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They’re lactose intolerant to their own mother’s milk?

Go into either room, pick up the cat in it, then throw it in the other room and close the door.

Speaking from experience, you won’t. Someone will drag you through at least one, mostly to have you pay your bills.

Being something isn’t strange. Being aware of it is.

At least you don’t want Putin…

Yeah, pretty much.

One’s a realist, the other’s an idealist. Don’t know which is which, but only one of them will be named a witch and burned on a stake.

Obviously fictional. An ID and a picture of yourself holding today’s paper are also needed to confirm authenticity.

Technically, this would allow the identification of malware providers in Google’s app store.

Practically, every us citizen’s personal identification details were taken by doge idiots and are likely by now up for sale at a cheap price, so false identification by malware providers is pretty much guaranteed.

It’s a “we covered our ass” policy same as any “save the children” that does anything but the implied thing.

Try Ctrl alt del.

Yup. They usually change the details like having a farm or a local family business, but it’s generally the same framework.

I started watching them back when it was a new thing, they were welcomed wholesomeness. Then it was for the actors they managed to trick into playing the roles - usually people from Sy-Fy series like Eureka and Stargate Atlantis. For a while it was said Hallmark became the place where the careers of actors came to die. Eventually, i reached a stage where I barely watch and just listen, if even that. Still, it’s somewhat soothing i suppose. I’ve never come to actively dislike them, despite the churn mill style.

A Hallmark type movie. Don’t remember the name as I just use them sometimes as background noise, but it was the usual kind: woman unwillingly goes back to hometown, clashes with parent about career vs having a family, meets childhood sweetheart, plot, decides to stay at the end.

“Without having kids, you’ll never understand what it feels like hearing you say that.”

Then i guess you are part of the intended audience.

Without the third comment in the screenshot telling us it’s a two-sentence horror fanfic, would you have been absolutely certain this screenshot was about a two-sentence horror fanfic?

It’s only dastardly to those who know it’s dastardly.

Pinocchio isn’t human, doesn’t know what being human means and barely understands the concepts of right and wrong as most humans ascribe to. Hell, even we disagree on some points in this regard, let alone a puppet made of wood whose own physical limitations are different from our own.

Even we still have isolated cannibal tribes who eat human flesh as a way of life. To us, that’s evil and horrific, to them it’s just life. So why wouldn’t a being unbound by our moral standards take that sentence at face value and accept it as simple truth? Why must it be sly and conniving? Because we consider it to be as such? That’s both a foolish and flawed way of thought.

There are many cultural differences around the world, some of which are fought over zealously, and I can’t help but feel that they blind us to all the varied points of view which exist outside our own restrictive norms.

Sly might be the only way you see as horrific, yet your own way of life might seem horrific to others.

To me, the reason you don’t see where I’m coming from is because as a reader, you restricted yourself to a certain perspective. Yours.

Then I guess it’s not an improvement, but a different way of presenting it.

Using sly suggests furtive intent. My alternative was intended as a matter-of-fact approach. The former looks to sneak as if to not get caught, the latter pursues openly as if only a natural course.

On the contrary. Knowing it’s a two-sentence horror fanfic provides the unsaid context.

Why sly eyes? Curious or innocent would’ve been more… apt.

I’d love it too, but I may have made a faux pas in this case.
It’s quite possible Fu has nothing to do with wind and my mind screwed me over with its remembrance.