Gun-fired from life.

using the em

That’s how you can know that you’re just a simulation.

In fourth grade we would read short stories and answer multiple-choice questions about them. One such story was about romantically involved terrapins, and the question was “What would be a good title for this story?” The answers included

a) A turtle love story

b) Two turtles in love

I don’t remember which one I picked but the correct answer was the other one.

You’re never going to get power, limitless power if you’re not even willing to read a few cursed tomes.

What was the prompt? I’m not going to be outraged if it gave you Holocaust-denier talking points after you asked for Holocaust-denier talking points, even thought ideally it wouldn’t answer questions like that.

Approval rating collapsing after the election? Is that the modern version of the “closing the barn door after the horse got out” saying?

An I the only one who had the most work per day on average while in high school? My adult jobs have all been less time-consuming.

Wow, I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised given what I already knew about the history and present-day reality of humanity’s interactions with animals, but I’m still surprised.

It’s notable that on the island your links describe, the entire penguin “industry” and several shipwrecks’ worth of dead sailors were the product of one moderately-successful entrepreneur’s ambitions, that he received widespread condemnation at the time, and that this condemnation was not enough to stop him.

Is that true? It’s in the middle of an unrelated section of the article and has no citation.

That’s the only viable strategy - if there was some number of Palestinian civilians that Hamas could operate among with impunity, it would do. I don’t think Israel is currently fulfilling its obligation to protect civilians as much as is practically possible while still fighting a war effectively, but civilian casualties would be high even if it was simply due to the nature of urban warfare against an enemy operating among civilians who have nowhere to evacuate.

I doubt that Trump has ever read Shakespeare.

I think it’s important to note that America’s permissive immigration policy during the 18th and 19th centuries was accompanied by the lack of a government-provided “safety net” for those immigrants.

No, the Republican fantasy is doing that and having the benefit cuts pay for the tax cuts. This is the Republican reality where the tax cuts still require borrowing an enormous amount of money.

Edit: Society is always making a trade-off between helping the poor and using that money for other purposes and if, with the support of working class Americans, a candidate is elected who decides that society will help the poor less, then that’s a reasonable outcome in a democracy even if it isn’t one that I personally support. However, running the debt up like this is an extremely reckless and selfish decision to buy lower taxes in the present day at the expense of America’s future. It’s so short-sighted that I think it isn’t a reasonable choice for any ideology except perhaps nihilistic disregard for anything beyond the next election cycle…

Obama: Your campaign is a mess!

Biden: Who are you? Where am I?

Medieval

Potatoes

My suspension of disbelief is ruined completely.

Heck, are there dating sites that work at all anymore? Over a decade ago I had some success with OkCupid but my impression is that ever since swipe apps became a thing, online dating went from bad to terrible for everyone except gay men looking for hookups. Now I might have to go low-tech and ask my grandma to introduce me to her friends’ single granddaughters…

More than every single democrat voting against it?

I’m glad that the majority of working-class voters are getting what they voted for.

Reminds me of a calendar of nudibranch photos I saw at a dive shop. Due to a typo they were called “colorful sea sluts”.

There used to be at least some fireflies every year where I lived in Brooklyn when I was a kid but now there aren’t.