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Interstician
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Teacher, walker, writer, goofball. Happily married. He.
Teaches SAT/ACT prep in Pittsburgh.
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Terry Pratchett famously brought this up to Bill Gates in a 1995 GQ interview, and received an answer that smacked of not understanding the danger. The following year, he had this to say of Gates:
"A lot of the Internet is just a really, really glamorous way of becoming really, really stupid. It has its uses, but the thing is, it's going to have to settle down. Now Bill Gates has discovered it, after a long time of saying that it was just a flash in the pan, so no doubt he's going to come and mould it in his image." Terry interviewed Microsoft Chief Bill Gates last year for GQ magazine, and is sure that there's a tendency for everyone who meets him, "to try and look behind the eyes, to try and see the real Bill Gates in there. I'm not certain I've got a big enough telescope. But, curiously enough, I don't actually dislike the guy. A lot of the things which people consider to be wrong with him, are things which are wrong with capitalism. He introduced capitalist ideas in an area when most people just sort of slobbed about. So, instead of selling code, you licensed it. He did things, which, in other fields, people were doing all the time - but you get the impression that a lot of the people he dealt with still had yoghurt juice still dripping down their t- shirts."
October 4, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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Some real gems on Temu once in a while.
Product image of a crucifix with the figure of Jesus suspended horizontally from the cross by a rainbow-colored resin cord. Text over the image reads "Color: Rope skipping old man"
May 7, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Killing is just one of five acts that, with intent, would constitute genocide.

All of the OP's examples are genocides. So why have only some been ruled as such? Some say that proving intent is the hard part, but that's a lie. Getting the ICC to investigate a wealthy nation is the hard part.
From https://www.un.org/en/genocide-prevention/definition: Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide Article II In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: 1. Killing members of the group; 2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; 3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; 4. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; 5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
May 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Lord Vetinari and William de Worde on the difference between the public and the people:
A page from Terry Pratchett's The Truth, containing the following quote from Lord Vetinari: “Do you mean that the public is a different thing from the people you just see walking about the place? The public thinks big, sensible measured thoughts while people run around doing silly things?”
April 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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In case you haven't read it, Terry Pratchett included a lovely tribute to their sand dance in his novel Jingo.
Illustration by Paul Kirby of the Gulli, Gulli, and Beti act from Terry Pratchett's novel Jingo
April 8, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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A screenshot from a Duolingo Dutch lesson. "De oranje man zei dat hij een plan had." Translation: "The orange man said that he had a plan."
April 7, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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It's giving Saturn.
Francisco de Goya, Saturn Devouring his Son
April 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Junior knows what's up.
Duolingo Dutch lesson: "De media gaven te veel aandacht aan die boze man." Translation: "The media gave too much attention to that angry man."
March 22, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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At this table We give bardics, We don't split the party, We send our kids to camp, We don't knock the hustle, We honor the cock, We let the dice tell their story
March 5, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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I mean, I thought I was pretty clear...
Bumper sticker reading "Follow me to the gay bar"
February 13, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Only a Belgian deals in absolutes.
Screenshot from Dutch Duolingo: "Angst leidt tot woede en woede leidt tot haat. Fear leads to anger and anger leads to hate."
October 28, 2024 at 2:54 AM
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I'd like to make a case for refenestration. Between Spider-Man, the Beatles, and Sam from Clarissa Explains it All, I think that we as a culture have finally arrived at the point where that word deserves to exist.
Scene from Clarissa Explains it All: Sam climbing into a bedroom window.
October 21, 2024 at 10:45 PM