Especially_the_lies

@Especially_the_lies@startrek.website
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Just a simple tailor

I'm a teacher. I bought this book for my own children. It's a book about being true to yourself, even when you don't feel like you fit in. You don't have to be "blue" or "pink" if you feel like you fit into both categories.

Yes, it's a book about being trans, but there are other ways to read the book, especially if your audience is young. Accepting and loving yourself. Inclusion. Tolerance. It's a sweet book, and so of course people are going to get mad... it teaches kids acceptance, not hate!

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Clue. One of Tim Curry's finest performances. Madeline Kahn's, too.

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Independence Day. Just run away, alien dudes! The xenophobia isn't worth it!

"We already beat them and stole half their country back in the 1840s. High time we did that again!"

"You do realize that would mean we would have more Mexicans living in the US?"

"..."

9 year old was raped by her brother and forced to carry the baby to term. Those interviewed blamed the brother's access to porn, because clearly there's nowhere else but porn to point fingers. FTFY even more.

Staying with her even though she was abusive. Having kids with her. Then finally getting up the courage to get myself out but not being able to take the kids with me.

Woody Allen? Are you on Lemmy now?

Yes, Ulysses S. Grant was arrested for riding his horse recklessly through the streets of DC. He was arrested, fined, and released. This happened while he was president. However, since it was a minor incident in the grand scheme of things, it isn't really a precedent to hang your hat on.

Do me a favor. Im about 10 years younger than you, but same physical stature. If they take you, drop me a message to let me know, please!

Teacher here. We had the opportunity to radically re-form schools during and after the pandemic. School systems instead chose to double-down on shit that hadn't worked well before the pandemic.

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Affecting 3rd of US Residents

Not 1/3 or 1/3rd or even a 3rd? I miss the days when news companies hired proofreaders.

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Wow. A 30 year old AIDS joke? On my Lemmy?

British vs. American spelling, that's all.

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World was the first dystopia that I ever read. I'd gotten so enamored with all of the various utopias in sci-fi, especially Star Trek, that the idea that the opposite might exist hadn't previously occurred to me. While it didn't change me in a day-to-day kind of way, it helped me make sense of the world around me. I have always loved Star Trek, but it never seemed like humanity was truly headed in that direction.

BNW, 1984, and others helped me understand the world around me, which I think made me a better person in the end. Am I going to be a party to the creation of these kinds of worlds, or am I going to try to help move humanity in the other direction?

And both have rich and powerful TERFs on their side!

Lol. My dad shaved his beard when my sister was a toddler. She flew into hysterics. He hasn't shaved his beard since. That was almost 40 years ago.

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It has a 49% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, so about half of people seem to agree with you.

As a stand-alone film, it is probably fine. As an entry in the Ghostbusters franchise, I did not enjoy the film.

Do I get to pick my mother?

This is the essential question. Like, if I could be born into a super-wealthy family, the actual time might be less important.

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That's great if you qualify, but you have to be below a certain income threshold. Not everyone does.

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And how much is the athletics program bringing in vs. spending? That's always my first question. The article isn't specific, but it implies that it's in the red.

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That was funnier than it should have been

And the other 33% are either nativists or bootlickers

"We'll just tell your mother we ate it."

Woodchipper. Just be sure to do it in the middle of the night when it's impossible for anyone to hear you because they're sleeping.

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I have a few different accounts. One on lemmy.world, but that's been down so much, I decided I needed a backup, and quite frankly, the fact that there's an entire Trek instance made my choice of a backup a no-brainer.

Please do not tell my 10yo that this exists.

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There's also the film Soylent Green (1973), though that isn't lab-grown human tissue

Exactly. Why go and share a stage with a bunch of people who are trailing him so much in the polls when he can go sit down with Tucker Carlson and get all the attention.

looks at date of publication

That has got to be one of the timeliness answers to a question I've ever seen on here. Thanks!

It's never aliens, unfortunately.

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Sounds interesting, but I need to know if this is a kissing book.

If it is that I'm planting an idea in people's heads, then it's that I'm their king. World peace is only minutes away! Climate change addressed immediately! Corporations stripped of their power in the face of new labor laws!

If I'm just communicating, then it would have to be something absurd, like "bite my shiny, metal ass."

Don't. Marry. Her.

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... and you married her, right? RIGHT? I'm a Red Sox fan and if a woman did this for me, even at Yankee Stadium, I'd be so head over heels in love...

But if you're living on a planet far from the fighting, sure there might be a slight change in your day-to-day, but you wouldn't be consumed by it. Even living in the Alpha Centauri system would be far from the fighting but close enough in to be a core world in the Federation.

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I can't say that I've followed this case closely, but I have never heard a reason why. Obviously, she's sick, but how do you do something like this "just because"?

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I hear "proton p--" and immediately start looking around for the Ghostbusters. Anyway, carry on.

Boooo! Hisss! It's chill and mellow. I think it is a great counterpoint on the album!

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No, the Belgians.

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"Sir this is a Wendy's Taco Bell"