Liz (short for Rebecca)

OR it's because you don't want to deal with a dozen wannabe Nazis spewing bile.

Alderaan elects neither it's Queen nor it's Senators. That's just regular aristocracy.

(They *very technically* do vote for Senator, but since it went from the Queen's uncle to her husband... no they don't.)

So Naboo has *really* young elected monarchs for weird historical reasons. They're elected from amongst a political class who are trained for it from childhood, as are the Senators. It's less "Putin" and more "semi-covrert aristos trading hats".

You have clothes in the next size up, right?

Same! Or the time my daughter got pneumonia, and went from "can't f***ing breathe" to "sleeping peacefully" in hours and "playing normally" in days.

I see a hell of a lot of people telling Israelis to "go back to Europe", so I think that nuance doesn't survive contact with the public. (I'd also have no quibble with "British-founded" or "-sponsored".

I would say that "European-style" is better than European, because even leaving aside the... issues with calling Jews "European" it ignores the fact that more than half the population of Israel in 1948 were from MENA.

As a physicist, this is the most profound thing he ever said. We DO NOT KNOW how magnets work. "Oh, it's just special relativity applied to electricity" okay than, how does electricity work? "Fairies".

("Because fields", but honestly that may as well be "fairies" for all the explaining it does).

Secretly siphoning from somewhere illegal 👀👀👀

Eaat Anglia/English, fire engine (2 words).

Brandenburg/German, Feuerwehrauto (it's what the kids call it and they're learning from the locals). Literally, fire-services-car.

We are currently explaining that the Easter Bunny is non-binary.

Because "the Easter Bunny is he *and* she" is honestly easier than mediating the argument between Son and Daughter, both of whom want him/her/them to share *their* pronouns 😆

Stupid question: is Froglet weaning? Because decreased breastmilk production might have shut off the prolactin tap and sent your tendons past a stretchiness threshold, at which point your weight is no longer holding the bones "open".

Clam theory is a possibility.

It's so *fun*! Also, they don't fridge the doofus brother or the brown-and-hdfoic guy.

He was five months old and I gave him a lick off my finger, which promptly led to him trying to neck my french-press black coffee lmao. Drinks it (decaff!) even now.

My elder did this with coffee and my younger with siracha sauce 🫣

Well clearly they respected your anonymity 😆

Iirc it's called "Antiochus Epiphanes" by Debbie somebody

If it helps, there's a Chanukah song with the refray "no no no no you cannot do this/that/[activity]". It's on theme? If they just want to make the sound then they can now?

Oh I never found any good ones of those, but I really love my book of Jewish folk tales (the Diamond Tree).

I've been saying for years that the best thing we could do for housing is an exponential property tax - 100% for your first, 100% for your 2nd, six-month "grace period" because sometimes shit happens and both your (divorced) parents die and then it's 200% for the 3rd , 400% for the 4th ...

I genuinely do not think they're being sincere. The problem isn't that there were dark-skinned people in Anatolia (b/c... duh) it's that a Black woman "isn't allowed to" be more beautiful than White ones.

Also, nobody with eyes says that Ms Nyong'o isn't a good cast for Helen unless they're lying.

That's up there with Chris Pincher 🫢

It's really hard, because "pity" shouldn't be the default response to disability either, but at the same time "nuanced arguments" are not what's going to break people out of the propaganda bubble.

It is difficult to discuss the gap between propaganda and reality ("supertrump" vs "he should be in a nursing home"). The broader we can drive that wedge, the better.

Maybe it's "keeping this man in the WH is looking increasingly like elder abuse"?

Reagan had Alzheimer's. It probably wasn't helped by the health "shock" of having been shot in the torso.

Honestly I find it extremely credible that the prison guards quietly decided *not* to perform a proper suicide watch on the billionaire pedophile.

Said billionaire pedophile then hanged himself rather than face open court and the general prison population.

Why murder him? Just leave him and wait 🤷

Torage*

Also it has forage. (I think they weren't checking the text box and the "s" is inside the wall, but... torage!)

Truth in advertising lmao

Children should never have to hide from anything except "and seek".

Any time someone is trying to "well, actually" their way out of accusations of ethnic cleansing, they have left the moral high ground a looooooooong way behind.