useful to think about as we're coming up on the one month of the year everyone likes to talk about merry shelley.

did you know what to do from all the childhood education about quicksand?

dated a girl from old money back in the day and her grandmother used to fry onions to make the kitchen smell like she was doing something impressive while microwaving freezer dinners and then serve the freezer dinners and throw the onions out.

i suppose we have already set our precedent about how we're going to hand spam from intergalactic sources. xD

ty!!

possible i read an al franken book and he mentioned that having happened and that's where the false attribution comes from. not sure.

seems right!

munging was also mentioned, if you want something actually gross rather than a slightly more exciting than missionary sex act

n.b. i think the us should be giving like 5x as much in foreign aid. i also think that foreign aid should be substantially more separate from the cia, and that it shouldn't be conditioned on countries supporting us foreign policy etc.

so you run into brick walls where f.x. people assert usaid must be good because they're comparing an aid program to nothing, instead of comparing an aid program to potential other aid programs that could have existed.

what's the consensus on which stump deliveries to try to score off these days? i haven't played in long enough that several modern day scoring shots were never taught to me as being things one could do with a cricket bat.

it's sort of a nonstarter with a lot of people to come into a conversation believing [group of people] are [negative thing] is not a broadly salient or useful construction by which to live one's life, and a lot of those people are overly loud, and it very hard to have a conversation around them.

i hope you become well!

i have a video up from when biden was in visible decline trying to explain that people who were withdrawing support from or not interested in supporting him were not implicitly ethically bad just for that and i still get insulted in the comments on it ~once every few weeks.

right, in a propagandized world the election of trump is an anomaly which the us should be understood separate from, rather than an actual physical thing which the us has actually done twice now.