Can it be any worse than what we have going on right now?

You had me at Cavill.

Do you want fat bees? Because this is how you get fat bees.

Ok~maybe I want fat bees.~

Damn, this is Valmond’s second post I’ve seen today that he just completely talks out of his ass.

His other post got a bunch of upvotes, so I guess it is working for him. :/

Or,…orrrrr, you can own the fact that you’ve let a bunch of Nazi storm trooper wannabes kidnap/terrify innocent people, break the law, murder people, create concentration camps, (the list goes on), and allow controls to be put in place to prevent this bullshit.

If you were on the street,Ted, they’d dump your ass in a camp too.

This made me wonder what it would actually look like.

It would be so big, would it curve around with the Lagrange point?

Would it be significant enough to see with the naked eye?

Would we see ripples or waves cause by other gravitational forces. Could it be used to detect gravitational waves?

That would be cool. Except the whole, “not seeing the moon anymore” thing.

Can you imagine the energy you would need to keep something like that from drifting off and or bunching up under its own mass?

Exactly.

It’s always an unknown factor at other places. Some of them you feel like you are taking your life in your own hands.

But Buc-ees is always a guaranteed a clean experience.

Judges others

Gets mad when others do the same to them

That’s actually pretty ignorant and judgemental. That statement sounds so MAGA.

Setting aside the U.S.'s current political disposition for the moment.

The U.S. has always been a huge melting pot of different peoples of the world. A lot of those people would stay together, creating little islands of culture all over.

They would celebrate their culture and often celebrate other people’s culture along with them. (I have been told that the U.S. celebrates Cinco De Mayo way more than Mexico ever did.)

A lot of it comes from asserting your own culture identity against this broad mixing pot. Or even asserting it against active suppression. Some of it is evolved tradition over the generations.

Many people value their ancestral roots and like to celebrate it.

Saying America has no history is so ethnocentric.

The U.S. is made up of immigrants from the entire globe. The U.S.'s history shares its history with every other nation of the world.

I love that there are so many different festivals, from different cultures, all the time. Houston is in Texas, but it is a massively diverse city. We named a highway after a Sikh policeman who had been murdered in the line of duty. The city (county maybe) even lets us sell fireworks for Diwali. There are Greek festivals all over. (Yes it has a terribly racist past, and it is considered the human trafficking capital of the U.S., fuck you big oil.)

I have never had someone introduce themselves to me as a <culture>-American. But plenty of people will talk about their ancestral culture if you ask.

I guess if you live in a monoculture, then you may not value that culture identity as strongly as you might when your ancestral culture is just one of a thousand.

Diversity is king. If someone wants to let their cultural freak flag fly, who the hell are you to judge?

Right.

And what do you know about editorial controls or how journalism has worked in the last 20 years?

Wake up. The decline has already happened. It’s now a game of compromise.

You want to complain and whine like these guys are sitting on a beach, sipping mai thais, while telling their AI agents to write an article.

It’s ignorant and inflammatory. Just makes y’all look petulant.

My point still stands.

You can argue that EVERY fucking thing in the world is in the beginning , mid, or late stages of enshittification.

But calling Ars an internet rot site, at this stage, is just fucking stupid.

Are they as good as they were a few years ago? I honestly can’t say. I do know that there was better news a few years ago.

The people at Ars have a tough job trying to navigate this modern world of oligarchs and autocracy, keeping their identity, while being owned by a corporation whose only job is to make money.

They’ve done a pretty good fucking job, all things considered, of staying their course.

A much better job than internet assholes who want to act elitist and whine when the world falls apart around them while they blame their fellow class instead of the controlling class.

Weren’t you whining about other people making comments like this one to you?

No, the issue we are talking about today and calling Ars an “internet rot site” is a huge leap. Yeah, they post shit articles from Wired and such, (they are owned by Conde Nast), but their core writers are still great and have plenty of good articles.

You want credit for what? Over exaggerating an issue then whining about it?

You are throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and then spitting on the baby. It makes no sense.

You mean just Terry Pratchett, right? 😢

I agree, Ben probably would have indulged and not cared about using it to his advantage.

Hamilton and Jefferson were absolutely cold blooded in their political pursuits and use of published letters. They would have used any opportunity to cut the other down. Maybe mutually assured destruction would have stayed their hands on that particular indulgence, though Hamilton did famously out his own affair to clear himself of the embezzlement allegation.

Not all. Pretty sure John Adams would not have been.

Hamilton and Jefferson would probably have written most of them though, about each other.

My anecdotal experience.

I was in SERE school, in the US Navy.

We were in the field portion of the training, the low mountains of SoCal.

I would periodically get this weird, almost bitter smell. Fast forward a day and I realized the smell was when there was an ant on me.

I don’t know if it was a combo of the environment, the type of ant, the lack of food or showering for a few days, but it was pretty reliable.

After SERE was over, I have never experienced it again.

Yeah, this one hurt.

Good Omens too. Can I pretend it was written entirely by Pratchett?

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Oh shit I didn’t realize this was Cowbee!