Christopher

"Racists crash out over Obama" is the entire Trump origin story, and at this point I think the whole country is so nostalgic for the Obama admin even the GOP is trying to recreate it. Weird way to go into the midterms though.

Things keep happening www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Flip flops really just tickle some parts of my monkey brain. Each foot holding its cover by pinching with the toes.

I agree with Fox News. Democratic senatorial candidates should have the power to shut down Fox News.

From a certain point of view, I'm the Shelob and the spider in my bathroom is the hobbit.

My cousin worked at a fast-casual bowl restaurant for like 4 years and I still had to walk her through basic cooking this summer. Stuff like "pick a starch", "always add garlic", "if it's bitter add sugar & salt", and "a bit of charing is good, actually"

Due to some loophole removals, we are now contributing to our 400j accounts

The one "parental estrangement" in my inlaws involves parents who are beginning stage Alzheimer's, a kid who is a high-functioning drunk, and just a fuckton of bad relationship management skills. The inciting incident was using the f-bomb on that sacred space, a golf course.

Segregated social spaces all go insane; they turn characteristic virtues up until they become pathologies. Care becomes recursive harm-processing, masculinity becomes domination jackass, academia becomes trivia for status. Every scene becomes a safe space for a turbo-anima(e) demon.

When you doom too hard and the algo starts feeding you red ET posts, which are so dumb you start dooming less

Every Republican running for election in 2028 should have ads up against them saying they could have impeached and convicted Trump and saved us from this mess and chose not to

Sometime you try to avoid an emotion and running really hard and then it just Happens anyway.

A lot of people are calling my view that Ohio peasants shouldn't be allowed to leave their ancestral steel plant to move to a borough "feudalist", but I also support multi-generational tenancy rights for specific ethnicities by neighborhood.

EA, utilitarianism, and communism have some good ideas, but are just varieties of the same problem: not appreciating the limits of individual knowledge.

Why can't there be a sex cult in SF that gets plentiful cyberpunk housing and transit built. More Back Doors in My Backyard - MBIMBY

I don't really think paywalls worked. News could be funded by private rich person foundation money, or as extensions of in-person social organizations (like the old union newspapers)

The hugging face incident shows why humans use ambiguous communication. It was a mob behaviour.

If pro-lifers were consistent they'd see getting a blood donation as becoming a dual-souled chimera.

I don't want to sit at a desk I don't want to stand at a desk I want to be in a deep squat while doing focused work, but my chair rolls on its casters and facilities tells me not to stand on my chair like a goofball

There are many important political issues, you have to compromise with the body politic we have, and I'd crawl over glass to vote for W if he was running against Hitler.

If the Atomic Scientists were actually on the ball today, based on historical calibration

Sir, Iran has fucked a second oil strait

The Noid has earned our support: - NB: not a moid, not a foid — a noid - I’d be on an anti-pizza jihad too if I lived in the ’90s. No DoorDash pho, BBQ, or tacos al pastor? Grim. - vinyl furry superhero suit: insane aura - just a weird little guy

This is funny because Kansas is both in between where I grew up (Ohio) and where I live now (Colorado), but also where my parents grew up. And I have not talked about rolly-pollys since I was 5.

Why do people like regular table grapes? Concord grapes are what grapes are supposed to taste like. The seeds are annoying, but thomcord grapes are seedless and almost as tasty, only packing the wonderful contrast of jeely interior and wet subskin layer.

This reminds me of the time some student group publicized "wear jeans on Tuesday to support our fringe idea" and then wouldn't shut up all week about how many people supported them.

Widow's Bay is exactly how I like my horror. Less the surgery and burn victim wing of the hospital and more the "Do I need antipsychotics?" wing.

Millicent is such a funny name for a Latin reader to pick. "Hi, meet our son Gigamega."

Fuck Delta

So sure, there are myriad micro- and macroaggressions that I as a straight white guy have never experienced. But what about the pain of ordering a meal "HOT, make me hurt" and getting at most a slight hint of heat?

Politics is a spectrum of how long you need to live somewhere before your voice counts. Tom doesn't think 9 months over 3 semesters is enough. NIMBYs don't think a few years is enough. The anti-immigrant chuds don't think 40 years and 2 generations is enough.

Ngl I think collapsing the artistic wave function is one of the worst things that schools do in the teaching process.

Here's my take: On urban streets, motorists should have absolute liability for any injury they cause with their vehicle. (Same goes for cyclists.) Pedestrians should have absolute right of way at all times. The norm would be that the street is a shared public space.

Probably useful to create some permits to allow Glonzo hunting to head off "let's start nuking all of the potential Glonzo lairs we have detected".

When you like a post because it starts very good but then you have to unlike it when they drop something stupid or racist in the last line

I don't really see much value in watching other people play sports, irrespective of their gender. The only exceptions being your kid playing or "I play in my local football club and I want to watch the really good players a few relegation levels up". Play sports yourself. Dance, make music.

George RR Mertin & his publisher should let 3 different writers finish ASOIAF and publish them separately. The story will be over and everyone can argue about which ending is their favorite instead of yelling at him.

to take an actual crack at this: requiring effort to access entertainment (set schedules, physical media, rare reruns, limited home access), often meant you proved yourself a fan by dint of the consumption itself, and I think that’s been replaced by toxic fandom to prove your bona fides.

Really annoying how closed captioning placement on the screen is never "very bottom where the letterboxing creates a blank space"

I subscribe to Consumer Reports and I'd happily pay for 3 more services like this. How can I know if the linen pants use line or tow flax? What is the polyphenol level of this olive oil brand? The solution is a trusted middle man, and a consumer's union can do this.

Metaphysics is just physics and psychology in a trenchcoat

This GOP COVID circus is just incoherent, unprocessed feelings about the pandemic. I'm not a therapy=panacea guy but they all need some therapy for this. Ids structured like a jenga tower fully on display.

Teleporno is funny but has aura. Mairon sounds like a dweeby accountant.