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Meanwhile, the Dems' anemic media apparatus meant 2024 being dominated about people screaming their lungs out about the cost of food (and burrito taxis), at least in my corner of the internet

I'll take your word for it in re the House. I just remember 2020-2024 being the period where Biden delivered a lot for rurals and certain unions who proceeded to vote against him, while his domestic legacy among normies is mostly about inflation

Have to agree with this one. The lesson I learned from the Biden presidency is that deliverism is stone dead without a media apparatus to sell your wins

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Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist): the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much. you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Ooh! Are these basically cinnamon rolls but with honey instead of icing?

Replacing the NFL with a NFL Blitz remake

1) Sticky toffee pudding is a fantastic dessert
2) I legitimately want to try haggis at some point, I'm used to blood and offal sausages (Korean soondae)
3) Stuff like bangers and mash sound like good comfort food tbh
4) IMO people overemphasize the need of different spices and seasonings in food

Meanwhile, I've assembled a list of Roman navy trireme names attested in Latin inscriptions:

hcommons.social/@paregorios/...

The US flip flopping every 4 years between Democrats and MAGA insanity is unsustainable

If the Dems win 2028 and MAGA is allowed to slink away to lick its wounds, then come back full force in 2030/2032 to capitalize on Dem mistakes/perceived Dem mistakes, I'm gonna be extremely pessimistic about our country's long term prospects

I think we can win the 2026 and 2028 elections if we protect the public from the GOP; what I'm worried about is whether protecting the public from the GOP will thoroughly discredit MAGA

Nute Gunray: does lord sidious sound...different to you?

Poggle the Lesser: dunno, humans all sound alike to me

Gunray: hrm

The Clone Wars partly becomes a comedy at the high-level CIS side because Dooku desperately tries to Weekend at Bernie's with Sidious

Bibimbap, a Korean dish featuring various raw or cooked sliced or diced vegetables (carrots, cucumbers, spinach, kimchi, bean sprouts, etc.) plus a small quantity of meat, typically ground beef or bulgogi, on top of rice

Korean food also does this sometimes, like this bibimbap dish which is basically a korean salad + a bit of meat (often ground beef) on rice, seasoned with gochujang

Woe, hippopotamus be upon ye

Mapo tofu is great for this! Really enhances the tofu by adding a shot of rich savoriness, alongside all the spices and seasonings

Trump's prosecutors failed to get grand juries to indict a ham sandwich, and now they are failing to get grand juries to indict an italian beef sandwich

Ramen oatmeal stew

Almost literally final_fantasy_14.jpg

Oh for sure. The 30k Age of Darkness spinoff game did a great job both giving each Legion their own unique identity and feel, while also leaving enough space for Your Dudes

"Behold! A clash of titans, a bloody feud setting brother against brother in the fires of betrayal and civil war!"

"So what's Horus up to?"

"Sending Captain Whoever of the Xth Company to capture a vital fuel planet defended by the Dudes & Dudettes Cohort Solar Auxilia and Mechanicum"

This is true, and it's also really funny that 30k which has many more Primarchs running around is the less gonzo soap opera setting of the two

"It's too late, dad! I've already depicted you on my book cover as the sad omnivorous soyjack, and myself as the carnivorous chad"

went to buy rice and tea at the wholesale spice store near me (kalustyan’s! it’s amazing! worth a trip to nyc) and i asked the guy there when they’re going to jack up prices because of tariffs. he said they’re still burning through old stock but have stopped reordering stuff.

he told me to stock up

YouTube video by Murat Arda Yavuz Mongolia theme full (Civilization 6 OST) | Pastoral Song; Urtin Duu

www.youtube.com/watch?v=u14D... I love Mongolian music and the Civ 6 Mongolia theme is so good (all Ages)

If Sheev kicked the bucket as the above, would Tarkin or Thrawn even be his likely successors? Or would the Empire collapse before they could grab power?

Would Tarkin/Thrawn keep it as an overstretched personalist military dictatorship finishing off the process of eating the corpse of the Old Republic? Would they turn it into something else (military dictatorship but less overstretched and less personalist?) Would they succeed?

Though OP brings up an interesting hypothetical: if Palpatine somehow had a heart attack in say, 5 BBY and died, none of his whacky "somehow I have returned" contingencies go off, and the Empire ends up with either Tarkin or Thrawn as de facto in charge, what happens?