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School busses, like as a boy I was vaguely aware it wasn’t common outside the US but it only really sunk in as I got older. 

The very core base of the MAGA movement is not remotely as decent as Puzzle is. Shift is Trump and Ginger makes a good representation for the various Republican politicians and other elites who have cynically allied with Trump for their own ends, though.

The rivalry I get as being necessary for movie drama to have slightly more interesting characters, though I’m not quite happy with how well it was executed. It’s natural for there to be tension. This is a hot take though.

The Susan/Caspian romance though? Ah ha ha….am quite sure I will never be used to that.

Honestly I actually knew of him from Jeeves and Wooster long before I ever knew of House, because my family watched those when I was younger.

Even now I honestly don’t think of him as House, because House is so different from Bertie Wooster that it’s actually jarring when I’m watching House and suddenly remember that this is the same guy who brought Bertie Wooster to life. 

A...a single penny? If I want to get socked in the jaw, maybe. That would be such an insult you'd be better off not tipping at all.

Only US jets downed are the ones Kuwait's air defenses accidentally shot down. US Servicemembers killed were Army personnel on Gulf bases.

Morality of the war aside, there are geopolitical objectives that could theoretically be accomplished in a war on Iran. The problem is Trump has no plan and is just letting Israel strike indiscriminately, including hitting a school. The war is partly being fought on orders from Israel, and that pisses me off, but we have agency and our leaders committed to this themselves.

Sometimes I wonder why we keep this sub up.

This mean the less freedom with more wars! Like, this not a good thing? 

Evil creature stealing all the banner slots from the Veritas pajama designs 

Was kinda disappointed when I learned Quacks, among other odd storytelling choices, didn’t go the yuri route 

No, it’s just more efficient. My dad keeps some stuff in the bathroom cupboard and my mom keeps a little of her stuff in the cabinet below her sink, but it’s more for the extra space and the efficiency (they can both brush their teeth and all that at the same time). To be frank though, this is something I seldom think about because I’m seldom home these days and also have very little interest in my parents’ bathroom habits.

I can say however that, assuming I get the house if I marry, I intend to do the same setup because it’s just easier to have separate sinks. Sharing a bathroom with my sister when we were growing up became more and more of a hassle the older we got 

I know quite a few ex-Catholics, including a good buddy of mine, who have found a home in Episcopal congregations. You’ll find that a lot of the base theology is similar to Catholic outlooks but without the dogmatic rigidity, excessive adherence to extra-Biblical traditions, and more exclusive tendencies (crucially, any Christian may take Communion at an Episcopal service as opposed to the exclusive ones at Catholic services). 

I want to see a firm ending for SWTOR’s timeline, since the game itself will likely never fully resolve its story beyond the vague implication that the Sith Empire of that era obviously collapses long before 2000 BBY.

Or more stuff about the post-Endor warlords’ feuds with each other, the mainline Remnant, and the New Republic. We see bits of this in the X-Wing novels and reference materials like the Atlas and Warfare expand on it, but there’s a serious dearth of stories set in that context 

Oh you mean in the bathroom? Uh I guess it’s just to keep everyone’s toiletries separate, like that’s why my mom and dad have two sinks their very large bathroom.

The character work is very good, it doesn’t shy away from how awful the Four are as people but they’re still lovable and deeper than you’d think. Especially in the later LN volumes it becomes clear that even Aqua has more under the surface than she appears to.

I’ve seen it called Isekai Seinfeld, which is true, but unlike Seinfeld having a core cast of four people who sorta kinda try to pretend to be good people but are actually very very terrible human beings (or just obliviously destructive in Kramer’s case), Konosuba has a core cast of four people who are pretty blatantly terrible people (in fact, they’re proud of it!) but actually are much kinder and more moral than they appear when you really look at them.

Yeah Lady Aslan is a non issue, that has no impact on the themes of Narnia. Christ is a human man in our world but a lion in Narnia; there’s nothing lost if He is also a female lion. Aslan was always a representation of the Son and having a female Son of God in Narnia doesn’t alter the core themes of the work. There are, again, other concerns regarding how Gerwig handles the themes of Narnia but I don’t think a female Aslan is an inherently negative choice. I would be more hesitant if the same were done to Diggory, Polly, Eustace, Jill, and/or any of the Pevensie siblings though. (That said, if she does make it all the way to The Last Battle I would like a different phrasing regarding why exactly Susan turned away from Narnia instead of “yeah she uhh makeup or something”)

I see zero reason to believe this.

I'm exhausted of having to be anti-Trump, maybe Trump should give being a terrible person a rest.

You're not going to Minnesota, which is where their aggression is really ramped up. And even that has failed.

