Yay or dismay

I think the original picture is enough evidence that it could easily be misinterpreted, regardless of any other circumstances. It’s not immediately self-evident.

“like always”???
You’re saying it like it’s obvious, but it’s a fair question.

Ah crap, it’s noon

I played Apples to Apples once and I was the asshole trying to play the game for real, lol

To be fair, it was a video game aimed at children to teach them how to be good soldiers during a time when the US was entering a deeply unpopular war under false pretenses.

Around the same time there were all sorts of lawsuits surrounding video games and their effects on children, so maybe it was a double whammy.

Regardless of any claims for or against violent video games, the Army shouldn’t be recruiting like that.

Wasn’t it a guy responding to a vehicle accident and he credited America’s Army for teaching him about triaging patients? I think it stuck in my mind for the egregious click-baity headline.

Still do

Are you serious? I just told you.

Thank you. Now, insofar as it concerns apostrophes (he said pedantically), couldn’t it be argued that the tools we have at our immediate disposal for making ourselves understood through text are simply inadequate to express the depth of a thought? And wouldn’t it therefore be more appropriate to condemn the lack of tools rather than the person using them creatively, despite their simplicity? At what point do we cast off the blinders and leave the guardrails behind? Or shall we always bow our heads to the wicked chroniclers who have made unwitting fools of us all; and for what? Evolving our language? Our birthright?

No, I say! We have surged free of the feeble chains of the Oxfords and Websters of the world, and no guardrail can contain us! Let go your clutching minds of the anchors of tradition and spread your wings! Fly, I say! Fly and conformn’t!

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I relinquish the pedant stick.

Like putting speakers in monitors.

Okay then, I’m being performative. I feel better about myself, thanks.

It’s so weird that so many people are calling being accommodating in such a small way “performative” or whatever! I think some people just can’t handle change and blame others for it.

Do you just not like them or did a political SNL sketch kill your family or something?

Genuinely hilarious! Maya Rudolph was so great in The Good Place, but most of them were. What a good show.

Definitely a skewed signal to noise ratio, which at this point feels intentional. Politics felt far more boring in the before-fore, but I think most of that was me not paying close enough attention.

I had a casual conversation with ChatGPT a while back about how this level of political division is unprecedented in the country (I guess I conveniently forgot about the civil war during this), and the response was basically “Everybody says that in every era,” so I wonder if I just have too narrow a focus. I should look into that…

“My” alternative is to not treat every human interaction as transactional maneuvering to curry favor. It’s an incredibly strange commodification of immaterial concepts that rejects or ignores the complexity and nuance of human emotions and motivations. It’s simply an inadequate theory.

That’s an unnervingly cold, reductionist, cynical take.

I was so apathetic in my early voting years, so I guess I’m doing my weird political thing in mid-life.

Ah, I see now, my bad