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Technically a social psychologist. User name is accurate.
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Herta can't pronounce "Zagreus" so she renames it...Herta's Big Hand?
February 19, 2026 at 1:47 AM
Herta can't pronounce "Zagreus" so she renames it...Herta's Big Hand?
Oh, you care about freedom of speech? Then name ten speeches
February 18, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Oh, you care about freedom of speech? Then name ten speeches
"Is Taiwan of the same substance or of different substance than China?"
America: ...It is of like substance.
America: ...It is of like substance.
Seriously: the Trinity is easier, you can just learn the Athanasian Creed and, while you can't analyse that, at least you have words.
Also you can duck by pointing at "the Eternal Mystery of the Trinity" and by using capital letters that means no-one can argue.
Also you can duck by pointing at "the Eternal Mystery of the Trinity" and by using capital letters that means no-one can argue.
February 18, 2026 at 9:33 PM
"Is Taiwan of the same substance or of different substance than China?"
America: ...It is of like substance.
America: ...It is of like substance.
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Somewhat more seriously: the official position is that there is one China, that the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China both claim to be that one China, that the US will not commit to defending Taiwan from China, but also will not commit to not defending Taiwan from China.
February 18, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Somewhat more seriously: the official position is that there is one China, that the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China both claim to be that one China, that the US will not commit to defending Taiwan from China, but also will not commit to not defending Taiwan from China.
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playing the Chinese Empress game and this shit is genuinely more deadly than Dark Souls
February 18, 2026 at 9:15 PM
playing the Chinese Empress game and this shit is genuinely more deadly than Dark Souls
I am weirdly fond of "JPop/JRock song that includes random English words that the artist thought sounded cool"
February 18, 2026 at 9:25 PM
I am weirdly fond of "JPop/JRock song that includes random English words that the artist thought sounded cool"
My "I have no plans to bust Napoleon out of St. Helena so he can lead the United South American Empire" t-shirt has sure raised a lot of questions
February 18, 2026 at 7:23 PM
My "I have no plans to bust Napoleon out of St. Helena so he can lead the United South American Empire" t-shirt has sure raised a lot of questions
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The Bastille was primarily a prison from the 14th century onwards!
"But that was mostly for the upper classes!"
Yes, the lower classes frequently were subject to other, more physical punishment — up to & including death for things we would consider relatively minor or not ever crimes at all.
"But that was mostly for the upper classes!"
Yes, the lower classes frequently were subject to other, more physical punishment — up to & including death for things we would consider relatively minor or not ever crimes at all.
February 18, 2026 at 6:15 PM
The Bastille was primarily a prison from the 14th century onwards!
"But that was mostly for the upper classes!"
Yes, the lower classes frequently were subject to other, more physical punishment — up to & including death for things we would consider relatively minor or not ever crimes at all.
"But that was mostly for the upper classes!"
Yes, the lower classes frequently were subject to other, more physical punishment — up to & including death for things we would consider relatively minor or not ever crimes at all.
Gork is this true
February 18, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Gork is this true
Sexual assault is a weird crime to just sidestep given we know that repeat offenders are a huge problem
February 18, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Sexual assault is a weird crime to just sidestep given we know that repeat offenders are a huge problem
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every immigration wave follows the same basic economic pattern and every immigration wave thinks the success of the second generation is due to the unique attributes of their parental culture and I’m starting to doubt that they’re all correct
what's funny is like, they got mad at Ramaswamy for posting this about non-immigrant Americans and then you read Hillbilly Elegy and it's literally this
February 18, 2026 at 4:12 PM
every immigration wave follows the same basic economic pattern and every immigration wave thinks the success of the second generation is due to the unique attributes of their parental culture and I’m starting to doubt that they’re all correct
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We have a whole joke about this! It can be Jewish or Chinese or (now) Somali:
“Mr and Mrs [ethnic last name] are proud to announce the birth of their child, Dr. [name]!”
