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  • So my dad has stage 3 lung cancer, they're starting chemo with him soon.

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  • I think about Alan Watts when he talks about how wanting to be rid of the situation is part of the pain. Like the blister after touching a hot stove, the waiting is part of the grief.

    Perhaps it's what people meant when they say "it's okay to not be okay". Because there's no trick to the pain and you have your own way of grieving. It always finds you, either now or walking down a sunny street on a beautiful day

  • How many times a year do you call out sick to work?

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  • From what I understand which is not a reliable metric, the amount of headache your absence causes and how much visibility it has matters much more than the number. That's what gets people to notice or chatter respectively. Nobody wants to do your work nor get flak from higher up.

    But you should of course always avoid getting others sick as much as you can because that's prime directive level cringe. So you might paint yourself into a corner indulging and then actually being sick.

  • So my dad has stage 3 lung cancer, they're starting chemo with him soon.

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  • My condolences, comrade. I wish there were better words to say or anything to hope for besides him winning the fight.

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    William Edward Burghardt Du Bois “A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect.” - Novo General Megathread for the 20th-26th of February 2026

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  • Minotaurs imply the existence minomaxxing and maxxotaurs

  • Scoop: Dems working on [sealed 2024 election autopsy] report found [the Biden admin's approach to the genocide in] Gaza cost Harris votes

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  • unfathomably based

  • Scoop: Dems working on [sealed 2024 election autopsy] report found [the Biden admin's approach to the genocide in] Gaza cost Harris votes

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  • You see, there's a median voter somewhere in fucking Arizona or some such who really truly has a hard time deciding between the two candidates. Offering them healthcare, a union, or a safety net and the like are obviously no good because, regardless of relative price, if the invoice came from a government paper instead of a private company they'd fall into madness as if they saw the face of C'thulu xirself.

    So when they wake up after watching reality TV until there's 4 hours left to vote, they turn on the TV see two people groveling and crying, begging to for a chance to spill more blood, they choose the one who promises the least in return for causing unfathomable harm. Why? Because there were no subtitles during the super bowl halftime show.

    Popular policies just aren't realistic because the whole system is set up around that guy in Arizona

  • DPRK re-elects Kim Jong Un as General Secretary of Workers' Party of Korea

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  • American leftists be like "an elf would've thought of something better"

  • No! If you don't make excuses for the terror you'll be just as authoritarian as the Republicans!

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  • Be nice to strangers, you never know what other people are going through. For example, right now my tummy hurts

  • Being LGBT is a victimless crime

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  • NOOOO!!! I can't stop thinking about it! AAAAHHHHHHHH!!!

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    Being LGBT is a victimless crime

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    No! If you don't make excuses for the terror you'll be just as authoritarian as the Republicans!

  • The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets. It has not paid off

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  • It seems to me that if you took a class of high school students and tasked them with the 100 day melon challenge in Minecraft, you will have prepared them with all the mathmatic, engineering, and research ability they need to navigate society.

    They have to install mods for building, research what builds to make and why, know how much material they need, where to get it, learn about logic circuits+signal propagation in redstone, learn about the exponential curve of growth, and learn how to focus on a grind for an hour or two at a time.

    Then say that whoever has the most melons gets a crown they can wear for the rest of the semester and they'll be off to the races.

    Which is to say that, in terms of applied academics, wouldn't you be better off with access to Minecraft?

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    Weekly Improvement Thread - Feb 22nd 2026

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  • Got an interview as a water poisoner at the Palantir data center for next week. It's sad that I couldn't be at the CIA monitoring leftists forever, but it's an exciting time to be in my field of work and I want to keep doing it. I hope I get this one.

  • Cubans fight blackouts with solar as US extends oil chokehold

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  • Bit idea: turtle neck and khakis + bead necklace and colored glasses. You're a wise business guru who talks very slowly and profoundly, suggesting things might be good for 1 quarter in the future, but is enlightened enough to realize the quarter after that might have avoidle consequences

  • US envoy Huckabee claims Israel has 'biblical right' to conquer all West Asia

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  • Having a dope ass Russia, dope ass Middle East, dope ass Africa, and dope ass Central America would probably go so hard in a counterfactual world where everything wasn't looted and violently abused to make Star Bucks cups and Yatchs.

