(((Sarah)))
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I am interested in international relations, images of adorable animals I'm allergic to, excessively mainstream science fiction and fantasy, legal reform, and so many more things than will fit within the character limit I've been provided here.
I'd be like "wait, which one?" because for all I know the cat has a new show, too.
November 23, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I'd be like "wait, which one?" because for all I know the cat has a new show, too.
My ancestors are basically 50/50 - my mom's people were all here before, all of my dad's were 1880-1901.
Also it completely doesn't *matter* if your ancestors were here before whatever arbitrary date past 1492. If you're here now, you're just as much American as the fake-nice DAR ladies, period.
Also it completely doesn't *matter* if your ancestors were here before whatever arbitrary date past 1492. If you're here now, you're just as much American as the fake-nice DAR ladies, period.
November 22, 2025 at 11:57 PM
My ancestors are basically 50/50 - my mom's people were all here before, all of my dad's were 1880-1901.
Also it completely doesn't *matter* if your ancestors were here before whatever arbitrary date past 1492. If you're here now, you're just as much American as the fake-nice DAR ladies, period.
Also it completely doesn't *matter* if your ancestors were here before whatever arbitrary date past 1492. If you're here now, you're just as much American as the fake-nice DAR ladies, period.
Feels like that particular schism predates Vatican II by, like, a lot.
November 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Feels like that particular schism predates Vatican II by, like, a lot.
Moms are so unbelievably terrible to each other over the silliest and most intimate things, I consider it a genuine deterrent to having children. Like, who would sign up for this?
November 21, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Moms are so unbelievably terrible to each other over the silliest and most intimate things, I consider it a genuine deterrent to having children. Like, who would sign up for this?
I swear that's how they covered it in History 152 (1877 to present).
November 21, 2025 at 6:01 AM
I swear that's how they covered it in History 152 (1877 to present).
He was already a terrible person who had all these thoughts, he's just lost the thing that makes you go "hang on, if I say this I will likely get punched in the face or exiled from society, therefore I won't say it". Like how some drunks are prone to bar brawls - that violence was already there.
November 20, 2025 at 10:23 PM
He was already a terrible person who had all these thoughts, he's just lost the thing that makes you go "hang on, if I say this I will likely get punched in the face or exiled from society, therefore I won't say it". Like how some drunks are prone to bar brawls - that violence was already there.
Like, it's ridiculous on its face, without examining the actual history of Jews in Galveston.
November 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Like, it's ridiculous on its face, without examining the actual history of Jews in Galveston.
Galveston isn't exactly a small place. I can believe there's exactly one (or zero) Jewish person(s) in my current village, because it has 900 people and per the Census zero of at least three ethnic groups present in the nearest city, but Galveston *is* the nearest city for places like that.
November 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Galveston isn't exactly a small place. I can believe there's exactly one (or zero) Jewish person(s) in my current village, because it has 900 people and per the Census zero of at least three ethnic groups present in the nearest city, but Galveston *is* the nearest city for places like that.
Sadly I'm pretty sure the ones who accompany the Pope overseas just look like the US Secret Service - no 18th century uniforms or halberds/polearms. *That* would be an image.
November 20, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Sadly I'm pretty sure the ones who accompany the Pope overseas just look like the US Secret Service - no 18th century uniforms or halberds/polearms. *That* would be an image.
Swiss Guard - Wikipedia
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November 20, 2025 at 3:19 AM
This is pretty much the entire reason why we developed nutritional science! The military was all like "OK, so next war, we *really* need to not have to exclude a third of the draftees for malnutrition-related causes" and after about forty years Congress decided they had a point.
November 19, 2025 at 4:50 AM
This is pretty much the entire reason why we developed nutritional science! The military was all like "OK, so next war, we *really* need to not have to exclude a third of the draftees for malnutrition-related causes" and after about forty years Congress decided they had a point.
(I am the only descendant who *isn't* taller than he was at his peak height. Grandma had much the same story except in Cambridge/Somerville and I *did* manage to outgrow her.)
November 19, 2025 at 4:36 AM
(I am the only descendant who *isn't* taller than he was at his peak height. Grandma had much the same story except in Cambridge/Somerville and I *did* manage to outgrow her.)
My grandpa who fought in WWII was born the week the Titanic sank and grew up in the Lower East Side and Brooklyn (wherever there was an affordable place for very poor immigrants). All of his male descendants are at least 6" taller than him, and ½ of his female descendants have 3" on him at age 26.
November 19, 2025 at 4:36 AM
My grandpa who fought in WWII was born the week the Titanic sank and grew up in the Lower East Side and Brooklyn (wherever there was an affordable place for very poor immigrants). All of his male descendants are at least 6" taller than him, and ½ of his female descendants have 3" on him at age 26.
My grandpa was participating in anti-Nazi demonstrations (in NYC) in conjunction with the new international anti-Nazi boycott, all in late March. It's not like the Nazis had hidden their whole "violence and murder and hatred of Jews and lefties" agenda up until he was in power.
1933 Madison Square Garden protest - Wikipedia
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November 18, 2025 at 10:41 PM
My grandpa was participating in anti-Nazi demonstrations (in NYC) in conjunction with the new international anti-Nazi boycott, all in late March. It's not like the Nazis had hidden their whole "violence and murder and hatred of Jews and lefties" agenda up until he was in power.
Lots of stuff is wrong and/horrifying but legal.
November 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Lots of stuff is wrong and/horrifying but legal.
Regrettably, Rule 34 applies to real life pairings, too. Though it's usually more of a thing if the people in question have never had sex with each other and say things like "Oh, I absolutely love her husband, he's the only guy I know with an Olympic size pool at their house, I'd totally date him".
