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  • tetris11@lemmy.mltoStar Wars Memes@lemmy.worldJedi must live by a code
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    3 days ago

    The thing with the Jedi mind trick is that only Jedi’s think it works.

    Everyone else just see a scary lightsaber guy asking them to repeat a sentence and are more than happy to comply if it means they get left alone.

    There’s a limit to how much you can pretend though.

    • Letting an old man and a kid drive through a checkpoint? Fine, someone else’s problem.

    • Selling an obvious narc deathsticks? Yeah, maybe going home and rethinking your life is the right call here.

    • Handing over all your life savings for a bad deal? Uh, no actually.


  • well when a mommy asymptote and a daddy asymptote meet on opposite ends of an infinite grid, they give birth to a finite area that is carefully and lovingly defined, until the mommy asymptote runs away with a thick veiny fat curve that rules her world, and the daddy asymptote just stands there night-after-night watching them bisect each other















  • For conversations I need to have, I rehearse in my head and mutter quips to myself to prepare myself for all contingencies.

    This isn’t so I will say these words to the person, but more that I’m convincing myself and arming my mouth when my brain wanders off as it is wont to do.

    On the actual day, I drink a soothing tea and don’t say anything unless the uncomfortable topic is brought up. If people clock onto my calm confidence, they usually don’t instigate.

    I’ve learned from early on that people prey only on those they perceive weak, but to pre-emptively strike is to invite ruin. So I prepare and stay quiet.

    Beer would ruin that planning as I am a lightweight