This is the kind of exit that more or less ensures this man will never work in politics again—until he runs for office himself, at which point if there is any justice in the world at all, he should be swept to victory on an absolute torrent of popular support.

Mr. Arnold is a fucking hero, and his exit—while…

fun piece of trivia! one of the reasons the US lost the Vietnam war was that the higher-ups got obsessed with the idea that the Viet Minh must have had some kind of central command location, a “bamboo pentagon.” they expended vast amounts of energy to trying to find and bomb this definitely-had-to-exist location, on…

Pretty sure you also need to add mentos.

It definitely appears to be that the stickbox that Nintendo purchases for use in joycons are defective.

Man, you’re so smart, of course not one person out of all the people experiencing this issue have tried to fix it with simple remedies. Or have tried cleaning it after taking it apart.  They’ve all just sat around and complained without researching the problem.

My dad works at Nintendo too.

“the streets of New Hampshire" is not a phrase I ever considered.

tl;dr - one can be held in ‘häkte’ (custody before trial) for years in Sweden, although it is not very common. I do not know of a strictly formal limit to the possible length of the ‘häkte’ custody.

So, (not so) shortly:

“the very talented Prime Minister of Sweden”

Frank Herbert, Dune

i wish this was true and would watch a movie about the teleportation riots of the 90s 

Okay, mine is lame (I have a birthday the day before a holiday and they told me the holiday was everyone celebrating me), but my mom’s is hilarious.

You can be religious and not be an antagonistic asshole. So long as they’re not espousing regressive, right-wing ideologies it’s not that big of a deal if they’re religious.

It’s not like Boeing could force airlines to buy the plane and then pay to have those pilots trained up to the new standards. The airlines simply would not have bought the plane.

Between the years of 2004 and 2008, the Democratic Party convinced 10.5 million more people to pull the lever for them, then let about 3.5 million of them go.

I managed to stay unspoiled for years before watching season one and I do believe it’s thus far amazing as a standalone series. Season two had some great sequences and individual episodes, but as a whole it was messy and did not explore the things it needed to since everyone is on the move the whole series.

My best friend/sister voted for trump and it hurt me so fucking much it was hard to talk to her. It is still hard to talk to her about a lot of things, even though I KNOW she regrets it.

Another position (which is the one I run into with my Trump-voting female coworker) is that they stay willfully ignorant of the news. They act like the current political climate is just “so toxic” and “so complicated” and so irrelevant to their actual lives that they can’t even bother to care. So when asked about…

I co-sign all of this. I liked the end of season 2, but getting through it was torture. Season 1 is one of the best things that ever happened on television. 

Unfortunately your talking points are out of date.