The liberal is willing to sacrifice moral integrity for the sake of decorum, while the leftist is willing to sacrifice decorum for the sake of moral integrity.

each is deeply offended by the other

GIVE THAT HOUR BACK YOU BASTARDS

Many forget that before “The Birth of a Nation”, KKK membership was dwindling. But the movie depicted them positively and was even praised by President Wilson. Membership exploded. Endorsing and praising white supremacists and nazi sympathizers by the President today can lead us down the same road.

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

*Billie Joe Armstrong voice* “not gonna call it the Gulf of America”

[power chords]

China appears set to become the world's first clean tech hegemon, their global influence & domestic economy secured through a network of minerals, batteries, EVs, solar, wind & nuclear production & exports. Meanwhile, the US under Trump tries to hang on to its role as 20th century petro-hegemon. 🔌💡

The experts have definitely spoken.

Nothing is more effective as a game walkthrough than an enormous plaintext document from gameFAQS dot com.

I keep trying to play Stardew Valley to relax only to get stressed out by planning the days for maximum farm efficiency and worrying about getting all the chores packed into the days. It's a more stressful game to me than Elden Ring or any survival horror game

Fuckin love graphics cards man. We're proud to reveal that, for every sellable organ in your body and enough raw power to melt rock, you can get medium settings in The Witcher 4 using the new Brick With Three Propellers In It

People are willing to be mad at inequality at the point of success (he only got that part bc his dad is famous) and super unwilling to be mad at inequality at the point of skill acquisition (she’s a good actor bc she spent her entire life next to successful actors)

Seems a little bad to me

Phrenologists back in the day were like “skull issue”

I mean, really what I wish is that art didn't have to be in constant conversation with commerce in order to justify and perpetuate its existence, but that feels like a harder problem to solve.

Lately i've been thinking about how many of the processes traditional media has used to build trust (an editorial bureaucracy, lots of editing, making work more concise, and hiding a lot of that work & presenting a polished finished product) now read to audiences as inauthentic & less trustworthy

OKAY! So. Thanks to popular culture, when most people hear "pirate ship" they think of a big, intimidating, heavily armed vessel like a galleon or a man-of-war, like this commandeered Spanish vessel from season 2 of BLACK SAILS. 🏴‍☠️

We need laws where if your franchise movie contains more than [n]% direct continuity with a previous entry you need to number it; only episodic and anthology franchises get to do this Main Title Colon Adjective Noun bullhockey

Everybody thinks dogs are better than people but I’ve never had a human roommate who greeted a visitor by just fucking yelling at them.

Spotify's been around for over 15 years. If it's taken them that long to finally turn a profit on their product, it seems unreasonable to ask artists to continue subsidizing a system that's clearly not working.

This is part of why I'm so big on the art-as-experience framework: That album you didn't like a decade ago? It doesn't exist anymore. There's still an album out there with all the same songs, but it's a new work of art now and you might enjoy this one.