charonn0

joined 1 year ago
[–] charonn0@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

The potential for blackmail.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago

And these creeps purport to counsel others on righteousness and morality.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago

FTA: "Biden is now 80 and former President Donald Trump is 77."

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

That sounds right.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Krusty was paid to do a personal appearance (Bart's party?) so he aired a re-run of his show on the assumption that no one would notice. The joke is that the episode he airs just happens to break the news about an historical event (Falklands war).

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 44 points 1 year ago

She commented: "Producing ads that graphically show the truth of an abortion as a baby is being ripped apart or dies lying on a cold metal trey gasping for air after being ripped out of its mother's womb is the truth America needs to see versus the democrat's never ending ads lying to women that baby murder is their right.

"Too offensive? No not for America and definitely not for democrats."

I'd like to ask her how she'd feel about gun control ads using actual school massacre photos.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 42 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I have a friend who’s an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don’t agree with very well. He’ll hold up a flower and say “look how beautiful it is,” and I’ll agree.

Then he says “I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing,” and I think that he’s kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is … I can appreciate the beauty of a flower.

At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean it’s not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there’s also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes.

The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don’t understand how it subtracts.

-Richard Feynman

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

"No offense, Lieutenant. You're different, of course."

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 148 points 1 year ago (16 children)

"Abortion is a matter of conscience and so it's not just something you change based on political gain. But this is something each individual candidate has to try to figure out for themselves and every part of the country is a little bit different," Cornyn said.

Translation: Abortion was never a matter of conscience for the GOP. It has always been about political gain.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

Needs to mention someone being slammed for something.

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