Uriel238 [all pronouns]

The first XKCD that comes to mind

Ellision sounds like the kind of guy that wants an unstoppable army of robot swarms.

Representative Jamie Raskin recently brought up the term neo-monarchy.

The opening scene to Apollo 13 (1995) features a party in Houston with NASA dudes as they gather around the television and Walter Cronkite announces as Neil Armstrong takes his first step on the moon. ( On YouTube )

I was not at that party, but I was at a party in Houston with NASA dudes as we watched the very first moon landing. My dad was a mission control guy with the black horn-rimmed glasses, white shirt and black tie, but Apollo 12, not 11 (Neil Armstrong) or 13 (the one that blew up and barely made it home).

I couldn’t walk yet, and I got that the space man on the screen was super important, but at the time I was missing a whole lot of context. The blanks would fill in with time, since the US was super proud of that moment. It’s my very first memory.

I’m trying to imagine how were going to get lions and bees to compete. I think all the lions want all the bees because they polinate the vert that their snacks eat.

And the lions regulate the animals that eat the plants the bees depend on.

It’s all good between lions and bees.

Kids figure out how to provide false positives in 3… 2… 1…

European aristocracy is scared of the working class. They will tremble…! < Bolshevik chorus swells >

Deep Rock Galactic Galaxy’s Finest!

I’m a greybeard with a crack crew but they get wreckless sometimes, and mining on Hoxxes is intrinsically dangerous. We don’t always make it back.

It took decades before Hasbro Easy Bake Ovens were marketed in the US in Yellow and Black rather than Mattel Barbie™️ Fuchsia Pink (💕) which is still the standard in US department stores. Curiously gender neutral colors started from demand in Sweden and expanded outward.

In the nineties, Barbie was built like only a select few Playboy Bunnies (Jessica Rabbit’s dimensions are physiologically impossible. A robot, maybe) and Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader action figures were ripped like He-Man (or soon-to-be Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger).

Gender roles are (to me) extremely weird.

The problem is dominance hierarchy, which expresses itself as patriarchy most of the time.

But not always, and places on this earth exist where a matriarchic hierarchy is similarly asserted.

Obligatorily, no war but class war.

…and a forgone conclusion (a Shakespearean phrase) used to mean a conclusion that could be ruled out as implausible.

It raises the question. The reason begs the question has become acceptable is specifically because English speakers used the term in error often enough to make it common.

Which is to say, when the President of the United States uses the phrase …which begs the question… in a speech, or a PHD academic uses it in a thesis in 2024, it’s fine. But nineth-grade grammar teachers all across the nation cringe when they hear it.

I meant similar to Joan of Arc, in that she chased the English out, but I’d be much happier for someone who wasn’t a religious saint.

For now, it’s Mad Sweeneys’ day, more or less.

I’m sorry. It came out years ago that Win 10 keylogged and told home all about it (justified as to improve our predictive typing software ) even though there were no promises in the ToS to limit its spyware use, I screamed about how the fucking sky is fucking falling, and now Windows 10 is in bunches of US businesses, and more than a few outside the US. It even says in the EULA MS will snitch on you to law enforcement about anything it feels like.

So yeah, all the people who have legitimate businesses that have real secrets (and break laws as a matter of course) have all wittingly chosen to give Microsoft all the biographical leverage MS needs to take over the world. (Some companies actually got their tech teams to defang the Win10 spyware. But more didn’t than did.)

Now I’m one of those 1960s hippies who screamed about the rising police state in the US to whom no one listened. Another Cassandra crying like a bainsidhe into the wind.

A fact is an observation made in nature. At 8:40 PM PDT I read from my kitchen thermometer 73°F. One datum.

So often people use the term fact to suggest something is true, e.g. Gravity is a scientific fact. It’s an easily demonstqble phenomenon. There’s a mathematical law that predicts the interval of falling bodies. You can make and present facts that demonstrate the consistency of gravity, but it isn’t a single fact in itself.

Recommended highly by Marie Antoinette. Allegedly.

Similarly, the Shamrock, (☘️) an important symbol for Saint Patrick’s Day has three leaves where most SPD kitch sold in the US features four-leaf clovers (🍀) an unrelated good luck symbol. I dont object because I feel Ireland needs a better iconic saint (and a better holiday) than the guy who brought the imperialist religion under which the native Irish would be subjugated.

They need someone like Joan of Arc who ran the English out (of settlements in France).

A proper Reuben features pickles, sauerkraut, corned beef, Swiss cheese and Russian dressing. Most restaurants will replace the pickles and Russian dressing with Thousand Island dressing. Blasphemers.

Don we now our gay apparel

And we’ll all feel gay when Johhny comes marching home

Deutchland is happy and gaaaaaaay!

we’ll have a gay old time

Gay refers to party happiness. Places where Celebrate by Kool and the Gang would be played as a reference. Places where people dance to disco. Places where the Grinch would look on and feel embittered.

Literally can mean literally ( My girlfriend literally stabbed me in the back. I’m bleeding out and need an ambulance. )

It can also mean emphatically ( My girlfriend stabbed me in the back. She emptied my bank account, shot my dog and left town with my best friend. )

I won’t use it in the latter way, and will sometimes use the adjective proverbial ( proverbially ) if my metaphor could be plausibly read as literal. ( I could drive to Maryland and assassinate Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh for a fresh cruller right now. )

I have a different issue.

A hot dog is a Frankfurt sausage or frankfurter in the United States. Frankfurters were notorious in the sausage scene for having the Frankfurt bend. You’ve probably seen this bend on fancier sausages like Louisiana Hot Links, or Chicken Pineapple. But US hot dogs, whether Ball Park or Oscar Meyer or whatever are these straight things.

Hot dogs are no longer hot dogs.

For the first six months, I’d be very very sad, and that is not accounting for the additional shopping time. Maybe if I had a vegen chef to help me transition.

That said, my meat intake is probably below average, but I am a cheese junkie.