentially allowing the worst actors to dictate outcomes for everyone else. And all of it is wrapped in the veneer of mathematical inevitability, as though greed were a natural law instead of a human choice.

  • Graffiti seen in Barcelona, Catalonia

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  • A lot of young people grow up believing there’s glory in war. But anyone who’s been through it sees how pointless it really is. Ruining soldiers, families, civilians, and even the land itself.

    You saw the truth and came back better for it, and that’s worth more than any so-called victory. In the end, all people are equal; born, live, and then gone; war doesn’t change that. The best we can do is share what we’ve learned, so those who come after us don’t fall for the same lies. The rich sending the poor to die for their personal gain only shows how empty and corrupt they are.

    I hope you've found your peace, P00ptart, and I hope your story helps sway people away from fighting wars.