I knew this one, but way too many times, I don’t. People like you are awesome, and I appreciate the service.

Media targeted at a large audience tends to dumb moral and philosophical conundrums down to the simplest possible gesture instead of taking the ideas seriously.

Not how I wanted to see Trump at The Hague, honestly.

Trump as Oedipus, immigrants as his father, and the abstract concept of freedom as his mother.

Immigrants and freedom made Trump possible, and managed to avoid him for a bit. Then he comes back, kills immigrants and fucks freedom, at which point, lady liberty kills herself.

Where is Ben Garrison when you need him.

Holy shit, me too. Yeah, I probably should have put and asterisk next to that.

I have very rarely had a bad outcome from speaking honestly and straightforwardly to people that I care about.

I recently wrote a little library that adds some neat little features to enums in Rust. It’s tiny, does one thing, and does it pretty well, I think.

One of my favorite actresses. She’s exceptional in everything.

The diagnostic criteria and the culture that determines that criteria are both subject to change. lots of things that people consider perfectly normal now would be classified as a disease or disorder in the past.

I can’t think of an incident like this off-hamd for myself, but I once dated a woman who didn’t know that women have a urethra. She thought the urine just came out of her vagina. She was ~23.

We have reached the limits of what I know on the subject. So, no idea. If forced to make an uneducated guess, I’d say it was probably some combination of environmental factors, a preexisting culture that fit particularly well with horses, and natural variation in adoption of new tech among different groups of people.

I know. I’ve read them all. I just thought “potentially” was slightly understating the probability of a NSFW Oglaf comic, and it made me chuckle.

I got here after this post was deleted, but I can guess roughly what it said.

Yes, I was an ignorant, bigoted kid raised by street preachers (the people with the megaphones telling people that they’re going to hell, for non-americans). I lived in a variety of RVs, partially constructed houses, tents, and, for about eight months, with an honest-to-god cult. Mostly without electricity, running water, and indoor plumbing. No, I’m no longer a Christian, and now have the standard amount of bigotry (maybe even slightly less, on a good day).

Sounds about right.

North America didn’t originally have horses. When they were brought in, the Apache, more than any other indigenous group, structured their entire way of life around them. At least, that’s what I learned from Western movies.

“potentially” lol

No worries.

Fair. Weirdly, I’ve been one of those dudes with the megaphone lol.

The point of a uniformed service is to show your enemy that you have control and command over people who will follow your orders. Demonstrating this lowers your enemy’s will to fight back. It gets soldiers on the other side to think “If these guys are so organized that they march in unison, we don’t stand a chance.”

Fair enough.

It will not surprise me if in the next year, a new division in the army is created for parade duty for the president’s birthday where next year their marching will be perfect.

That would just be the chefs kiss of silly bullshit on top of everything else.

I knew I left it around here somewhere.