He’s not a lanyard so he’s at least nominally exposed to reality. Sits in the perfect Venn intersection of lanyard and normal guy

Sure, but all that shit the chuds want to like, like Lady Ballers or this Twitter Norm show, it’s basically devoid of value and only gets watched out of spite. They want legitimacy and cultural impact but chud media simply doesn’t have the ability to do that because it rejects having any humanity. It’s media made out of spite, they’ll pump the numbers to make it look like a win, spitefully, and it’ll go into the memory hole a month later having done nothing. South Park, while being crass and artless is at the very least enduring, and it believes everything they do too.

South Park’s ideological bent is more or less “Caring about things is stupid, you are stupid for having opinions” which is just support for the status quo.

Isn’t this a much older 4chan meetup pic?

Ankh Morpork was supposed to be a parody

They don’t plow into the ground. They enter it in a perfect vertical akin to top Olympic divers, and to claim any less is libel

I know adobe has particularly smooth brained execs but this seemed like a blatantly obvious bad idea. Adobe software is used by every big company and they do not have the resources to field five thousand lawsuits from everyone in the Fortune 500 simultaneously

Eastern North American Destroying Angel. Half a mushroom is enough to completely destroy your liver and symptoms show up too late to do anything about them

To hold no opinion is to support the status quo as it stands

Doing a Red Dawn or whatever that movie is in Miami to secure a beachhead for the Cuban vanguard

If both China and Russia are invading the US at the same time, surely they’d be doing so together, and doing so across the Bering Strait? Or is it vital for Russia to conquer Florida?

He had an apartment given to him by a friend and had health insurance

Oh easy, give them indoor housing

We need a burning flag emoji specifically for Texas

Government measurably improves standard of living, people continue to support government. I’m shocked

Anyone working with dates and times was cursed in a past life. Timezones are a pain to work with. Daylight savings sucks. Some countries change daylight savings at different times. Some countries change timezones sometimes. Go further back and some countries had their own leap days. Different calendars don’t form neat cycles and must be manually synchronized every few years. Did you know Easter, for about 300 years, needed to be announced by the Pope each year because it was a lunar holiday based on a Jewish calendar but the Christians followed a different one? Also, every now and again we throw a leap second into the computers because the Earth’s rotation is gradually slowing down and 365/366 days isn’t quite precise enough anyways.

In the era of classical and early modern literature, it was not uncommon to encounter sentences that unfurled like intricate tapestries, woven with clauses, phrases, and asides that nested within each other like Russian dolls, each turn and twist of syntax guiding the reader through complex arguments and detailed narratives, and this penchant for prolixity, this delight in the elaborate and the exhaustive, was not merely a stylistic choice but a reflection of the times, for in an age when books were scarce, and reading was a leisure pursued by the few, each sentence had to carry the weight of a paragraph, each paragraph the substance of a chapter, with authors like Henry James and Marcel Proust spinning sentences that stretched over pages, their clauses strung together with a maze of commas, semicolons, and dashes, leading the reader through convoluted paths of thought and emotion, and this style, this grandiloquent mode of expression, served not only to demonstrate the writer’s mastery over language but also to engage the reader’s attention and intellect in an intimate dance of comprehension and reflection, whereas today, in the digital age, where information bombards us from screens of all sizes, where the pace of life has accelerated and attention spans have shortened, writing has adapted to this new reality, becoming more direct, more concise, more fragmented, mirroring the rapid-fire exchange of texts and tweets, favoring clarity and brevity over complexity and depth, a shift that reflects not a degradation of language but an adaptation to the changing modes of communication and consumption, a reflection of our times where efficiency is prized over eloquence, where readers no longer have the luxury of languishing over lengthy sentences but instead demand quick, accessible information, leading to a landscape of writing that values the punchy over the ponderous, the succinct over the sprawling, a trend that, while lamented by some as the downfall of literature, is merely the latest evolution in the ever-changing story of language and expression, demonstrating once again that writing, like all forms of art, is a mirror to the society and the times in which it is produced.

Leaping from a joke sentence to whatever that was like playing Olympic floor is lava

Yeah, it’s called linguistic compounding. English is the odd one out here in the Germanic family since all of the others let you jam nouns together to create more specific nouns. You can do it in a lot of Asian languages too, and north American indigenous languages. Finnish and Russian.

German isn’t particularly special for being able to form natural compound words like that. Every Germanic language can do it as well as Greenlandic, just off the top of my head, but Germany has a longer history of schools of philosophy