Man every time I see this opinion it just makes me think the person expressing it is stupid. If you can’t comprehend expressing everyday variations in temperature in Celsius, you’re a moron. It isn’t difficult to do and doesn’t require effort. Sorry!

After using Celsius for over a decade I can’t say this has any basis in reality. Literally no scenario comes up where Celsius fails in communicating nuance or is lacking for quotidian tasks except that people who didn’t grow up with it need a few years of immersion to gain fluency.

slavery is one of the rare things historically where the more you learn about it the more you realize your initial assessment was correct and it was in fact one of the most evil things ever to occur

Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not

"it referenced the journalist's status as a Jew" Well thank God we let these folks run Labour instead of Jeremy Corbyn, who is Hitler 2.0 when it comes to Jewish people (doesn't approve of genocide)

Happy Valentine’s Day from the Star Trek Deep Space Nine baseball card of Odo having sex for the first time

I understand the fallacy ‘begging the question’ refers to just fine. It’s just a really stupid name for it, which people completely understandably use to mean ‘prompts the question’, because that’s what it intuitively reads as.

Wouldst thou like the taste of butter?

Much has correctly been said about how Abrams is an empty vessel who makes soulless art, but he’s also a sadist. He really really loves to give random bystanders seconds of sympathetic characterisation and then kill them in gruesome ways, and seems to think this is funny? Weird and creepy!

i often think about this review

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It is not often that Razven posts a longer opinion but when he does it is worth a read.

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Ask and you shall receive

I was out of town when crystal shrek hit the towers (Peter’s brain) and was powerless to intervene

This from Stella Creasy is spot on.

'In a February 2025 clip, Peterson said there were three predictors of “politically correct authoritarianism”, of which the first was “being female”, at which point Goodwin interjected and added: “I was going to say that.”'

I like on Slack when the first person to post a react emoji just sets the standard for how people should respond. An artist posted an environment art update and someone reacted with :horsesideeye: so then everyone responded that way. Was a horse part of the update? No.

he really did it

12 days

u guys wanna see something pretty rad

When your post gets in the discover feed

folks today don't know the abject fear of inadvertently downloading, for the first (and only lol) time, a .exe file from kazaa or limewire and it shows def one of those "it only takes one time to learn" but oooo boy at what cost for that single instance

Tacoma wept

Disgraced former Secretary of Culture, Media and Sport, the right honourable Jeremy Hunt MP

if your money was on "oh my god you unbelievable dipshit why did you embarrass me on international television we are obviously not getting back together" congratulations please come collect your winnings

key insight into the mind of most British centrists is how they keep floating the idea of a new centrist party despite the Lib Dems existing and having dozens of MPs, because the occasional good impulses of the LDs - constitutional reform/legalation of of gay weed/trans rights - are anathema to them

warhammer 40,000: rogue trader (2023)

i’ve never considered myself a huge star wars guy but just now my eyes rolled back into my head and i instantly retrieved an index of knowledge about wedge antilles, hero of the rebellion

normal people: wait which one is Wedge again? me: I’m gonna need you to clear your calendar

If you support Israel in any way, then you’re an irredeemable piece of shit.

GovHK: The national security law is necessary, fair and just, and only impacts a tiny minority of ppl. Also GovHK: If we can't jail you, we'll jail your family members for not disowning you.

In response to her father’s conviction, Anna Kwok said, “They really want this to be a source of pain for my family. I have to remind myself it is not my fault, it’s not my family’s fault. The government is trying to destroy my values and the people I love.” Gift 🎁: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/w...

It is 2007, you’re sitting in your theater seat, and you are fairly certain you are seeing the best film you’ve ever seen in a theater

A fun fact is that James Mattis is on the record as being more critical of Israel's segregationist regime in the occupied West Bank than Schumer or Jeffries or Biden or even, well, Obama.

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I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

“Until someone builds a Badder Bunny.”

need one of those german train-car noun constructions for ‘the sense of betrayal a woman suffers when a thinker who was hugely influential to her turns out to be the same bog standard worthless misogynist as everyone else’

someone sent me the article and I opened it and *GASPED* missionlocal.org/2026/02/sf-m...

BRO IT'S AELLA GIRL LMFAOOOOO

Socialists are not going to achieve socialism by relying on an overt anti-socialist and it's insane that so many progressives have talked themselves into thinking this is a savvy take

I need everyone to reframe every attempt to get our ID not as a puritanical measure to protect children but as another way of building databases of everything we do or say, including in private. They want evidence of illegal things you may be saying or doing - even if they aren't illegal now.

That isn’t true. I’m very busy right now.

Lmao may I see anything from before that, Mr Hamburglar? Or did you slide into Mandelson's DMs last year?

you’re the one arguing with an internet duck

Morgan McSweeney won’t see your nasty skeets but your incompetent, corrupt, bigoted, right-wing friends will. So keep skeeting.