Brave Little Hitachi Wand

I had a lot of the same feelings about my own country, and almost five years ago I left. It hasn’t been a perfect solution, but I feel more genuine about my beliefs.

I like the sound of tendentious milieu, it has a pleasing cadence.

They asked for help remembering a new word and you decided to promote a viewpoint instead. Was that irony or just grumpiness?

Not really a facts based dig, it’s not as if America has highly democratic elections or a system that actually wants people to vote

Chalk it up to cultural differences

Never discount contingency. If people resist more effectively this time, things need not happen the same way.

Evil will still be done, many will still die. But we can prevent the worst.

Go ahead and check the weather in Kharkiv. Not just sub zero. Feels like -18c.

They gave up their nukes, for this?

Can I interest you in an academic novel that comprehensively confirms your opinion? theauthoritarians.org

Give me your weak and huddled masses. You can keep the red hats.

They should tell him harder. How funny would it be if this is what convinced the military to do a coup and they vacated every branch of government with snap elections.

Utter bastards though they are, it’s quickly becoming the only mildly plausible scenario in which normalcy (briefly) returns.

TIL. Guess I’ll never finish my Transmet collection.

I was treating the exercise as “certainties we held a decade or more ago”.

I mean you’re not wrong, for some people in some cases. But it’s not so easy to teach yourself how to learn, nor why to learn it.

Pessimistically I thought for sure autonomous war drones would have become way more prolific by now.

I also felt pretty sure that some kind of massive CRISPR/Cas9 catastrophe was bound to occur by now.

In order of recall,

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

Why Nations Fail

A Short History of Nearly Everything

God Is Not Great

Gödel, Escher, Bach

The Smartest Kids in the World

Exactly, I don’t play my games to finish them. I gnaw on them for hundreds of hours like a dog with a dinosaur bone. I’m the bane of the game industry and proud of it.

Lemmy has something of an irony deficiency, don’t you find? 🫤

As the quintesson judge said, “Innocent!” Just feed me to a fucking sharktacon already.

I’m old enough to remember when they did. And we mostly had ourselves tricked too, that was the fun bit.

The tone of the letter is incredibly strained calm, isn’t it? This is how Booboo would talk to ranger Rick if they caught him about to eat a camper.