Eric Kripke: We need a cutaway kissing scene. No! Not like that! Wait, wait, wait…yes…exactly like that.

Hmm, I thought top left was Orgasmo, top middle was Ermagherd, and bottom left was Gas Station Shelob

I love it that the norms are shifting. Can’t let the asskissers win.

There’s a well-studied phenomenon called “social diffusion”. People of higher socioeconomic status seek out novel, unique, or fashionable baby names and start using them. These names gradually get picked up by families of lower socioeconomic status. Eventually the names become mainstream, and then finally decline in popularity.

Lemmy’s clippy.

I’m getting older, have few weapons and only paintball experience. So I’m of no use in combat. I’m fairly certain foreign powers would get involved, and I’d be curious to see what they do. Getting accurate news and info is difficult right now. I imagine it would be near impossible during a 2nd civil war.

I never liked the guy. I’m not smarter than the average person. I just grew up around folksy, phobic fascists like him, and saw right through his paper thin veneer. I think the subset of liberals who embraced him for 30 seconds simply heard what they wanted to hear and saw what they wanted to see. It happens. Politicians con people all the time.

Cognitive dissonance doesn’t register with the cultists.

Settle down, Dennis Reynolds.

My stupid mental trick for keeping these straight: fewer potatoes means less mashed potatoes.

Ree-ul-tor is fine. It’s people who say “rea-LUH-tor” that sound wrong to my ears. They put the “L” in the wrong place.

I’ve worked in various and sundry IT jobs for over 35 years. In every job, they paid a lot of lip service and performed a lot box-checking towards cybersecurity, disaster recovery, and business continuity.

But, as important as those things are, they are not profitable in the minds of a board of directors. Nor are they sexy to a sales and marketing team. They get taken for granted as “just getting done behind the scenes”.

Meanwhile, everyone’s real time, budget, energy, and attention is almost always focused on the next big release, or bug fixes in app code, and/or routine desktop support issues.

It’s a huge problem. Unfortunately it’s how the moden management “style” and late stage capitalism operates. Make a fuss over these things, and you’re flagged as a problem, a human obstacle to be run over.

The way most people in my region pronounce the words “jewelry” and “realtor” really annoys me. I’m in the tiny minority who pronounces them the way I do, so I never say anything. But the locals almost all add a “LUH” to the middle. It’s an extra syllable that just isn’t in the spelling.

They say jew-LUH-ree and ree-LUH-ter. I pronounce these jewel-ree and reel-ter. I’m absolutely delighted when I hear someone say them the “correct” way, like I do.

Similar thing for how most around here say the year. When people say “two thousand and twenty-four” it grinds my gears. Just say “twenty twenty-four”, FFS.

Per capita might want to have a word…

B-b-but we consume and pollute the most!

USA! USA!

While the USA is a relatively young country, it’s oddly one of the oldest democracies.

I believe most other democracies have better-written laws and better checks and balances because, in part, of mistakes the founders made when writing the US constitution (which was always a highly imperfect compromise, allowed for slavery, and had to be ammended several times just to patch it up).

Hopefully someone more knowledgeable will chime in. But I think the shitshow we call the SCOTUS is somewhat unique.

Niche <> bad.

Lemmy is missing:

• Bots
• Karma farmers
• Ads
• Insane mods
• Fucking Spez

You know you’re right, we’re nothing like reddit!!

Well, that’s what I get for punching down on our gumbo-eating friends.

On the internet, nobody knows you’re the 43rd president, just trying to put food on your family.