We made it constitutionally protected via the 13th Ammendment. It’s bullshit, and one of the many reasons, IMO, why minorities (especially black people) are still disproportionately targeted by law enforcement.
Miles O'Brien
Senior Chief Petty Officer. Starfleet is in my blood, and I’ve spent my entire adult life in service to boldly going.
Keiko and Molly are my favorite humans, but Transporter Room 3 will always be my favorite.
Just don’t ask who what’s in the pattern buffer.
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pics@lemmy.world•I started a logpile to reward the poor fucker who decides to hike the miserable trail to my secret camp spotEnglish
6·2 days agoWell, most likely you will be the poor fucker.
Or you’ll show up next time to a little thank you note and a small box with a single beer inside.
I guess you couod show up to all the wood gone, but fingers crossed!
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pics@lemmy.world•I started a logpile to reward the poor fucker who decides to hike the miserable trail to my secret camp spotEnglish
9·2 days agoI spent roughly 2 hours getting into geoguessing…
I did some quick and easy ones, with like obvious signs and stuff. After spending 30 minutes tracking down flight info based on the time the photo was taken, I decided I didn’t have the dedication for such things and if I couldn’t figure it out in 2 minutes based on signs and landmarks, I’m okay with not knowing the exact location a picture was taken.
Hats off to the stalker-level people who can pinpoint the specific 30ft area in a cornfield a video was taken based on time of day, the color of the dirt, a specific toad croak at 12m37s into the video, etc…
And China is enslaving people currently.
I mean, the post is about the UK and we’re bringing up other countries for no reason, right?
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Technology@lemmy.world•Reddit banned Paul McCartney over phone-free concert photos post in their subredditEnglish
16·2 days agoMy gender-non-specific human, why do you insist on calling every single person here shitty for calling out BS reddit tactics?
Are you in love with their CEO or something? It’s a little weird.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Reddit banned Paul McCartney over phone-free concert photos post in their subredditEnglish
21·2 days agoI got banned from about 15 subreddits I never even knew existed once by calling out a transphobic dogwhistle, and when I inquired about the bans, the mods insinuated I was a child molester and neo-nazi.
Reddit mods don’t need to follow any sort of logic.
And confidently asserting someone is a dick because they got banned from a subreddit is hilarious, and should probably prompt some self-reflection.
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News@lemmy.world•Officer fired after fatally shooting man in mental health crisis — as others tried to de-escalateEnglish
7·3 days agoDifferent state?
He’ll have to look maybe two counties over. Probably just gonna go to the county on the other side of the one he lives in.
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A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•LA Olympics will be first to impose IOC's ban on trans athletes from women's sportsEnglish
1110·4 days agobone and muscle density is still different, and distributed differently
I think people who say things like this don’t actually know any post- or even mid-transition people.
But I don’t want to date a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.
Oh wait, that’s a different kind…
It’s called “executive dysfunction” and it doesn’t make you lazy.
My sister and I would make people around us uncomfortable with our “fighting” but the second someone tries to butt in and take one side, we both would jump down their throats that they have no right to talk shit about the other sibling. And Your Deity help you if you actually raise a hand against one sibling, because you might catch a baseball bat in the neck from the other.
It’s like my mother. I am allowed to call my mom an asshole for certain things, but the second someone else does it, that’s not cool.
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•With Reddit flirting with requiring Age verification, the next Rexit might be around the corner, are we ready?English
13·5 days agoMy wife started out with tons of republican views, she just didn’t vote ever.
Through conversations about the state of things, pointing* out hypocrisy, and validating the feelings her religious family was telling her to suppress, I’m happy to say I’ve managed to marry a leftist. She didn’t even really have the liberal pit-stop many of us take.
I’ll take 100,000 leftists married/dating/whatever to 100,000 liberals over 200,000 conservatives any day of the week.
