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[Nol @neonnette]

Journalists act as though they’re wildlife documentarians and it would disrupt the natural order to warn an American of their impending doom.

[Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸 @JerryDunleavy]

There is ***zero*** journalistic ethical dilemma when it comes to warning American troops that they are about to be ambushed and killed by the enemy.

[Nol @neonnette]

Heard the rumble from inside my apartment while playing a game on full volume. Thought it was thunder since it came in the middle of a violent storm.

[Boston Weather Consulting (by Owen) @BostonWxConsult]

Meteor caught entering the atmosphere via satellite

[logan @loganbelifting]

Getting cancelled because I made a bowl of carbonara for a potluck and didn’t do a land acknowledgment for Vincenzo’s Plate

[Nol @neonnette]

I already muted this but:
- I don’t work at the restaurant where this happened. $16/person was the cost at the 5-star hotel I was at
- Not defending the lack of disclosure. I always made sure the manager informed guests of the fee ahead of time. Just saying it’s standard practice

[Nol @neonnette]

Cake cutting fees are standard fare at nice restaurants. When I worked as a pastry chef, we charged $16/person, which was the price of our cheapest dessert. You get to bring your cake in, the restaurant doesn’t lose money on dessert (and they cut and plate it for you, too).

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

A restaurant has responded after charging an influencer a $110 cake cutting fee

Poza rooftop restaurant in Los Angeles apologized for not making justinelovesushi aware of the fee prior and offered a refund

[Nol @neonnette]

Crimson Desert developers have achieved something truly remarkable: they have exactly recreated the experience of having so much food in the fridge at home yet being unable to make a single meal out of it.

[Nol @neonnette]

@kymatt77777 @no_caprate You have to spend money at the restaurant to get the regular desserts. Sitting at a restaurant and eating your own cake is like sitting there without ordering anything.

[Nol @neonnette]

@no_caprate Is there no cost to the restaurant for the additional 30 minutes the party sits at the table without making any purchases? They could have another party already on entreés in that amount of time.

[Nol @neonnette]

@brownandbella So don’t bring the cake to the restaurant 🤷‍♀️

[Nol @neonnette]

@Holden114 @neontaster “…because Tolkien believed even the pagan myths pointed to Christ” is exactly on the nose. He viewed the Bible as a Christian mythology, but one that was true. He didn’t believe myth and truth contradicted each other and saw creation as the greatest expression of devotion to God

[Nol @neonnette]

To me this shows the utter extent of Posibiec’s ignorance of Tolkien. His extensive letters are a critical source for understanding his works and the inspiration and intent behind them. Dismissing Tolkien’s letters is ignoring about half of his body of work

[TheThinkerAtLarge @ThinkerAtLarge]

@DLoesch @HumanEvents Apparently he doesn’t care either.

[Nol @neonnette]

@Holden114 @neontaster But I think there’s a difference between a pagan character and a character inspired by folklore. Tolkien didn’t bring pagan gods into his work, and dwarves, elves, and orcs existed in folklore separate from religion. Tolkien’s “On Fairy Stories” also gives good insight

[Nol @neonnette]

@DavidPe51482177 @Holden114 @neontaster They’re analogous to the angels. Morgoth fell from the Maia and became the dark lord (aka Lucifer)

[Nol @neonnette]

@Holden114 @neontaster Like there’s definitely a point to be made there, but Tolkien really attempted to bring everything in his mythology under the Christian God

[Nol @neonnette]

@Holden114 @neontaster True. But importantly the only “religious” figures are Iluvatar and the Maia experience the same struggle with Morgoth (aka Lucifer) that ends in his banishment. The creatures are creations of Iluvatar and the Maia so in Tolkien’s mythology are all God’s children, like humans

[Nol @neonnette]

@neontaster I’m sure if asked he would say that C.S. Lewis is a true Christian author. Now I wonder which author inspired Lewis’ conversion to Christianity from atheism… surely not the “pagan” author Tolkien??!

[Nol @neonnette]

@Holden114 @neontaster Not really. Tolkien was a devout Catholic and was inspired by the mythology of the Norse, Anglo-Saxons, and Goths, but he wanted to create a Christian mythology for Britain with LOTR. He explicitly stated that Iluvatar is the same God as the Christian God

[Nol @neonnette]

Tucker Carlson resorting to critiquing Ben’s grammar because that’s the best comeback he could think of, apparently.

[Kassy Akiva @KassyAkiva]

Tucker Carlson took to the stage and immediately began responding to Ben Shapiro calling him out earlier in the night.

[Nol @neonnette]

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[Nol @neonnette]

@neontaster A bit weird they’d hire a bird lawyer for this, no?