When the motive is genuine, it's not virtue signaling, it's just being virtuous.

We need unskilled folks too! We just need folks! We're a country of folks!

The list of qualifying professions is all very much things that we need. We're pulling the rug out from under carpenters, electricians, plumbers, butchers. People who assemble and inspect aircraft. You know, some stuff it's good to have around.

HARRY THE HAGGLER: Burt!
BURT: Yeah?
HARRY THE HAGGLER: This bloke won't haggle.
BURT: Won't haggle?!

For an eyeroll -and- an exasperated noise say "chat" instead of "gang".

Time to break out the notwithstanding claws.

illoralate?

My understanding is that he made it about 1/3rd of the way through the book, found it "too depressing" and stopped reading it.

Yes, the point was that he avoided the words in the wrong orientation.

The accuracy of the Michael Cole voice is very...something.

Self-censors "fucking" but says "moron" several times. I guess that's a wash?

Yeah I meant Tau. I just don't actually play Warhammer 40k, and confused them.

Starcraft was originally Games Workshop licensed, which is why the Terran/Protoss/Zerg so clearly map onto Space Marines/Eldar/Tyranids.

If that had gone through, it would be entirely possible that they'd have shifted Warcraft into Warhammer.

It's definitely very "noble savage" coded. The idea that only peoples who still actively and broadly hunt animals for food themselves could have a cultural connection to the eating of meat.

It's common to see people react to "everybody should be vegan" by pointing out that there are places in the world where veganism would be unsustainable, and that eating meat is necessary for survival, as well as the fact that for many cultures, it's culturally significant.

I feel like it's an extension of the position that many Indigenous communities have a cultural and spiritual history with hunting animals, and so a vegan advocating for everybody to be vegan is being disrespectful of those traditions?

If they're both Mr. Nice Guy, how do they reconcile nice guys finishing last?