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clitcheese:

ok google how to have things to talk about when you can’t leave the house

hm i got ‘
Take an imagination vacation

‘ and ‘hold a dance party in your mind‘ (x) and wow most other results are not better they’re ‘tv, films books and podcasts’ and ‘pot plants’

ok google that first question again but don’t make me sad about how completely useless my body is

lesbiskammerat:

kropotkhristian:

Growing up conservative, I always heard that Republicans really hate bureaucracy. They want to cut all the “red tape” and “regulations” out of our lives.

This is actually complete nonsense, and working with literally any charitable organization will show you this very quickly. Republicans actually love red tape and bureaucracy, they just love it for poor people instead of rich people. Republicans add things like work requirements, ID requirements, citizenship tests, means-testing, drug tests, and paperwork to just about every possible charitable giving endeavor. I volunteer at a Church ran charity for homeless people, and the red tape under Trump has only gotten much worse. It was bad before, but it has gotten demonstrably more headache inducing and more time-consuming to simply give the poor what they need to survive.

What Republicans really mean when they say that they want to “cut red tape” is that they want to take away any and all roadblocks standing in the way of an absolute oligarchy.

On top of this, regardless of the “free market” rhetoric they use to get votes, Republican candidates consistently vote for a variety of different regulations and other government interventions in the market. It’s just that these regulations serve to strengthen or expand monopolies by subsidising the mistakes of the large, existing businesses that lobby the politicians, and by strangling any smaller potential competitors with bureaucracy.

Basically the idea that the Republican party is against bureaucracy or government intervention in the market has no basis in reality

slrrp:

crazyskirtlady:

slrrp:

slrrp:

which word is more evil, “boner” or “erection”? i need to know for a curse im constructing and it has to have as much chaotic energy as possible

may your cock forever ache

may your boner always break

thine balls ever quake

thine shaft a horrid snake

well now it sounds kinda sexy

Thanks i am going to kill you in real life

Joined Trill Names

thereallieutenantcommanderdata:

The convention of using the symbiote’s name as a kind of surname for a joined Trill is really odd to me.  At least, as it translates into our culture, perhaps their own culture has different conventions

But the thing is, “Jadzia” and “Dax” are different people.  When you address her as “Lieutenant Dax”, you’re effectively addressing the symbiote while when you address her as “Jadzia”, you’re addressing the host. So, it’s not the same as, say, the distinction between saying “Captain Sisko” and “Benjamin”, because “Sisko” and “Benjamin” refer to the same person

So, it seems to me that it would make more sense to simply treat “Jadzia Dax” as a single name (”Jadzia-Dax”), and then using either “Jadzia” or “Dax” by itself would be reserved for times when one is referring solely to the symbiote or solely to the host

And there’s certainly precedent for treating aliens as having single names.  Worf’s full name is “Worf Son of Mogh”, but “Son of Mogh” isn’t treated as a surname.  He’s “Lt Worf” not “Lt Son-of-Mogh” or “Lt Moghson”.  And Spock was only ever Spock, and there’s no official canon for his surname (there’s a semi-canonical name but I can’t remember it)

i can sort of see how the connection of people who shared a symbiote is comparable to a family, as another line of descent comparable to patrilineal surnames. it makes sense that in trill culture, your symbiote becomes more important and that it sort of replaces any other kind of family tree you had before. it fits in a lot with how trills pre and post joining are considered different people. at least, this was the easiest way that i could make sense of this question when i watched it. i wonder if joined trills are technically disowned by their family too, if their culture sees the joined trill as a new person (or maybe trills don’t ever have last names? it’s been a while) (i can also see joined trills being disallowed from receiving inheritances, so that you can’t profit from just having had previous hosts. there is also that law about meeting people who knew a past host, i guess they’d have a lot of laws to avoid joined trills abusing their status for money or power or connections)