ItsNotEasyBeing

59694 pts · March 28, 2015


I'm not from around here. I know many but no one knows me. I read philosophy, logic/math, science... I practice skills. And I think the Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

Rant from the movie Network (1976). Packs at least as much of a punch today as it did half a century ago.

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"Please, just let me die in peace."

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Frustrating read from 45 years ago today (5/5, 1980). Unbelievable how this guy went on to seize the whole country. He's been a piece of shit his whole life.

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Something something doomed to repeat it.

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"As for the great Egyptian pyramids, what are they but the precise static equivalents of our own space rockets? Both devices for securing, at an extravagant cost, a passage to Heaven for the favored few.” -Lewis Mumford

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RIP David Lynch.

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Look at him.

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Well, I mean... Yeah.

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Bleakest photo ever taken.

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Games don't need to tell you that "you can use X to jump" when you're struggling with late game bosses

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Plan B

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It's dangerously optimistic to assume that the worst things they're saying in public are also the worst things they're thinking in private

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Are you even listening?

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Almost a third of the country voted for him, and they don't disappear just because he's out of the White House

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The life.

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We're coming for you

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Decisions, decisions...

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The ma is strong with this one.

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Some have literal mental illnesses, but many are just having perfectly reasonable reactions to not only growing up in an unpleasant system but also having lost faith in the promises of that system.

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War... War never changes.

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Such trapped.

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Drapetomania: The "mental illness" proposed to explain why slaves were running away

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(A)

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From a 1952 newspaper

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This messes with my mind.

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From 1938 

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ISAIF, ¶179

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For all those money intermediaries

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1918 newspaper leading a culinary revolution

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I just need a break. You guys ok with this?

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A wonderful anecdote about Franz Kafka

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Someone's selling this cursed doll online and since I had to see you have to see it too—it's the law of usersub.

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Two orphans in London, 1905.

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Unique Movie Posters Forged by Historical Circumstance

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Actual outfit of Count Brahe, 1844.

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If everything was Peter Criss...

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English Jan Stenmark

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White Evangelicals is the ONLY group for whom it's more important to fight "the other" than to find common ground for problem solving

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[OC] A "that's my fetish" reaction gif with Christopher Lee

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When you see the plebs plebbing

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Stick win everytime

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If you don't talk to your children about quantum computing... someone else will!

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Trying to talk to medical doctors about your psychological problems

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Well, it's not wrong... (Your daily dose of depressive environmentalism)

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