if you're aware that it sunsets and you're still rending your clothing and clutching your pearls but for some reason not mentioning the sunset, well, i'm not sure you're going to like the inferences i draw from that either

this isn’t an argument for democrats, it’s just cope, republicans can and do seize these advantages all the time and they’re just shitting their pants because they put all their chips on a president who is shaping up to be the least popular of all time

republican cheating is normal, you see, because it's what they believe in. the real cheating is responding to cheating, because you said you think cheating is bad

It's a pretty optimal level of dumb, for what it's going for.

I could definitely see that story playing out.

There’s a really weird line of logic that runs in online pro Israel circles that goes “if it resembles blood libel, it’s impossible for it to be true” and that hasn’t been shaken by several years of allegations of IDF wrongdoing turning out to be true.

This Israeli government and some allied organizations are actively trying to create a world where antisemitism is true, and that's perverse and horrifying in ways I have a hard time grasping.

It's the evil sorcerer model of life extension: they want to shed their mortal limitations and put themselves beyond death, they don't just want more time in this world as they are.

I was a Cool Duster guy in high school for a bit, but Columbine kind of shut the door on that

If Shulman truly believes this, then *surely* as the CEO of the world’s 2nd largest telecommunications company would have a plan for their customer base shrinking massively over the next 2 to 5 years, since unemployed people can’t spend as much money as employed people?

the best argument for feminism is to just let an old woman talk at you about her career experiences

This is basically how every conversation on every topic goes nowadays. “Yeah, sure, republicans *want* to destroy this thing but they won’t end up doing it so it’ll be fine BUT what about when the Dems did (something untrue I have a vague recollection of through a game of internet telephone)?”

The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

i need to create a bingo card for Bad Evangelical Movies (do i need a seperate one for Bad Rapture Movies?)

Pop culture moves with an unnatural speed, sometimes

“It’s okay if I’m getting scammed because I feel bad about the world” is another example of the political hairshirt that a lot of people are wearing right now

An unexpected negative externality of Bluesky culture is that I am now intentionally *not* putting alt text on images because said alt text is indexed by Bluesky's search which harassers can find, which offsets the positive effects of alt text.

I haven't heard "zioyank" before

Much like how the USA makes more sense when you remember it is in the Americas and not Europe, Israel makes more sense when you remember it’s in the Middle East.

That is what he claims

"This has happened before, and will happen again."

I remember being there for the launch of it - it was a rolling, janky disaster... but the potential was clearly enormous from the start.

People who deride Rockstar for being so sluggish about GTA 6 really don't appreciate just how much effort goes into maintaining and developing GTAO, and how much reward Rockstar reaps from it.

It's their true magnum opus.

That was a gag in the 2010 A-Team movie

I once, ONCE, encountered someone using the phrase "justice-impacted person". They were pretty insistent that other people should use it too, but it has remained a one-off.

That kind of language is rare to find used in earnest, but it has a way of sticking out in memory.

I don’t think this game of “The serious candidate gives a suboptimal answer and gets hammered for it, but the clown candidate gets a free pass for being a clown” is a sustainable way to do politics.

Two ancestors of deer talk to each other, "Indohyus, my brother. I've decided to search for more food in the waters." "You will regret this Pakicetus. The environment will force you to adapt." "I just need some shrimps lol I will be perfectly fine." 35 million years later, a huge blue whale floats over a tiny deer, "AAAOOOOOOOOAAAAHHH MRUUUUUHHHH BWOOOOEEEEE" and the deer says "WTF"

for anybody who doesn't know about the deer whale thing here ya go

shouldn't be allowed to choose their own clerks, shouldn't be allowed to accept fees for speaking or prize money or awards. shouldn't be able to get book deals, etc. etc. if what you want is to be famous, well, no one is forcing you to be a supreme court justice.

There are definitely idiot moral panic elements to when you see people who would be 100% fine with much more polluting heavy industry react like this shit is giving everyone for fifty miles cancer, yeah.

A 5 remake would likely make Excella less flamboyant, yeah.