November 18, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Regrettably, Rule 34 applies to real life pairings, too. Though it's usually more of a thing if the people in question have never had sex with each other and say things like "Oh, I absolutely love her husband, he's the only guy I know with an Olympic size pool at their house, I'd totally date him".
I was just super annoyed at John Galt after like three or four pages and flipped through the pages looking for when he stops talking. When I realized how long it was, I instinctively went "nope, not gonna do that", much as I did when Doman tried to get me to run.
(Did the same thing with Tolstoy.)
(Did the same thing with Tolstoy.)
November 18, 2025 at 2:56 AM
I was just super annoyed at John Galt after like three or four pages and flipped through the pages looking for when he stops talking. When I realized how long it was, I instinctively went "nope, not gonna do that", much as I did when Doman tried to get me to run.
(Did the same thing with Tolstoy.)
(Did the same thing with Tolstoy.)
Anyway I don't know the lexile score for "Atlas Shrugged", but the only words I had to look up had to do with trains. I missed all of the subtext and the sex stuff didn't register at all, but I got the philosophical/political argument and everything. Developed an aversion to train talk.
November 18, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Anyway I don't know the lexile score for "Atlas Shrugged", but the only words I had to look up had to do with trains. I missed all of the subtext and the sex stuff didn't register at all, but I got the philosophical/political argument and everything. Developed an aversion to train talk.
She did the "teach your baby to read" stuff when I was a baby and toddler, and took me out to Glenn Doman's institute to learn how to make me even smarter and more awesome. Was *totally* horrified at all my physical scores; I had the autistic clumsiness thing and an aversion to those activities.
November 18, 2025 at 2:56 AM
She did the "teach your baby to read" stuff when I was a baby and toddler, and took me out to Glenn Doman's institute to learn how to make me even smarter and more awesome. Was *totally* horrified at all my physical scores; I had the autistic clumsiness thing and an aversion to those activities.
It's *so* much easier when you skip the rants, kind of like skipping most of Tom Bombadil when reading The Fellowship of the Ring.
(I was a precocious reader so my mom told me to read it when I was 9 (!) Skipping the rants was more like an automatic defensive response than an actual plan.)
(I was a precocious reader so my mom told me to read it when I was 9 (!) Skipping the rants was more like an automatic defensive response than an actual plan.)
November 18, 2025 at 2:22 AM
It's *so* much easier when you skip the rants, kind of like skipping most of Tom Bombadil when reading The Fellowship of the Ring.
(I was a precocious reader so my mom told me to read it when I was 9 (!) Skipping the rants was more like an automatic defensive response than an actual plan.)
(I was a precocious reader so my mom told me to read it when I was 9 (!) Skipping the rants was more like an automatic defensive response than an actual plan.)
(I actually think Starfleet is just shockingly irresponsible when it comes to their environmental impact, and even though I kinda dislike the episode I'm glad they got a warp speed limit. Not least because it could change their whole approach to the general issue, ala Chernobyl/Three Mile Island.)
November 18, 2025 at 2:15 AM
(I actually think Starfleet is just shockingly irresponsible when it comes to their environmental impact, and even though I kinda dislike the episode I'm glad they got a warp speed limit. Not least because it could change their whole approach to the general issue, ala Chernobyl/Three Mile Island.)
(*) It constitutes a hazard to navigation!! And debris eventually gets drawn towards the strongest star relative to its current position, but often hitting something solid instead of the star. Decent chance of screwing up *someone's* environment or civilization. Prime Directive, anybody?!
November 18, 2025 at 2:15 AM
(*) It constitutes a hazard to navigation!! And debris eventually gets drawn towards the strongest star relative to its current position, but often hitting something solid instead of the star. Decent chance of screwing up *someone's* environment or civilization. Prime Directive, anybody?!
I'd say that Starfleet has a moral (and probably legal) obligation to retrieve those whenever they know where they are. The Federation and its allies and adversaries are stunningly neglectful with regard to space debris (*) but a warp core is not the same as random chunks of bulkhead.
November 18, 2025 at 2:15 AM
I'd say that Starfleet has a moral (and probably legal) obligation to retrieve those whenever they know where they are. The Federation and its allies and adversaries are stunningly neglectful with regard to space debris (*) but a warp core is not the same as random chunks of bulkhead.
You may be thinking of the only Republican mayor of Los Angeles since the Eisenhower administration, Richard Riordan. He lost the 2002 Republican primary for governor.
(LA mayor is officially nonpartisan, but nobody believes it or acts like it. The runoff is usually like a Democratic primary.)
(LA mayor is officially nonpartisan, but nobody believes it or acts like it. The runoff is usually like a Democratic primary.)
Richard Riordan - Wikipedia
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November 18, 2025 at 12:52 AM
You may be thinking of the only Republican mayor of Los Angeles since the Eisenhower administration, Richard Riordan. He lost the 2002 Republican primary for governor.
(LA mayor is officially nonpartisan, but nobody believes it or acts like it. The runoff is usually like a Democratic primary.)
(LA mayor is officially nonpartisan, but nobody believes it or acts like it. The runoff is usually like a Democratic primary.)
The bots do this *because* men have been this awful to women for ages - the ChatGPT corpus includes all of Reddit, for heaven's sake.
(This is also why bots tend to be racist and easily transition into profanity unless there's an explicit safeguard against it.)
(This is also why bots tend to be racist and easily transition into profanity unless there's an explicit safeguard against it.)
November 18, 2025 at 12:40 AM
The bots do this *because* men have been this awful to women for ages - the ChatGPT corpus includes all of Reddit, for heaven's sake.
(This is also why bots tend to be racist and easily transition into profanity unless there's an explicit safeguard against it.)
(This is also why bots tend to be racist and easily transition into profanity unless there's an explicit safeguard against it.)