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Good point. We should jerk off and *throws dart* eat some pork bao. Or if you're vegetarian we could *spins comically sized wheel* eat some samosas. What's truly important is we have to jerk off. Together.

Ok so roads are important infrastructure. A lot of stuff that's important happens on roads. Now, let's imagine that quadrillionaire Matt Stench has decided that the next big tech innovation is the Wide Car. It's a car that takes up six lanes despite seating only one passenger.

The Wide Car is supposed to be the future, and everyone's going to be driving Wide Cars, even though nobody who makes Wide Cars is turning a profit. Employers are offering Wide Cars as an employee benefit, and getting "nah." Some employers are going as far as demanding their employees drive Wide Cars, and the result is that people take time out of their workdays to get in the mandatory gas usage for their Wide Car before driving home in a regular car.

In spite of the fact that the Wide Car is clearly set to fail, there's an enormous push to expand to twelve-lane roads to accommodate a bunch of Wide Cars that simply will not materialize. This is not an organic response to demand, but a speculative investment that amplifies the existing issues with road development for no good reason.

hi hi! I understand your scepticism, but I lived Here for half a decade:

and nnno we don't call it "winter" when it's december even though we're TECHNICALLY in the northern hemisphere. because it is 35+ degrees during december and 35+ degrees during july and 35+ degrees every other time of the year as well. so it doesn't really make sense to reference the typical northern/southern seasons when you live right on the equator!

Did you kids forget to have legs?

What I am saying, is if it sucks, hit the bricks. You can leave! cops if you're quick

And I don't think raising hell helps with teenagers right to access birth control and abortions. On account of those things being gatekept behind doctors and expensive to obtain illegally. And I'm sure the trouble you got into was great, but most people find it very difficult to break out of conversion therapy camps and inpatient mental health facilities to get into trouble.

And I'm sure disabled teenagers being medically abused by their parents are very reassured by their ability to Just leave. Hopefully the friends or relatives they're going to stay with will have an accessible house.

Instead of a cutesie reference to film censorship it was an explicit statement of defiance of Maryland's criminalization gay sex, which was not repealed until 2002. This wasn't a guy saying "Oh they can't put what I do in the movies according to a completely voluntary industry code" he was saying "The State of Maryland wants to put me in jail for being gay and having gay sex."

"Baldy" just seems like a word that should not be in the Bible.

"Go up, thou bald head!" 10/10

me when I go away, baldly

The Message translation has made the interesting choice to use what is technically a synonym but paints a very strange and anachronistic picture

I like that they felt the need to elaborate further. Y'know, in case you don't know the word 'bald' but have for some reason decided to read the Bible? in English?

This one chose to emphasize the impressive speed and efficiency of the bears. I approve

i get that movie rocky speaks in a very cute way but. the way fandom posts about it is kind of. idk, i haven’t seen the movie yet, just read the book, but i feel like fandom is missing the point? because the novel makes it very clear: rocky talks like that because he is baby talking to grace.

grace barely understands rocky. rocky is doing every possible thing he can to talk to this guy: he’s using english grammar with edrian words (try speaking any language with a different language’s grammar, it’s hard), he’s using simple words because they have a small shared vocabulary, he’s dumbing himself down. “grace idiot statement” isn’t rocky being cute or naturally talking like that: rocky is a highly educated and intelligent engineer talking in little words and short sentences to an alien because it’s the only way he can make himself understood. he’s treating grace like you’d treat a baby or a cat. it’s baby talk!

in the epilogue of the book, this is further driven home: after sixteen years, grace is now fluent in eridian, and…

rocky can speak in full sentences now! there’s tone! there’s slang! grace can now tell that rocky is saying ‘cause instead of because (or, shortening the equivalent conjunction in a casual way). rocky denotes time as long-ass! he’s actually pretty casual!