copandballtorture [ey/em]

Reminds me of the Exploratorium in San Francisco. They have an exhibition that has a long rail with metal coil wrapped around it. On one side, the coils are warm to the touch. On the other side, they’re cold to the touch. In the middle of the rail, the coils alternate hot-cold-hot-cold, and when I first touched it, my reflexes yanked my hand away because the nerves interpreted it as “so hot the ‘burned nerves’ feel cold”. Took a few attempts to be able to hold my hands there, and the sensation was very confusing. Would recommend+

Me but with maples

Venting their fears and knowledge of the Patriot Act by projecting it onto our national rival

Exactly!

Been thinking about the Klingon and Hirogen species recently (and I guess Ferengi to a lesser extent). How do cultures so devoted to hunting, killing, pride, and honor, have the infrastructure in place to become space-based empires? Like, it takes millions of people doing boring jobs like math and engineering to make space travel possible, but if they’re all motivated by murder and glory, how do they accomplish anything on a grand scale?

It’s like that time Starfleet Command was taken over by worm-eating parasites. We have to blast the mods with phasers to save the instance

Good for him. It would be even cooler if pretty much every school meal wasn’t provided by the same company that supplies prisons but

It’s also a LOT more socially acceptable to be an anarchist in the West than a communist, so it’s a vital gateway to left-wing thought.