They’re such adorable little genetic dead-ends!

[Pug noise]

It is a bit disturbing that we bred a dog variant with the ability to scream.

Explanation: Sir Alec Guinness played Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Episode IV. He also played the Emperor Marcus Aurelius in The Fall of the Roman Empire, a 1964 film.

It’s a bit mid, honestly, but has a rare depiction of the Germanic/Roman barritus warcry in a funeral scene.

If the admins are at some point distracted, or otherwise are unexpectedly removed from their ability to moderate for a time, and comms have no reliable moderators, then everything will be… well, unmoderated. Having active users as moderators, even if they currently don’t do much moderating compared to the admins, makes the moderation system as a whole more likely to survive any unforeseen events.

“Last gasps” is a strong word, but symptomatic of a weakening of misogyny in general society, yes. Time will tell if this weakening is another step towards crushing that particular bigotry, or if it’ll experience a second wind in these sickened circumstances.

Uh, then ‘no’.

I’m saying misogyny is, culturally, hundreds of generations deep.

I think the decline of misogyny is the reason. As it’s not as normalized as it once was, yet still a very powerful lingering thread in our culture, men are seeking validation for it where they would have otherwise found validation for misogyny, unasked for and unconditionally, in their everyday social circles in previous eras.

Always been a Clutch fan, but I’ve been listening to Three Golden Horns a lot the past few days.

Contrarianism. Being anti-“Popular Thing” just for the sake of being anti-“Popular Thing” marks you out as having no thoughts worth hearing out.

Explanation: It’s a common historical counterfactual for amateur history enthusiasts to ask “What if Nazi Germany had [insert technology here]?” as a means of creating alternate timelines where Nazi Germany won the war.

In reality, considering that the US was deeply concerned that the Nazis may have been getting close to nuclear weapons themselves (they were actually far behind the US project), any serious reversal of Allied fortunes in Germany probably would’ve ended up with the nukes being used on the Nazis instead of Imperial Japan.

Yes, to keep in contact with 6 people.

My dog tried a grapefruit once. It’s hard to describe just how cute and hilarious it was when he’d take a little lick, shiver from the bitterness and shy away, and then go in for another lick.

We also brought home a mineral ball once, a big one, and he found it something eminently attackable. He’d move to grab it with his mouth, realize it was too large or too hard to bite or carry, stop, paw at it, and repeat, like he was attacking a giant bug. (He also used to body slam stinkbugs into the carpet - less cute)

Oh, when he was young, my grandmother encouraged him to be a lapdog. Unfortunately, he was a bit too big for that. So as he grew up, he was big enough that he’d sit on my grandmother’s lap, but slowly slip off, and then jump back up to try again.

Oh, he’d also carry his food in his mouth out to the living room and drop it on the floor so he could eat ‘with’ us.

My grandparents’ dog used to sleep sandwiched between the pillows. If you walked by in the middle of the night, you’d see her little head poking out, eyes glistening and watching you as you made your way through the hallway. Never seemed to bother my grandmother’s sleep at all, having a little Pomeranian beneath her head all night.

She would also hop up on the back of the couch to get high enough to perch on my grandfather’s bald head. And he would let her.

2012. Cast a vote for Obama. Knew it didn’t mean much, living in a safe state, but I considered it my civic duty to participate.

Almost seems quaint, that Romney was seen as radical by many of us. I remember my objection at the time, that I felt Romney would damage democracy at home and abroad with his policies and strengthen the oligarchic class.

I mean, he would have. But that we weren’t immediately staring down a double barrel of fuckwadded fascism seems strange after having a decade of Trumpification of the GOP.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conium_maculatum#Toxicology

Hate driving cars. Love riding an e-bike.

In a car, I feel much more vulnerable, ironically. I’m a big chunk of metal that’s hard to miss if anything goes wrong, and that even minor mistakes will result in expensive damage.

What?

I also think he could have closed Guantanamo.

Apparently you don’t remember how that went either.

And I even think he could have bailed out the people that lost their houses and not the people that owned the houses.

Oh, sure, just pass an executive order for it, right?

I still think he should have nationalized the banks that failed and renamed them to “Bank A” and “Bank B.”

Jesus Christ man.

Crazy huh.

In desire, no; in perceptions of what the president has the power to do, yes.

If Obama had wanted it, he could have done it.

Lord.