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lionfloss

Varadero, Cuba

ur-daily-inspiration

The moon dressed as Saturn.

prokopetz

Your favourite wildly impractical giant robot piloting interface, you know, from that show

VR cockpit where all the controls are hovering transparent holograms

Ass up with your limbs rigidly encased in complicated machinery

One of those multi-axial spinning chair things like at space camp

Force feedback armature so that you have to do Big Steppy to make the robot walk

Dangling from a full-body suspension harness with vague bondage overtones

Wired directly into your spine so if the robot gets hurt it fries your brain

Oh god there's so many toggle switches

Riding on the outside of the robot like a deranged cowboy

Immobilised with tent—ah, *life support* tubes stuffed into all of your orifices

Literally just a fucking steering wheel

Immersed in some sort of goo

Other (specify)

Voting ended onMar 3, 2024

prokopetz

The best thing about the notes on this post is the folks who are looking over the options and remarking that giant robot media as a genre is strikingly horny as though they're just realising this now.

ardri-na-bpiteog

I know I don't shut up about this but frankly not enough people are angry about the 5-day/40 hour workweek (and I am AWARE a lot of people work even more than that). I feel like a lot more people should be absolutely furious that we only really have two days a week and some occasional hours in the evening to socialise, run errands, do chores, or relax.

It's no wonder so many people are profoundly lonely and disconnected from their communities when maintaining a social life in what little free time we have is incredibly difficult. If you have kids, a second job, a very long commute, or other responsibilities, it's nearly impossible.

We literally aren't meant to live like this and I'll never stop being shocked how many people just take it as the natural state of things and don't want to throw a brick through a billionaire's window every time they think of it.

fairuzfan

Hey, so I just saw your "Normalize making IDF soldiers social pariahs" post (the replied on it were turned off so I couldn't say this there). I am by no means disagreeing with and I am definitely not saying that this applies to every IDF soldier or even the Canadian cyclist mentioned, but I really do want to point out that conscription is a Thing in Israel and nobody has a choice whether or not they serve - and also that there are hundreds, if not thousands, of current IDF soldiers who are willingly serving who hate the war in Palestine as much as we do

TL;DR - Deciding to treat an entire group of people as social pariahs is what got us into this mess in the first place - the actions of one doesn't speak for the group

you can dodge a draft, muhammad ali did it and went to jail. Tal in israel did it and he went to prison for 30 days. i dont really have any sympathy for idf soldiers. i dont super care that theyre conscripted, if they actually really did disagree enough they would leave the army. Here's a testimony from a former IDF soldier who left the IDF after they realized that they were participating in the murder of children and families. To emphasize, I think IDF soldiers who participated in the IDF and are taking active steps to counter their past should not be treated like social pariahs.

joining the army is not treated with the scorn it should be. like at all. so if we show people that you cant live in peace if you participated in the harassment and murder of palestinians, then less people will be willing to put themselves in "danger" and not join the army. because even if they weren't committing the most obvious form of genocide now, they still harrass and accost palestinians as their least lethal form of intimidation that they regularly participate in, even outside of gaza.

What got us into this mess is the colonization of palestine and racism. You can choose to be a soldier or not.

catgirlcaliphate

I cannot emphasize enough that there is a huge difference between "treating an entire group of people as social pariahs" on the basis of ethnic or religious or cultural identity, vs. "treating an entire group of people as social pariahs" on the basis of their participation in genocide.

The latter is a perfectly reasonable thing to do actually.

verba-amoris

Always ✨️

onearthwerebrieflygorgons

fluoresensitive-deactivated2024

The way people who have no intention of doing anything to make the world a better place like, flinch and lash out at anyone who is doing their best to improve things (people pissy at people who boycott, who speak out against racism and Zionism, etc), is so fascinating to me like. What is this assumption that because you have no moral compass or interest in moving outside of your comfort zone that everyone must be as bankrupt as you?

fluoresensitive-deactivated2024

Basically a lot of people are drunk on white supremacy's right to comfort and I'm tired of seeing it.

tea-with-mrs-mourning-dove

tiredtales

“How strange and yet also how logical it is that so many of our metaphors for storytelling are drawn from the discursive field of textile production. We weave plots, spin stories, fabricate tales, or tell yarns—a reminder of how the works of our hands produced social spaces that promoted the exchange of stories.”

-Maria Tatar, The Heroine with 1001 Faces

serglesinner

the video on its own was already enough to turn me to dust, but looking at the comments.. ENOUGHHHHHH

crabayanami

stirdrawsandreblaws

hate that i have the brownie curse where i can't do shit if people are around

palipunk-deactivated20260328

Whenever I see people try to differentiate what is “Israel” and what is the “Palestinian state” I always have a very awkward feeling - which is why I think a lot of people need to reevaluate how they speak about Palestine and Israel, specifically what they define as occupied Palestine.

My father’s family is from a village in Jaffa (the district), which is now part of what most people define as “mainland Israel” or an “undisputed” part of Israel - like that land was acquired legally or ethically and an unequivocal part of what is Israel vs what is considered (at least to some) Palestine (the West Bank & Gaza).

My father’s family had the choice to flee or die and to this day cannot return home to Jaffa. It leaves me with a strange feeling when people discuss a hypothetical “two state solution” as if that land is inarguably Israel and the West Bank and Gaza is inarguably Palestine - my family is not from the West Bank or Gaza, they’re from Jaffa. Proudly Palestinians from Jaffa - they’re not Israeli and never be Israeli, they predate the modern colonial state of Israel.

When people talk about occupied Palestine, they’re usually referring to the 1967 borders and the increasing settlements in the West Bank, when Palestinians talk about occupied Palestine, we’re talking about all of it - every corner of what people define as “mainland Israel” there is a story of Palestinian dispossession - It includes my family and thousands of others.

Leaving this map here for people to get an idea of how much destruction of Palestinian life and communities happened in what people see as an “undisputed part of Israel” - there is a reason the Palestinian population here plummeted in 1948.

In short: