Ever since Tara Reade credibly accused Joe Biden of rape, the tables suddenly turned and it was as if #metoo had never happened. Society went right back to "those women are probably lying for attention". Straight out of 1984, you cannot find people who even admit that we used to #believeallwomen.
Discord is the worst. The worst contributor to 100% online addiction syndrome. "Oh, I must check to see if something happened on my 150 channels! I can't go to sleep, someone is wrong on the internet!"
The beard is 100% racism. Lots of other races can't grow beards, or if they can they're thin and scraggly. Growing a rich, full beard is a gigantic "fuck you I'm racist and shit and let's see you do something about it" move.
The walls are closing in on Trump!
Spoiler alert: he was lying. About the tunnel and the elves. Ask a stupid question and get a stupid answer.
Lots of rednecks and blue collar smoke weed. Willie Nelson is probably the biggest superstar Texas has ever produced and what's he famous for? Remember his cameo in "Half Baked"?
WILLIE (buying weed from the main characters): "I'm so old I remember back when a dime bag actually cost a dime."
MAIN CHARACTER: "Heh."
WILLIE: "You know how much condoms cost back then? Me neither, cause we never used 'em."
Because it's an attempt to make Trump hate into a Dr. Seuss type children's book. Of course it's going to be applauded and launch to the top of the best-seller lists and sit on every prim and proper bookshelf. Because Trump is wrong and we are right. That's how it must be. If it wasn't - that's a horrifying thought that means we might have to re-think things like handing over $40 billion to Ukraine when we could forgive most student loans for the same price.
In the Scandinavian countries the means of production are primarily owned by private individuals, not the community or the government, and resources are allocated to their respective uses by the market, not government or community planning. Scandinavian countries are highly capitalist, and incredibly high on the Economic Freedom Index. Entrepreneurship and free markets are fervently embraced, Sweden adopted a universal school choice system in the 1990s that is nearly identical to the system proposed by libertarian economist Milton Friedman, and there are no minimum wage laws in Sweden or Norway or Denmark. What Nordic countries practice is the Nordic Model, something that is possible there because of their tiny homogenous populations and high natural resources to support the taxation need for the welfare programs. In fact the social success of the Scandinavian countries predate this model, with several studies showing that the greatest decrease in income inequality there came prior to the implementation of the welfare state.
And even if you say their baseline quality of life is better than the average American, in reality it's a function of vast demographic difference. In reality, Danish-Americans have a measured living standard about 55 percent higher than the Danes in Denmark. Swedish-Americans have a living standard 53 percent higher than the Swedes, and Finnish-Americans have a living standard 59 percent higher than those back in Finland. The emigration rate from this supposed Scandinavian Utopia to the US is positive, with Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway having so many people emigrating to America and very few going the other way.
Youth in Nordic countries, among the most privileged to ever walk the planet Earth, feel miserable. https://euobserver.com/nordic/147365
Way back when, I used to have this job where I got to be the one who operated the fax machine. I faxed press releases and boy, was I surprised to see them in the newspaper the next day. They'd also cut parts out or add their own words. WTF.
The telephone number on the press release was on my desk. Nobody ever called it to verify that the press releases were real. Not even once.
I get the idea this is the journalist flexing that she's allowed inside the corridors of power herself, and this is what SHE ate. Because, how'd she be able to give such a detailed report otherwise?
The game is supposed to end up with one player with everything and the others in the poorhouse. But it can't even do that correctly most of the time. Play literally anything else.
Now this is just silly semantics. If it was Art, it would be called Art. Since it's not, it gets called outsider art.
Monopoly is one of the worst games ever made. Almost entirely random, players have little control over the outcome of the game, it goes on forever, and the most common "end" to the game is stalemate, where nobody can win. Play literally anything else. Even a stinker like Risk is a better game.
It's easy to understand. What is Art? Art is that which is made by Artists. Who is an Artist? One who is accepted as an Artist by the artistic community.
Since video games are not made by Artists, they are not Art. I'm glad I could clear that up for everyone. This is how it was explained to me on Reddit.
Fun fact: George Soros is a native Esperanto speaker.
i think its a little weird to preserve languages. like it would be objectively better if all slavic languages were one language for instance because it enhances interconnectedness.
In Canada, First Nations languages Chipewyan, Cree, Gwich’in, Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, North Slavey, South Slavey and Tłįchǫ are taught in schools. Making all languages one is what the residential schools tried to do, and it is rightly regarded as an act of genocide.
Find me one and I'll repost it.