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    Methylcobalamin ,
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    @ElleGray

    If people made things so most people COULD sit outside and see the stars every night things would already be different.

    Avitus ,
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    @ElleGray When there are stars to look at, sure. I had to go deep into the desert in Utah to see more stars than I've ever seen in my life.

    WolvericCatkin ,
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    @ElleGray If they could, they'd probably be experiencing rural living... unfortunately, light pollution obscures the starlight in most urban settings... 🫤

    GwynHannay ,
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    @ElleGray I also feel this is true of spending less time online.

    davidfm ,

    @ElleGray unfortunately, with so much light pollution, look at the starts is hardly possible to so many

    histrion ,
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    @ElleGray ce serait surtout un énorme pas en avant pour la civilisation dds moustiques

    belore ,
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    @ElleGray Same energy! :blob_cat_eyes_owo:

    Traduction :

    • So? These files for the meeting? Are you deaf or something?
    • Shh! You'll have to do without me: the cat sleeps so well, I don't have the heart to wake him up.
    • If everyone here had a cat on their lap, the newspaper wouldn't be published often!
    • Hey! If all the generals and admirals in the world, whatever their colors and ranks, each had a cat on their lap, I would feel a lot better!
    • What do you want to say to him when he is right?
    French cartoon board from Gaston Lagaffe. In french : Case 1 : Prunelle, pas content : "Et alors ? Ces dossiers pour la réunion ? Lagaffe !" Case 2 : Prunelle rentre dans le bureau de Gaston : "Z'êtes sourd ou quoi ?" Gaston, assis avec un chat sur les genoux : "Chut, faudra te passer de moi : le chat dort si bien que je n'ai pas le coeur à le réveiller." Case 3 : Prunelle vocifère si fort que le chat bondit. Case 4 : Prunelle, empilant les dossiers dans les bras de Gaston : "Si chacun ici avait un chat sur les genoux, c'est pas souvent qu'il paraitrait, le journal." Case 5 : Gaston, portant les dossiers dans le couloir : "Hé ! Si tous les généraux et les amiraux du monde, quelles que soient les couleurs et les étoiles, avaient chacun un chat sur les genoux, hébin moi je me sentirais vachement mieux, moi !" Prunelle, l'air désolé, pense : "Que voulez-vous lui répondre quand il a raison ?"
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    • SoberHungOver ,

    @ElleGray Sure they would...the smart ones🤣🤣🤣🫶☮️Love it‼️

    VoquiLeibbrandt ,
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    @ElleGray Sure. If everybody lived in countries with no cloudy nights. There will be no rain to help vegetal growth

    glent ,
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    @ElleGray Well they'd have yet another reason to be pissed at Elon Musk. He really has fucked-up star gazing.

    Helchose ,
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    @ElleGray I'll never forget one time when I was camping out under the stars somewhere in the desert, and I stared up at the universe long enough to realize I could view everything above me in 3 dimensions, as we are moving through this space.

    ShutterbugDoug ,

    @ElleGray If only we had much less and so we could see stars, Milky Way without driving for hours to the backcountry.😕😡 International Dark Sky Association (IDA) a great resource, including model dark-sky ordinances.👍

    jfroehlich ,
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    @ElleGray or the lake. Or the woods. Or nature in general.

    janisf ,
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    @ElleGray Yes, but you can't see them in most cities, and anti-establishment (development) sentiment is what's got a lot of people bitter. They can't afford to travel, or move, and they don't see a way out of their patchwork of multiple, ften rotating jobs.

    If people wanted to pay for (actual) campsites and car rental for folks who can't afford them, you'd have a lot more people getting out and looking at the stars.

    cy ,
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    If they stopped building electric streetlights all over the place everywhere that stayed turned on at all hours of the night, then we wouldn't have to go camping.

    Though personally, I don't look up at the stars anymore, even if I can see them. Nothing up there but empty promises, broken dreams, death and horror. Give me a cloudy night any day, to save me from looking up at that shining, twinkling wasteland.

    CC: @ElleGray

    ElleGray OP ,
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    @cy @janisf I'm not sure how this post has inspired such depressing comments. It's not just yours. It really feels impossible to post anything online anymore with it being torn down or twisted into something darker

    401matthall ,
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    @ElleGray

    As an adult the most spiritual experience I have is when I'm watching the night sky.

    It's amazing how connected I feel when I do this. It's a genuinely emotional experience to look back in time at the light that has been traveling through space for an age.

    Every night we have the chance to study and observe the ancient past and so many of us take it for granted.

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