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But he grew up in the suburbs hating himself and his mother and idolizing the rural grandparents he visited in the summers and has spent his life striving for the respect of people he resents while (this part is speculation) ritually whipping himself nightly for being a loser. That's pretty real.
It's all just reality TV, isn't it? None of this actually hurts real people. I was assured by the leopards that no one I know will have their face eaten.
I never envisioned "viscera" as simply "shit"; I assumed it included stringy intestinal tissue, fluids including blood and urine and shit and bile and vomit, muscle and nerves, undigested stomach content, severed lung tissue, a sticky slice of liver, a bit of rib and, inexplicably, a copper button.
"...or else" Just to be literal.
Speculation: he was told that offshore wind farms produce infrasonic and other noise that interfere with the undersea listening devices used primarily for tracking subs and this is what he retained. I'm spitballing, here. Alternatively, he needs medical attention.
*lavoisier has entered the chat*
It's like that one Republican pol who complained about seeing hooligans on ATVs doing wheelies when he arrived in Washington, DC.
No, it's not you. There's something very broken with institutional dems, related media, and the kind of dems who comprise that "base" (which is to say, oldish white guys). They're falling over themselves to be supine. It's sickening.
You were being so supercilious and so smug. Yet now you're not embarrassed and you haven't learned anything from your error. You're *that* kind of person. It's probably one of the first things people notice about you.
FBI now seizing boxes of additional mustaches from Bolton's home.
Here's some green chile chicken filets I've prepared for later use. (Primarily a green chile chicken soup.) They're chicken filets baked with garlic butter basting, after being brined in a green chile & teriyaki marinade.
Black women are being used as test subjects for the limits of abuse of power. I want people to not ignore this since this always happens and then when the abuse arrives at people's doorstep, they're surprised. CALL IT OUT NOW.
There is something sad about why I have to so frequently explain the 'southern strategy' and the subsequent 'great realignment' to people. But for someone who knows enough to make that specific argument, it's more disingenuous than ignorant. One thing goes with the other, unless they're parroting.
I was gonna say the same thing, but then I tried to imagine that scene playing out in any US city in the last 15 years. Can you? The police were undiscplined thugs then. Now, they are a hostile occupying army. An army of thugs. The militarization of the civilian police forces was a sign.
Sadly, racism is often aspirational.
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
I am so incredibly angry at all my fellow Americans — yes, pretty much "all" — who I've been telling for 45 years that the "can't happen here" thing is a dangerous, self-deluding fantasy. Lindbergh was a nazi. Lots of Americans were nazi sympathizers before they weren't.
It's just very, very weird to me that his supporters see him as strong. I think that, deep down, his fans identify with his wretchedness and spite and revel in his debasement of everything and anything. It's the 4chan presidency. It's the sickos meme writ large.
Um, you mean historical knowledge of the last five years? You ever noticed how Trump and others are very much "might makes right" just up until the moment they get an ouchie?
Over on twitter a few days seeing all these CA GOPs whining, tears of rage and despair at the unfairness of it all. I tried to hit them all with a very productive two step plan for recovery. 1. Sucks to be you. 2. Time to talk to your pals in Texas.
A loose crowd would be about 28 million people. But I think they will all fit into the new WH ballroom.
Thanks.
Nicole Collier is now locked inside the Texas House, a prisoner of TXDPS. Will troopers feed her? Provide bedding? A shower? Medical care? A change of clothes? Must she dress in an orange jumper? How will this work? The capitol is not a jail. She's a political prisoner, there's no crime.
Yes they do. This sounded smart to you in your head, and I share the instigating sentiment, but this is actually very, very wrong. Like, so wrong. Maybe even "opposition disinfo" levels of wrongness. But, yeah, every useless dem who won't fight but still asks for money should be primaried.
they're trying to keep a lid on this, but major league baseball is now down to its last bat. for the rest of cubs-brewers, currently in progress this afternoon, all batters will share the bat. if the bat breaks that's the end of the sport. after that we'll most likely see a laser tag revival
“Hello, Average Voter! Here in my hand is a marshmallow. And here in my pocket is a $20 bill. If you wait...” “Thanks! That tasted good!"