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    William Edward Burghardt Du Bois “A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect.” - Novo General Megathread for the 20th-26th of February 2026

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  • Squat University has a lot of content about nagging pains and injuries in joints that come down to core instability. I obviously can't give you good medical advice, let along diagnose you over text, but if it's not a more involved medical issue and it's a mystery, you should check out their stuff

  • Ohio mayor arrested on voyeurism charges after allegedly sniffing girl’s underwear

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  • It's so weird because the guy presumably had a wife omand children. Otherwise why the fuck would a minor be in his house? Which means he had wife panties to sniff to his heart's content. God gives gold to fools. Not only that but women sell used panties as well for a lot cheaper than lawyer fees.

    Me, personally? I wouldn't have done that.

  • Even outside the confines of the English language "at what cost" follows me.

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  • "At what cost?" is the English version of ですね (desu ne). It's a sentence stopper with a little Chinese-accusatory inflection at the end. It's a tense in American English. You have the cop violence tense which is ascended passive tense. Then you have Chinese-accusatory tense which is jealous present tense.

    The US has like a military and private panopticon by the way. They use one to see if you'd make a good mass shooter and the other to sell you things the moment it looks like you're sad.

  • Ugh. Cis people amirite?? 🙄

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  • You'll randomly find blood in your uniform in BJJ and have to stop sparring to check whose blood it is and why.

    Which is to say I get that question a lot.

  • LEAVE THE BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY ALONE

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  • Stop, Anakin. You're hurting me

  • LEAVE THE BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY ALONE

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  • I would also argue that making the older games easily accessible doesn't even get in the way of making money. Give away FRLG just like they do in the sites. Fuck, it. If you're brave, put the ROM on your website. Like if I'm a little kid who likes to play in the dort and I get my grubby little hands on a solid, simple entry in the pokemon series, then suddenly AI slop and mobile games feels hollow in comparison. I want to get into the paid versions. Once I have disposable income do you think I want Minecraft toys?! No! I want a Pikachu plushie. I want to fly to watch VGC and I use the hotel you partnered with and you got some revenue by attracting a larger crowd filled with people who preferred Pokemon compared to F2P mobile shit.

    Being a cool company with a good product feels like it would be a competitive advantage. Especially if everyone else is a shitty fucking vampire 24/7

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    They had sex? Uhhh, yeah, everyone who's not agen- wait, nevermind

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    URGENT MEME REQUEST: There's a live action version of this meme with Duran Duran's Invisible that I can't find.

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    bit idea: dedicating a couple years of my life to learning American, English at the 5th grade level, and then applying to go get a racism degree at Harvard University

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    Solidarity with Palestine??? The guy who manipulated Anakin to the dark side? Yeah... no thanks, dog.

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    Being warned that if I continue to act like an idiot soon I'll be surrounded by idiots, but I really do want to be able to afford healthcare

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    While many of you are going "Go AFC Champions!" or "Go NFC Champions!" or "Go UFC Champions!" or "Go Robert Muller and the rule of law!" I'm yelling "Go Deadman Factions and the OSRS streamers!"

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    Western Liberal White Women are actually not that complicated. They just want to have fun, but it's that type Plankton talked about in that SpongeBob song

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    You want a One Piece girl but you need the Hatsune Miku

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    Musings About Israeli Ex-UFC Fighter Natan Levy

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    Can I be dishonest for a second? Hitler made some good points and didn't die like a pathetic cowardly little weasel symbolizing the movement as a whole.

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    What if instead of leftist infighting it was leftist inn fighting and it was DnD PvP?

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    Girls go to college to get more knowledge. Boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider. Theys go to Saturn to find a new pattern

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    "Imagine being desperate for attention" I DON'T HAVE TO IMAGINE! REPLY TO THIS THREAD NOWWWWWWW

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    "Are you on social media?" Yeah, the silly owl-bear site

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    Being a conservative communist is so funny because it feels like hiding a zombie bite from everybody else on the lemmy instance

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    OOOOIIII!!! You got a loicense for that loife less froightening?

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    How Nintendo Contributes to and Perpetuates Violence

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    Hara Urara has passed away at age 29

    friday.kodansha.co.jp /article/438213