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“Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.” -- Discworld (Snuff)

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It means someone has used it before it was sold to you, what's so hard to understand?

what do you mean 'used.' what do you mean by that.

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The only traits and characteristics billionaires have that help them maximise their money is 1) being handed a huge amount of it from the beginning, and 2) a willingness to exploit anyone they can to turn that huge amount into even more

It's easy to think you'd be able to do something when you know that you'd never have to actually do it.

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Well, if you knew we were having a dashboard inspection, it wouldn't be random, would it?

RANDOM DASHBOARD INSPECTION!

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Edwin, looking at Crystal with distaste: I don’t think allowing the living to join the agency is a good idea. They’d only ruin things. Only bad will come of this.

Edwin: Not you, Niko. You’re an angel and we’re thrilled to have you.

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legit wild to me that anyone has been surprised that siobhan is queer like where have you been what are you talking about

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Not reblogging this to avoid dog piling on this person but...

What the fuck do you mean Amtrak has infinite funding, it has one of the smallest operating budgets of any passenger rail agency? And like Amtrak is the only passenger rail company purely because passenger rail isn't financially viable to run without government funding that Amtrak doesn't have, that's why people complain that amtrak doesn't turn a profit. Also Rail is a natural monopoly, the old rail companies weren't competing against each other, they all had monopolies, that's part of why they died, there was so much anti trust legislation to keep them from extorting their customers that when alternatives arrived they couldn't compete. Also Amtrak does have competition, it's called Planes and Private Automobiles!!

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i hate when i send someone a meme in another language and they're like "uhm... translate? 😒" fucker i sent you a meme where 90% of the words have an english cognate and/or you don't need to know what they're saying to find it funny. can you at least TRY

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you're laughing. charles dickens had a son named plorn and you're laughing

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If this show was made in early 2010s, a clearly gay Edwin and an almost as clearly bi Charles would be feeling the strain in their friendship because they both fell in love with Crystal and are now competing for her affection only for Niko to turn up to be Edwin's love interest which would make Crystal jealous even though she never expressed liking Edwin turning her into the fandom villian.

Jenny is also there but she dies in 6 episodes for the crime of being a lesbian on CW.

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like whack a mole

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Iain M Banks: What is a weapon? What does it mean to use a weapon? Can a person be a weapon? Is there a difference between using a weapon and being a weapon? Is this difference meaningful? What kind of person would choose to be a weapon?

Also Iain M Banks: Here's a sapient starship with a scat fetish.

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Gilear Faeth is doomed by the narrative in that he was supposed to be just Some Guy, but his daughter was so determined for him to be part of the narrative that he ended up with an ancestral curse

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so iconic and real of adaine “i killed my dad and if it weren’t inconvenient i’d kill my mom too” abernant to just be like wow kipperlilly if you care about being boring that much just kill your parents :/