EarthlyEducation: If you ever feel heavy because you care deeply about injustice, suffering & ecological destruction, remember, a trillion dollar propaganda machine was built to make you numb and it didn’t work on you. ⁂

One of the most badass TNG lines: “You may test that assumption at your convenience.” ⁂

CryptoNaturalist: We seldom admit the seductive comfort of hopelessness. It saves us from ambiguity. It has an answer for every question: “There’s just no point.” Hope, on the other hand, is messy. If it might all work out, then we have things to do. We must weather the possibility of happiness. (continued)

BlerdsOnline: How old were you when you learned the reason Reading Rainbow was canceled is because “No Child Left Behind” disqualified them for prior grants & book publishers kept increasing the cost of reading books on TV? ⁂

“Trans people existing does nothing negative to your life, you crybaby bitch.” ⁂

“2008 was a perfect storm of over leverage. And the reason why it all hit the fan is multiple things were coming to a head at once. It was residential mortgages, the market was faltering. Right now we have consumer debt, which is about to pop. We’ve got student loans, which has always been about to pop. And then we have a regime where we’re not sure if rates are going up or down. The best part about financial crises like 2008 is that you don’t know when they’re going to happen. So you always have to have some safety of positioning in your portfolio because is eventually going to hit the fan. It’s not a matter of ‘if’, it’s ‘when’.” (continued)

Homunculus-argument: The main difference between the weather being uncomfortably cold, and the weather being uncomfortably hot, is that the things you can do in the cold to warm yourself up (hot food/beverage, blankets, cuddles, nice clothes like sweaters, thick scarves and snazzy jackets, getting exercise) are very pleasant and very effective, and the things you can do in the heat to cool yourself down don’t do shit. (continued)

Cory Booker: “Don’t speak to me about your religion; first show it to me in how you treat other people. Don’t tell me how much you love your God; show me in how much you love all God’s children. Don’t preach to me your passion for your faith; teach me through your compassion for your neighbors. In the end, I’m not as interested in what you have to tell or sell as I am in how you choose to live and give.” (continued)

probabiybadrpgideas: “Oh yeah? What if I rotated you 90 degrees in the fourth dimension so that rather than going forwards in time, you stayed in the current moment but in progressively more deviant timelines? Several people have questioned how this mathmatically works, so let me explain that I have hit maths with a crowbar repeatedly.” ⁂