Is it … fun?
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Is it … fun?
Sure, everybody has been bad at it at least once but I mean come on
I mean I am good at parallel parking but this is … I mean … it’s. What.
I’m sorry I refuse to believe that this is real.
Treatlerism
ALL POGG ALL THE TIME
He doubtless has a Golden Throne, too
ALL POGG ALL THE TIME
I sort of want us to keep our heads down
There are many good reasons to work against someone like Newsom; I certainly don’t want to vote for him!
Which if anything is more evidence for not relegating electeds or potential electeds to the bin for Bad Thought.
Nobody told him to “stop being racist” he saw that he could get elected by appealing to black voters, so he did. I beg people to get off their cod-Protestantism of “sola fide”
It's also a good time to remind people that the Church has its own internal politics that doesn't cleanly map onto contemporary US politics.
Yep! It’s a big part of why people shouldn’t get emotionally attached to these services.
I have my doubts about the ability to remain a going concern, because the unit economics are so whack; but at the same time, all these platforms are, fundamentally, ephemera.
His game was impeccable but he was such a whiner
Never liked him as a player
I think this is diagnostically true, but misses the point that “working” is meaningless without “for whom”
“I played him after I was me and before he was him” is just a spectacular sentence. Full marks to Duncan.
Skill issue
And now we’re on the brink of being able to eradicate AIDS. Good shot can and does happen!
It was simply not conceivable, as a child of the 70s and 80s, that the existential terror of nuclear war would just … stop, and yet it did.
This is not an endorsement of any specific form of state violence, but as a general rule, assuming that violence is a pervasive and fundamental part of human societies, you want that violence to be regulated and to serve pro-social ends.
Violence is, to be clear, Bad. But I want the violence to be subject to popular control.
State violence >>> private violence
Yeah that’s reasonable enough. But in school?
Our girls are 10 and 8 and they certainly WANT phones but I just don’t see why they need them until high school or so.
I guess I just don’t understand why kids need phones?
“Teo Torriate” or “Fat Bottomed Girls”
I mean it also almost certainly overstates the size of the “too left for the Democratic Party” electorate, too.
I am going to piss on his grave for WEEKS. Urologists will be lining up to observe.
It’s the greatest patrimony of the US and of course those barbarians are intent on trashing it
A lot of press coverage of Trump’s EOs is like the audience clapping to bring Tinkerbell back to life.
Exciting times in the cars! This is only the third race I’ve watched.
THE BIG SHOW IN BOLOLAND is a great book about this!
Horsefat 4 EVA
I mean I’m straight but
Oh my
Oh hell yeah
That, too
no
What a joke
It’s such a graceless pivot into what passes for a point of that post
I was a big fan of PITFALL
A fantastic story.
I mean it’s saying right up front that this is an argument that he couldn’t be arsed to back up!
This is amazing
I think you could have an interesting conversation about the composition of the canon and the ways in which that fits into larger power structures! This is uh unlikely to be the lead in to that conversation.
I call it my “read-only vocabulary”. Quay was particularly traumatic.
Yeah. It’s a potentially interesting point buried under the most sophomoric smart kid crap with a soupçon of “wtf” from the “If the AI is accurate” thing
It’s like a parody
“If AI is accurate” unbelievable tell
Indictment at a very early age
(It totally is, but my hot take is that it always has)
You can also disagree but importantly he is grounding the conversation not in unmoored Clash Of Civilizations bullshit but rather in an expectation that we govern ourselves by actually governing ourselves. It’s an act of faith in the public! I desperately want it to succeed.
RETVRN
something I've been maundering on is the way that violent societies--societies defined by a level of ambient violence--function as a form of social exclusion. this creates rents... but mostly not for the actual committers of violence, but rather for those with the privilege to not be affected
Axioms: 1. All people are alike in dignity 2. Nobody knows anybody else’s mind 3. The good is incommensurable and cannot be measured Therefore: Plural liberal democracy is the only satisfactory system for organizing society.
I m a very boring person at the end of the day
I remember a weird mini game where you could level up by throwing knives
It’s why I say my leftism is downstream of my liberalism
They’re not going to tell Eric, EVER.
Yeah, Rawls and Isaiah Berlin. I’m a simple man, at the end of the day.
Off to have their heart’s mass measured by Anubis
Anybody in Midtown Toronto who wants to have snacks and drinks is welcome here
The GHOST taught them to cure CANCER by CRACKING cervical vertebrae
It is a delightful fate for that shitbird
His adoption of the most puerile chan shit was probably predetermined, given how fragile his ego so evidently is
God almighty yes
I miss summer Sundays in Pacific time. Baseball starting at 9am? Hell yeah!
We have already made contingent plans to send the girls to their grandma’s house
You’d be able to hear it scribbling from here.
He seems so deeply unlikeable I wonder if he has any allies in the WH at all
They are under active selection pressure to get dumber and more distrustful and paranoid. This is as smart and as cunning as they’re ever going to be.
I cannot believe that they could keep it quiet for two hours, let alone two days
Home after seven hours on the road. Verdict: the Audi is a very comfortable place to deal with the shitass traffic on the 401. Also, adaptive cruise is really, really nice for long highway drives.
The Red Book is just bad faith Noldorin propaganda, blaming literally everybody else in Middle-Earth for their own never ending series of terrible decisions.
If geography didn’t have a vote this would be a much simpler conversation. Abolish the Several States!
Axioms: 1. All people are alike in dignity 2. Nobody knows anybody else’s mind 3. The good is incommensurable and cannot be measured Therefore: Plural liberal democracy is the only satisfactory system for organizing society.
“Oh no I’m reasonable and adult I can handle this like a grownup” to “WILL YOU STOP DOING THAT FOR CHRISSAKES” in milliseconds
I often wonder if the invariants of a strong, rich type system like Haskell’s could outweigh the relative paucity of Haskell code in the wild and make it possible to get good results out of the models.
One of the selling points Chicago admissions was really pushing when I was considering it was how they had the second largest police force in the state. Uh, guys
Or that Canadians do
SNEAKERS!
Correct
Cruising around Pickering and Oakville
Right it’s the dual of rolling a bag of heads into a nightclub
As an American immigrant to Canada, it’s clear as day that the complaints about French and the language police are pretextual and what people are annoyed by is the difference. Like you say, it’s a silly place but they’re not nuts to see contempt.
John Carpenter’s Into Great Silence
The MoErgo is a good keyboard but not the same quality as Kinesis.
Strongly concur
Jesus Lydia no kid should have to be this savage.
I think they’re amazing but yeah buying one sight unseen is a big ask.
Yes!
I’m thinking of getting the pro 360; I was an Advantage guy for 20+ years, only recently switching to a MoErgo Glove80
He should be illegal. This is what we all wanted from Sabonis after 88.
TRUE LIES does JLC so dirty which is weird from Cameron who legit does so much better with women in his movies than most of the hyper 90s action scene
Kinesis does good work. Pay the premium.
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