

South Park: “I’m afraid it was the Mormons. Yes, Mormon was the correct answer.”
South Park: “I’m afraid it was the Mormons. Yes, Mormon was the correct answer.”
They’re fascists. This is the updated version of “the Jews did this.”
Fnord fnord outgroup fnord.
Pedestrian safety means a clean chop through the femur.
Swap 7 and 8.
Honestly, 6 does not belong in the S tier.
Prequels top out at B tier.
Rogue One and Solo are spot-on.
It’s like we have forgotten - some questions have a right answer.
What’s wrong with using your site? Like, in a browser, on the web?
Do people know their phones can do that?
Sponge and rusty spanner unaccounted for.
Only a third of them?
… oh.
Still.
“Unexpectedly?” Says who? The Idiot declared random taxes on everything.
… do people even know what a Bel Air is anymore? I think it was completely displaced by Rickrolling.
Unsharp masking. Low-frequency (blurred) brightness is subtracted, to preserve and enhance local detail.
Evidently old video cameras were just Like That. I assumed it was a choice for telecine - converting high-dynamic-range film to lower-range television. After all, it can be done in analog, given a positive and a negative print.
mtsw on Bluesky:
Since JD Vance just converted to Catholicism 5 minutes ago, he might not know this: the Pope authoring a letter where he goes out of his way to correct you, specifically, is considered “bad” in the Catholic tradition
Nitpicking a concentration camp.
Screaming the quiet part directly into the microphone.
With undue caution - this is the same thing people said about computers, and calculators, and slide rules, and the printing press, and so on.
Turns out, the technology that keeps you from having to use your brain for everything… works.
Nah, like Kankri and Porrim.
Fuck software patents.
I only recently tossed a Handbook Of Christian Apologetics by Tacelli & Kreeft. I was never devout, let alone outright brainwashed into anti-science nonsense, but at the cusp of my reddit atheist phase I figured a question this big deserved a fair shake. So I got a big ol’ book of the best arguments anyone had. They all sucked. So that was that.
The one that made me put the book down and go ‘yep, atheist’ was “the argument from magic.” You think about moving your hand. Your hand moves by thought alone. Magic! Therefore, Jesus. I fucking wish I was exaggerating.
Took another decade to figure out the people pushing these arguments don’t actually give a shit about being right. The point is performing loyalty to the ingroup. There’s a conclusion, and it comes from people above you, so your job is to make whatever mouth noises get there. Consistency and logic are neat features if you can manage. A monotheistic god is only the purest expression of that tribalist worldview.