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If a teenager can do the job, like we both did. Then it’s not a job with enough required skills to pay enough to support a family. Adults making poor choices or those that failed to gain enough skills to do more than flip burgers are going to have a hard life.

This is some Poe’s Law shit right here.

After three separate abortive tries at Stellaris, I think I’m finally on the right track to come up to a Crisis with a big enough fleet to handle it. All three member states of my federation are more powerful than any other state bar the two Fallen Empires, and my economy is humming along with >90% of the galaxy…

This is basically the one and only film in this genre that I’ve ever actually enjoyed, a fact which meant I didn’t bother to see it until years after it came out. 17 year old me sure could have used Heath Ledger’s little pep talk to JG-L, though I suppose I came out OK regardless.

Your use of “legally” in scare quotes is exactly where fascism starts. Sure, the “legal system” and the “government” and the “police” say “officially” that he didn’t do anything wrong, but we know better, don’t we? So the system won’t punish him “legally,” so it’s our moral duty to punish him extralegally.

If he broke the law, why isn’t he being prosecuted for it?  Why did they, you know, drop the charges?  Everyone else, from known Mafia guys to random puds on the street, is not responsible for reimbursing the legal system when that system drops the charges against them.  That’s what the rule of law is.  The system…

Extremely well, by all accounts.

In politics, the tripod is the most unstable of all structures.

I just giggled maniacally.

overreactions for things that don’t matter, and is fine either way

Yeah, I’ve lived almost my whole life in a part of the country where 95+% of the eggs on store shelves are brown.  White eggs just look wrong to me.

I watched this gif repeat like seven times waiting for the pitch before I realized it wasn’t coming. I guess I’m ready for some baseball!

My mom finishes every call with “God bless you.”

I have kind of ruined shitty music for my husband... Now he listens to the Pixies, the Clash

I’d nominate Evil Empire from Rage Against the Machine as the equivalent for mid-’90s angsty tween guys.

My first big print assignment was a piece of sponcon for a porno mag (yes, people used to buy them).

if you’re a card-carrying member of the umami army

Yeah, I left boiling pasta water in tupperware in the microwave behind in college, and I am not going back to that shit.  It’s nice that I don’t have to, and it’s fucked up as hell that people are.