You will most likely be fine. If you're super terrified, feel free to make sure you have the number of the nearest Australian consulate on hand (since it's NY I assume there is the full embassy to the United Nations, maybe they do regular consular duties for tourists too?). But you're unlikely to be randomly detained by DHS thugs.

I mean, Trump is obviously insane and threatening them for no reason, but no Canadians always disliked us.

Good lord no. Any reflections on past failures or misdeeds, any admittance of wrongdoing, is only for things many many years in the past and only half-hearted self-serving mangled repetition of criticisms all of his observers have made for years 

Please God, force John Nexxon to give me Pajama Chihiro and Pajama Hare 

r/immigration is a good place to look for info, sorry but a lot of us are fairly disconnected from how the visa system and USCIS work because it’s quite literally something we never need to worry about 

There are some pieces of shit in th military, the Marine base on Okinawa has a huge problem with guys who badly mess with the locals…I think the Pentagon, State Department, and Japanese government were working together to clamp down on that finally 

Afghanistan, famously a country where we currently have military bases 

I don’t support it but I hope it does work out for the people of Iran nonetheless

Because yuri, duh!

Depends on the source. Like MAGA arrogance seems utterly blind to the nation's flaws, including the ones they are responsible for or are contributing to. But by and large? Most contemporary portrayals of America exaggerate the negatives so to be frank, I guess my answer is that it's not as bad as it's made out to be, far better.

okay yeah I'm so glad I'm not the only one who though tit sounded like AI

no? what?

The stuff about China cropping up again and again seems to be another confirmation of the longstanding rumors that Clyde was played by an asian-american kid

I can't see Croix being attracted to men

dawg look at my hospital staff immma fuggin die

I never thought I'd need to see Char/Garma yuri in my life but oh my god

The Cade movies were an odd departure from tradition in being less focused on his incredibly vague yet also terribly blunt political views, but I think this new one will probably stay on that trend since it looks like another rehash of Double Down

You can't say this when the entire Party Sequence from Pass Thru exists

The guy who shows up out of nowhere at the part scene at the end, he only exists because his lines were originally for the character of Peter and Peter's actor has existing commitments that Tommy knew about but did not plan around.

Don’t worry about it. If you plan too much, it may not come out right.

The thing I’m curious about is if they included Steven as a character or not. Since the original script never had a Steven and the character only came about because they needed someone to read Peter’s lines after Kyle Vogt’s scheduled filming slot was over, despite Tommy knowing full well that deadline existed. Do they treat the existence of Steven as part of the script they are adapting or one of the many production errrors they are avoiding?

The issue at hand isn't appreciating yuri that way, it's being a creep who fetishizes lesbians and sees yuri as another way to do so.

Man poor Suzumi, she was one of the starter four and then the devs all but forgot her for literally forever. very glad she gets an event and alt of her own

It's a twist!

Need to see a more humanoid Moony (not the "thinner" Moony, but like an actual humanoid Moony) and then I need to see yuri of them.

They would've gotten in the way during his date with Char, nobody wants a third wheel (or fourth or fifth or....) on a date.

I'm surprised AEUG war hero Captain Quattro didn't intervene though

I like yuri because it's, I don't know, easier to appreciate and enjoy as romance than yaoi or hetero stuff is? There's definitely an element of "oh anime girls so it's cuter" and something about it that's hard to describe but is inherently more beautiful than most hetero or yaoi, but also tbf it really is just written better usually, with the characters more as equals? Hetero stuff isn't as defined by gender roles as it used to be but it is usually wish fulfillment for one gender. Yaoi is unfortunately often an odd way to recreate gender roles with giant himbos as Ken dolls. Yuri usually manages to be something more.

And, obviously there's a difference between fictional girls in fictional romances and real women in real relationships, who are not in fact a genre of romance and are real people.

2023 twitter alternative that emerged after Musk began pushing open nazi slop more and more in twitter's algorithm. The people who most readily flocked to it were like extreme leftys, the most Facebook boomer-coded normie lib people, and like 2020 'Peak Woke' types. Suffice it to say it's an obnoxious place to spend any time in, twitter is awful but at least it's entertaining.

I assume Chris is using it more and more as a way to oppose Elon, who is a former ally of the dreaded Pmurt, since he mostly posts on there now and just tweets out links to his rambling bluesky threads.

It's fake, Chris would be whining on bluesky if he really wanted to babble about hating Cole

They're working for me right now, but it's always inconsistent

Don’t forget Arabba from the TOTJ comic 

Oh yeah, we're about to be in for something

Etch it into the surface of the moon, preferably one of Pluto's since those have longer before the Sun eats them than our own moon does.

uh, they do?

No, the owner went insane. It’s very very frustrating because he ran a good service but he chose to go insane 

Why don't you invite them for a beer then?

