Some kanji textbook for foreign learners of Japanese gives users a questionable mnemonic for remembering eki (駅), or train 😅 (The real origin story: 駅 is a simplified version of an older kanji combining "horse" with a character meaning "ask" or "lineup")

Aside from being a giant asshole in general he's also the worst boss you ever had. Getting an email at 4:50 pm about how you need to fix some shit he broke by eod

Most mutual friendgroups fall into one of these 8 categories

I would be good with a lot of these white house guys going to the moon and staying there tbqh

Lmao nice

Fascinating new study about men’s friendships. There’s a lot of evidence here that the “male loneliness crisis” is actually a white, wealthy man problem. Other men are building friendships with similar depth to women’s friendships.

I've said this before, but part of why I continue to be bleak on prospects of prompt war termination are because Iran has *very strong incentives* to continue pain infliction (against the US/Israel/GCC and the broader world) to deter a future war by credibly communicating the magnitude of costs.

Epic said in a blog post Tuesday morning that due to a downturn in Fortnite, the company is "spending significantly more than we're making, and we have to make major cuts to keep the company funded." This is the second major layoff at Epic since 2023, when it cut 830 employees.

BREAKING: Epic Games is laying off more than 1,000 workers today, sources tell Bloomberg News. Story hitting shortly

Liberals love telling other people what to do. Just in the last hour I've had to put up with these assholes saying things like - "Enjoy your meal" - "Stop yelling" - "Please leave" - "Stay back, he's dangerous" - "Get on the ground with your hands behind your head" - "Send backup" - "Oh god oh […]

If you're an artist that does conventions, be careful bringing your cash home from the show while they're doing this. If these criminals are doing bag searches, there's no way they don't try to 'confiscate' any cash they might find.

If i was in charge of discord i would add a bookmarks system though. Complete with an organization system and shit like a web browser. Imagine being able to pin threads & channels into a nice little container that you can go and see them in at any time w/o looking through every category in a server

Man I don't even like doing the small things on my phone most of the time. I use it mainly because it's the thing I definitely have on me when I have to have a thing on me

which, incidentally, is exactly what was going on when those statues went up in the 1920s, 60 years after the war. the lost cause keeps losing but there's always a loud contingent of racists who won't give up the ghost.

Also, evidence to suggest that dragons may have descended from frogs

influencers are getting hit hard

"He wanted to invade a European Union country not long ago, Greenland...and now he needs us. Frankly he can go fuck himself."

The fetish for “having worked hard and earned a good living” that is so uniquely present in the USA is a scourge, a plague that ruins people’s minds and makes them see their fellow man as less than

The little vest grabbing thing they all do... we've gotta get a name for that and make it as socially acceptable as jacking off in public as soon as possible.

Yeah, because Canadians are just busting down the doors to get in, right MI's "security" is under far greater threat from fascists, militias, Nazis, and Klan Maybe work on that first Signed, someone born there, whose ancestors there go back 10K years and more

so cameltry on x68000 comes with a ball editor, and one of the presets lets you *play as an x68000*

i couldn't figure out why the driver of that fire truck from the air canada crash would cross an active runway without so much as looking both ways for cross-traffic but then it all made sense

Dog lmao

OS level age verification is a Meta lobbying project Pass it on

DAY6.ANS, 1991-01-31 from CD-ROM Magic 1995 #1 (CD-ROM)

Damn whippersnappers get off my lawn

I’ve been groped twice by regular TSA agents. There is no reason to venerate these people and no reason to think ICE will somehow be kept in check in the same setting.

The thing about psychiatry is that it's kinda the final boss of "socially constructed doesn't mean fake" Almost all mental illnesses are socially defined and extremely poorly understood but also there's extremely good research that shows the interventions work. Brain's complicated.

Really fun read here; I don't see people cover this era of Java applet games too often. They were big back in the day!

There's no way this hasn't been done, but I can only remember seeing this with the cow tools cow over lilah in the last panel, no tools. so.

Honestly, missed the mark not riffing on the "pure moods" compilation cd's graphic design harder

Markwayne Mullin is trying to sell himself as a steady hand to lead DHS. But our receipts, & his own words, tell a very different story. Asked on whether agents should operate in hospitals, Mullin wouldn’t give a yes or no. Instead he said, “I will always support my law enforcement doing their job”

When I think about the number of times Democrats could have dismantled DHS…

“The wealthy cultural elite who run the media really, really wanted Trump to win” was a much better way to explain what happened in 2024. And the things we’re learning from the Epstein Files give some pretty solid evidence as to both how and why. The anti MeToo backlash was EXTREMELY important.

I do think it’s good to keep pushing back on the “Bezos/Ellison/etc want to destroy these media platforms they buy” bc while they certainly don’t financially care if they fail they genuinely believed that their bootlicking pro-feudal views were a silent majority forcibly occluded by left conspiracy

I've been working on this piece for a few months, and I won't lie it's hurt to go from hearing the suffering inflicted by this transphobic theocracy to seeing progressives sing its praises. The bishops' ban is the most extensive trans healthcare ban in the country. It deserves way more attention.

It's exactly like how since Bush was never executed for his war crimes, a quarter century later he's been rehabilitated as a kindly art grandpa. And how in a decade, liberals will rehabilitate trump the same way.

Lots of white, cis, abled people, mostly guys, going say what you will about the tenets of the TSA but at least they have an ethos. And everyone else like "what the *fuck* are you talking about dude"

You cannot be saying this kind of thing when your primary job is podcaster.

In light of the massive, pointless oil supply collapse, has anyone done a wellness check on Taylor Sheridan

Every picture of ICE agents in airports is just this again

the pro tip of the day is that people furious about the tsa not being paid are also wrong - we need neither ice nor the tsa in our airports. expensive security theater is all it ever was. right now, ice are in airports in retribution for not giving the fascists what they want fast enough.

headlines like this are so funny. "Iran built a vast camera network to control dissent" yeah my city has a deal with Flock, which shares data with ICE, and also half my neighbors have Ring cameras that do the same. you're in the glass house buddy.

I imagine to a lot of the modern audience the significance of this post is probably lost on them, but the machine the comment here is referring to is the *original* street fighter, whose buttons were pressure-sensitive, and varying the pressure was how you controlled the strength of a punch or kick

If Thomas the Tank Engine did not exist, we would have reinvented him from first principles

Asymetrical multiplayer (like Dead By Daylight) where some people play cryptids and the others play cryptid hunters, only instead of guns it's a Pokemon Snap-like "is the subject in the frame?" system. Cryptid players try to do objectives while not getting photographed.

One of my interpretations of Eliza from Bocchi the Rock is that she's the exact right age to have spirtually imprinted on UmJammer Lammy; go figure that there's a girl from Girls Band Cry quoting Yui from K-On