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[theconcealedweapon]

[yellbug]

addicted to sending this clip from twilight to my friends whenever they are in a situation where i think they should lie

[datadegroove-deactivated2026042]

products are so bad now that i have to do approximately 8 hours of research before i buy anything

[ralfmaximus]

Seriously, if you're planning to spend a coupla hundred bucks on an appliance, or thousands for a car, spend $4 for a month of Consumer Reports (consumerreports.org).

They're a not-for-profit consumers union, dedicated to fair and honest reviews of everything people buy. Totally worth the membership.

And yeah, if money is tight you can join for a month then cancel the membership easily when you're done with your research.

[amindamazed]

Also check to see if your local public library has a subscription, either in print or digital format (might be listed as a database rather than a magazine - that's the case at my library in Canada).

[theconcealedweapon]

[political-us]

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[transhuman-priestess]

if you've never engaged with a creative art on a regular basis you need to understand that it requires concerted effort to get into "the groove" to make something and every second that it takes to get into that groove causes physical pain, but the only thing worse than doing it is not doing it.

[purlty23]

[theconcealedweapon]

[noah-wyles]

i love london

[theconcealedweapon]

Slaves who escaped were breaking the law. Literally. Outright.

Jewish people who escaped the Nazis were breaking the law. Literally. Outright.

The law is a horrible judge of morality.

[cynicalclassicist]

After all, the SCOTUS says that the POTUS can break the law through official actions. if the people at the top say lawbreaking is fine to do horrible things, why should it be bad for you to break the law to do good things?

An unjust law is no law at all, and all that.

[depsidase]

[pochowek]

sherlock girl trying to hit on me: hey ;) i noticed the thin indentations calloused into your fingertips. you a bassist? me: that? oh thats from opening pistachios

[systlin]

“Samuel Vimes distrusted the kind of person who’d take one look at another man and say in a lordly voice to his companion, “Ah, my dear sir, I can tell you nothing except that he is a left-handed stonemason who has spent some years in the merchant navy and has recently fallen on hard times,” and then unroll a lot of supercilious commentary about calluses and stance and the state of a man’s boots, when exactly the same comments could apply to a man who was wearing his old clothes because he’d been doing a spot of home bricklaying for a new barbecue pit, and had been tattooed once when he was drunk and seventeen and in fact got seasick on a wet pavement. What arrogance! What an insult to the rich and chaotic variety of the human experience!”

— Terry Pratchett - Feet Of Clay

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

this actually highlights what i think is the most interesting / important thing about a cultural analysis of sherlock holmes, which is that his trick only really works in the extremely rigid and strictly regimented set of social mores and semiotic codes that belonged to the england of his time

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[vampirecatprince]

Okay- but this is leaving out the fact that Jeff Fowler literally hand delivered a 24k gold leaf embossed copy of the script to Carrey that's worth at least $100,000, because of that gold ink script comment.

[rubychan228]

This is true, btw.

Did you actually deliver him a script with gold ink? (Two years ago, Carrey quipped that his return would require the angelic delivery of a script that’s written in gold ink.) I did, and it’s now worth about a hundred thousand dollars, so, hopefully, Jim has got it locked up somewhere.