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A quotation from Terry Pratchett

   “This I choose to do,” she croaked, her breath leaving little clouds in the air. She cleared her throat and started again. “This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do.”
   It wasn’t a spell, except in her own head, but if you couldn’t make spells work in your own head, you couldn’t make them work at all.

Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 35, Wintersmith, ch. 1 [Tiffany] (2006)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/pratchett-terry/4605…

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@jrdepriest the candidate did the right thing: Don't work for #CommercialRealEstate / #OfficeFetishists aka. assholes.

  • Let the top brass know that the decision to force people to do #UnpaidLabour aka. #commute has costed them an applicant and let financial stakeholders and investors know that.

Without #accountability & #consequences, shit like this will continue.

  • Personally I see no value to even consider working #onsite unless it's evidently a necessity (i.e. some electronics lab / repair / manufacturing plant or onsite support for clients).

Cuz it is just a waste of time and resources.

#Zoomposium with Prof. Dr. #Georg #Northoff and #Philipp #Klar: "#World + #Brain = #Consciousness? - Part 2 #Philosophical #Consequences"

The 2nd part of our joint #interview with Philipp and Georg now also deals with possible #neurophilosophical #interpretations of the #empirical #findings from the 1st part and attempts to interpret them with regard to the phenomenon of “consciousness”.

Part 2 has been published under the following link: youtu.be/_UCLidEexJg

or at: philosophies.de/index.php/2025

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@MsDropbear42 @aj +9001%

Since when did any #VetoPower faced actual #consequences?

1) Where are Saddam Hussein's WMDs?

They never existed. At not by the time Bush Jr. committed himself to the Crime of Aggression. The #USA didn't give a fuck about #Iraq vommitting #democide and #genocide against the #Kurds.

2) What consequences did officials face when the WMDs weren't found?

None at all.

3) Why should proponents of the Iraq invasion, such as Sean Hannity, be trusted now?

I don't trust them further than I can piss straight the air whyilst laying on my back and not get wet.

4) Is Iran stronger or weaker as a result of the Iraq War?

Obviously #Iran profited from the removal of #SaddamHussein which was propped up after the #Shah got yeeted as a middle-finger by the US…