I'm a hack and a fraud. "SoliDeoGPT" was just lying there and I missed it.

Does anyone seriously believe these people wouldn't build gas chambers if they could?

i will go to any extreme to make a history joke

Sometimes Star Trek bulls*** hits really well

*Long dormant childhood memories activated*

Witcher Devs releasing new DLC for an 11 year old game while the Madden devs once again ask to be congratulated for updating rosters for 70 dollars and only misspelling some of the name

Game is good.

It's like Woodstock for people who don't have custody of their kids

Oil down on strong desire to believe the world is just and fair.

-1 stability.

America has always been warring visions of "A light to the nations" and "a white man's Republic." The civil war should have settled this, the tearing down of the Chinese Exclusion Act should have settled this, but unfortunately every generation will have to fight this battle.

they got Luda doing One A Day ads 😭

If I’m fucking what on ground beef?

Also word-for-word what they told Diana Muldaur when McFadden wanted to come back for Season 3.

Probate out of order? Will issue

Cyberpunk 2077 is the best Fallout game

If you acknowledge that the richest man in the world is a Nazi is has all sorts of unsettling implications about the moral valence of success and the arc of society, so it's easier to just ignore it entirely.

Speaking of Kennedy's Inaugural. This is the creed of my branch of Americanism. And I will never forgive my countrymen for the despair they have caused me.

Not for nothing, but I think Kennedy's original pitch holds up

I've given up teaching my kids to recreationally bicycle because I think drivers will kill them

The fact that the DNC didn't want to release the post mortem because it was done incompetently and not because they are so smart and good at secrets should be a teachable moment.

it's insane that the Mandalorian started seven years ago and has three seasons. this is not how an episodic Space Western is supposed to work. there should be seven seasons and 100 plus episodes by now. would they all be good? hell no. but they don't have to be.

They need to ask: "Did the President want to bomb Iran because he thought it would be easy?"

Just watched Blade Runner 2049 for the first time since theaters, and I refuse to believe that movie came out in 2017. Feels prescient about a lot of our current discourse.

DoJ says they’re settling for $1.776 billion, but actual payments will probably be about $1.488 billion

I don't think folks younger than 30 know what the internet once legitimately promised to be (and I would argue briefly was): a boundary-less space of pretty much uncommodified information and communication. A mix between community bulletin boards and university library stacks.

Voters be like “we hate every single idea Republicans have, we will only vote for them 65% of the time”

Cold Case: Who killed senator Vreenak tr’Merken?* The death of the celebrated senator and author of the Dominion-Romulan detente was a political shock whose ramifications were quadrant wide, yet the perpetrators are still speculated about. *Yes I know who actually killed him, this is in-universe

I get that the media is broken. But I feel like it should be a bigger deal that one of Bari Weiss's reporters seems to have taken on the goal of 'George Tiller'ing the First Lady of NYC.

hey if only someone had passed a giant law to get taiwanese chipmakers to build chips here. we could have called it the chip act or something.

watching the Odyssey but shaking my head when Athena turns into a bird so people know I disapprove of the absurd lack of realism

star trek voyager is already incredible. janeway said "hm, yes, i like this funky little man, i shall keep him" and ten minutes later neelix gets his lungs stolen

I never thought leopards would rip off soyface

I FEEL IT IN MY FINGERS I FEEL IT IN MY TOES

My brother-in-law is a wine guy, so it tends to inform his gift giving. Thus, a bottle of champagne from has been in the back of our fridge the last few years. Not spurning it per se, we just want the occasion to be 'special enough.' That all being said, I have settled on a firm USE BY date.

Fight it, fear it, or flee from it; the Melting Pot always wins in the end

Say it with me folks: Baijiu Fridays with Tony Dokoupil

Shinji, get in the Battlestar

Caine sounds like a dumb bitch (pardon the language) "they have a lot of small boats" - oh, small boats, we gave you billion dollar huge boats mfer. "Iran should think long and hard about opening the strait for the world" - what is this a sharing circle? You started a knife fight mfer

Went from being like “this is stupid” to “as always, Karl Urban makes a good point”

if they made “They Live” today every sign would just say GAMBLE

The definitive millennial song is clearly legend_of_zelda_System_of_a_down(1).mp3

I'm going to be so fucking angry at being denied a 250th anniversary under our first woman president, a child of Jamaican and Indian parents, herself married to a Jewish man. 2024 was a contest between the American Promise and the Darkness of Our Soul and I'm going to die angry at the result.

it's not different than any other cult: the cult leader looks obviously corrupt and unimpressive - even clownish - from outside the cult, but intense social control means that for people trapped inside the cult's alternate reality and propaganda the leader appears like a god

We've all had to participate in enough Bad Meetings that "What if Good Meeting?" has universal, cross-cultural appeal.

the true 'project freedom' is freedom from material desire