John Snow, Barry Marshall, Semmelweis, Borglum, Galileo. Imagine if we judged people by the content of their character. Prefer facts over “someone’s truth.”
@APKramar I used to think that it was quaint or twee that countries did that, before learning that both Western leftists and especially TWs are actually brain damage-levels of retarded and likely thought people believed those labels.
@turnipmugger@travis4nh That’s what the “veteran preferential hiring” thing was/is about. If vets were a reliable Dem constituency they’d have already created an NGO for them all to “work” at… Republicans have been eternally terrible at patronage politics and want to create “systems” that ensure EOs.
@kunoichi_jp_ I’ve read a lot of (translated) Murakami, and I know he’s not as “popular” in 🇯🇵 as the Anglosphere, but I love his descriptions of small independent coffee shops in rural 🇯🇵. Maybe they’re more fantasy than the plots themselves, but I’d love to see photos from places like that.
Who picked Platner and why?
Who flipped the switch on Swalwell and why?
How did Kamala get the 2024 nomination?
These questions are all way more interesting than the candidates themselves and the legacy press has no curiosity or interest in providing the answers.
Even the try-hard 60s-Commie machine in Hawaii hasn’t been so fundamentally successful in ruining a beautiful place with human bioweapons and violent pets. And they are far more ideologically pure and estrogenically complete.
If Hilton pulled out a Trumpish win, somehow overcoming the weeks of ballots and unending suitcases pulled from under Sharquondan tables, where would he even begin? It seems the entirety of CA state government is laser-focused on criminal fraud, waste, & impoverishment of beauty.
@MorlockP I have a sci-fi plot I want to do where Japan was basically DLC for aliens who found Earth, like they wanted to add something special to the planet so they modded the crap out of the rest of Earth and ended up producing Japan.
What’s even stranger is the Sargasso Sea occupies a very similar stretch of map, but was only identified as the breeding ground of eels about twenty years before the “Bermuda Triangle” urban legend became popular. Feels like those things are connected, somehow.
I thought the Bermuda Triangle was a thing as a kid, and only many years later discovered there are statistically no more wrecks there than any other random triangle of the same size & same traffic volume.
@RobProvince It’s also aesthetically hideous, clearly designed by a woman on SSRIs at best, some dude in a dress with astigmatism at worst (but also most likely because who else even still lives in Buffalo, NY anymore)
@RobProvince We didn’t ask for this… there’s a reason those are all straight women… maybe one of them “experimented” in college… at this point most gay dudes that aren’t directly employed by an NGO are completely sick of all of *that*.
@druideight Dude, I saw that thread and I figured it was people relabeling obscure 4chan creepypasta, but if you’re actually getting those as renders. Wow. (Also greetings from my revenant account… apparently I’m back, at least for now.)
Apparently I am back from the B(g)rave… it’s been a wild week IRL, too. Currently thousands of miles from home and hubs but also back home with my blood-kin back east and driving around the most absurdly oversized non-moving-company rental truck I’ve ever seen, let alone driven.