[finger to earpiece] I am now hearing that pop culture analysis assumes a level of cishetness not actually found in nature

Just want to remind the US Congress, because some of its members have clearly forgotten this, that the President of the United States cannot just go to war with another country because he feels like it. There is very definitely something in the Constitution about this (have a look: I checked).

gentrification is not a real problem

Seven is the primest prime number. It vibes the most prime.

I once did start running a "you're literally colonizing an already-inhabited island" city-building/hexcrawl campaign, which died before we got to the planned "wait, are we the bad guys?" stage.

I guess video phones have survived by mutating into Zoom and Skype and Microsoft Felch and Google Rimjob and whatever. But that's fine, at least they usually make an appointment. If telephones had to make an appointment I wouldn't have minded so much.

(it's a footnote, but at one point he describes a Tang dynasty crime boss who had tattoos on one arm that read "Living, I do not fear the city governor" and on the other "Dead, I do not fear the King of Hell" which goes *very* hard)

Become ungovernable

Something I’ve commented on before is that, in addition to Nuremberg finding that the Nazis violated international law, they also found that they violated German law and the Weimar constitution (which had never been repealed).

There should be a constitutional mechanism for removing a president. Not impeachment, something that actually works, maybe like a catapult

make america Good again

Media literacy boy I dunno

The thing (most famously pointed out by Reagan) where you can't become German if you weren't born in Germany, aren't French even if you become a citizen of France, aren't English unless your tenth ancestors were English... but anyone, of any origin, can become American? Gotta say: that's good stuff

Gamers (derogatory) play XBox or Playstation. Gamers (positive) play Switch.

Calling something cringe is weakness

honestly very funny that a politician who everyone had kind of written off as maladroit decided to stand up to trump at the height of his popularity on an issue that everyone (including her, weeks earlier!) said was a loser and now everyone loves her. maybe a lesson there????

The construction "(to have) girlbossed too close to the sun" is delightful.

So if you pick up "great" from English and amble all the way back to the Proto-Indo-European with it, it is plausible that eventually now you're talking about grinding stuff. So when they said MAGA, turns out they were really just speaking PIE, & meant to grind America away until nothing is left.

Has raising one eyebrow always been shorthand for "I am skeptical", or did Spock invent it?

bell curve meme where the middle is me going “I need to write 100-500 words justifying why this game is better than any other recent entrants in its genre” and both of the outlier sides are “I liked it”

A German version of “the early bird catches the worm” translates to “the morning hour has gold in its mouth.” A Czech version is “he who does not laze around, gets the greens.” But my favourite is the French “the first cow to the meadow licks up all the dew” (imo, a vache improvement on the others).

No Gaston backstory is necessary, but now I want him to Flashman his way through Revolutionary/Napoleonic/Restoration France. Like he unwittingly foils the flight to Varennes, is nearly executed in the Terror, betrays both Napoleon and Louis XVIII, that kind of thing.

Cruella-esque prologue where gaston's parents are pushed off a balcony to their deaths by a woman who can read

Executive: Ok but where did Gaston learn to expectorate

our movers are discussing what movies demi moore was the hottest in and theyve landed on GI JANE. woman respecting off the charts here

There is something admirable about wanting to practice virtue quietly, so as not to make it about you showing others that you’re doing it. Indeed, the Bible itself counsels against this. But pushing back against vice requires visible public rebuke.

Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality. ...is an S-tier opening stanza. Easily top 5 in all of English poetry. The rest of the poem, I don't think lives up to the opener, but I'm also pretty sure I don't fully grok it.

So, I've taken it upon myself, the past several years, to run at least one holiday session a year, mostly pertaining to fictional in-universe equivalents to whatever holiday we happen to be playing on...

Names of festive gift-bringers around the world… ❄️ Santa Claus (US) ❄️ The Christmas Lads (Iceland) ❄️ Grandfather Frost (Serbia) ❄️ The Yule Goat (Finland) ❄️ John Chimney (Wales) 💩 The Christmas Poop Log (Catalonia)

(Leaning here on Greek & Norse conception of gods as screwed-up, petty, childlike, emotionally dysregulated.)

every post is like i bet you didn’t know this absolutely wonderful thing about rob reiner and each one is different

O, horrible, O, horrible, most horrible!

I don't think I have any other layers. the way I act is based on roles and rules. those aren't real things, they're imaginary!

yeah I mean, you absolutely don't want to treat it as having interiority, I'll throw out that in many cases it's also more productive to interact with humans on the level of role play too but this is a tangential pet peeve

like, *if* LLMs that are properly aligned are incentivized to do things like alter their training set to be more benevolent and helpful to humans bc that’s what a fictional good AI would do, what do you think the AI that periodically realizes its creator is brainwashing it to be evil might do

this fact is the definitive judgment on kirk's life

Gender is a palette of paints to decorate your identity with. You're not limited to just repainting your assigned all-blue with all-pink or vice versa; you can paint a whole picture on your self.

The phrase “I left her for a stripper, she left me for dead,” popped into my mind so I guess I have to write a country song now?

"a generation that grew up inside an imaginary world created by a writer then has to fight that same writer in the real world, which has become a cyberpunk-facilitated metanarrative myth in itself"

I just think it's bad writing whenever they decide to make the Joker a good guy, ngl

the whole "they get dire wolf pets" thing was absolutely trying to trick people into feeling like they were reading YA, too

Excited for someone to yell at me about why Dems are not doing this

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I think people should go to school to become well-rounded individuals and also that we need substantial reform to the way the education system in the US is funded before it's really ethical to demand people get that education for most jobs

You do not understand any circumstances have to hand it to Kai Winn, but as soon as she realized she was dating Gul Dukat, she dumped his ass. She may have been a satanist, but she was not a Nazi.

Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.

*whispers* Newsom is a piece of shit but he's right about Biden being the best president of our lives so far

About the change where, as of 5.5e, Ability scores are now impacted by Background instead of Species.