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J. Penrose

@JulePenrose

“If only you believe in miracles, so would I”

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J. Penrose@JulePenrose·
Life is Junior High.
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J. Penrose@JulePenrose·
Preserve your copies of Camp of the Saints for your grandchildren, fellas.
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J. Penrose@JulePenrose·
@wildgooseALT @Curry92281782 I have lost plenty of weight before, and looking back when I was fatter I was definitely either dishonest or willfully ignorant. Because however difficult it may be (and it isn't actually that difficult when you get in the habit), losing weight is a simple thing.
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wildgoose@wildgooseALT·
Fat people have a dishonesty problem and this is a big reason why fatness is a mindset issue more than anything else. Losing or gaining weight is a pure numbers game and if you aren't reaching your goals, you simply aren't hitting the numbers necessary to do it. They can digest plenty of food but they have a serious problem digesting cold hard facts.
shellshock@shellshockkk

What would you change about this diet?

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すけちゃん@AgingAnarchist·
アメリカ人から見た世界って今もこれ?
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IncognitoMode2525@IcognitoMode25·
@DAKKADAKKA1 Multi generational farmers are the most entitled people in the world. They're sitting atop large assets and have so many benefits, entitlements and legal protections by the federal government, but they'll bitch about having to pay a decent wage to workers.
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J. Penrose@JulePenrose·
@FischerKing64 I went to see the Magic Flute in a movie theater and it was just me, the person I was with, and an Austrian family in the row ahead of me. The production turned out to be in English and I felt kinda sorry for that family. Maybe they knew ahead of time. I don't know.
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FischerKing@FischerKing64·
Hearing the Pope speak in a clearly American accent reminds me of going to the opera where they have translated the Italian or German libretto into English. It doesn’t land right - kind of alienating and jarring.
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Joni Blue@JoniBlue8·
@BornAgainBalaky Right before this scene he was getting all of his money from his grandmother and building a boat in his one bedroom in Brooklyn. Not father material.
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Blake Allen@BornAgainBalaky·
When they try to make abortion look morally right but Adam Driver is so good in his performance that the truth of how evil abortion is. Is the real take away from the scene. Good job Adam.
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J. Penrose@JulePenrose·
@ElysiaHans @JoshRainerGold I feel tired and stressed but don't drink coffee. Maybe all those people I see drinking coffee in the morning feel better than me. I don't know.
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Hans Elysia chlorotica@ElysiaHans·
I have chronic cortisol deficiency, not addison syndrome yet, but low blood pressure, rapid fatigue, and yet I still feel stressed. Stress tires me out quickly, so I rely heavily on coffee. For me, cortisol isn't the enemy, but something I'd like to increase, if only to make waking up less difficult and to have more appetite and energy to cope with stress.
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J. Penrose@JulePenrose·
@JoshRainerGold My reaction to this is not to feel absolved but the desire to get up and get some muscles.
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J. Penrose@JulePenrose·
@0xAlaric Books do this too, to some extent, but they're far less dumb. Other human beings can do it to you, but they're more human.
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Alaric The Barbarian
If any topic can make you run a preset script in response — especially if that script involves you working yourself up into a frenzy over a hypothetical — you have been mentally colonized by the internet. Inducing this for as many topics as possible is the entire purpose of social media. This post will (of course) immediately be interpreted as “having a consistent position is bad,” which is obviously not true. But if you’re letting yourself be emotionally pinballed around by the timeline into adopting various identities and reflexes in response to stimuli — all of which are preprogrammed by media, even media you consciously know is propaganda — you are voluntarily making yourself into a cyborg. Nobody needs a brain chip if everyone willingly logs on to the infinite-scroll clicker-training app ready to learn how to better integrate themselves with the technic surround — which, again, is the entire goal and purpose of social media, and has been since 2014. The second response to this will be that it’s a personally-motivated “take” about [xyz current topic]: Iran, Trump, Catholicism, or whatever stale topic is being dug up and ham-fistedly aligned with fandom-tier identities downstream of Marvel movies and history-flavored memes from ten years ago. This is also not true, as (again) it’s been the case since 2014 and I’ve been writing on it far longer than whatever the topic of the day has been on the FYP.
Alaric The Barbarian@0xAlaric

The game here — and everywhere — is to start with the belief that white men are craven evil beasts, and squeeze every new piece of information or media through that frame like play-doh. Infinity engagement, the cycle repeats. This has been the state of “discourse” for twelve years and it was already tiresome eleven years ago, not to mention incoherent from the start. Here she will claim that men have no desire to have children; elsewhere she will claim that men really want children to ensure their legacy, or to control a woman, or to exercise power over them. She believes all of these things are true at the same time, because the only real principle is Offending Men — which in turn proves that the point is True and Necessary. Women have run headlong toward the radical left by every objective metric, but ask them and they’ll tell you it’s because of Andrew Tate. It’s a self-propelled cycle, the world’s first truly infinite source of entropy. Tapping into this cycle, especially the genderslop angle, is the last reliable way to market any product, and you’ll see it done for everything from musicians to videogames to dropshipped sunglasses; this provides a financial incentive to keep the spiral going. The result — not the future, literally right now — is a complete split in lived realities between subgroups, different worlds in which each one is constantly under attack, worlds which justify a continuous IV-drip of cortisol and adrenaline in response to subway ads and indie games. Reduction of the human animal to a beast of pure reflex and trained response. Everything becomes directional signal, because that’s a lot more easily parsed than Truth, and everyone who engages with it feels both catharsis and strategic victory. This is what “cyberpunk” looks like in practice. You won’t replace your arms with better robot parts anytime soon, but everyone already outsources their amygdala to social media.

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J. Penrose@JulePenrose·
@higher_order90 @0xAlaric It's something I've never seen, and I've been around spoiled kids. I think this parent probably meant the kid was tough to deal with for 45 minutes and some of that involved screaming.
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ʜɪɢʜᴇʀ ᴏʀᴅᴇʀ@higher_order90·
@0xAlaric Kids don't just have a 45 minute screaming meltdown. They aren't born as brats. If they're doing this, it's because the parents have created an environment where it's normal and acceptable.
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J. Penrose@JulePenrose·
@0xAlaric I've never witnessed a 45-minute screaming meltdown. I'll assume this means the kid wss upset for about half an hour and screamed maybe once or twice.
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J. Penrose@JulePenrose·
@Curry92281782 It's possible for white kids to win a single game, but that wasn't convincing. I don't buy Ed Norton dunking and the fat guy is a liability. But it was marginally better than Basketball Diaries, in which the characters looked like they didn't understand the concept of dribbling.
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J. Penrose@JulePenrose·
@QuetzalPhoenix Blacks can always do better. They were much better off before the civil rights movement.
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Carlos That Notices Things@QuetzalPhoenix·
I know the "its not always about race" argument is not very popular here, but I am reading about the massive success in education reform the southern usa is doing and it really feels like the teachers and administration were doing most of the damage
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