Less time passed between D-Day and the premiere of Miami Vice than passed between the premiere of Miami Vice and today.
This is a genuine crime.
This is an age-specific gag and I deeply resent it just how specific it is.
Major philanthropic organizations including Knight, MacArthur, and Ford announced they're committing nearly $37 million in emergency funding to keep public media stations afloat after Donald Trump's rescissions package stripped away federal funding. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Extremely well said. The first phrase is pithy and compelling. Deserves to be quoted. In fact, I'll make a note of it right now.
At the very least, someone should tell children that, in fact, people across the world do/don't wear shoes indoors and that doing so differently doesn't make one a barbarian. In fact, let's talk about the word "barbarian". What's sad is that this conversation is really about politics. Tolerance.
I feel like you misunderstood the assignment.
Surely streetcarts selling posters to freshman during the first week of school is still a thing.
The thing that gets me about aphantasia is that 95% of us determined the language usage (and literature!) that embeds it as implicit to the human condition. This makes me angry, honestly. I *already* was someone who is very open to human differences, and this still rocked my world.
I don't like that I'm disturbed — that's really the core psychology of xenophobia and bigotry — but it's a normal reaction to attempting to imagine an existence both so similar and alien at the same time. But the existence of the feeling, understanding it, navigating it, should be a spur to empathy.
But, yeah, I have a lot of trouble getting my head around what it must be like to not have a visual imagination. Or an aural imagination. I only learned of aphantasia about 12 years ago. It fundamentally altered — improved — my understanding of other people. The idea frightens me a little, even.
I think more and more about mechanical engineering stuff all the time as I've aged. Like, I feel deficient in not knowing and deeply understanding all the basic machines. Um, I get weird feelings when I think about numerous ingenious simple machines, if you follow. Much respect for your wife.
With regard to the larger point†, I continue to believe that teaching young children about aphantasia (and related, but it's the most powerful example) would be incalculably socially beneficial. † The direct point is of particular significance — the failure of men to pay attention to women.
Just another reason why I'm ashamed of my country, I didn't serve for 22 years for us to become the opposite of what I swore to defend. Fuck trump, fuck his fascist friends, and fuck everyone who thinks this is ok
It's very unfortunate because good critics, in the literary and academic sense, *are* genuinely helpful to "consumers" in multiple respects, but readers often don't appreciate this. My enjoyment of many films, and film in general, has been greatly increased by critics. They're underappreciated.
Film criticism is a strange field, with tension between the commercial and literary aspects. I think it must have always been very difficult to manage these two roles, professionally. Ebert did both gracefully. But, sadly, there's little commercial appetite for more than mere recommendations.
It's always the ones you suspect. “The school got nine separate complaints from faculty members, administration staffers and other students about his ‘rude and belittling behavior toward women’, Idaho state police detective Sean Prosser wrote in a report.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Yes, but I long ago concluded that such widely-shared preferences and norms are rarely coincidental when they favor bad-actors. Bad actors play the refs, either instinctively or deliberately, and push norms that protect them and their ability to do bad stuff.
I had no idea people thought VCRs were only used as players. Kids. Note: "magnetic media" here pertains only to video recorders, not other magnetic media, particularly cassette tape recorders.
This guy must find southern Missouri downright terrifying.
Friend, when you find yourself treating with ideas like forced depopulation as a necessary corrective step, you've left the path of righteousness. As you well know in other contexts.
About a third of southern blacks are rural. I could not possibly care less whether you have rural family; spare me the crocodile tears. You are affecting an ostentatiously realist political stance with a certain deliberate callousness, like a Fox News guest, to shock & impress. It's beneath you.
