His face really exemplifies my impression of the entire Boomer generation.

They’re obsessed with chasing aesthetics of wealth (tanning their skin) but are also too arrogant to reconsider their values in light of all the new knowledge we’ve discovered (using sunscreen). So they just end up with avoidable consequences (extra wrinkly), pissed off, and don’t even know why or how so they just take their angry out on everyone else.

True, it does happen.

I learned recently that your can cut the two vertices that form the base of triangle watermelon slices (so that the slice becomes a top-heavy pentagon) so that they don’t collide with people’s cheeks when they eat them. You can do it on quater-wedges before you make them into individual slices.

It’s seems so obvious but none of the adults around me did it growing up, lol.

Boo, but jihad just means holy war like Allah means God. I literally learned the word jihad from playing FF8. When do we take borrowed words literally versus phonetically?

I’m a first gen immigrant but despite having native American English, sometimes once in a blue moon I’ll encounter a semi-rare word I’ve yet to be exposed to.

So my closest analog is that I was confused for the longest time why people kept referring to statues of figures from shoulder level upwards as busts when they never had chests or breasts or boobs or blossoms or busts!

So for the longest time not only was I confused, I would be on the lookout for statuses that depicted from breast height upwards, but I never found one, lol.

Would it be in poor taste to call these people jihadist?

Oh I don’t doubt Alex Jones is still at it. I don’t follow closely at all to the conservative-sphere but they all absolutely incite stochastic terrorism.

And they all are quick to discard previous and current beliefs as if they never happened. It’s kind of crazy how efficient they all are at converging on the same new belief when the previous one becomes too indefensible.

Pm’ed you the site. I don’t want to draw more attention to it. I suspect the posting is highly curated anyway. It’s more of a bubble than r/conservative.

I sometimes visit the successor site of the_donald to see them erase their memories in real-time. They were 1000% sure it was a Dem black person yesterday. They even had insider info from police connections. Today it’s crickets and false flag.

(There’s always, always, without fail, accusations of false flags. From CIA, from FBI, from antifa, from George Soros, from Bill Gates. How do you even talk to people like this?)

This is completely unrelated but I cannot believe Calandra is a real world name.

The designers of the video game Path of Exile should’ve called their super rare item “Kalandra’s Barometer” instead of “Kalandra’s Mirror”.

The YouTube creator CGPGrey has a video that’s an easy to digest summary of power structures and the incentives throughout. It’s the answer to your question.

https://youtu.be/rStL7niR7gs

At this point it might just be.

Wut. Ofc they know it. They also know that their voters would never vote D either, no matter how bad things get for them.

The R senator of Kentucky has held a <20% approval rating but also his seat for decades. 9 out of 10 people in the state hate him with a passion and yet those same people vote for him again, and again, and again. It’s absurd, lool.

Yeah, we’re just less experienced and have fewer expectations when we’re young. We were much more impressionable then.

Guys in general are bad at portraying women, as I understand. That’s on top of being bad in general for Kojima, I think. There’s a funny interview with the MGS2 English translator Agness Kaku where she comments that the writing at times is high school fanfic level.

And she’s 100% justified. The older you get the more appearant it becomes that he’s bad at writing dialogue and story. He’s a tendency of using controvencies to create drama and it often falls flat, if not into eye-roll territory.

I could not stop cringing during Death Stranding. I had to fast forward the ending. I imagine Margaret Qualley being completely bewildered when they were capturing her character’s twin soul melding scene.