@Ferrovore I'm personally more used to the 'Ball of fire with a thousand eyes and a hundred eagles wings' because I see them show up more often than not, but then again, they've also showed up to me as a Goodra.
@maxine Are you a career mechwarrior who shoots up into the Air when no enemies are around just because they can?
"That's not what I expected," the knight said.
"What?" said the princess. "It's a dragon hoard."
The knight tried to count the dragons cuddling in a pile.
"How?"
"I started with one, then found a couple of strays." The princess shrugged. "I guess I just started collecting them."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
@DissidentKitty@radical.town Wasn't saying that. Was saying that almost all humans will find Something to dedicate their lives and devotion to.
I just got raised Pantheist. It's all more or less equally valid, it's what you Do with your belief structure that counts.
But Charisma and emphatic resonance is a thing.
@DissidentKitty@radical.town It can't be because we have an entire generation kept as Children, without agency of their own grasping at any strong parental figure to believe in.
Human beings all have a God Shaped Hole in them because their parents put it there when they're little. Atheists will stuff just Anything or Anyone in there, huh?
re: "why are 'good-minded people' ableist as fuck, even in 2019?"
@stackingstones@todon.nl Disabled people are an Inconvenience and throw a wrench in my capatalist worldview that Everyone Can, and Should be fiscally self-sufficient and independent.
Or put more simply: People who are Different make it hard to just Auto-Pilot thru life. Many people feel entitled to a life where everyone is like Them.
It's Conformism. And they get Nasty when it's just Not Possible to conform.
Actually, this sounds like a Disability! An inability to Empathize with other humans and treat them as People, not Things.
Oh, wait, we know what that one's called.
@dartigen It'll get the message across that we're living thru the apocalypse RN.
Wat:
"If you have users complaining about displays randomly flickering it could actually be connected to people sitting on gas lift chairs."
https://support.displaylink.com/knowledgebase/articles/738618-display-intermittently-blanking-flickering-or-los
via 🐦 https://twitter.com/royvanrijn/status/1214162400666103808 , which also contains a nice video demonstration
@dartigen I mean you could switch it up, and make a statement by going full Wasteland Survivor and getting a Milsurp Gas Mask. I think there's a Tutorial on how to make your own ballistic armor out of Tires on Youtube...
Southern Mass's local machine healer and part time witchdoctor.
Tiny motorcycles, magic potions, machine tools, progressive rock, trance states, and hand sharpened drill bits. Oh, and I read Tarot. Probably 18+ just to be sure.
#nobot