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Reblog for larger sample size etc etc i'm very curious about this

#nightmare #slay the princess #polls

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really surprised i have of yet to see this reading of laios' and toshiro's relationship before tbh

#dungeon meshi

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Malcolm in The Middle was such a good show

#malcom in the middle

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should have let him keep the dress

#made in abyss

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#calvin and hobbes

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alternate constraint: you get sent back to the past of our timeline, but you can't change the past - whatever you do will turn out to be part of the way things have already happened. if you're trying to go with the flow and just observe whatever you can, it'll probably work fine, but if you try to do something that contradicts your knowledge of the past, something will turn out to keep you from doing it, potentially dying of a heart attack or something and ending your trip early. the better of an understanding you already have about a time period, the more restricted you'll be

say you're sent back in a time machine to a past time and place of your choosing, and you get sent back alive with all knowledge gained after a year passes or if you die. where/when do you go? (assume an alternate branch is created so no paradoxes, this is a one-off, you can record on video whatever you see)

interesting, so this is a knowledge gaining exercise, hmm!

the obvious answer would be going back to a time of some special historical significance to discover what really happened, but would that information actually be useful to anyone else? I guess if you could record video and people actually believed it, maybe?

one year isn't very long though! especially if you went back far enough that exact dates and times become a little murky in the historical record, you would probably miss what you were going to see and be left none the wiser as a result.

perhaps an alternative thought experiment would be if we had a timescope of some kind where the clarity emerged proportional to how far you look back, so you could see the dinosaurs clearly enough to sequence their DNA and everything, you could watch the Roman crucifixions in 4K high def, the renaissance would be like an old VHS tape, by the time you get to WWII it would be grainy black and white, and if you tried to scry what was happening somewhere right now you would get nothing but indecipherable swirling static.

would that insight into history change anything? we know so much now that we just disregard and ignore, would it even matter if we knew more? I mean it would be really fucking cool don't get me wrong, but I do think it's noteworthy how little the great cosmological insights of the 20th century actually changed anyone's attitude or approach to life.

#time travel

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funny how different it sounds depending on the name. blaming it on going down, or on coming back up

#made in abyss

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Thank you for making the schindler post, it perfectly illustrates why I hate the way people will act like people who hurt others (like active nazis and racists) aren't capable of regular emotion and thought. Second chances are often seen as bad when it comes to violence and crime, but if you never give someone the chance to change, form different opinions, or see the damage they or their associates have caused, they'll just keep taking the path of least resistance, keep following orders. I just want people to take a serious look at a nazi who changed his mind. There is nothing inherently evil about anyone, there are only moral and immoral choices.

It helps, I think, to understand that he did not join the nazi party because he hated Jews. Even what research I did on the real man said that for the most part his reasons for siding with Hitler were purely economical. And, as I've said before, Hitler did not start with "I hate Jews let's kill them all" but with "look how bad the economy sucks! And who is doing well while the economy sucks? The Jews. That means they're the ones behind making the economy suck!" to get people on his side.

I think Schindler did have some internalized antisemitism. How could he not? He thought of the plan to use almost exclusively Jewish slave labor as good business sense. Cheaper than Poles, more desperate for the work and thus less likely to complain about conditions or quit, can't fuss about wanting wages or better hours, what's not to like? Supposedly his workers were treated well. I don't know if that makes it particularly better. I wonder how his workers felt, staring at the emblem proudly pinned to his jacket, knowing it stood for the extermination of their entire people.

I wonder if any of them ever considered it might be a trick. An elaborate long game to get them to trust and slip up. To get them to reveal the hiding places and secret messages and the others striving to find or make a way out.

I think the movie played with that concept a little bit, when the character of Stern (who apparently was 3 different real guys rolled into 1) is portrayed as always being a little standoffish and cold to Schindler until close to the very end. He was afraid of him. Schindler held not only his life but the lives of all of the people working there (plus more, irl) in his hands. He rubbed shoulders with high ranked officials and knew personally more than one known sadistic bastard that actively got off on murdering Jews. All it would take is a single word and it would be more than just those in the factory who died.

But then the ghetto was cleansed. In history, Schindler had advance warning and made his workers lock themselves in the factory overnight to spare them. In the movie, Schindler did not have warning, and saw the chaos from atop a vantage point as he'd meant to pass by.

Either way, both in life and in film, that was the line. He was, at minimum, willfully blind and passive to the evidence of what was happening up to that point. Once he couldn't deny it, he put his foot down and said, no more. I'm not doing this. I can't save everybody but you aren't getting your hands on anyone in my charge. Put me in jail if you have to. This is wrong.

