According to teh internetz it’s related to Dark Brandon and about liberals getting a little spicy. I opine differently.

Since woke is about awareness of systemic oppression in society, to me, it follows dark woke is about awareness that societal systemic oppression is witting, deliberate and malicious.

Yes, though they aren’t usually available at the concession booth in that format. Trader Joe’s has a nice basket of DC cups.

It’s okay. I prefer dark chocolate with peanut butter rather than milk, but Reese’s gonna reese.

For most definitions of supernatural, no.

I believe in unidentified areal phenomena, not that it’s ETIs or aliens, but that something’s up there doing its thing.

I believe in ball lightning even though we don’t have a model of electrodynamics that explains it.

There’s some weird shit out there, Horatio, that isn’t explained in our philosophy. I’m sure we don’t have all the answers. I just am okay with knowing we don’t know what those answers are.

As for ghosts, spirits, afterlife, etc. There’s strong evidence those things do not exist, just in the stark silence where there should be noise.

I do pretend that treating my cat well and wearing cat themed tees and keeping cat kitch does please the cat gods. 🐱‍👤

We’ve been in an oligarchy for a while, according to an Oxford study of US history and the policy voting behaviors of elected representatives. It’s only gotten spicy since Reagan, when the Republican party decided it had enough power to take all the cake (and is trying to do so).

The Federalists tried this before, which caused the party to die out and the Democratic Republicans to split. (Source: Helen Cox Richardson) It’ll be exciting to see how this all plays out.

Klein bottle for sale. Inquire within.

Curiously relevant to my romantic life, having had a GF who wanted to be a surrogate mom, which meant she had to go off medical contraception which meant we had to rely on other means of birth control.

Because we couldn’t keep from sowing wild oats, we had to actually take a hiatus from our relationship. Life is weird.

Defeated male lurks.

When all the lionesses are in heat and all want to be bred RIGHT NOW and multiple times (and will bite the scrotum of the solitary male to… stimulate him into action), then it’s the hour for all the defeated males to shine.

Seriously, this is a relevant part of lion pride sociopolitics. It may also figure into why the dominant male tends to kill the cubs of the lionesses when there’s doubt as to their heritage.

When I researched alleged murder gangs of lion males there’s not much evidence for them, but discovered insatiably horny lionesses (seriously) is the way defeated males get their day.

In this case, my minimum-wageiness trumps Mr. Ramsay’s celebrity and inappropriate attitude.

Or put another way,

Sir, this is a Wendy’s

I think the implication is that it’s part of her tradwife contract that she rave about Stephen Miller’s sexual prowess.

I’m not one to kink shame, but Stephen Miller is shameful before the kink.

Do we have verification of this photo? Also, I thought digi-cam fatigues were out nowadays since they’re less effective than old-school camouflage.

Besides which, national guard don’t usually get to choose their deployment. They’re in Chicago, I assume, to pick up litter and guard federal buildings at the pleasure of their civilian commanders (up to the limits of what they’re legally allowed to do). They’re contemptable once they follow illegal orders and engage in state violence.

1/5 syrup is a lot of syrup, and doesn’t track with Italian-style sodas.

I have heard that brand name syrups are often charged extra for a patent fee or something, much like the studios overcharging movie theaters since the 90s / aughts, forcing them to run entirely on concessions.

I’ve run nothing, but a friend of mine was a Pizza Inn manager and talked a bit about it, albeit in the late 80s / early 90s.

But the attitudes I’ve seen from managers suggests at an anecdotal level they don’t know that much and don’t care. They penny pinch in the wrong places, often developing the reputation that their own establishment has mean, miserly policies. Maybe, if their margins are that low, like it’s Walmart, this is necessary.

Still, there’s a lot of focus by companies on loss control than there is by making their places welcome enough to bother shopping there; this figures into the recent Walgreens franchise culling in San Francisco.

The focus of my own studies (as a game dev) had been about crunching in AAA game development, which is still done even though it has the opposite effect as tended (specifically, hurrying up production to meet a deadline). Managers of billion-dollar projects are willing to be stupid in the face of data-driven policy; the cruelty is sometimes the point. Among the convenience store managers I’ve encountered, they don’t look at or care about the data.

Believe what you need to believe, though.

Incidentally, the soda (gas-injected water plus syrup) is so cheap this [a real boy really named Peyton coming in and filling his bin for the fill-your-own-cup-special] would be better indulged and tolerated as a photo op and free advertising. When you get a fast food cup and free refills, the cup is literally more expensive than the soda + ice that goes into it. It’s nearly 100% profit.

ETA The same is true for people who eat too much at AYKE buffets. Take a picture of the dude, and have him sign the guest book and put him up on the wall of eating champions. The loss from one over-eating dude is going to be made up by the draw that yes, we mean all you can eat, and all he ate. Managers who throw big eaters out are just short-sighted and failing to do the math.

AI art has come a long way. You can make your AI look like shitty florescent lighting, or a fading photograph. Also AI folk normally have five fingers on each hand in a normal position thanks to LORAs. LORAs also fix wording when you specify what you want a caption to say.

It’ll mess up logos unless you specify a particular brand.

Controllers in 2015 were about $40 for a Playstation standard and could get up to $200 depending on the features you wanted (e.g. wireless, self charging, extended range, game domination features, etc.)

Most people have a $10-$30 market for sex toys until they get serious about it. Kids exploring their bits don’t have any budget at all, and can only get things that pretend to be toys for kids.

Evidently, it’s appropriate to get your tween a vibrating broomstick (or a bumble ball if you’re a California hippy parent who wants to assure your toddler grows up well-adjusted) but not a vibrating rubber duckie. I’m not fully sure why.

A friend of mine had to vibrate the snot out of her leg as part of PT (it’s a very long and gruesome story), and for stuff like that magic-wand type vibes are great. But the new orgasmotron vibes use weird biofeedback science and fancy rhythms to get the pulse just right for people who have various kinds of sexual dysfunction.

Some of them also relay your health issues back to the App provider to be added to your consumer profile and sold, so do use IoT security and try not to get ones that sell your info.

Coincidental as I posted this before the EI12 comment came out, but yeah.

In this case, the original HCA version depicted her as 12… or so I thought. The Wikipedia page is now claiming she was fifteen when she got the hots for a human boy, though this may be the product of aging her up (much like Daenerys Targaryen from SoIaF to GoT ) since we’re now conscious of the risks of young teens becoming sexually interested or active.

I might have been confused, or I might be remembering correctly and it changed. Either way, everyone is twelve is a valid hypothesis.

As I played it with mouse and keyboard, I never got to experience the rumble effects of Moxxi’s gear.

To be fair, having recently been on the market for a proper vibrating sex toy, they’re expensive as fuck, and according to my ex-wife (ow. ex- still stings.) capable of providing mind-blowing orgasms. So yeah, for those without a budget, we make do with what we got, or the bargain bin at Good Vibes.

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