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Half this comment thread legitimately knows how they work

The other half is speculation

The truth is in the middle, Lemmy people are pretty well versed in science fiction and science :>

I propose a new dating website:

"5 and below"

Everyone caps at 5, and if you're over, you get banned :}

Missed opportunity there, priest!

Tarkovsky films are incredible but are a "watch once in your lifetime" sort of deal.

I asked my grandmother if she had seen STALKER and she said yes, when it came out in theaters, like 40 years ago (in the USSR), and I asked if she was interested in re-watching it with her grandkids

She said: "No. It's a very difficult film. A very difficult film. You watch it only once because you don't get the same feeling a second time"

Cthulhu is small potatoes, you should try:

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They're more fun at parties, and are classified as an X_S-class existential threat, that is, dangerous to multiple parallel universes simultaneously!

I am a dwarf, and I'm digging a hole 🎵

https://nathandemick.com/warcraft2-stories/story13.shtml

Warcraft 2 days

The smurfs was on TV

Coughs

It's 90% crab legs by volume

But also because he just saw laser beams come out of its eyes and blow up a brand

I'll be glad when it does; the guy was elected twice.

I want to be wrong in this case

It's a fun take, and Lemmy is a bit of an echo chamber, so let me enlighten you all on how that would kind of go:

The MAGA crowd is a combination of idiocy, brain damage, and then dark tetrad people.

They don't care if their cult leader is hypocritical, they'll defend everything he says, even if it hurts their own interests; they'll cherry pick, gaslight, and deny basic facts.

When you see them from a point of clinical detachment, their behavior makes a kind of twisted sense. The mistake is the assumption that they're just like you, and can be reasoned with or moved using empathy. Their worldview is fundamentally different, and typically only changes via direct experience: "leopards ate my face". Sometimes not even then.

It's downright infuriating at times because it reminds me of that antisemitism quote:

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Ditto. Know such a person. They literally only sleep 4 hours a day and assume everyone else does despite massive lifelong evidence of the contrary.

They've resorted to working night shifts to avoid going insane from boredom, they sleep from 9AM to around 12-1PM every day, and then STAY AWAKE. IT'S BEEN DECADES.

I'm still wondering if they'll die a premature death or if this'll just pan out for them; the one thing I've noticed is their attention span got shot as they grew older, so maybe that's the trade-off

Dude; I think you're absolutely correct.

It looks like a proto-tree

Also: Trees aren't a uniform genus, but this goes to show, on any planet that has photosynthesis, trees will eventually evolve spontaneously