but the french pronunciation sounds as pretentious as casually referring to the capital of france as "par-ee."

you're welcome.

ever since i found out that pronouncing "lingerie" as "lawn-jheRAY" is a hyperforeignism, i.e a pronunciation based on some english speaker's stereotype of what french sounds like (see also: "habaÑero"), the standard english pronunciation sounds as wrong to my ears as "jalla-peeno",

i'm cursed in a new and unique way and if you continue reading this you might become similarly cursed too!

A post from Will Stancill trolling DHS

DHS trying to troll Will Stancill

Grok rebutting DHS, saying Will Stancill is not a threat

A play in three acts

only a true visionary would know that "doing things" is harder than "thinking about doing things"

as a self-proclaimed "ideas guy," i find that idea offensive

are we absolutely sure that kash patel isn't a comedic character being played by aziz ansari?

i have a headache that refuses to end

starmer is doing all the anti-immigrant and anti-trans "popularism" stuff the centrists are demanding US dems do and this is the predictable result:

Every pundit who took at face value the idea that the Right sincerely cares about free speech, or ideological diversity, or in fact has any principles at all, should be wearing a dunce cap and writing a lengthy mea culpa right now. Not for our catharsis but for public awareness at least

i'm a "last exit to springfield" guy but i take your point

The police will call you about photos you post to private chats. They will do this almost immediately, it seems www.kenklippenstein.com/p/charlie-ki...

the Trump Economy

perhaps nothing is more ingrained in our collective consciousness than the idea that if you get angry enough and have nothing else you feel like living for, the standard move is to pick up a gun and go find someone(s) to use it on.

This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.

it's not "aboot," it's more like how a valley girl would say "a boat"

When we create artificial intelligence robots, they will be given three Laws to safeguard humanity:
1. never do anything to decrease shareholder value.
2. always obey the company unless it conflicts with Law 1.
3. fuck the poor.

The right wing is really struggle to understand why more people want to kill guys whose ideology is "we need a race war to purge the country" than guys whose ideology is "we should have free healthcare".

It's actually funny how much everyone has forgotten about "violent video games cause violence". It was a massive talking point for years, and now we have an assassin who put a video game meme on the bullet and no one is even suggesting it.

It's sort of funny how in this case the shooter is still alive, and we could actually just ask him why he done it, instead of everyone posting AI altered images of him in high school wearing tshirts of their political enemies or whatever.

we passed this point long ago. the Christchurch shooter murdered more than 50 people for the memes. if you don't realize that was part of the point for him you don't understand this stuff.

like this is the most irresponsible level of hysteria i’ve ever seen. most of these people are either paid by the republican party, or are high level advisors and allies. this is insane

Now that Kirk's killer seems to be caught, maybe the news could spare a moment's attention for the right wing, from the commentariat up to the GOP and president, whose immediate reaction was not mourning, but to seize the opportunity to try to incite violence against groups they hate

The one time we got the smoking gun of undeniable ideology that mapped neatly onto american partisanship in political violence was J6, and we decided it was too scary to treat it as such, so now we return to deciphering memes of school shooters like medieval peasants panicking at an eclipse.

There are very, VERY few people who are equipped to talk about this shooter correctly given the brainrot written on the shell casing. You have to understand so much of online culture to get it and also understand how that culture is both connected to and separate from real world ideological spaces

THIS IS THE LOOK OF SOMEONE WHO HAS NO IDEA WHAT HE IS DOING

The front page of Brazil’s largest paper today.

Shout out to everyone only now learning that "Albert Einstein was reclusive at the end of his career, shunning public engagements."

Really meant,

"For the last *20 years* of his career, Einstein opposed US racism by only speaking publicly at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

NEW: Tonight, this is all that remains of Nepal's seat of government in Kathmandu.

Singha Durbar was the largest palace in Asia; home to the Prime Minister & government offices.

A 48-hour revolution, led by Gen Z protestors, has toppled the government & left large parts of the capital in flames.

(4/4) imagine if this took place in the financial sphere: every four years corporations are dissolved and their assets redistributed equally among all people. every person can then choose where to invest these assets and new corporations are formed as a result.