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I still think any nerd who thinks there needs to be a unified Zelda timeline should just get into Arthurian legend. Try and make a timeline out of all of those knights.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

It's easy to forget now but we had decades of steady advancement on trans rights. The 2016 bathroom bills invited huge backlash! It was only after the media constructed sports and youth medications as 'debates' that opposition moved from the far right to the polite center.

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This sounds like a bit but I’m being serious: kids using chat gpt for their homework are denying themselves the invaluable experience of learning how to bullshit their way through a problem. You drink some caffeine the night before and figure it the fuck out. That’s a skill. You need it in life.

submitted 22 hours ago • 155 comments

me, to the allergen in question:

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I am, once again, literally BEGGING y'all to stop reposting "breaking news" accounts that do not link to reliable sources.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

There is only one Zatoichi.

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

I swear our council somehow gets dumber with every meeting.

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So you can't even pick a good air conditioner. Why should we trust you to pick a good mayor?

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Look, right now the pinnacle of artificial intelligence and robotics is Roomba, because it actually does something people want.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

the John Wick universe is what you get if someone explained everything about Vampire: the Masquerade except that the characters are vampires

submitted 3 days ago • 50 comments

Ah, that explains the empty shelves at PCC

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It’s your mother that’s got something funny about her, if you ask me,” he continued. “Always talking in riddles, always telling me off for being ‘obtuse’ and ‘talking about that bloody volcano again’… I reckon you and I are the normal ones, and it’s everyone else that’s mad, eh, kiddo?

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

It's wild that someone as obsessed as he is with crowd size would hold an event in DC after cutting tens of thousands of federal jobs.

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

This is terrible framing on several levels as others have already noted, but it also assigns far too much consistency to RFK Jr.’s belief system. Someone who actually believed in miasma theory would be pro-lockdown and pro-masking. RFK Jr. is just a fascist who thinks health is a sign of supremacy.

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No Kings clearly does not include Aragorn, son of Arathorn, bearer of Andúril (forged from the remains of Narsil), as he is the direct lineal heir of Isildur and thus the rightful ruler of Gondor and Arnor, and called King Elessar, which means “Elf-Stone” in Quenya, the tongue of the Elves.

submitted 4 days ago • 34 comments

To me, casually mentioning that you use chatGPT is like casually mentioning that you had Chick-fil-A for lunch or shop at Hobby Lobby- I will just low key mentally dismiss anything you have to say forever.

submitted 4 days ago • 41 comments

I'm not one for home town pride most of the time, but look at 'em go!

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“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country

submitted 4 days ago • 385 comments

I got nothing mean to say about mel brooks. He's 98. He can make whatever the fuck he wants.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Sad, not surprised. At least they got four and a half seasons and can wrap things up.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

everyone who talks about how fake and terrifying big cities are makes it sound like they're living in an isolated farming town in the middle of nowhere when in reality they're all in the fucking suburbs. "us REAL americans" ok you live in a gated community, relax

submitted 8 days ago • 34 comments

i know it's just advertisement but it still pisses me off when tech CEOs claim AGI will solve humanity's problems with its vast intelligence. for a lot of problems we already know the solutions, what prevents them being solved is not a lack of intelligence, but that the solutions are unprofitable

submitted 8 days ago • 82 comments

I am not going to get into fights with random people who are otherwise doing good work, but I am losing my mind every time I see someone making these good arguments while on Substack.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.

submitted 8 days ago • 95 comments

why is the president the only person testing the limits of his power? everyone should see what they can get away with. what if zookeepers gave helicopters to gorillas? nobody has tried this

submitted 9 days ago • 390 comments

guys will be like "these people are ruining america" and it'll be a picture of the coolest guys ever

submitted 9 days ago • 240 comments

Brad Dourif is living his best life.

submitted 9 days ago • 30 comments

I’m sorry but melting down because you see a Mexican flag in LA is so funny

submitted 10 days ago • 72 comments

When people say that ”things were better back in the day,” I can only assume they're talking about 1983 frog phone

submitted 10 days ago • 30 comments

I keep thinking about how much these raids are costing vs the amount of money these "undocumented immigrants" contribute to the economy through the IRS and Social Security. You're dropping $200k to snatch $50k of tax revenue out of the system? You suck at math.

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It’s obvious but worth drawing out what raids of Home Depot’s of all places is about. It’s rounding up people who are really eager for work and for whom there is work, peoples whose labor is in demand. We know this but shows just how far it is from rounding up just the bad guys.

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