A compound in Texas run by an ultraconservative who loves guns is an American tradition

I mean, that’s how cotton is produced nowadays too, except Uyghurs are the ones doing it.

And yet they cannot survive a snail

I do, actually!

I love FreeDOS and occasionally use it, and not just for vidya.

Windoze must die! Long live DOS!

~ War cry of the ancient geek

Twitter is not a free platform. It actively suppresses the voices of the left and protects the far right.

I do sincerely support free speech. I think it looks a lot more like the Fediverse than Twitter.

The expedition was not real. I was alluding to Lovecraft without naming him.

There were some geologists (field work by my reckoning) from Massachusetts who went mad after an expedition to the Antarctic. The survivors came back mumbling something about a horrible thing from beyond the mountains.

*Hits the Blessed Waterpipe of Panaji*

Under Trinitarianism, God would be a they/them, because they’re literally several people.

According to the common understanding of the doctrine of virgin birth, Mary got impregnated through the Holy Spirit rather than The Father rawdogging her. This suggests that the Holy Spirit is a dick and thus probably male.

The Father is, according to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, not a man or a woman. That being said, neither Hebrew nor Aramaic nor Koine Greek have gender-neutral pronouns (except perhaps calling The Father “it” in Koine Greek, which would be hilarious but sadly would not be approved of by a killjoy like Paul).

“Then at the end of the week you have a free Big Mac”

You buy a Big Mac once a day?

We do this in Ireland

Thanks, fellow worker

Can someone please explain? I don’t get it.

The Americans should probably nationalise SpaceX, or at least buy out a controlling percentage of the shares.

Counterpoint: the replication crisis

In a vacuum, appealing to authority is fallacious. An idea must stand up on its own merits.

IRL, things get fuzzy. No one has the expertise and time to derive everything from first principles and redo every experiment ever performed. Thus we sadly have to have some level of trust in people.

Would this mean that the coming Age of Fire will result in smaller whales as global warming screws with the krill spawn rates?

I interact with enough tankies to tell you in advance.

In the view of tankies, Russia isn’t imperialist due to some weaseling with how they define imperialism in economic terms.

The US, on the other hand, is as imperialist in tankies’ minds as it is in reality.

Thus, to to them, Russia is waging an anti-imperialist war with the long-term goal of establishing a “multi-polar” world.

Thus, the tankie conclusion is that NK is heroically sending in the soldiers to help fight imperialism.

I see no need to try and explain why this is wrong. That’s left as an exercise for the reader.

Ah, thanks.