• mosiacmango
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      • I think, there for i am
      • Death comes for us all
      • You’re not welcome here
      • Attacking the person (not the arguments)
      • Seize the day
      • All togther, we are one
      • to the stars (through suffering? New one for me)
      • god in the machine (saved by forces beyond mortal understanding)
      • @BenReilly97
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        431 month ago

        to the stars (through suffering? New one for me)

        “Through adversity” is the translation I’ve heard.

        • @GreenAppleTree
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          Suffering, adversity, difficulty, hardship, seem to be what different institutions commonly translate it to.

          Fun fact, it’s also the motto of Kansas, where the artist lives.

          • @[email protected]
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            Might have gotten more publicity as it was used in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds as a Starfleet motto. Boimler in Lower Decks also has a poster with the motto on it.

            • @[email protected]
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              I know it from the tribute plaque to the Apollo 1 astronauts who sadly passed in a tragic fire during ground tests.

          • WIZARD POPE💫
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            Where I live it’s translated as Through the thorns to the stars.

      • FuglyDuck
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        For the record, Deus ex Machina is more a specific literary device- literally a crane lowering a god to save the protagonist in Roman and Greek dramas.

        To be fair they were more interested in telling a moral than being a good story. But the whole hanging-actor thing was meant to say they were a god and could just wave problems away. (Apparently literally.)

        • EvilHaitianEatingYourCat
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          they were more interested in telling a moral than being a good story

          So… Literally Netflix

      • WIZARD POPE💫
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        Don’t say you’ve never heard of Per aspera ad astra?

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      More literally, memento mori is “remember you will die”. There was a Roman ceremony called the Triumph when a successful war commander would parade on a chariot through Rome.

      Allegedly, someone would follow them through the day telling them “memento mori” to… keep them humble, I guess? as they were basically showing off to everyone in a god costume.

  • @nieceandtows
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    That “This farmer is evel” by the pig and the “sic” by the hen gives me a sensible chuckle

  • @Klear
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    Cute comic, but I’m starting to hate how people think that an insult is the same thing as an ad hominem. No. If I call you an idiot without attaching any propositions to that, it’s just an insult and not a logical fallacy.

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      I suppose “revolt, because the farmer is evel [sic]!” is more of an ad hominem than “revolt, because the farmer will have us all slaughtered!”

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    As the story goes, John Steinbeck was told by one of his professors that he would become an author when pigs fly,[…]

    The accurate phrase is “ad astra per ALAS porci,”[“to the stars on the wings of a pig.”] which means that Steinbeck in his snarky revenge was demonstrating far and wide that he was a bad student after all – and thanks to his famous but inaccurate imprint, countless people are running around with tattoos which actually say “to the stars through other pigs.”[“ad astra per alia porci”]

    https://sluggoonthestreet.tumblr.com/post/188811241794/as-the-story-goes-john-steinbeck-was-told-by-one

  • @hogmomma
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    51 month ago

    Was this an animated gif that had no animation?

    • @[email protected]
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      51 month ago

      Boost always renders gif as an animation whether it’s animated or not. Which client do you use?

      • @hogmomma
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        Boost 1.0.14 for Android.