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USAF vet, happy husband, cat dad
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The first time I ever used actual fresh, diced-them-myself jalapeños instead of canned or pre-chopped or whatever, I instinctively rubbed the corner of my eye under my glasses immediately afterwards.
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Please say sike, please let this have been a *wink wink* sarcastic thing
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Repubs simultaneously think they are an oppressed minority beset by a huge majority of evil people, and yet everyone the ever speak to agrees with then 100%
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(Wow bad typo for "over-represented")
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Like, I literally meant no offense to either catholics or Mormons, it's just my personal experience with catholics in my life and Mormons when I was in the USAF (service is apparently a huge thing for them? They are dramatically overeprestend in the armed forces)
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We are Hella catholic, but maybe more cultural than real, my dad's Gen mostly stopped doing church stuff except for holidays, you know what i mean? But yeah
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My favorite thing about these kinds of things is that its obviously either a recreational OD b/c they're snorting shit from the evidence locker or it's a panic attack because they've bought the fear about fent, you never ever hear about a follow up w/ a drug test, bc the test would prove them wrong
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Oh that's horrifying
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Mormonism is weird in the same way, like, SERIOUS catholics are.
The good ones are some of the best people to ever exist.
The bad ones are quite literally the most evil horrible hateful people ever.
And if you get a lot of them in one spot at the same time? Coin flip if it's gonna be good or bad
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(While also processing all the horror he saw in the war)
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Yeah, at his core, he was (amateur diagnosis here, not a real diagnosis) a Hella-autistic-but-functional-autistic and was a linguist, languages was his thing, that was his core focus.
The stories were just an excuse for him to explain why he did so much lore/language stuff
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(More than one! He built multiple languages and wrote multiple "bibles" for MULTIPLE races and faiths! Tolkein was an "I love train sets and I'm autistic and I'm dealing with my WWI experiences" dude on steroids!)
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Yeah but the EU ain't entirely Lucas, and also, there may be a Klingon dictionary, there ain't no Star Wars Racial language, and JRRT actually built entire languages, lol
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For real tho, the difference between LotR and Star Wars is Luke's sword is a LASER sword and the Millennium Falcon is in space instead of a boat at sea or a horse caravan
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I mean, "get fucked, socrates" is just the most devastating of insults, the only problem is everyone it would apply to wouldn't understand it!
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"maybe you just don't like the philosophical mode of debate." get fucked, socrates
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This actually says a HELL OF A LOT, because anyone who follows you knows your thoughts on mountain climbing, or cave diving, etc
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OK, so there's really no difference except swords vs guns.
Science is magic, and magic is just science we don't understand yet.
But yeah, I get you
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I'm the EXACT target market for "expanded universe" books like "History of the Galactic Empire" or "what actually happened with the Romulans in Trek" or whatever
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I got a tour once of a New Zealand sub when I was in the USAF, and they still had a single compartment where you could smoke. Just the one compartment.
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They used to have an old ballistic nuke missile sub at the museum downtown here in Portland, and you could get tours.
I took one.
Good effing god. No thanks, I'm not signing up for that
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Like. I have a cousin who grew up in inner SE Portland just like me, and now lives in Troutdale.
He is terrified of Portland because of YouTube and Rogan and talk radio in the car, and, and, and...
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This post (skeet?) should go down in history, it's so perfectly phrased
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ThE lEfT aNd AnTiFa burned Portland to the ground! Except for it was like, 1 square block of protests and the only casualties were the dudes in the nearby jail getting teargas fumes and the one guy that was literally hunted and assassinated by the feds!
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So absent, like, time travel, it's either shear the wool (and use it, right? Why just waste it) or condemn the breed to a lifetime of misery and discomfort and hope for their eventual extinction?
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(I say this as a city boy who's only experience with wool is wintertime sweaters and blankets at Basic Training that were WAY TOO HOT for May in Texas And Also I've Read A Few Random Things)
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Yup! It stays true to the core ideals while also making fun of itself and the whole concept, it's maybe my favorite trek!
(And I'm a HELLA nerd, I own like, 100+ Trek novels lol)
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Also, if you DONT shear wool it's really bad for the sheep, isn't it?
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(Not to deflect the topic. But same thing with leftists - except maybe it's more like 10 out of 100 - I'm a "leftist" but I vote and support Dems, worst case in the sense of harm reduction, and other leftists make me cringe sooooooo badly!)
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I mean, unless you've got a wife and kids back home and you're sending them your pay each month, why wouldn't you? Infantry, bomber crew, sailors at sea, nobody had a life expectancy longer than weeks
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My favorite argument on BOTH sides as far as some kind of "intelligent design"
Pro: literally every animal likes getting pets/rubs/scritches, at least as long as the animal feels safe w/ whomever is petting. Humans, dogs, cats, turtles, tarantulas, fish, birds, snails, etc, etc
Anti: LOOK AT KNEES
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Or a socialist.
Or a communist.
About half of them could tell you what a Nazi is, but that's because that half is actually Nazis themselves. The other half doesn't fuckin know.
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It was just so predictable that the cops could sacrifice a brown cop to prove "we actually do care" while ignoring, ya know, everything else
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I think it was in Minnesota, a few years ago I remember the first time I KNEW a cop was actually gonna face consequences for shooting someone - it was a Somali immigrant police officer who shot a white blonde lady, and YUP he went to prison for it
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(You can make sure people get chicken and not dog shit, AND AT THE SAME TIME keep working towards that steak! This shit isn't complicated!)
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and I can tolerate chicken, and the two choices are chicken or dogshit, should I choose chicken? Or should I encourage everyone to have dogshit or nothing instead, because EVENTUALLY we will get steak?
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Like, what i don't get is, even if you really do think the dialectic or whatever is true, the revolution is inevitable, its just not anytime soon, why the fuck wouldn't you STILL do the harm reduction aspect in the mean time?
If i like steak, but there's no steak anytime soon, 1/
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I wrote a column for my HS newspaper about how, "I was voting for Kerry, but he was gonna probably lose. Look out for Hillary in 2008!"
It ran the week, I think literally the DAY before, Obama's speech.
My next column was "whoops, nevermind, check out this Obama guy!"
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This is very much not the point, but also, 2 minutes plus 58 minutes is not 2 hours
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Isn't that just Fox in general? Pirro, Hegseth, this lady...
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Everyone thinks the military (ESPECIALLY the enlisted grunts) are idiot racist RW knuckle daggers.
The military was the most egalitarian, diverse environment I've ever been in!
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Was it bad? Like, could elementary school kids see the punchlines coming and also it was ethnic stereotypes?