Why do so many foreigners draw conclusions based on the nonsense they see on social media?

It is definitely oh my god, the sweeping generalization...

Thanks for the tip, i will look into tpu and jubile. 

Uh no they were trying to tell you TPU and Jubilee are not quality debating platforms...

He was already in the midst of being thrown out by then and what he was actually saying seems to be "light power" but it's been misheard as "white power" and I imagine that's in part spread because the image of Chris in a bizarre power rangers cosplay shouting racist slogans is simply too darkly funny for Joe Public not to take it and run with it

I was just thinking yeah, people just had to clench their jaws to get through the nothing for Chris to start doing actual weird shit again. Going to a convention in an absurd disguise but getting thrown out nonetheless, possibly because he handed out business cards identifying himself, and then having a days-long breakdown because of it? That’s some grade-A Chris weirdness all right.

This plus the weird sideshow that’s the Mewgenics game guy doubling down in the worst way possible should prove once again that no matter how boring Chris may be for a while, he always finds new and weirder ways to cause problems 

Does his voice sound more hoarse than usual?

So it varies from place to place, because sometimes you have jurisdictions where the local or state government isn’t prepared because they aren’t as used to massive snow. Some of my family down south have dealt with this repeatedly. 

As for freezers? When growing up, my parents once or twice put raw meat and other food like to spoil out in coolers in the snow if the power went out, under the logic that with the fridge dead the snow would actually keep our food cold and unspoiled better since the house would be getting fairly warm 

And yes sometimes people die of cold, sadly. 

I have zero interest in any of them 

Seriously calm down

Dawg chill

If they were heading to New York you could ask them for their MTA card but last I checked they do digital fare payment now

A hat from whatever the local baseball team is, maybe? 

The Congo Free State was Leopold’s private colony, the Belgian government was forced to take control of the colonized territory due to the international outcry over the human rights abuses and genocidal conditions that were happening under Leopold 

When I was younger I must admit, with a great deal of embarrassment, I would often mix Belgium, Denmark, and the Netherlands up.

Ah, there’s a part of me that still sometimes mixes up you all, the Netherlands, and Denmark as “those smaller countries near France and Germany” thought thankfully this has lessened with maturity.

Beyond that? Fairly positive, in my opinion and experience. Your sovereignty was a primary cause for Britain’s entry into the First World War since Germany tried to cross through you to attack France, so because of that I kinda perceive you (along with Denmark and Italy) as part of the Western Allies along with us, the UK, and France, who built the liberal order after the second war was won 1945. 

I didn’t think those could get much larger anyway…

Yeah, Unicorn lets Mineva take agency. Mariemaia fits much better.

It isnt.

Clearly you are a southern Baptist!!!

Beat up the child too

decorum and duty preclude her lusting after her superior officer

except Manga Visha, she has no qualms lusting

"Allegations" and every other page is Visha blushing and/or drooling and/or squeeing over Tanya

Yea why would Caden deny free publicity 

The carpetbagging and the schizophrenic new age conspiracy nonsense 

Their business, if they ever get a binding referendum on their island's status (as opposed to the series of non-binding ones they've had) then they should be given the outcome they democratically choose

The third option, yeah. Likely some wink wink nod nod type

Because what’s in between is ninety percent Geno going “the next day, Christine again went on Twitter/Facebook to rant…”

Useful for those of us who discuss Chris in depth. Wholly uninteresting for normal people.

You’re not going to Minneapolis, and even there they’ve failed and DHS is rumbling about pulling ICE back.

Nobody is going to get in your face about being Canadian. The average American holds your country in high esteem despite both your traditional distaste for us and our idiot president’s random threats on your and other allies’ territorial borders.  In my experience Mainers in particular are generally a friendly bunch, welcoming to guests and only taking longer to acclimate when out of staters actually move there long term. I am being sincere when I say you should be fine.

Same, I almost did want to donate which is why I googled and ended up here, wanting to confirm the org was legit

what

They have some I imagine but they’re not very good probably which is why few people hear of them 

I don't like it, I think they're thugs, and I don't need to have interacted with them at all to come to that conclusion. Immigration enforcement and going after illegals has long since been left by the wayside; this is about inciting political and racial terror for the goals of a dying sociopath and his crew of goblins.

Yup this is it 

Bacta War especially makes the point multiple times that her increasing vendetta against Wedge was making her act dumber and dumber

Zsinj also had an obsessive rivalry with Han Solo, which the Republic deliberately cultivated to keep him narrowly focused, but even then he still schemed and deliberately faked his SSD’s destruction 

This. She was just not a good person.

I think it’s something like this yeah, he has actual command over a much larger unit but his personal command is a specific battalion