And breast cancer. The one good thing to come out of COVID was the blank check to all the medical research. I thought at the time that we would see a flood of new treatments in ~5 years as a result. I have nothing civil to say about RFK at this point.
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Robin Hobb's Farseer world books too.
Really, after LOTR at age 10 I have mostly avoided war fantasy, and never been short of excellent options.
No that makes sense. Trump needed a VP who would never, NEVER compete with him for media attention.
Mike Pence (STG I just had to go Google his name) was the same way.
Vance is the human equivalent of Vogon poetry
JD brought his pope scythe to the Orban rally.
I chortled.
There is a subreddit r/DeathByMillenial collecting all the things we have supposedly "killed" (paper napkins, second families, birth rates) and we need another one just for the things Vance (who is, somehow, only 41) has killed.
Dude has the reverse Midas touch fr.
I think it's less "offered to" and more "applied to". Men seem te be choosing to not work at all rather than take a job they consider beneath them.
Or it's an issue that everyone else has been dealing with for years, that the man is "discovering" the way Columbus discovered America.
I keep thinking about the "to the pain" speech from Princess Bride for no reason whatsoever
More afraid of a little girl using they/them pronouns than getting abused by a pedophile.
Republican voters have a broken threat detector.
For my family (who got together with friends to literally buy a trailer for a homeless person). When they meet a member of the outgoup IRL, they like them and see their humanity. But they instantly classify as "one of the good ones", leaving the bigotry towards the outgroup untouched.
B) I had a major depressive episode that made me understand reconsider free will and our capacity to "do the right thing" (by RW definition)
C) The evangelical reaction to the anti-gay marriage laws in 2005 exposed an institutional heart of joyous cruelty and set me on the path to deconstruction.
Sorry for butting into the conversation- I graduated HS in 2000 and had a similar path. What broke me out were
A) seeing GWB trash the budget. If we are going to do that, why can't we spend it on nice things like paid sick leave, etc?
Paying people to watch a real news network does break the bubble BUT!
Once the money stops, they go back to Fox. IDK what to do with that information.
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Captain Pike repeatedly hiding information from Starfleet bothers me so much! Even if he *is* doing it to protect his crew.
You really do! He was such a good observer of human nature. Hidden behind 8,000 jokes. Some of which you will only get six months after reading and say 🤯🤦♀️
Pratchett's "Brownian motion of society" theory stays winning. #Discworld
Successful Instagram and TikTok influencers seem to get this instinctually. Their skincare or "get ready with me" videos or whatever are mesmerizing, so you listen to their whole message while watching.
He looks so much like John Turturro
Sycophancy-as-a-Service
Yes but their big brain ideas were so... big brain-ed
Why were the Victorian Era bros Like That tho? Was it the laudnum? Natural gas leaks? Mercury poisoning? Tertiary syphilis? Really good cocaine?
*Yosemite Sam voice* What in Darmascus?
The royal court was delirious with joy. Fistulas were fashionable and something to be celebrated. The more devoted courtiers developed fake fistulas and took to wearing swathes of bandages around their buttocks, known as le royale , in homage to the king’s bandaged rear end. The more fanatical royal devotees demanded the same operation from the barber-surgeon.
It's giving King Louis XIV vibes
Help! Help! I'm being alienated!
Unironically tho, when I see a minority character allowed to be morally ambiguous in a movie, I cheer. It means they have reached a certain level of social acceptance that allows for a more full picture of their humanity.
No but whyyyyy is that so sexy?
And people who need to know someone IRL to accept their differences often don’t apply their acceptance to the larger group. The marginalized person just becomes "one of the good ones".