“Mr and Mrs [ethnic last name] are proud to announce the birth of their child, Dr. [name]!”
fwiw (and I’m not sure Vivek knows this) he isn’t talking about Indian parent culture or Chinese parent culture or Nigerian parent culture or whatever, he’s talking about American immigrant parent culture
I know Vivek got these people HOT!!! I had to read this out loud to my mama
December 28, 2024 at 6:00 PM
We have a whole joke about this! It can be Jewish or Chinese or (now) Somali:
“Mr and Mrs [ethnic last name] are proud to announce the birth of their child, Dr. [name]!”
“Mr and Mrs [ethnic last name] are proud to announce the birth of their child, Dr. [name]!”
"Is it Chinese New Year or Lunar New Year?"
Look man, where my parents are from they just call it "The New Year*".
...But you should call it the Lunar New Year
(Alternatively the Old Calendar New Year)
Look man, where my parents are from they just call it "The New Year*".
...But you should call it the Lunar New Year
(Alternatively the Old Calendar New Year)
February 18, 2026 at 3:58 PM
"Is it Chinese New Year or Lunar New Year?"
Look man, where my parents are from they just call it "The New Year*".
...But you should call it the Lunar New Year
(Alternatively the Old Calendar New Year)
Look man, where my parents are from they just call it "The New Year*".
...But you should call it the Lunar New Year
(Alternatively the Old Calendar New Year)
BECAUSE OF PEOPLE is a weird part of the sentence to emphasize
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February 18, 2026 at 3:56 PM
BECAUSE OF PEOPLE is a weird part of the sentence to emphasize
Firebombing Walmarts (supply distribution centers) could defeat the Nazis, but you also need an air force to maintain a sustained bombing campaign and an army to take and occupy ground. And possibly a navy to ferry in troops and supplies
February 18, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Firebombing Walmarts (supply distribution centers) could defeat the Nazis, but you also need an air force to maintain a sustained bombing campaign and an army to take and occupy ground. And possibly a navy to ferry in troops and supplies
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As @goldwagnathan.bsky.social says: your racist uncle is just ignorant and ultimately well meaning. Every NYT conservative has calipers and a chart of a racial hierarchy.
one reset I'd personally appreciate: behind the insistence that we must offer the electorate a little bigotry is the idea that commoners are more bigoted than the richer and more educated, who can be appealed to with high minded policy. but then you Ctrl+F "phrenology" in the Epstein files
What strikes me is that 'the volk' have incredibly incoherent and everywhere ideas, but the people who claim to speak for them in the press are like clerics who think there are two poles for all politics and everything must fit between them. These poles are like, eight inches apart
February 18, 2026 at 3:39 PM
As @goldwagnathan.bsky.social says: your racist uncle is just ignorant and ultimately well meaning. Every NYT conservative has calipers and a chart of a racial hierarchy.
In college, my then girlfriend, who grew up in the Foothills region of NC, casually mentioned the Klan was still active in the parts of the area as we drove to the Blue Ridge mountains for a hiking trip.
Vance is an opportunistic bottom feeder, but let's not valorize the rural whites too much
Vance is an opportunistic bottom feeder, but let's not valorize the rural whites too much
February 18, 2026 at 3:32 PM
In college, my then girlfriend, who grew up in the Foothills region of NC, casually mentioned the Klan was still active in the parts of the area as we drove to the Blue Ridge mountains for a hiking trip.
Vance is an opportunistic bottom feeder, but let's not valorize the rural whites too much
Vance is an opportunistic bottom feeder, but let's not valorize the rural whites too much
White American with a Mao hat bumping into a Chinese guy with a Ron Paul tattoo in China
I am not joking when I say that I've known, hmm, three Chinese guys like this. One became a *hardcore* libertarian.
