JayleneSlide @ JayleneSlide @lemmy.world

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ENJOY YOUR FUCKING HOLIDAYS! I HOPE IT'S HOG-CRANKING, TOP-EVERYTHING RANKING! AROOOOOO!

AND, UH, SERIOUSLY... WISHING YOU ALL THE BEST!!!

The North Carolina! So many childhood days spent touching everything I could.

"Reached the clearing at the end of the path" - Stephen King, "Dark Tower"

In the process of dying: "Circling the drain."

We lack the will.

Kinda, although I fully agree with everything else you said. Collective action is really difficult even when the government isn't running COINTELPRO-like operations on anyone who tries to organize anything like a mass protest. For an example of the challenge of collective action, think about how hard it is to get your group of close friends to agree on which restaurant to go to and when. And that's when everyone wants to hang out together, with nobody intentionally mucking up the works.

If we can overcome the "internal" hurdles to collective action, we can take back the country.

Right?! I once read somewhere that Eco researched "Foucault's Pendulum" for 25 years. Yep, that reads like a 25 year long research paper. :D

I had a 2-hour train commute, each way. I managed to get through all of his novels and essays in about a month of commuting.

Right there with ya. Tolkien's expository wanking is legendary. I put Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn up there with Tolkien for their excess of exposition.

Repeatedly using a blatantly false assertion is called the Big Lie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie). The derailing/zone flooding aspect, as @NOT_RICK@lemmy.world stated, is a Gish Gallop (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop). There might be a term for using these together, but I am not aware of of what it might be.

I still want to visit the alternate timeline where Lucas didn't cave to fan pressure. And the big reveal in Ep 3 is that Jar Jar is revealed to be the Sith Lord. Could Lucas have pulled off a Shyamalan-level surprise? We'll never know.

First of all, fucking LOL at Google Gemini being secure.

Look, I'm all for hating on AI. I also have zero love for any of the tech giants. But this is a just plain ignorant statement. Google and most every cloud services provider have sovereign cloud offerings. Accessing any data above Unclassified is progressively more difficult. Humans are the weak link in the security chain.

Screw your Ripley-Riddick movie. Let Ripley stay dead. Oh, who I am kidding? I'd totally go see your movie in the theater. At least twice. :D

Now, if there were a Riddick-Xeno crossover with Mae, Zula Hendricks, and The Jackals, I'd be all over that (too).

Now that you mention it, a lack of sexual uptightness seems generally anomalous in the US.

Wait, is it really that rare to have a friend group with whom porn gets shared? My friends and I, men and women, share our favorite porn finds all the time. It's not for shock value, but sharing things we genuinely enjoy, much like a cool song, a great recipe, or an engaging book.

And my hammer... https://www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a63905108/california-kelp-forest-urchin-cull/

• Username checks out
• This guy motorcycles
• 300 pounds?! That kind of load was very noticeable on my FJR!

Also, thank you for the thorough breakdown.

Are Crocs with socks Gentoo?

A handful of my co-workers are Gentoo loyalists, and they wear CwS year-round. Contrary to the stereotype of CwS being the strongest possible birth control, these dudes are beating back the female suitors with a stick.

There was a downtempo version of the song with more inflected voiceovers, around 2001 or 2002. I lost the video in a hard drive crash. If anyone happens to have this version, would they care to share?

Some people get their validation from sex. They might not even like the sex. In fact they probably don’t enjoy it but they do like that bit of validation.

It took me a few decades to get perspective, but then I encountered people with commitment issues, some of the more chaotic attachment style variants, and various traumas. "Ah, now I understand. You do you and be safe out there, neighbor."

If they were, “are”, “of” and “and” likely wouldn’t be capitalized.

Yep, you're right. I missed those.

There are lots of different style guides

I was reluctant to say anything about Chicago, APA, etc.

Totally weird possibility: the author is following the actual grammar rules trying poorly to follow a style guide for capitalization of titles.

Edit: as @hikaru755@lemmy.world pointed out, I totally missed that words were capitalized for which no style guide advises capitalization.

Oh, gawd, it's a special kind of hell. My partner and I were ENM when we met, but mutually decided we preferred monogamy (long story). Over the past summer, we decided to dip our toes back into having sidepieces. And our tolerance for modern dating bullshit lasted all of three weeks.

We're not monogamous because of societal norms; we're monogamous because of zero tolerance for the state of dating. 😆