In return, I tended to take the piss.

Replacing the motherboard.

I suppose if you’re immortal, dying at 30 isn’t much different than dying at 60

The Greek gods did not seem to believe that mortals had any right to survival.

Me personally I view police officers as the same level of corrupt, inhuman and highly irredeemable as French’s secret nazi Gestapo force of insurrectionist terrorists.

But from your phrasing you seem to understand not everyone shares your view.

That’s why. That’s why some people can protest ICE and still support local policing.

Voting obstructionist is valid. Turning in a blank protest ballot is valid. Accelerationism is not valid.

“Try and stop me.”

The oldest in English that we have access to might be in Beowulf? Villain monologues are as old as stories, and stories are as old as humanity.

Arguably, though we are primarily discussing interpersonal conduct in this thread. I will additionally quibble by pointing out that while violence itself is often necessary, the threat of violence is a separate concern; and one I myself find unpalatable in interpersonal relationships.

I always waved back.

It kind of IS a funnel of sorts, except the funnel has no small end, it just gets what falls into it more and more packed together.

All communication is attempted manipulation. That’s not bad. Manipulation is about changing someone else’s behavior. There are unethical ways to do this (eg. threat of violence, extortion) and there are ethical ways to do this (education, presenting factual evidence, positive reinforcement) and some that are more situational (deception, disincentives, horse trading).

Avoiding manipulation is neither practical nor particularly virtuous. It just makes you a doormat, a mugwump, a fence-sitter. We all affect those around us every day, and acknowledging that is the first step in making sure those interactions are a positive force in the world and the lives of those around us.

because that force is translated into making the ball spin

as opposed to Captain America: Civil War

What, for real? I don’t remember that at all.

The claws were added, they weren’t part of the original skeleton.

No, I really don’t. We’ll always have war buffs.

Pick whatever instance best suits the topic of the community. If you wanted a community about shovelling snow, midwest.social is an obvious choice. A mini about bicycle-powered computing? Consider slrpnk.net or one of the tech instances.

Sounds like a Blorp design decision, not lemmy in general.