From what I’ve heard from politics reporters, Starmer has been a dead man waling since Galton &. Denton. The reasons he’s not yet gone are a) Labour don’t want to go through the messiness of a change of leader just before elections, and b) they need someone they can get rid of after they’re wiped out in the upcoming elections

I mean, chess is an esport these days

An adage that i found helps: never argue with an idiot, because the best possible outcome is that you will win an argument against an idiot

To put it a slightly different way- think about what you’re doing and why. Will it achieve anything? Will anybody find it useful? Will it enrich your life? Or are you just chasing a cheap, hollow, short-lived dopamine hit?

Add to that the fact that nowadays there’s a reasonable chance that you’re interacting with a chatgpt prompt designed to farm engagement, and it should become relatively easy to have those “…what am i doing?” moments

Pretty Baby, on the other hand…

Not because it’s too controversial, but because dead school children have lost their shock value in the US

Scream 7 did actually change it up a bit, and most of the interactions with the killer were done over FaceTime

Even if you cast an East Asian actor, i don’t think you could do Charlie Chan films, given how he’s a ” Yellow Peril “ stereotype. Even Marvel had to make their equivalent character a deliberately racist stereotype played by an actor

Ckarky Cat

https://youtu.be/5AhdVATR9oo

Progressivism is why he’s allowed to be married to a white woman

Worth pointing out that this is the shark lineage and not modern sharks. Sharks have evolved a lot over the last several hundred million years

In the same sense, jellyfish are older than sharks, and sponges are the oldest still-extant animal lineage. Or just sounds cooler to say sharks

6 years until demolition man? I’ll take that

A for Horses

B for Mutton

C for Yourself

D for Dumb

E for Brick

F for Vessence

G for

H for

I for One

J for Oranges

K for

L for Leather

M for

N for

O for God’s Sake

P for

Q for Ages

R for Mo

S for

T for Baghdad

U for Mism

V for

W for

X for Breakfast

Y for

Z for

Can’t remember the rest. I feel like Y should be really obvious, but I’ve not even thought about this since I was a kid

What I’m saying is that record sales have been unprofitable for artists for a long time, so Spotify hasn’t really moved the needle on that point

Metaprogression is the same, in many cases. You don’t advance because your skill is increasing or because you’ve accomplished anything, it’s essentially “you’ve played for x amount of time, we’re going to create the illusion of progression by allowing you to upgrade your stats”

Live shows and merch have been the way artists make money since before streaming was a thing

This Thursday is already in the future. It has no meaning of you say it on a Friday. Then it’s ”this Thursday coming“ or just “Thursday coming”

At least here in the UK that’s the only way I’ve ever heard it used

I used to go out with someone who lived in a commune, which operated how you describe here - everybody gets a say in every decision. It was very equitable, but nothing *ever * got done. Part of the roof was falling down and the exposure to the elements was damaging the building at that point. The longer it was exposed the more damage was being done. The wall was starting to crumble. If it fell down it could damage as-yet undamaged parts of the building. A couple of families had already had to move to a different part of the building

At that point it had been 10 years and no decisions had been made. No decisions were close to being made. Their home was literally being destroyed and potentially endangering people -they were and had been no issues more pressing - and nothing has been done for a decade

That was ~15 families living together. And you think it’s feasible to scale that up to millions of people by increasing the group size and number of steps?

I’m being the dude after 4 months

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