He had everything to gain by continuing to look away. In the movie, Stern says something to the tune of "you'll have to hire Hungarians and Poles. They cost a little more but you'll still be rich" when they're both faced with Hitler's final solution. No more cheap Jewish labor when they're all dead, after all. It is at that point that they come up with the list- to get as many Jews as possible out of Germany before they're all sent to their deaths. He could have just said "yeah, sorry. I tried". Stern even more or less gave him permission to do so, like he was expecting it.

But he didn't. He said no fuck that, it's bullshit. It's not happening. I'm not letting it happen. They can arrest me or kill me if they want but if I'm alive for it I'm not just going to stand back and watch.

But I think it is difficult for people to grapple with that level of complexity. Not everyone he saved thinks he was overall a good person. His motives were not always pure. In fact many times his motives were just about lining his own pockets. But when he saw atrocities happen, he put his foot down and refused to participate. Even at his own cost- he had the equivalent amount of money back then as would be needed to retire early nowadays from his factory labor. He spent it on bribes and rations to keep them safe. He went to jail several times for refusing to back down. He risked his own neck by networking with other factory owners to get them to do the same. He could have been executed for this at any point. Nazis loved public spectacle executions for traitors and for collusion with Jews.

He wasn't a perfect ally. But I think I'd rather an imperfect ally do whatever they can to help, than no allies at all.

#history #nazis

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#undertale #music

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You're confident, smart, and an inspiring artist. You're like the older sister I never had (Incestuous intent)

aw shucks little bud, thank you so much! what prompted this?

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“Certain people don’t like this thing, and are rude about it. I’m gonna make a post that reads like I’m insulting EVERYONE who doesn’t like this thing.”

“Wait. ARE you insulting everyone who doesn’t like the thing?”

“Unclear!”

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my local radio station is getting into the Dungeon Meshi spirit

#dungeon meshi

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It's interesting to consider all of this in full context of how Toshiro is framed in the scene.

The argument starts with Toshiro insisting that Marcille was wrong to revive Falin with black magic and that she should go back with him to face punishment from elvish society, then get their help in putting Falin to rest. Laios argues that they can actually help Falin, and that eating properly gives them the strength to pull it off, at which point Toshiro tries to shut Laios down by throwing his past frustrations in his face. When Laios eventually overpowers Toshiro, he attributes it to his party taking proper care of themselves, at which point Senshi shows up to offer Toshiro food. Meanwhile, Maizuru expresses frustration at Toshiro's behavior, and when Toshiro talks about his out-of-the-blue proposal to Falin, Mickbell questions why he would do something like that, while Chilchuck remarks that it's the kind of world he lives in.

Every part of Toshiro's position here comes across as antithetical to the protagonists and the quest we're following them on. Even other characters present don't seem to think much of his behavior here. And, while playing that antagonistic role, we see him imposing those social standards on someone who finds them confusing and alienating.

The result is that the primary lens through which the viewer is encouraged to see the scene is that of an autistic person being berated for not living up to a set of social standards, and in particular not meeting the standards of Japanese society. And while a Japanese audience might find it easier to understand why Toshiro thinks the way he does, the scene is very clear in sending the message that he is wrong and that, as previous comments noted, he's been stuck in a mindset that's hurting both him and Laios. The outcome of the fight suggests that Toshiro would benefit from learning to think more like Laios about food - and I think the audience is also meant to feel that Toshiro would benefit from learning to think more like Laios about people.

really surprised i have of yet to see this reading of laios' and toshiro's relationship before tbh

#dungeon meshi

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My cats have this meow that means "please come with me to fix this" after which they'll lead me to the problem in question, usually a empty (or 'empty') food bowl or a closed door they want open. They look at the 'problem', they look back at me, clear message.

What fascinates me is how this illustrates what they percieve as being in the realm of my 'power.' I control the food, I control the door, sure, but my cats love to sit on the balcony in the sun, and it has happened plenty of times that on a rainy day they come get me, go to the balcony and show me... the rain. "Please fix this" they say. "Please get rid of the wet"

"Silly kitty," I say, "I can't control the rain." I then walk into the shower and turn on the rain.

#cats

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lmao

#yorukura

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Base idea: there is a language which has two alphabets, and their use is gendered. Men use one, women use another.

Like imagine if English but men write only in lowercase and women write only in uppercase.

Or print/cursive.

#language

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somehow this happens the same day the museum of sex shows up on my dash

#museum of sex