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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023
  • Jakdracula@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What do you think about the idea that we're in a simulation?
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    7 months ago

    This is a simulation and we are here on vacation.

    Imagine a civilization so advanced there’s no more death. There’s no more wars. There’s no more dying of old age, sickness, or anything else. You just exist in a beautiful society day after day after perfect day.

    After a couple thousand years, you might start to get bored. So you go into the simulation where you can starve to death, feel pain for the first time, fall in love, and when it’s all over, you wake up back in the advanced civilization with these great memories of what it was like to fear, to love, to be hungry…

  • Jakdracula@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Can you separate the artist as a person from the music?
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    7 months ago

    Eric is a racist way before he was an antivaxer.

    In 1976, on stage, Clapton praised Tory MP Enoch Powell, and declared that Britain must stop itself from becoming a “black colony,” and said “England is for white people, man.”

    He went on to say:

    “I don’t want you here, in the room or in my country. Listen to me, man! I think we should vote for Enoch Powell. Enoch’s our man. I think Enoch’s right, I think we should send them all back. Stop Britain from becoming a black colony. Get the foreigners out. Get the wogs out. Get the coons out. Keep Britain white. I used to be into dope, now I’m into racism. It’s much heavier, man. Fucking wogs, man. Fucking Saudis taking over London. Bastard wogs. Britain is becoming overcrowded and Enoch will stop it and send them all back. The black wogs and coons and Arabs and fucking Jamaicans and fucking… don’t belong here, we don’t want them here. This is England, this is a white country, we don’t want any black wogs and coons living here. We need to make clear to them they are not welcome. England is for white people, man. We are a white country. I don’t want fucking wogs living next to me with their standards. This is Great Britain, a white country. What is happening to us, for fuck’s sake?”

  • Jakdracula@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•How do you know what gift to get someone?
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    8 months ago

    If the person you want to give a gift to is a weightlifter or work out enthusiast, buy them a shirt.

    If the shirt is too big, they will be flattered, and if the shirt is too small, they will wear it.

    For the last several decades now I have asked my wife or others “guess what I got you for Christmas?” (Birthday or whatever…).

    The first thing they guess is the real thing they want as a gift.