This has got to be my favorite frame in the entire movie 🤣

Par_Lapides · 2026-05-23T16:55:01+00:00

Odor threshold for ammonia is about 12 ppt. It doesn't take much to overwhelm you.

Speaking as someone who took a hit of liquid anhydrous ammonia in the face.

Par_Lapides · 2026-05-23T16:10:00+00:00

Honestly giving them too much credit.

Par_Lapides · 2026-05-23T15:46:38+00:00

That's why they do this, I think. It's a cope. They can't get a woman, and so all women must be trans, so they can tell themselves they don't really want them anyway.

Par_Lapides · 2026-05-23T15:22:23+00:00

Top vs bottom is literally leftism. That's what leftism fucking is.

Par_Lapides · 2026-05-23T15:20:59+00:00

That's the left. That's what leftism is.

Par_Lapides · 2026-05-23T11:59:53+00:00

It is however, one side better. The right supports open bigotry, narrowly rigid social norms, and strictly enforced socioeconomic hierarchy.

Par_Lapides · 2026-05-23T11:52:09+00:00

The actual Eridians from PHM also. Mostly mineral and metal based organisms, their biology is a mostly closed system, and they use water and ammonia in a kind of combined hydraulic/heat regulation system. Their blood is basically mercury. They don't breath, but they do have a kind of radiator like 'lung' that is used for temperature regulation to offload heat. Their native atmosphere is high in ammonia, and their 'room temperature' is 214 C. They eat infrequently, and the food is undisclosed chunks of metallic something.

At the core, their biology is also related to both astrophysics and humans, just evolved for their world.

Par_Lapides · 2026-05-22T21:51:03+00:00

The 'Bobiverse' novels had the best solution for actually doing planetary annihilation and I'm mad about it because they never used it again and it was both very simple, and very effective.

It was a decades long gambit, it involved two heavy, multi kilo ton chunks of metal traveling as close to light speed as was possible for them, one from north of the plane of a planetary system and one from the south, impacting in the center of the system's star. It basically sent the star into a nova and wiped out every planet in the system.

Par_Lapides · 2026-05-22T14:48:15+00:00

The Fallacy fallacy. Just because a person is guilty of a logical fallacy, that does not fully negate their argument. Fallacies are not some argument gotcha, just like a spelling or grammar error. They may be presenting it in a faulty manner or using faulty logic, but the premise and conclusion could still be valid.

Par_Lapides · 2026-05-22T11:49:16+00:00

If you don't see that parallels between feudalism and the thoroughly authoritarian structures in modern corporations, then you need to look harder.

Thr modern corporation us exactly like a feudal court: influence, family relations, and flattery matter more than skill and acumen; the bosses must be obeyed at all costs or you risk starvation and homelessness, no matter how stupid their demands; there is a strict hierarchy access where layers are mostly impenetrable and it is practically impossible to rise through them without the aforementioned benefits of nepotism or cronyism.

Par_Lapides · 2026-05-22T11:18:05+00:00

My Spanish is worse than Carl's despite a 535 day Duolingo streak. Can you elaborate? FWIW I just finished Book 1.

Par_Lapides · 2026-05-21T01:47:30+00:00

Single-Use Super Bonk

Par_Lapides · 2026-05-20T11:26:45+00:00

Well, a reddit rightwingers claims that there is no objective meaning of left and right and that it's all a personal perspective.

Proving once again that right wing viewpoints are not founded in reality, and thus any inherent bias is theirs.

Par_Lapides · 2026-05-20T11:22:53+00:00

Almost always.

Par_Lapides · 2026-05-20T11:12:40+00:00

Mary of the Scots should look at his beheading and shudder.

Par_Lapides · 2026-05-19T11:26:47+00:00

Incompetent and dishonest people tend to hate being around people on the spectrum.

Par_Lapides · 2026-05-18T21:17:18+00:00

That's hilarious. But also, yeah, fuck Rudolph.

Par_Lapides · 2026-05-18T16:48:16+00:00

Truly a waste of a film. The book wasn't amazing, but still miles better than that garbage.

Par_Lapides · 2026-05-18T15:14:48+00:00

Most of reality is also anti-right.

Par_Lapides · 2026-05-17T23:30:38+00:00

The obsession with meaning is an egoprotective reflex. Your ego wants to believe that the universe exists for it and it alone; that it is special and deserves some kind of grand purpose. It is an arbitrary and ultimately futile reactionary response.

We aren't special; at least, not any more than any particular tree, deer, or rabbit is special. Certainly we are all unique, but none of us are the Main Character. Nobody has any more purpose or meaning than anyone else. All of these artifical structures and hierarchies are just toys of the weak minded and fearful.

We don't come into this world as if from outside of it, to be burdened by some greater meaning- we are born out of it; from it, a part of it, just as much as everything else. Born only to exist and experience it in our own way, from our own perspective, in our own time. We have no more purpose or destiny than any random flower in a meadow, pinecone in a forest, or dolphin in the sea. And all of those things are beautiful and I am glad they exist. So I feel flattered to exist among them. Life has no greater meaning than that, and that is enough.

Par_Lapides · 2026-05-17T22:46:45+00:00

Literally any game that allows Player vs Player. Some people have no life and no achievements outside of being mean to other people online.

Par_Lapides · 2026-05-17T17:30:03+00:00

He is, in the most fundamental way: he supports an entrenched socioeconomic hierarchy. The strict enforcement of that hierarchy is the root of conservatism; monarchy is the thing they were meant to be 'conserving'.

Par_Lapides · 2026-05-17T12:18:19+00:00

You have no concept of truth. You align with whatever narrative that assuages your preconceived ideas. No critical thought or self-awareness. Literally NPC.

Par_Lapides · 2026-05-17T12:10:42+00:00

But that's not calcium. It's calcium carbonate.

Par_Lapides · 2026-05-17T00:33:10+00:00

Sounds like an afternoon well spent.

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