Misleading headline. Apparently, it’s 100% offline, and if you wanna share your awkward dinner table small talk with the culture archivists at StoryCorps, you can by physically plugging it in and manually uploading it.

This is still weird. But it’s a little more wholesome than what I expected.

Lizzie’s in a box, IN A BOX!

🤣🤣🤣 Looks like Fenton’s late for something again!

Ewwwww…

“I have here in my hand a list of 205 that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department.”

“Or maybe it’s 57… or 10… maybe.”

“Earthset.” Fuck, that would be such a cool title for a sci-fi novel. I’m sure someone else has taken it already, but still, it’s such a cool word.

It’s surprisingly effective resistance, given that undoing fascism begins with education.

Ha! Ohhh my god, the first thing I asked when I realized that I didn’t fit into the plan. “What if I don’t really feel all that much like fucking anybody? Do I still fit into the divine plan then, if this supposed sacred urge prone to corruption is almost completely absent in me?”

It was the first time I asked a question that didn’t have any answer, because these ‘godly men’ gifted with ‘discernment and understanding’ could not FATHOM the idea of someone who wasn’t horny.

By the time questions about falling in love with women and gender dysphoria came around, I was loooong gone.

Honestly, oat milk just meshes so well with the flavor profile of coffee. It depends on what drink you’re making, but in my experience, unless you’re making a caramel macchiato or a properly foamy cappuccino, oat milk lattes are perfect as they are.

Ex-cultist here. Specifically, fundamentalist Christian in the US.

So what we’re seeing here is a division between in-groups and out-groups, and drawing that circle closer as a means of guarding against valid criticism. Consider; the standard response of most cults when they are under attack is to double down on its assertions that it is telling the truth. Most cults are built with a persecution complex as key part of exploiting their believers.

This tactic triggers their emotional response to rally to the defense of their cause, because “We’re under attack! We’re being hunted! The Worst Thing Possible is going to happen, and it is THIS PERSECUTOR’S fault!” This also forces a false choice in members who are doubting the leadership, forcing them to either cut all social ties and side with the enemy (they are trained to see this as a fate worse than death) or rehearse their dogma and rally without question.

They turn the frickin’ frogs gay.

Literally, all of the South is. Atlanta and Austin are the only sane places on the entire northern half of the gulf.

Depends on the where and why.

In the Netherlands because you think it’s inadequate? No, the public education system there is exceptional, this is objectively the wrong position.

In the Deep South in the US because you feel the education system is inadequate, racist, corrupted by christofascism, and designed for failure? Based, there are plenty of good homeschool co-ops for parents with the same gripes.

In the Deep South because you think it isn’t loony enough and you want your kid to be a raging lunatic like you? Go fuck yourself. Seriously. Stop having children.

This one’s real, Kotaku did an article on it.

It’s real.

Correct.

Alright then, Edward Elric.

Like Elvis.

Free Ireland!

I’d like it better if its entire existence couldn’t literally be a prop in a dystopia novel. Ruthlessly exploiting malnourished cows and their calves, watered down to pad profits, jugged in plastic, extorting ungodly amounts of land and water resources, sold by a corporation that has a bigger bottom line than most sovereign nations, sold to the impoverished and brainwashed masses that fuel the very destruction of the only planet we fucking have.

That, and it’s 2%. Whole milk or no milk, and I will die on that hill.