This is gonna sound weird: but I kinda believe in a version of the anthropic principle that says America produced so much wealth and population growth globally that any conscious being is disproportionately likely to have emerged in a universe where American was founded, so certain inexplicable events happened specifically to bring America into existence.
“You guys would have loved Shinzo. I called him Honest Abe, you know his last name was Abe right? And he wasn’t the first Honest Abe, frankly he was the second. But he was my friend.”
“Do you guys remember Peanut? Peanut the squirrel. And they killed him. Killed him like a dog. That’s who these people are. We can’t ever forget that.”
@mininghistory However, its so significantly likely to have occured over a sparsely populated area that it’s any surprise that it did - only 25% of the earth is land, and a fraction of that is urban
Playing categories at a bar. German couple got in on it. Guy bombs a Presidents round. Girl bet we’d name fewer Germans than her. Friends pointed to me. By round 30 of me naming Nazis she was visibly upset & her bf was holding back tears of laughter. I threw it some rounds later.
@Dljokl@cremieuxrecueil Is does seem surprising (unlikely even) that state where gambling has remained illegal have actually experienced a ~30% reduction in gambling addiction - suggestive of a flawed methodology
Re: the inner tweet. There's a weird, or perhaps entirely explicable, tic for schlock art to rely upon some quirk of medium, and a quirk of medium that has little bearing on the final result, to justify itself. Once you notice it it's everywhere.