Buy knives to make yourself happy! And then, if you're feeling unhappy, you can go out for a walk with your knife, and find a cool stick, and you can whittle it into a magic wand or a spoon if you want to get really creative, and then you'll feel happy.

2d ago

airulepods

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2d ago

The Caribbean islands that give you a passport if you buy a home

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GraniteM @lemmy.world 2d ago

Between the ecological, sociological, ecosystemic, and political dangers, I am quite literally dumbfounded whenever I hear that someone is willingly moving to Florida.

3d ago

Stages of Morule Development

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GraniteM @lemmy.world 3d ago

I saw a study where they showed babies a little play where a green puppet is trying to climb up a cliff and then there is a red puppet and a blue puppet. The red puppet smacks the green puppet and knocks it down, and the blue puppet helps the green one up the cliff. Then they give the babies a choice of playing with either the blue or red puppets, and the babies had a distinct preference for playing with the helpful blue puppet. The implication is that even infants have a fundamental understanding that it is better to be helpful of others than harmful, and I honestly feel that that's a good indicator of how humanity's natural state is one of help, cooperation, and kindness.

3d ago

I do like it!

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GraniteM @lemmy.world 3d ago

Would you rather receive $100 worth of laundry detergent or a $100 gift card at the Lego Store (or whatever your favorite frivolous store is)?

5d ago

Contain them

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5d ago

All in the family: In 2026, a surge of politicians' kids are running for office

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GraniteM @lemmy.world 5d ago

We need a constitutional amendment forbidding members of one's immediate family from running for office above a certain level. Spouses, children, and siblings are all right out. Exactly where the cutoff is is open to discussion, but presidents and members of congress should be forbidden from trading on their family name for elected office.

6d ago

Frog rule

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GraniteM @lemmy.world 6d ago

I'm a big fan of "Meditating Frog" by Sengai (1750-1837)

6d ago

iot

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GraniteM @lemmy.world 6d ago

https://www.stickermule.com/custom-stickers

6d ago

please god

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6d ago

How long?

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GraniteM @lemmy.world 6d ago

I understand that this looks like a pretty good setup for a Final Destination movie.

6d ago

Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else?

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6d ago

Who is an artist or public figure you still enjoy despite them being cancelled for bad behaviour?

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GraniteM @lemmy.world 6d ago

Phil Spector produced some of the best music of the twentieth century, including one of a handful of bearable Christmas albums in existence. Also he's a fucking murderer. So... bit of a mixed bag, there.

6d ago

Who is an artist or public figure you still enjoy despite them being cancelled for bad behaviour?

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GraniteM @lemmy.world 6d ago

I kind of think that Lovecraft was doing about the least-worst thing he could with his absolutely massive trove of neuroses and phobias, which definitely included racism and xenophobia.

He was convinced that the universe was chaotic and horrifying and that the only thing we could hold on to for stability was racial purity, and that's pretty fucked up, but he turned those feelings into spooky stories about interdimensional space monsters, which is certainly a lot better than writing political tracts or trying to convince everyone that the Armenians are actually to blame for all of our problems.

Therapy would have been even better, but writing spooky stories was better than some of the very real alternatives that other people were exploring in the 19-teens and twenties.