oh damn and I read the nuclear war book
it's also not quite a good fit for the situation we're in now, as he can just walk to Congress and say "no i'm capable." Trump is mad in the gothic sense, he's not medically incapacitated or unable to speak in his own defense.
"so as you can see, while so-called NASA has projected the asteroid is going to impact the planet, our assumption is that it will suddenly veer away at the last moment, granting us a wonderful light show."
i can't even go down certain streets in my neighborhood for fear of accidentally doing an ad read for squarespace
there was a reason the Prohibition movement had as much juice as it did for so long; things were baaaaaad
are we SURE Donald Trump is a real person and not an LLM trained on 2005-2006 era DailyKos posts about George W. Bush?
no no, the documentary on the FBI that is the totality of my knowledge of the subject, I think it was called the X-Files, the FBI agent in that, Mulder, kept getting his ass kicked in brawls. so clearly they need more hand-to-hand combat training.
plummeting TO the sky? that's not how plummeting works. smdh.
at this point the Democratic Party is like the lever I pull to eject from my fighter jet plummeting to the sky. best case scenario I survive the experience.
you don't *like* the ejector seat. you're glad its there. you hope it works. but it's not like, top five parts of the jet for you.
i want to meet the talking spider organically as I'm reading it, I'm not only considering books that have talking spider content. i want to be pleasantly surprised when the spider can talk or the enemies become friends or the bad man is forced to face a far greater evil, etc.
book hot take: i find the hyper-specific micro targeted advertising of book genre/event/character beats/story arc stuff really off-putting. i want to know the general vibe of a thing but not like, oh this has specifically enemies becoming friends, mushrooms, and there's a talking spider.
We’re now on year 10 of fawning articles about fucking idiots sticking forks in electrical outlets and saying “wha happun?” the moment it hurts
oh yeah that was a real early warning sign the information environment had tilted real bad, because 90% of what people on social media were saying about the TPP was outright nonsense
Not that I ever liked the non-GMO labels on foods, but I REALLY dislike them now. We’re all living with the effects of unchecked medical woo stuff and it sucks, so I don’t want to give an inch to other types of woo.
if I had a big food company and genetically modified my food, i'd put "proudly GMO!" labels. I'd mark my rice or whatever with "we modified the hell out of it. we did a good job. we improved upon nature and spat in the face of god. enjoy!"
we're gonna need that moon money
it's not even a good strategy for video games! AI has patterns you can learn and understand.
but "learning and understanding" is something you do to accomplish a goal. what they've learned and understood is that their goal of creating content just requires them to know their shithead audience.
the fifth and six are there to remind my blood who is in charge
well now I’m hoping this whole era is just me Occurring at Owl Creek Bridge sometime in 2015 and everyone is actually doing fine in Jeb Bush’s second term
there are twitch streamers i follow with more integrity than these guys. there are people out there who think doing ad reads for Clash of Clans is dishonest.
and then, in the most powerful office in the world, we have these chuckleheads.
it turns out when your core base is 50% religious fanatics and 50% irate cruise ship passengers, it starts to wear on their support for you when the mimosas run out
not with that attitude
every damn "gen z is [weird/changing the culture] article headline ends up a "they spend 1% less on vodka than industry analysts predicted" article text, I swear
"should we re-elect someone you can accurately describe the same way a medieval catholic theological would explain the mind of a demon?" was apparently too hard a question for americans
Tangentially related, but if you run some sort of club or association and you don't want chuds to join, displaying a couple pro-LGBTQ symbols from time to time is *shockingly* effective.
this is 100% true. a quick rainbow flag on your local RPG club acts like a crucifix against dracula, but for chuds, I've discovered
of all the callbacks i didn't want to see the writers making from the 60s, nuclear peace theory was one of them
say what you will about prior all-time worst secdefs McNamara and Rumsfeld, they knew how to use a fucking spreadsheet. Hegseth disdains the necessity. I'm not convinced he can read at even a high school level.
tried to visit my local gyre but it was closed for widening