This "rural people are the enemies" is some truly stupid shit. As if there aren't millions of rural black people. Rural people aren't the enemy; white men are the enemy. But I guess if you're a certain kind of white man, it's super-important that rural white men are especially awful.
You know things are bad when you're like, okay, hear me out: Robespierre did have some good ideas.
someone in 2065 getting a bill in the mail: 2.5 million dollars in externalities generated by my parents and my grandparents? How am I ever going to pay all that?
Hello Mr. Pharmacist, I would like a 7-energy vaccine please. What do you mean I don’t have enough quest items?
ICE is a higher calling, a real job you can be proud of. Which is why if you join, you can never show your face in public again.
I've said this often, and it probably comes across as extremely snobbish, but I've often felt that what I call "sophomorism" is my personal nemesis and/or plague of my life. It's people who know just enough to be dangerously wrong while being very certain of themselves. I hate these people. Hate.
Here's a YouTube of the people Trump was complaining about, who spit on cops. Trump pardoned all of them.
They are the gestapo and should be treated as such by everyone they know and meet. Assuming they're willing to admit what they do. These people have every reason to hide their identities. They know the ugly legacies they're building for their names. That's a clue to them that they are the baddies.
He famously does make his own. That's what Scalzi is famous for. l I heard he writes books, too.
You know, I've never understood that whole joke. Is this something that happens only to people who haven't eaten spicy foods their whole lives? Or what? I don't get it. Now... I guess I should mention that despite my upbringing and cuisine preferences, I *don't* care for refried beans and 86 them.
“I’m an equal opportunity offender. I make fun of everybody.” - Guy whose identities all align with the systemically dominant power groups in his cultural and geographic context
River's Edge
Surely there's an untapped market for Trump-shaped piñatas. Sure, I'd be uneasy eating the results, but I'd be enthusiastic about the process. Which is basically like every other piñata experience.
It's odd to me that Zohran's campaign is always presented as an example "the left" needs to learn from, rather than an expression of the lessons the left has learned.
Truer words etc etc
why is Andrew Cuomo posting like every dipshit rich guy in a Twitter space with Elon Musk. ok that question might answer itself
He is so totally George Foreman, not Ali. Also probably a little Aqualung on the bench.
Awakened with these words ringing in my head: “I am lithos root of the world bones of the earth my breath and blood wash across the sky and herald the death of man“ Huh. It's probably not important.
I just asked Alexa to blow up the Moon. She said she couldn't help me with that, but I think she's not being entirely truthful.
DONE DIRT CHEAP!! 🤘🏽
CONCRETE SHOES, CYANIDE, TNT! TNT seems a bit much. I do like the cyanide. (DONE DIRT CHEAP!) Cyanide *is* inexpensive, yes. NECKTIES, CONTRACTS, HIGH VOLTAGE! Seriously? 'High vol-' (DONE DIRT CHEAP!) What? Wait, hold on... Did you just say "contracts"? Are you going to subcontract my hit?
-be done soon. YEAH! So, maybe by- DIRTY DEEDS AND THEY'RE DONE DIRT CHEAP! -tomorrow? The day after...? Okay, well, maybe don't tell me exactly when; it's best I don't know. But I have to ask how you're gonna...?
🤘🏽 DIRTY DEEDS (DONE DIRT CHEAP!) Good, as long as- DIRTY DEEDS (DONE DIRT CHEAP!) -it's done right. But cheap is good. DIRTY DEEDS (DONE DIRT CHEAP!) Yes, but it needs to- DIRTY DEEDS!! AND THEY'RE DONE DIRT CHEAP!!
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I just don't see how women's rights are improved by having to carry a birth certificate around in case they want to use a toilet.
The f*&%ing library.
Every day the leave the house to do their jobs and have to face the fear of being recognized.