February 18, 2026 at 3:22 PM
White American with a Mao hat bumping into a Chinese guy with a Ron Paul tattoo in China
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My favourite example of someone going on a journey to learn the mysteries of the occident is the Japanese guy who travelled to the Alps in the 70s to meet “the Yodel King” (seriously) and became a famous yodeller in his own right. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeo_I...
Takeo Ischi - Wikipedia
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February 18, 2026 at 2:55 PM
My favourite example of someone going on a journey to learn the mysteries of the occident is the Japanese guy who travelled to the Alps in the 70s to meet “the Yodel King” (seriously) and became a famous yodeller in his own right. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeo_I...
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February 18, 2026 at 12:50 PM
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I am not joking when I say that I've known, hmm, three Chinese guys like this. One became a *hardcore* libertarian.
February 18, 2026 at 2:27 PM
I am not joking when I say that I've known, hmm, three Chinese guys like this. One became a *hardcore* libertarian.
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GRU Head: Sir, our mercs are rebelling.
Putin: Damn. Any ideas?
Undersecretary of Root Vegetable Management: Let’s try asking them to stop.
Putin: Have this idiot shot.
*URVM is dragged away. A BANG is heard in the background*
GRU Head: Sir, it worked.
Putin: Oh. Have him unshot.
Putin: Damn. Any ideas?
Undersecretary of Root Vegetable Management: Let’s try asking them to stop.
Putin: Have this idiot shot.
*URVM is dragged away. A BANG is heard in the background*
GRU Head: Sir, it worked.
Putin: Oh. Have him unshot.
Still haven’t gotten a satisfying answer why
1. This dude stopped
2. Agreed to disarm
3. didn’t act like a marked man
1. This dude stopped
2. Agreed to disarm
3. didn’t act like a marked man
Wagner was supposed to collapse after Prigozhin's death.
Instead, parts of it were absorbed by Russian military intelligence and are now recruiting vulnerable Europeans to commit sabotage on their own soil.
[1/15]
Instead, parts of it were absorbed by Russian military intelligence and are now recruiting vulnerable Europeans to commit sabotage on their own soil.
[1/15]
February 18, 2026 at 1:56 PM
GRU Head: Sir, our mercs are rebelling.
Putin: Damn. Any ideas?
Undersecretary of Root Vegetable Management: Let’s try asking them to stop.
Putin: Have this idiot shot.
*URVM is dragged away. A BANG is heard in the background*
GRU Head: Sir, it worked.
Putin: Oh. Have him unshot.
Putin: Damn. Any ideas?
Undersecretary of Root Vegetable Management: Let’s try asking them to stop.
Putin: Have this idiot shot.
*URVM is dragged away. A BANG is heard in the background*
GRU Head: Sir, it worked.
Putin: Oh. Have him unshot.
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This actually existed. In Tokugawa Japan you needed a permit to wage a vendetta. There was an application
Lawful Evil is the funniest alignment. Nothing Le Wacky Wholesome Chungus Chaotic Good bard does will ever be as funny as the guards in Morrowind asking you if you have a license for that murder then pleasantly apologizing for holding you up when you produce said license.
February 18, 2026 at 4:42 AM
This actually existed. In Tokugawa Japan you needed a permit to wage a vendetta. There was an application
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A friend of mine has an ancestor who was a Chinese diplomat to France and England and he set up a whole "western room" when he got back filled with such exotic things as a pool table; and I just love the universal human experience of going "holy shit the other side of the world is SO EXOTIC!"
People always blathering about English shows appropriating culture, like making it mystical/magical. Have clearly never watched any anime. Full of appropriation of Christian religious imagery or German/French space feudalism.
February 18, 2026 at 5:41 AM
A friend of mine has an ancestor who was a Chinese diplomat to France and England and he set up a whole "western room" when he got back filled with such exotic things as a pool table; and I just love the universal human experience of going "holy shit the other side of the world is SO EXOTIC!"
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This sign goes so hard
February 18, 2026 at 3:38 AM
This sign goes so hard