They’d make him break off that thing with Miss Piggy.

Incidentally also the reason he can’t be a rabbi.

Sovereign citizen logic.

“I wasn’t hiring a prostitute, I was gifting money to my non-exclusive girlfriend who only sleeps with people for money.”

The clear intent to vote is a valid vote.

This court is illegitimate and should be rejected at all levels of governance.

‘I’ll believe The Idiot is growing into the presidency when his staff stops talking about him like a toddler.’

Yeah, uBlock mostly just adds CSS rules as display:none, and Google still pretends that’s some kind of security nightmare.

Because they’re an abusive monopoly that must be shattered.

You can just uBlock the thing on the front page.

If your browser recently tried killing uBlock - switch.

Right! We’re pro-fellatio, here. We’re not antife. But don’t do any favors involving a dictator.

Jesus, the homophobia thing.

The bad part is that it’s Putin! That’s the insult!

Wider appeal.

The best part is knowing how, once we figure out what the hell is going on below the level we’re seeing, the explanation’s going to be even fucking weirder than what we’re seeing. If it made sense we’d have got it by now.

I never expected Intel would shit the bed like this, but I’d always really hoped.

Shattering the glass ceiling for who’s allowed to be a total piece of shit.

Yeah what’s the big deal about making kids go through the wrong puberty? That’s never life-altering, or life-ending.

Especially when these miserable fucks also shit on trans adults.

And it’d cost too much to also submit it there?

Half-Life as a live-action film, in continuous first-person.

The game is deliberately cinematic to begin with. You’d cut down a brisk run-through to maybe an hour of set-pieces and combat, then build out the “dialog.” In quotations because I would make Gordon canonically mute. It’d become thematic.

Gordon took the hazard course qualifications that secretly exist to staff the extraterrestial excursion team, but they’re not quite desperate enough to risk having an astronaut who can’t use the radio, so he’s stuck on Earth pushing rocks. Without a helmet, because the excursion team keeps losing equipment, what with getting attacked by aliens. The aliens think the guys in orange suits are a distinct subspecies… which keeps kidnapping their kind.

Vortigaunts in particular would be seen maybe trying communicate with scientists in labcoats (a subspecies marked by their ridiculous ties) only to spot Gordon and freak out. They all hate the POV character on-sight. If they’re on-camera, they’re gonna start waving their hands to cast deadly lightning. They’d even try to communicate with the bug-eyed subspecies in splotchy green outfits, only to get shredded by submachinegun fire. The military wears those dehumanizing masks (and speaks over radio comms you can hear) because all they were told is “secret experiments, actual zombies, existential threat.” They saw one distended human with a jaw for his ribcage and the strength to slap a dude in half, and they didn’t ask any further questions.

This all comes together in Interloper. Gordon sees the biological factory where these creatures are enslaved to manufacture more of themselves. The ones inside know nothing about Earth. They prance up, curious and burbling incoherently, pawing all over Gordon’s bright orange carapace. He sticks a gun in their faces and they consider the object fascinating. But when he puts it away and tries communicating in sign language, they scatter, and a few start waving their hands to zap him. Gordon Freeman was chosen for this event because he is physically incapable of any outcome but one.

At that point, use AI as a filter. It’d be the perfect setting for some mild gloop.

These polls tend to fumble their own methods, by trusting people to read definitions. They should be asking directly: how many people in your country were born in another country? The word “immigrant” literally means that… but that’s not the only meaning people envision, when they hear that word. To some extent you are always measuring that disconnect.

On the other hand, what fucking lunatics think 22% of America is Muslim?

Taking fascist propaganda seriously

WHY?

WHY THE FUCK?

There’s jobs you can fake after an hour of training and there’s jobs that need six years to not kill people.

Minimum wage is supposed to be enough for one income to comfortably raise a family.

But we have to have this conversation, from scratch, every fucking time someone reposts this image. I’m beginning to understand why Socrates hated writing. You can prove a book wrong, and the book’s still there, being wrong.