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it genuinely melts my brain watching people take sith monologues at face value like they’re TED talks instead of… you know… villain speeches.

like. these are not neutral historians. these are not unbiased narrators. these are men who wake up every morning and choose manipulation as a lifestyle.

and yet people hear palpatine whispering into anakin’s ear like “the jedi are hiding things from you… they don’t trust you…” and go. wow. compelling. source: dude in a hood who has never told the truth once in his life.

HELLO???

of course he’s going to say that. what else is he supposed to do. sit anakin down and go “hi yes i am actively trying to emotionally isolate you from your support system so i can turn you into my apprentice and ruin your life” like be serious 😭

same with maul going “you’ve been indoctrinated by the jedi” as if HE wasn’t raised in a sith pipeline since childhood. sir. that is not a revelation.

and dooku. walking around like a philosophy professor going “the republic is corrupt” yeah okay, we know, and your solution is… fascism with extra lightning???

like yes. the jedi made mistakes. but, they’re an institution, not a divine being. but the leap from “the jedi aren’t perfect” to “the sith are telling the truth actually” is INSANE to me.

#star wars #the dooku paragraph is top notch

depsidase

why-bless-your-heart

Don't smoke, kids, it might cause bad posture!

thatgirlmegan

mood lately

#where I am Nick Miller #new girl

catholicapothecary

tam--lin

I don't know what those '90s sci Fi TV writers were putting in their shows but I wish they'd start doing it again

blujayonthewing

(via @lalibertalia)

#I wish this would come back

charlesoberonn

Don't open a PM with a stranger with "hello".

1. You sound like a bot

2. You don't give anything to respond to

Try to say something nice and ask questions that the other person can respond to.

charlesoberonn

I was talking about tumblr but I suppose it also applies to this

charlesoberonn

Remember Inigo Montoya

lastvalyrian

Name: We are the Borg.

Polite Greeting: You will be assimilated.

Relevant personal link: Your biological and technological characteristics will be added to our own.

Manage expectations: Resistance is futile.

errantindy

1. Polite Greeting:

2. Name: I’m Luke Skywalker

3. Personal Relevant Link:

4. Manage Expectations: I’m here to rescue you.

You can see Luke makes a hash of this greeting, and the Princess is hesitant to do anything until he supplies their personal relevant link: that he’s here with Ben Kenobi.

charlesoberonn

He improves greatly in the later movies

Polite Greeting: "Greetings, Exalted One."

Name + Relevant Personal Link: "I am Luke Skywalker, Jedi knight and friend to captain Solo."

Manage Expectations: "I seek an audience with Your Greatness to bargain for Solo's life."

kuragin

this is the most underrated part of rockin’ and rollin’ yoda

bunjywunjy

Luke’s face is what makes this.

bannertanks

ghosthierophant

#so true #gotta love baseball

factbot

despazito

the second radish is 29 feet away

tranarchist

kompanie-mutter-deactivated2021

this is legitimately the funniest post on this site

gobe

“Last night I photographed a Barn Owl hovering above prey at a local farm where I have been baiting them for some time, I did attempt this last winter but failed due to the lens misting, still a work in progress” ~ Roy Rimmer

c-bassmeow

me: im tired

Someone in walmart: NOT as tired as our TROOPS!

littlelinguaphile

Alternatively, a mother: Just wait until you have kids :)

c-bassmeow

Honestly the two worst kinds of people ever oh yeah and “wait until you’re my age” the fucking three horsemen of undermining your pain

gupdoo3

what about the fourth horseman of “what about all those starving orphans in africa”

otterboxmysocks

“Not as tired as our troops!”: War “Just wait until you have kids”: Pestilence “Wait until you’re my age”: Death “What about all the starving kids in Africa?”: Famine

thevulturesquadron

text: [ “Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5000 years.” ]

rudjedet

And they're absolutely specifically pushing it, make no mistake. It's not just a matter of "it's there, it's convenient, so people are going to take the path of the least resistance", but it is a legitimate and concerted effort on the part of these companies to get people to outsource all these things to their models.

They're preying on insecurities to do it. Yes, you can write an essay - but can you write a good essay, they ask you. Do you not want to improve your output? Do you not want people to think of you as competent and very clever? Why go through the mortifying process of failing and failing and failing until you succeed if you can just skip the "learning" part of doing, and simply generate a ready-made product?

I'm preaching to the choir here obviously but it's a concerning thing to witness nonetheless. My kid is 6 next week and I've been teaching her that failing at things is morally neutral and in fact necessary even before the advent of AI, but it's becoming ever more important that we teach the kids that criticism and failure and discomfort aren't necessarily bad things, but just a part of the growth process.