"Only the liberals and the extremists do that." — Kristi Noem on South Park's mocking of her looks Remind me, who called Rosie O'Donnell a "fat pig"? Also:
Dude's being very ironic; see the prev "...you fuck one goat..." he posted. Not that Jimmy Fallon has fucked any goats, to my knowledge. That's just the meme and has nothing at all to do with Jimmy Fallon. He does look like a "let's go fuck some goats" kind of guy, though.
if you just now coined that, congratulations ... and your family should get royalties in the future when it's used as the epitaph for this fallen empire
I'm just stunned by this level of passivity in the face of fascism. One of my life's preoccupations has been the absurd arrogance of "it can't happen here" self-delusion and and I honestly can't think of when I've ever been more unhappy to be proven correct.
Then "Tainted Love" to round out the set.
Awakened with these words ringing in my head: “I am lithos root of the world bones of the earth my breath and blood wash across the sky and herald the death of man“ Huh. It's probably not important.
Man, back in the day people like Bluto, Olive Oil, and Popeye really knew how to party.
/11 Congress, which could pass legislation to reinforce the Constitutional order, won’t, because it’s made up of people who are hostile to that order, indifferent to it, or completely ineffectual at enforcing it.
If I were someone important who met with Trump, I'd give him something covered in gold and then harp on it over and over, deliberately boring everyone else there with details about the gold while Trump nods enthusiastically and I smirk behind his back. Trump would never pick-up on what was going on.
“Defend your culture, no college required” is about as concise a summary of MAGA as you’ll find.
Those things were like confetti in the kitchen drawers.
I am going to be a massive humorless asshole about woo-woo shit, no matter how seemingly harmless, for the rest of my life due to this. astrology, homeopathic medicine, etc etc it's all bullshit and it's not fucking harmless. there are people who will die due to this who would have otherwise lived.
I'm pretty sure this is a transcription.
I'm in a mood; I could go on and on. People don't know as much as they think they do and, so much worse, understand so little of what they think they do "know". It grates on me when political allies or other like-minded people ridicule conservatives or others for vices they themselves indulge.
Now ask people to estimate the pressure of a 1" diameter hole at the bottom of a 10,000 gallon tank of water with a depth of one foot. Ask people why metal at room temperature feels cold but wood does not. Ask if Superman could drink through a 40' vertical straw anywhere on Earth.
As a follow-up to my previous response: I'm also deeply allergic to old-person nostalgia everything-has gotten-worse BS. But this one specific thing — regarding the current over-supervision of children's lives — is an exception because it really is Not So Good.
I guess I'm having little patience these days with a lot of people. Maybe it's just today.
There's two different interlocutors in that conv, at least. I was rude to one guy; his response is to another. Ask your followers — who should by and large be unusually scientifically informed — why the Earth has seasons. I predict at least 1/4 will answer "distance from the Sun".
As an old guy, this is one of my most enduring culture shocks. And as someone without children. I can't quite get my head around what it is like for kids now. It must be so very, very different from how I grew up.
That year, my income tax was just about 30% of my income. All work income, much of it in the top bracket, and I filed a 1040A because I frankly didn't care to bother with it. You really have to go out of your way to pay so much in tax as a % of income, and I'm sure few of the whiners ever have.
When I was briefly dotcom flush, I sent a photo to my dad of the check I wrote the IRS with the caption "happy to pay my share". You know...since he'd said so many times he was sure I'd feel differently if such a day ever came.
Donald Trump is 100% not going to understand this joke. In some deep, deep sense his acute awareness of his lack of cultural capital is his core motivating resentment. It is gilded spite.
I prefer to call someone an idiot who thinks a 100kW reactor is comparable to a local nuclear power plant. That's because they're an idiot who thinks they know things and they don't. I fail to see how "1500% reduction" is any more risible. All careless/reckless ignorance feeds the the worst of it.
So, I suppose you're visualizing something like your local nuclear power plant transported to the Moon? You're an idiot. No offense, because I probably agree with all your politics otherwise. But you're still an idiot.