I was going to share this over the weekend but the screenshot thread was on hiatus.

The hot second someone else’s kink squicks me out, I think about my own kinks and realize I do not want to go down that road to whataboutism.

*doorbell rings*

Also completely true, but irrelevant and more than a little racist as a means of deflecting the discussion.

And if you’re splitting the split hairs, you’d point out that gunpowder only makes bullets go really fast because the chamber of a firearm contains the explosion and directs the pressure so that it propels the bullet down the barrel of the gun and toward the target.

I agree with you on that point, but I also think JFK was on to something when he said “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

Guns don’t kill people. Bullets kill people. Guns just make bullets go really fucking fast.

I had two simultaneous reactions.

“Or maybe the pendulum will swing the other way as it will always do eventually.”

“instead, they’re just waiting for America to do their jobs for them and set their client free—and it might just work.”

I’m getting my first armload of Mister Not Applicable (Mr. NA/mRNA, har har ain’t I clever?) on Wednesday. Second dose to follow sometime later. Me no longer worrying that I’m going to get COVID, get acute myocarditis as a secondary complication, and die of something I barely survived in 2015 (emergency heart surgery,…

I ditched Facebook in 2018 and Twitter in 2020.

I have a comically large amount of available credit—if I’m busting out the credit card, it’s either for a major purchase with one of my cards’ “6 months same as cash” special financing...or life has gone completely off the rails and I’m tapping credit to staunch the bleeding lest I end up homeless (this happened in…

Still a week away from Total War: Rome Remastered, which looks to be my first non-DLC new-game purchase of the year (and only my second 2021-release purchase after Euro Truck Simulator 2: Iberia 10 days ago.)

I get out of weddings the old-fashioned way; by pointing out that having me at your wedding is a guarantee your marriage will end in an angry divorce and you’ll end up hating each other for the rest of your life. Or worse, having me at your wedding will ensure that either the bride or the groom will die young. Every…

People believe anything that agrees with their ideology, and they’ll spread it far and wide to tell everyone else how virtuous they are. Virtue signaling has replaced critical thinking and honest discourse, and it’s a sign of the impending Information Age Collapse that historians will pore over in 5200 the way we look…

“while macros are a sticky subject, you should investigate to find a fair solution.”

My biggest bone to pick with it is the toxic-by-MMO-standards community, baked into the design of how PvP rewards work in the game. There are things Rare got right—not making it so complex that it’s “EVE on Earth” should be any MMO designer’s watchword unless they’re deliberately courting the super-ultra-hardcore…

“The bill itself does not provide for this, though there are separate efforts in Washington State to implement a road usage fee.”

I’ve seen Rob on a couple of other channels (he did the debrief section of that 9-Hole video I mentioned, and he did a Lessons Learned video about the Boer War with Bloke on the Range.) I should watch more of his videos on his actual channel.