Chris Bergstresser

The Republican vision of a "race-neutral" society looks an awful lot like the Jim Crow South.

While US fair food is certainly world class in the fry-something-already-incredibly-unhealthy competition, I assure you the average Glaswegian chip shop is equally innovative.

I take it as direct evidence of the current dystopia that it took me two minutes to realize this wasn't ad copy for a real company, and even then I had to Google it to be sure.

They're working to fix that glitch.

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The impressive thing is that the economy has been doing as well as it has *despite* them botching things in a half year. It'll be interesting to see how long Wall Street continues to convince itself this is all a momentary blip.

I can finally watch Oppenheimer as it was meant to be seen: silently on my neighbor's screen with subtitles on during a transatlantic flight.

i think cuomo did well considering he couldn’t campaign while the sun was up

Oh God I'm playing it wrong.

Am I the only one who feels like you can't describe someone as getting "gored" and then later describe is as "minor injuries?" Is it really possible to be "gently gored?"

Likewise! And here I was getting kind of fond of the angry lizard.

See, the weird thing is you got the whole your/you're thing right on the second try in the same damn sentence. So it's kind of a marvel of low-energy posting.

If I were Canada I would already have passed a massive amount of funding establishing a flagship biomedical research program based in Toronto and be well into recruiting the absolute top talent from the United States.

Is this already happening? Ditto in Europe? This feels like such a no-brainer.

Social media these days feels like one of those Super Mario games where you have to keep jumping from one platform to the next before it falls into lava and if you pause for half a second you end up dead. Or arguing with incel Nazis. I think I lost control of the metaphor, but you get the point.

While I appreciate the presentation this is a sausage roll — vegan in this case — and it's altogether too fancy for my tastes.

While Animal Farm is one of my favorite books, I'm not exactly convinced that what this particular historical moment needs is an impassioned argument against a theoretical communist revolution.

Blue Prince is designed for people who like loot boxes at least as much as they like solving puzzles.

I feel like Blue Prince is fun for people who like to solve half a crossword puzzle and then get told they aren't allowed to finish it but they can try a different one if they like.

I really don't get why it's so hard for people to understand that trans women *are* biologically women. The trans people I know didn't choose to be trans, any more than the gay people I know chose to be gay. There's a lot more to biology than the SRY gene.

A less oppressive government that's more antagonistic towards Russia would be swell.

The official site is witchards.com/czocha/ — the other one is both out-of-date and defunct and looks like a zombie site from before the current organization fully took over. I'm surprised anyone is still paying for it.

People who regret their vote for Trump but blame the Democrats for not presenting a more compelling alternative feel like the kind of people who swallow rat poison then sue because the "DO NOT EAT" label wasn't bigger.

If we do hit the circuit breaker then Fox News is required to start playing Swan Lake

Chase has locked down my accounts for "suspicious activity," and requires me to talk to a fraud specialist to unlock it. Their fraud specialists don't work overnight. So if you need access to your cash overnight, maybe because you're overseas and it's your daytime, you're just fucked.

I'm not sure the recurring "you should have voted for the smart black lady" posts are doing much. Yes, that would have been much, much better. But you're never going to get an electorate fired up voting for the kind of corporate candidates the Democrats typically find themselves promoting.

David Foster Wallace, surely.

RANDOM TARIFF ENCOUNTER TABLE (D8)
1 - 25%
2 - 34%
3 - 10% (but you must buy our chickens)
4 - 49% lovely people but they've been ripping us off
5 - 20% and 2d4 ogres
6 - 31%, roll again on treasure table C
7 - 25% (28% for elves)
8 - Roll again combine both results

as trans day of visibility fades into night, it's time to build support for a new holiday: trans week of unfettered access to long-range rocket artillery