Second. Godzilla Minus One just looks OKAY.

It looks great, and it was a great film, and I had a great time watching it.

You can explore stuff without leaving your room.

I hate terrorism. Therefore I hate Hamas, who are terrorists. And therefore I hate a state which uses terrorism to clear land, which Israel is doing: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/magazine/israel-west-bank-settler-violence-impunity.html

Me: I don’t want to see children and civilians dying over this war.

“What about children and civilians in Israel?”

I said ‘children and civilans’. I don’t want to see any such people die. I did not qualify with a nationality.

“Yeah, but you didn’t say ‘Israel’.”

I don’t need to. I don’t care where a person is born, or what’s on their passport. I just don’t want them being killed. I want to stop seeing innocent people killed.

“You think people who support Hamas are innocent?”

There’s no winning, I’m afraid.

Life necessarily involves ageing, sickness, and death. Feel free to enjoy those over and over.

I’ll falsify that by criticising Hamas.

Hamas are terrorists and they suck. They need to fuck off and let Palestinians not get involved in terrifying violence.

If your happiness comes first then it is because you are special. Which means that everybody is special.

Now at that time King Pasenadi of Kosala was upstairs in the royal longhouse together with Queen Mallikā.

Then the king said to the queen, “Mallikā, is there anyone more dear to you than yourself?”

“No, great king, there isn’t. But is there anyone more dear to you than yourself?”

“For me also, Mallikā, there’s no-one.”

Then King Pasenadi of Kosala came downstairs from the stilt longhouse, went to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and told him what had happened.

Then, understanding this matter, on that occasion the Buddha recited this verse:

“Having explored every quarter with the mind, one finds no-one dearer than oneself. Likewise for others, each holds themselves dear; so one who cares for their own welfare would harm no other.”

https://suttacentral.net/sn3.8/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none&notes=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin

Is literally what put us in this fucking land.

I follow the teachings of Lord Buddha. Being born is not the point. The point is to not be born.

Hot take: sex isn’t that important.

Humans seem to aim more to oppress each other and make the world worse for their descendants than the opposite, overall.

I never said that Communism necessarily becomes authoritarian. But, as someone who has a strong dislike for authoritarianism, I’m not interested in Communism which involves it.

I’m going to work hard to redefine ‘Tankie’ as someone who cosplays as a Decepticon, just so that political discourse becomes even more intolerably meaningless.

/s I’m not going to do this, it would take effort.

NO. Communism is interesting, but I’m heavily anti-authoritarian.