If I were a freed hostage I might come out draped in a Qatari flag screaming ALLAH NATION AND THE EMIR, they at least actually made an effort to get me out

Not to defend Qatar to a fulsome level or anything but it's pretty indisputable that they care about the hostages infinitely more than Israel does, right

I believe that you're narcissistic enough to regularly refer to yourself in the third person man I'm just not sure that's a sterlinh defense

sure i'm not parsimonious with them

apologize? lmao. I like a lot of people on this site and it has good qualities but god it's practically unusable at times

If you were to actually read my timeline beyond perusing for cheap dunks it would be pretty obvious that "insufferable hysterics" was me rhetorically adopting the language that people used to dismiss it in 2018, but that would be expecting far too much from you

It would be nice to have an actual opposition party, in my humble opinion

This is so goofy. Biden signed the law that banned TikTok last April. Trump is a hypocritical opportunist who decided to switch his position because he saw a political layup. To get more favorable terms TikTok is sucking up to the incoming president. Not everything is an Anne Applebaum column

the fact that the liberal intelligentsia could not fathom a multi-racial reactionary coalition for the longest time is probably a sign of how provincial americans are

reminds me of how #justicefornanjing was trending on the chinese social media apps the day Shinzo Abe got shot lol

sincere q: what is tpot

realized i've missed that kind of non-ideological crankery

my grandfather has a conspiracy that global governments and Big Science are hiding the truth of the dinosaur extinction from us

People who have strong enough leftist convictions to not take unsavory jobs aren't in tech to begin with

one thing that's objectively not good game design but that i am actually very nostalgic for is the ridiculously ardous ways you had to undergo in order to collect certain mons in the older games

feebas only spawning in 6 randomly selected tiles in every copy of the game was peak

Yeah that's what I meant

Just in terms of sheer tedium...it is cute that Golbat is included though ill admit

Happiness evolutions have got to be the worst pokemon mechanic ever right?

Wow, what a year it's been! At the start of 2024, I was wasting all my time posting garbage on a website, but now, as we enter 2025, I'm wasting all my time posting garbage on a different website. It's a heartwarming tale of personal growth

Def dropping the Shakespeare course for it...may have to drop another course so I don't kill myself this quarter but we'll see

no one talks about it anymore

"Hey, remember the 80s and hokey sci-fi?" as a premise has a very limited shelf life imo

it's par the course nowadays but it's crazy how quickly Stranger Things fell off from being relevant in the cultural zeitgeist

(i also stopped caring after Season 1)

the hagiographies of Carter run a little hollow but he's really fascinating as a tragic figure

If not for the American invasion Saddam would have probably endured

Jimmy Carter was a war criminal. Wait no! He was nice he built houses! Wait no! he was still bad because he was a conservative Democrat!

Ok guys I finished the discourse you can move on

RIP Jimmy Carter, you were a bad President who wasted FDR sized majorities in Congress, but you did eradicate Guinea Worms

Should've added without nukes as a caveat

Or maybe having oil is just such an advantage that the nascent Ba'athist Saudi Arabia that happened in an alternate universe cold war would be a global power today idk