Marko Kloos

When the quick sugar high of seeing big explosions starts to fade and the unintended consequences don't go away, the hangover will be rough. First he'll blame his generals, then the button-pushers will walk the plank, and in the end it will be the fault of the Dems somehow anyway.

So Windows 12 is going to be "AI-focused" and "subscription-based", huh?

You know what else it's going to be? Not for me.

Motherfucker keeps providing rock-solid evidence for his war crimes trial at The Hague.

It's astonishing that all those Very Smart Businesspeople at Target (and the Super Genius heading Tesla) failed to see how pissing off their prime customer demographic and pandering to the red hat crowd that shops at Walmart anyway and doesn't buy electric cars could possibly hurt their bottom line.

Also, the chocolate rations have been increased from 30 to 20 grams!

We have always been at war with Irania.

"We regret to inform you the little monkey is racist."

Sure, solar power is free and abundant energy from the sun, so that's pretty neat. But did you know that the supply also can't be blocked by closing the Strait of Hormuz? Wild stuff. We should look into it.

You mean Pearl Harbor was not an act of war?

Holy shit. When the Japanese hear about this, we are going to owe them a shitload of reparations.

Operation Epstein Fury.

“A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.” - @johnrogers.bsky.social

“Any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principle which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being was evil.”

Dan Simmons, "Hyperion"

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Or the YouTube videos titled something like "Clueless American SHOCKS locals by being FLUENT in their language!", and the comments go, "He's using a bunch of stock phrases he memorized, and his pronunciation is almost incomprehensible."

I love when people point out supposed language feats of actors and it's like "Matt Damon speaks fluent Russian in the Bourne movies!", and some native speaker comments "Actually, his Russian is awful and he sounds like a drunk toddler."

"Why does half the universe look like California?"

It also handily explains why Banderas/Ahmed speaks English/"Norse" with an accent.

I can honestly say that I'd rather rinse out my ear canals with hot vinegar than listen to Senile Racist Grandpa ramble on for two hours about how great he is and how amazing things are in his alternate reality.

But don't mind me. I'm a language nerd. My favorite treatment of the issue is the campfire scene in The 13th Warrior, which also effectively explained in a minute why they all continue speaking the same language.

"How did you learn our language?"

"I LISTENED!"

I mean, and this after the movie, which made a point of Daniel Jackson having to learn the native tongue to enable effective communication. A simple "oh, we have universal translators now" like in Star Trek would have sufficed for the series.

Did Stargate SG-1 ever have any explanation for the fact that hundreds of human-descended cultures across the galaxy are speaking perfect American English despite having been shut out of the wormhole network for the last 3,000 years?

They'll probably tell you with a straight face that prices ARE down.

Remember "The Democrats are coming for your steaks and burgers"? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

From book and subject bans to the constant demonization of secular higher education, every education policy pushed by Republicans serves a single purpose--to deprive the next generation of the basic tools needed to tell fact from fiction and truth from bullshit.

Maintaining decorum for fascists only legitimizes fascism.

"Immortality, she is shit, no?" <takes long drag>

"Luc Besson's Dracula" sounds like the title of an SNL skit where Dracula stands by a window on a rainy day and chain-smokes filterless Gauloises for two hours.

Turns out the "morals and values" people have no morals at all, and their only values are "Does this benefit me directly and right now?"