"Language, too, forces the air from the lungs. Beyond the high walls and barbed wire and checkpoints that pen this place, there is the empire. And the empire as well is cocooned inside its own fortress of language. A language through the prism of which buildings are never destroyed but rather spontaneously combust in which blasts come and go like Chinooks over the mountain, and people are killed as though to be killed is the only natural and rightful ordering of their existence as though living was an aberration.

And this language might protect the empire’s most bloodthirsty fringe, but the fringe has no use for linguistic malpractice. It is instead the middle, the liberal, well-meaning, easily upset middle that desperately needs the protection this kind of language provides.

Because it is the middle of the empire that must look upon this and say, yes, this is tragic, but necessary, because the alternative is barbarism, the alternative of the countless killed and maimed and orphaned and left without home; without school, without hospital, and the screaming from under the rubble and the corpses disposed of by vultures and dogs and days old babies left to scream and starve is barbarism."

— Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Um say what? Lichens are a complex composite life form that is a symbiotic partnership of two separate organisms, a fungus and an algae or cyanobacterium. Scabs on a rock! The disrespect!

Oh yeah it’s not necessarily a listen to your elders post. Often they actually are full of it. Just sometimes when you think “this old bat is crazy” you’ll grow up to realize they were 100% right. It’s very difficult or impossible to tell which is which at the time.

Yeah I was wondering about that too, it only makes sense in a context where he’s much much more knowledgeable about mountaineering than her.

Ukraine has proven even consumer grade drones are super key in modern warfare. Therefore our government would really not like it’s populace to have them.

I’m pretty sure that’s the smell they’re talking about, they make more of it when disturbed or crushed but it’s always a tiny bit there. But pretty sure that’s the smell they’re speaking of.

Grandpa I Really Used to Rock Back in My Day

Thanks! I had been wondering what to call my adult entertainment project.

That type of stuff didn’t happen to me, but I saw it happening to others. That’s mostly why I left. Also I used the app Boost for Reddit, which became Boost for Lemmy so that helped me find an alternative and Reddit choosing corporate fascism helped me not look back.

Yeah but instead of “I’m bad” he will just be like “everyone at the Olympics was a piece of shit”

Republicans have stolen every presidential election they’ve won since 2000. There haven’t been consequences yet, and the future won’t be any different unless we stand up.

I wish him dead. Not just because fuck him, there is that. But the world would just be a better place.

Almost like billionaire owned media won’t tell the truth about billionaires.

We know Bessant isn’t going to put up much of a fight.

Body cameras are going to help make us safer, they wouldn’t want their murders caught on camera. You can tell that by the way one of them took the trouble to use his cell phone to film him murdering a woman. Ohhhh…

1st and 2nd too. Can’t protest or carry.

They can’t keep but, they can choose what charity it goes to.

“This is Samantha, and she’s hunting for Toys For Tots. Good luck Samantha!”

They can give their money away if they really are decent. Like she is doing. A notice of the start of hunting season should be all they would need to move themselves out of that class.

I’m guessing one of the agents has kept it as a trophy.

Maybe we can start a crowdfund to bribe Homan to pull the troops out. 50k or so?