am I bad? or mad? or wise?

GIF 1: CJ sits with her arms crossed. “One in forty American men wear women’s clothing, and we’ve had well over forty Presidents,” she says. “Yeah,” Babish replies. 

GIF 2: “I’m just sayin’, one of these guys was dancing around the Oval Office in a prom dress. Now, let’s get to the bottom of that,” CJ says. 

GIF 3: “CJ?” Babish says. “Yeah?” she asks. 

GIF 4: Babish stares with a serious expression. “In my entire life, I’ve never found anything charming,” he says. 

GIF 5: CJ blinks, then purses her lips. “Really?” she asks. 

As George Monbiot points out in his book Regenesis (an excellent and very well researched book on this topic): ‘You would have to ship a kilo of dried peas roughly one hundred times around the world before it’s greenhouse gases matched those of a kilo of local beef.’

Accessibility is something that nobody making these arguments seems to want to talk about, either, and you’re right to point it out. How many people can actually afford to buy locally raised beef? When compared with almost any other wisely chosen plant protein, we are talking many times the price for a product that is far crueller and much less sustainable. Besides, the vast majority of people in the US and Western Europe are buying factory farmed meat, statistically.

What this comes down to is that people misrepresent what meat eaters eat, while also having no idea what vegans eat. So we end up with this bizarre dichotomy where we’re comparing locally raised beef to agave and quinoa. That is instead of comparing factory farmed meat to canned lentils, chickpeas, beans, peas, dried pasta and noodles, tofu and frozen veg, which would be a much more honest comparison.

Had I known this commendation entailed ritual humiliation, I might have declined.

“UPDATE: Get ready for a pounding. Some of us could see 8 inches or more. That’s too much — even for me.” Attached image shows a map of the US coast between North Carolina and Virginia. Caption says “Snow forecast / Wednesday - Thursday”. The area from Hampton and Edenton is 8"+ of snow, and the areas progressively further are 6"-8", 4"-6", and the furthest 2"-4".

ID2: the monthy python biggus dickus meme shows a roman knight trying not to laugh in front of Caesar.

ID3: Blaine Stewart’s twitter bio:

“He/Him. @NLGJA 🏳️‍🌈. AM Anchor: @WTKR3. Afternoons: @949ThePoint. Love @Canes hockey 🏒 , strong coffee☕ and frequent naps 😴. LA➡️MS➡️GA➡️VA”.

ID4: another tweet by Blaine Stewart:

GIF 1: Ake stands outside the door to Kelrec’s office as the doors open. Kelrec steps forward and looks around, a frazzled expression on his face. In the background is a hologram of rippling blue water. 

GIF 2: Kelrec talks and gestures emphatically inside his office. 

GIF 3: Ake steps through the water hologram in Kelrec’s office, which has a portion of the ocean highlighted. 

GIF 4: Ake’s mouth hangs open as she looks around. 

GIF 5: Kelrec screws up his mouth in frustration, closing his eyes, as Ake pushes past him into his office. 

GIF 6: Ake waves her hand dismissively and shakes her head. 

And because Raoul talked about his character research indicating that Kelrec might have been someone who was good at his military job and therefore possibly "forced" to teach before he eventually found his place as a teacher:

I was a year above most of them at school so they threw a "goodbye" murder mystery for me just before graduation, and about 2/3 of the way through the game we all realized that everyone had at least attempted to kill the victim. The game then shifted from "whodunnit" to "who succeeded in dunninit" which we all felt was not only super fun but above the usual level of narrative complexity for those games.