Watch out for Moaning Murtle

Unironically did get my son the measles shot three months early, because he was starting daycare.

He still needed to get shots at 1 year and 18 months, but it let me sleep a little easier

“You must mean Base 22”

That sounds like a symptom of depression, not a consequence of free utilities

this is why all rich people are retired.

Well…

Veblen discusses how the pursuit and the possession of wealth affects human behavior, that the contemporary lords of the manor, the businessmen who own the means of production, have employed themselves in the economically unproductive practices of conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure, which are useless activities that contribute neither to the economy nor to the material production of the useful goods and services required for the functioning of society.

Functionally retired.

You see it all the time among Tech plutocracy, with Bezos’s Venice Wedding and Zuck’s endless home construction.

Having good health care means you just consume as much medicine as you can. I get vaccinated every day, I own 500 pairs of glasses, and all my teeth have been root canaled

Knowing HTTP status codes is a prerequisite for transitioning

The Onion: Why Do All These Homosexuals Keep Sucking My Cock?

Excited for a Pokemon with more explicit advocacy of Eugenics

“We’re releasing a Vaporion that can get pregnant”

Arrow! Black arrow! I have saved you to the last. You have never failed me and always I have recovered you. I had you from my father and he from of old. If ever you came from the forges of the true King under the Mountain, go now and speed well"

DM: “Okay, fine. But after this you can’t use it again.”

There’s a moment when it can add tension. You find three silver arrows in an old fort, hole up for the night, and then hear the horrible howl of a werewolf ring out.

Or you’re lost in the desert, trying to ration your water until you can find an oasis.

I’ve played Westmarches games where you do a little pre-adventure “we need to go X hexes so we’re wanting Y supplies to get there and back”. But its more a cost of failure than a drama element.

The Battle of Algiers

I don’t think they actually care. It’s just something they can get mad at

If you really want to scare a German with Santa Claus, tell them he’s Turkish.

I gotta say, the folks putting up the “Put The Christ Back In Christmas” signs during the holiday season are some of the least festive and most Grinchy on the block.

Because Trumpism is seen as unstable and of dubious logevity, there’s not an enormous rush to build defunct factories for meeting energy demand under inefficient mediums. You’re never going to see another newly built coal plant. Gas plants aren’t coming online any faster, with the specter of Peak NGLs on the horizon. Solar and Wind are the future purely because of their low cost, long term profitability, and rapid ROI.

Delaying these projects when fossil fuel usage is already dropping (gasoline is falling to $2/gal levels not seen since the COVID crash) means starving the electricity hungry digital economy purely out of spite.

Kingdom Hearts After Dark

Germany not calling them “feet fingers” was unexpected.

Listen here’s the thing – I don’t know what you kids are up to, but I do know one thing: laws are threats made by the dominant socio-economic, ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just a promise of violence that’s enacted and police are basically an occupying army, you know what I mean? You guys want to make some bacon?