For all of human history, porn has always been at the vanguard of progress. Horny power go!

I guess we could do it once nobody born in the 20s is alive anymore. There are people alive as old as 117, although obviously this is an outlier. I wonder what % of people born prior to 1930 are still alive?

When I was on my recent trip to Japan, we visited a few shrines and I found it kind of funny how a lot of them had gift shops selling a bunch of religious themed merch. Then I thought about Christianity and all the Jesus merch.

As someone who has never been on a date but has watched a lot of romcom anime: a recurring theme that I see in them is about how you can’t be in love with someone if you don’t also love yourself. If you don’t believe you are worthy to be with another person, how can you ever accept their feelings even if they do come out and say it?

I’m not really going anywhere with this. It’s just something I’ve noticed.

The thing to remember is Mamdani’s success isn’t just him being such a great guy. Sure he’s nice and charismatic, but he wouldn’t be possible without the massive grassroots organizing that got him elected. He couldn’t be pumping out these policy wins without the support of a great cabinet of passionate people lending their expertise to make all this happen.

It might be hard to replicate Mamdani’s raw charisma, but we can and must replicate that movement for any office we hope to achieve. It is harder to do this on a national level though, but we already almost did it with Bernie, and the movement’s only grown since then.

Found the engineer.

Organic intelligence. Non GMO. Gluten free. *(may contain traces of lead and microplastics.)

I just ask the room full of magic talking lemmings. Although a lot of the time they’ll give you solutions that involve using the olde magiks.

EDIT: I keep thinking of additions to this joke, so I will shamelessly edit them in:

• Some of them are arch wizards and they will let you know this.

• Mugix

I’d say that I’d think I’d know if I had dyslexia, but I had a friend in college who didn’t find out until after he was in college. It’s hard to understand how that’s possible. He just said his school sucked and they thought he was just dumb when he had trouble reading. Somehow got into a top school though, so I guess he found a way to work around it or something.

That said, I don’t think I’ve really had a problem with reading. My best class was history and most of that was reading tons and tons of textbooks.

Anime is trash and so am I.

Hey! There are also Japanese sci-fi which just validate the author’s fetishes. There’s even two I know where that fetish is specifically polygamy.

For me, I watch tons of anime and I always find it funny when the characters try to speak English, especially if it’s supposed to be a native English speaker. There are also all of the loan words which they’ve modified to fit better into the flow of the language, but they sound funny/cutesy to me/English speakers.

I am very careful to remind myself that anime isn’t real life and I’d never make fun of a real life Japanese person trying to speak English, but for anime it’s part of its quirky charm.

Yes, because I view it as part of being a socialist. Uniting the working class means uniting ALL of the working class, and we can only do that through mutual respect and acknowledging and trying to remedy existing biases.

Unfortunately liberal feminism co-opted the movement at the mainstream level and has used it to legitimize the status quo. The fact that there are TERFs or people who call themselves feminists but support capitalism, which impoverishes women, and imperialism, which kills women around the world is insane. It clearly shows that those people don’t actually understand or care about bigotry. At best they want to make their own lives better and at worst they use it as cover to justify those things.

So yeah. I’m more than happy to associate myself with anyone willing to fight for equality, not so much girlboss “feminists.”

EDIT: Also on a personal level, I think something people misunderstand about feminism is that it’s not JUST for women. Men are also hurt by the patriarchy. The flip-side of the societal expectations for women to be passive, emotional, and attractive homemakers is for men to have the pressure of working outside the home, exposing themselves to violence in wars, suppressing emotions and self expression because those are associated with being feminine and if women are lesser, then that also makes them lesser, hence transphobia and less extreme versions of gender policing.

Feminism is good for men too. It’s good for trans people. It’s good for non-binary people. It’s good for anyone who doesn’t fit the rigid expectations society has burdened them with since birth. Even if you consider yourself to be a heterosexual cis man, do you never feel stifled by people not taking your emotions seriously or looking down on you for having them? Do you not wish that you could stay home and see your kids more?

Even for purely selfish reasons men should want to be feminists.

Personally I liked D3 after it got rid of the AH bullshit. For the same reason that a lot of people disliked it: It’s relatively low complexity. People will look down on that as dumbing it down, but to me it’s just getting rid of uninteresting filler. I can’t stand those giant skill trees full of +x% this and +y that. It’s boring AND overwhelming. I have no interest in trying to make my own build in those games. D3 had a small number of choices that for the most part felt distinct enough to understand why you’d choose one over the other.

I also really liked that brief period in WoW where they changed the skill trees to those sets of 3 choices each level breakpoint. It was really interesting thinking about which choices would be most useful for any given situation instead of just looking up a guide then forgetting about it until next expansion.

Alas, they went back to boring number increases because people mistake complexity for depth. This is why I really enjoy roguelikes. The well designed ones give you those bite sized choices with big impacts on your run and the depth comes from understanding the system and your current situation rather than mathing out the optimal set of stat increases.

The number of times I’ve thought to myself “How the fuck did that even happen?” Is way too high for supposedly living in a universe with consistent physical laws.

I cared. Feelsbadman

This is somehow worse than Americans using just imperial. Congrats Canada that’s no small feat.

Don’t let the trashy stuff fool you. It’s actually just a genuinely good comedy. One of my favorites anime.

Yeah but I’ve never heard anyone use it that way. I don’t think anyone would mistake you for talking about underwear in most scenarios.

What did you think it might be? That seems like the pretty obvious point.