i really really really really think we are delivering on terrible, society destroying, applications of AI at about 10x the rate of "economically useful, liberatory, activity for normies"

it is genuinely insane that the Democratic Party brand in the public mind is “pick a battle, lose that battle, and then send out annoying texts and emails asking for money” and seemingly no one in the Party has thought “maybe we need to change our fundraising outreach strategy”

I know that legally, this Last Name Karp is a different person than the Last Name Karp who founded the microblogging site tumblr dot com and then sold it to Yahoo for one billion dollars, but it feels like they should in fact be the same person

I’m honestly less concerned by the geographic dimensions and far more interested in the implication that Aldovia, depicted in the film as being basically one (1) city and some forests and such filled with vaguely British-coded people, encompasses the entirety of the Balkans

The Quebecois With A Thousand Faces, a treatise on narrative

this is what DUNE was about, I think

These people (and several members of Congress) tried to bring down the government of the United States.

I think they could get some of the partisan on board if they messaged "we never expected them to stop funding SNAP because that's illegal so we got a year of SNAP funding and a short CR so that we can keep negotiating without Americans starving" but instead they're straight up saying they gave up.

plot point in Frank Miller's GIVE ME LIBERTY comics

it’s just feels so insulting that they spent all this time strategizing how to surrender but apparently zero time trying to work up a coordinated way to sell the surrender to the base beyond “we didn’t wanna no more :/ “

Did Mia Thermopolis commit troops to Afghanistan, the greatest thread in the history of forums,

reports of Civ 7 flopping have, imo, been greatly exaggerated. especially since the most recent update

important to note that the Aldovians we see, like Genovians, are all British in their accents and general culture. despite occupying All Of The Balkans.

all the characters we see from Penglia, over there in the Caucasus marked in pink, are played by Hong Kong actors & actresses