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after months of relatively safe masked-on grocery shopping, I imagine that some people are ignorant of the differences between a quick grocery run and sitting in an A/C stew of shed viruses for 2 hours. purely based on my Facebook, I’m ok with any kind of assumptions about ignorance.

I was considering picking this up as a wild change of pace and uh

co-signing this, because I am not an MMO player, but being able to walk through a a beautiful elven city, and explore the plains of Rohan, really did something for the 12 year old kid in me who used to fantasize about visiting middle earth.

How many of them were in THPS? I only see 1 otoh.

What was your favorite white phosphorus war crime?

parasocial relationships are weird as shit

the main issue seems to be ventilation spreading viruses. being in a grocery store for a short period? ok sure.

loud and proud dog

it’s a silly battleroyale. it’s definitely part of the game to troll a little.

My guess, is there is litigation or threat of litigation involved.

Bummer. It’s becoming pretty clear the interesting parts of the site are clearing out or getting fewer articles dedicated to them. The churned out (probably because of tight deadlines!) navel gaze-y articles are really bumming me out. I miss Gita and Jason when they were allowed to do longform.

I give it a few weeks before the sex assault allegations drop 

Ew...they replace the Ford-ism with a central AI? I thought the most impactful part of the book was how humans created such a machinelike and inhumane existence.

I found the problem

Now playing

Folding Ideas on Youtube had a great video essay on this subject. It’s a solid 40 minutes, but I loved it even as someone who never played

I’ve always been fascinated by the journeymen of soccer leagues. The guys who start 1-2 times on Chelsea, then go on to headline for some champion’s league team. You can keep your Messi’s and Ronaldo’s, I’m more interested in the Brazilian second leaguer Ronaldinho

if they are going to expose thousands of people to risk for no benefit during a deadly pandemic can they at least make it less noticable!!!!

piracy is cool. sorry nerd.

a nice new $300 million dollar roadmap well invested

360 no-scope apartheid flick.