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Comic Strips@lemmy.world•I wonder if anyone needs help with anythingEnglish
2·5 days agoIt’s called Dragon Storm, and it’s funny you mention friends inventing it because my family does know the only living creator. It’s been an interesting story with all the legal issues and tracking down business partners.
The game is very much modeled after D&D. It has some basic campaigns you can run, and has some general background lore.
The premise is that there’s are weird magic storms that pop up sometimes (Dragon Storms) and make some people (who have dragon blood) turn into magical creatures like werewolves, unicorns, Pegasus, as well as regular animals like wolves and horses. It’s more than those couple, but it’s been quite some time since I played and am having trouble recalling things I didn’t personally have as characters… They later added dragon-kin that are either full-blooded dragons that take humaoid forms, or descendants of dragons that banged humanoids in humanoid form. Those tend to be more powerful.
You use cards and dice to do things and have character sheets to keep track of stats.
I personally think the game is too rigid in its rules and world building, with the card aspect. I’ve had players argue with me over whether I’m allowed to alter stats of things on the cards for the narrative. I’ve had plenty of players meta-game with their memory of the cards. “Rule 3.14” is the Dragon Storm “Rule of Cool”
It was fun to play growing up, though I wish my family had also played D&D.
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Comic Strips@lemmy.world•I wonder if anyone needs help with anythingEnglish
2·6 days agoA ttrpg with cards and people usually bring minifigs and map grids, if not DM supplied custom maps.
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Political Memes@lemmy.world•The birds and the beesEnglish
4·6 days agoNobody wants “Trumps’ Nussy” to be a phrase they’ve pictured, yet here we are.
I can help you out with 2 of those 3 things!
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Comic Strips@lemmy.world•I wonder if anyone needs help with anythingEnglish
11·6 days agoThere’s a D&D-like game that I used to play that actually has education requirements to read different languages. If your background didn’t give you the trait, you had to learn from someone who knew how to read.
It made for some interesting role-playing when normally intelligent people were playing illiterate characters.
rambling about said game
There were “basic” and “high” forms of the standard language, but there was a language for most species as well as “lower” speeches that non-sentient beings could use to communicate. Each language except lower one’s had their own written language and associated trait to understand.
So if you put all your stats into STR, then you’ll be lucky to read your own language before dying of old age, as your INT modified how easy it was to learn.
Learning just entailed being with someone who has the trait and is willing to teach you, you roll and add your modifiers and after a non-specific (up to DM) amount of time, you can put some stat points to learn the trait.
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Science Memes@mander.xyz•Make sure to put it back once you're done using itEnglish
16·6 days agoI once had the opportunity to take a really nice microscope from a school district I was working for when I was 18.
I was working on sorting all the old curriculum for 1st-12 grades core subjects for disposal/recycling and then receiving new stuff.
They were updating the entirety of all science departments and the highschool was getting rid of their old microscopes. The ones that were in working order were to be placed aside for donation, and the non-working ones simply tossed in the dumpsters.
I was allowed to take whatever I wanted that was to be thrown away, but I figured I didn’t want to spend time and money tracking down the right bulb to fix the best non-working one, and decided not to take one.
Current me is cursing younger me because I could have easily swapped out the light with a LED, and even if I couldn’t, there were LITERALLY microscopes with broken optics and working lights, and I could have just taken one extra one for parts…
Young me was dumb.
I did snag a mostly-complete rock sample set for demonstration of various geology testing techniques. Also a fist-sized chunk of silicon.
So I wasn’t completely dumb.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Iran: Congrats! You bought passage for $2 Million through the Strait of Hormuz. *credit card declines* Iran:English
11·7 days agoEver notice the nickelodeon logo once looked like a normal splat of goo, then it became a foot?
Ever notice that some of the shoes had some odd camera angles that highlited the literal children’s feet?
Dan Schneider:



You can just buy keys.
I actually have a few that I keep in my protest bag.
I also have a couple pairs of cuffs.