I hope there comes a time where your passion does not need slurs to be expressed in a way you feel best represents your feelings in the heat of the moment.

That's not a joke or anything. Passion can be great and cathartic. It's a shame then that it can so often be marred by internalized hatred, and I genuinely hope that changes for not just you, but all of us.

As we all know, the best argument against harm reduction is "Things aren't perfect so I will hurt everyone EXCEPT my enemy as much as possible to punish them. But not my enemy."

I'm a little lost as to what exactly this rebuttal is implying. Do you feel that those who willfully ignored these issues went they weren't as dire should continue to do so as they get worse? I'm having difficulty reading this charitably so clarification would be appreciated, thanks.

This got me good lmao

Was gonna ask about the digits on the back but I figured it out: 707

Real Chad's don't let some dumb straps stop them from pumping blood like a REAL PATRIOT! B)

At this point there's really no need to anyway. Plenty of works nowadays that capture the spirit of the sort of cosmic horror he wrote about without the atrocious xenophobia, or at least touch on the topic in ways that deconstruct and/or scrutinize those views in a much healthier and compelling way.

The anecdote is especially funny to me because fog machines are essentially giant vapes, down to using similar ingredients, so it stands to reason that folks wouldn't care much in that scenario. Agreed wholeheartedly all around.

As someone who does vape, I can tell you for a fact it does leave a residue. It takes a LONG time to build up, and even then it's only really noticeable on transparent things like glass, but it's a pain to clean off without specific cleaners. Otherwise it looks perpetually smeared. Best to avoid it so the employees don't have to guess why their windows won't clean right.

Yikes.

They literally were better. They were not perfect. They weren't even good in a lot of cases. But they were better for these marginalized folks.

o7

To clarify for others, as I have no interest in doing this myself, but if people feel like sharing, are they allowed to do so provided they censor the pictire/remove it entirely from a screenshot? Not sure why someone would, but I figure it doesn't hurt to ask.

I just got my first one a couple days ago so yeah. It's pretty widespread.

I never really put two and two together but yeah. They're just not as offensively awful. That's crazy!

I thought I was the only one omg. The closest thing I could find is the mutation that makes cilantro taste like soap, but that tastes fine to me.

Well, yes we are, but only because the concept of civilization is a completely arbitrary social construct based entirely upon the subjective sensibilities of who you ask at any moment.

I hope you stub your toe for this lmao

No because the joke is that one guy has the abnormally powerful gravity well and the guy at the bottom is out of range.

To whoever likes this sort of fantastical speculative artistry, one of the authors C.M. Koseman also wrote and illustrated All Tomorrow's, which is a similarly speculative view of humanity from the fictional perspective of a paleontologist in the unfathomably far future, after humanity spread to the stars and experienced an apocalypse that leads us down countless evolutionary paths. Content warning: Body horror, cosmic horror, but presented in an academic way.