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pmamtraveller

Full Moon by Tao Lengyue

stivkagall

Karlach's dance Baldur's gate 3

quasi-normalcy

This is just my opinion as a Canadian, but it has always seemed to me that America, as a culture, fundamentally has always thought that killing people is kind of cool.

Like, you look at rates of serial killers by country and no one else is even fucking close. If you look at American movies and television that are considered "high culture", it's all stuff like Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, The Godfather, etc. I actually happen to like a lot of those shows, but they are about men who kill other people. You can make the case that "if you idolize [Homelander / Scarface / Patrick Bateman] then you're missing the point" and you wouldn't even be wrong, but my god are there ever a lot of people who do idolize those guys, and that seems worth interrogating.

And it's not recent American culture either. Think of every famous gangster and bank-robber and Old West outlaw that you've ever heard of. Other countries...really don't do that, at least not to the same extent.

Anyways, all of this by way of saying that, as with so many other things, people like Trump and Hegseth are really just taking what's been implicit for many years and making it explicit.

pocket-size-cthulhu

I'm always saying this (like when I ranted in these tags a few months ago). There's something sick in the very assumptions USAmericans have about life (I say, as a USAmerican myself!) that makes violence and killing seem kind of cool. Most people won't admit it out loud, but it's obvious. You can see it in the Punisher bumper stickers, the gun collections, the fanboy behavior over Tarantino... I could go on. It's wrong and it's rotten and as it intensifies, it bleeds out into distrust of our neighbors, giving a pass to cops who murder people in cold blood during traffic stops, and the never-ending list of school shootings. I genuinely think that at the root of all of this is a sort of worship of physical might and power/domination over others.

This even goes for good people who are generally anti-violence! I would have described myself that way a couple of years back; but last year, totally on accident, I stumbled on a piece of media that made me reevaluate all of my thoughts and feelings about violence and I realized that I too, despite being against violence in general, still saw it as kind of cool, in some weird and twisted way. Like I'd watch action movies and be like "woah, cool move." You know? And I don't think those kinds of feelings are unique to USAmericans, but I would say that USAmericans seem to somehow be bathing in the "violence is cool" kool-aid that other folks are maybe just drinking from time to time. IDK.

It's really hard to pull yourself out of that mindset. I know people aren't just going to change their minds about this overnight. But if I had the power to beam one thing into everyone's brains, including my own, it would be an understanding of how unnecessary, embarrassing, and disgusting violence really is.

synnthamonsugar

The pilot -> astronaut pipeline makes complete sense but is also funny to me. There's a secret second sky and if you get good enough at doing sky you can do space.

innerchildabortionclinic

WTF (where's the feta?)

innerchildabortionclinic

LMFAO (love my feta and olives)

toddcoward69

koloocheh

forget about touching grass, i need to touch THE SEA I NEED TO GO INTO THE WATER I NEED TO DIVE INTO THE SEA!!!!!!!!!!!!

crisshex88

Buffy The Vampire Slayer

by Kevin Wada

moshroom

he had to jump in the ballpit to cool off after getting all airplane ears over a treat puzzle that proved a little too advanced

moshroom

he's done this a few times now. the ball pit actively soothes him when he gets mad over puzzles. i could learn something from this

moshroom

my-heart-of-heart

Duo of all time

depsidase

quasi-normalcy

100% in favour of people mocking the American State Religion.

nasajpl

We know that we cannot take the current President's statements at face value. But in light of Trump's recent speech where he claimed that he's "saved" NASA and always supported them (which isn't true), I wanted to elaborate on some of this.

He's slashed the budget, forced removal of DEI history and contributions at NASA, and caused many NASA workers' unemployment. I have worked closely with people in these spheres and know that the budget cuts have deeply jeopardized the future space missions, space exploration, and space science.

My close friends and colleagues, especially those relying on DEI programs, have had such a difficult time during this administration, and we still are. This program found some success with Artemis II and beyond in spite of the current administration's lack of support and lack of funding.

You can read more details here.

cardassiangoodreads

This is all the more reason you guys have to stop circulating shit about Artemis II being “US army propaganda.” Along with that it just isn’t, all those arguments are various forms of associating this with Trump “but leftishly.” In fact I don’t think he should get credit for a program from an agency he’s done everything he can to kneecap at every turn. You don’t have to give it to him!

thebiscuiteternal

The White House's proposed budget for 2027 slashes an additional 3.8 Billion (yes, with a B) from NASA's budget to fund his dumbassery in Iran. He does not give a flying fuck.