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-Bilbo Baggins at his 111th birthday party.

the thing about steampunk spaceflight is that you can investigate all these little things and solve all these little problems but inevitably everything is going to come together disastrously. The whole is worse than the sum of its parts. You can design a really cool steampunk space station--I have definitely tried at times--but it all falls apart when you try to launch it into space.

It's just. You're fundamentally limited by the mediocre materials science and chemistry available in the victorian era. Even if you solve every other problem, the ship is just going to be too heavy and the rocket engines are just going to be too inefficient. You have to cheat! You just have to cheat. You have to cheat somewhere. I always go back and forth on what and where that cheat is. We can't even have liquid hydrogen without cheating.

clara-the-cat

Unfortunately I'm beginning to think that there's a reason that the Victorians didn't go to space 😔

wholesome-animal-images

daco-showman

why can rockstar games institutionalise you for life like nikita kruschev for being autistic

transhuman-priestess

He didn't steal 10 million dollars. They made that number up as a loss, they never fucking had it. Rockstar has spent more than a billion fucking dollars on GTA VI and will likely make billions more when it gets released.

Uber is a fucking shell game of a company designed to leech investor capital and output bootleg cabs.

Nvidia posted a profit in 2023 of $4.37 billion. This is like someone stealing less than a penny from me.

And they lock this kid in a prison hospital for LIFE?

Capitalism is disgusting.

fuckblast

Nobody should buy GTA til they free Arion Kurtaj

transhuman-priestess

What with GTA VI going up for pre-order i'd just like to remind everyone that rockstar conspired with the UK government to lock an 18-year-old away for life for hacking them.

anaphoraholic

found this on reddit thought id post it here too 👍

silyaspider

I think this explains a lot of trans discourse on here, too. Well, a lot of queer culture generally. Realizing you’re personally trans doesn’t mean all the dumb gender stuff you were raised with goes “poof” and vanishes from your mind. Until you put in the work, you’ve still got all the old crap in there, it just has a big “but trans!” sticker slapped on it.

saintjosie

i need white people to understand that the reason that we are here in nazi america today is because many of you cannot comprehend liberation for all because of your distaste for some.

the lack of actively dismantling your anti-blackness means that you are passively participating in white supremecy.

wakor

Legendary Pokemon to humans: I am the embodiment of nature that you can neither control not predict. I will wreck your shit and your entire team's shit in no seconds flat if you don't show up prepared. Prove your worth to me and I might join you on your journey and lend you my strength.

Legendary Pokemon to other Pokemon: Omigosh hiiii :3 Sorry 'bout all that lightning and stuff. I was feelin' cranky. But we can be friends now!

draconym

When I am king, we will valorize sanitation workers the way we currently valorize the military

thegrindingwheel

So heroic posters showing trashmen battling allegorical monsters? I'm down.

draconym

Yeah but that's just the beginning. I also want Sanitation Worker Discounts at every business and blockbuster movie propaganda glorifying sanitation work. I want random people to salute garbage collectors and thank them for their service. I want drivers who get impatient with the recycling truck and honk at it and swerve around it to become social pariahs

anxident

i will never shut up about these two

calli

A Fair Return

A comic I made for the ShortBox Patreon in 2021! So so proud of this one. You can see my other work HERE

phorusrhacidae-lesbian

little miss auditory processing disorder would like you to repeat what you just said then immediately respond to you before you finish

depsidase

untitledgoosegay

Some narratives in international development hold that ending poverty and achieving good lives for all will require every country to reach t

castformi-deactivated20241025

dystopia au where we are all assigned one of two chosen genders at birth

peppylilspitfuck

Thanks to ultrasounds, the genders can be assigned before birth. The people are so excited to conform they throw “Gender reveal parties” to make sure their offspring exist in a strict binary since before they can even form thoughts.

slightlykylie

Children are color-coded according to their binary assignment.

darkersolstice

One of the genders is seen as inherently inferior.

yothobro-deactivated20200505

This all sounds really effing creepy when you put it that way

rooksandravens

#BECAUSE IT IS

fuckyeahfeminist

And if you deviate from the assigned gender you can be disowned by your family, fired from your job, and beaten by authorities.

rodserlingofficial

snake-eggs

“There aren’t enough hours in a day.” There are actually. The problem is that we think 40 hour work weeks are an unavoidable fact of life.

The problem is that everyone has to work 8 hours, pretty much no exceptions, and with getting ready time + (unpaid) lunch + commute, “8 hours” is actually anywhere between 9 and 12, every single day, with more work to do when you get home because our society and culture was built around having one member of the household home full time and nothing has changed now that almost everyone works.

No wonder Americans are reliant on DoorDash and fast food, there’s no time or energy to cook. No one wonder mental and physical health are in shambles, many just spent all day sitting in fluorescent lights with little to no stimulation. “Just wake up earlier” “Just meal prep”… these are ok short-term, individual solutions, but the broader, systemic issue is obvious. We aren’t built for this. There’s no work-life balance. Genuinely, I think if our culture could normalize a shorter work week, many individuals’ biggest problems would simply evaporate.